Hypnosis has a strong reputation for being an excellent tools for changing habits. It is also a popular stage show activity that results in some facinating displays of mental manipulation. Many psychologists will also use hypnosis as a means for treating mental dysfunction. And success coaches will use hypnosis for aiding in personal development. But hypnosis can be used for even greater purposes than these, including spiritual development.

The process of hypnosis is relatively easy, which is surprising to most, considering power that is associated with this phenomenon. In short, process is one of distracting conscious mind long enough to implant alternate suggestions to inner mind. Many people think that hypnosis is a process of putting conscious mind asleep, but this is a common misconception of hypnosis. Hypnosis is not sleep, but rather a form of tightly focused concentration.

Many spiritual traditions use meditation as a vehicle for development. Meditation too, is a process of focusing mind, but usually at a lower level of intensity. This lower level of intensity makes meditation easier for individual to attain and control. Once mind is focused to degree common in hypnosis, ability to direct course of activity is usually lost. This is one of major difficulties in trying to use hypnosis by yourself. To reach a deep level, you have to have an outside source of direction.

But there are relatively simple methods of overcoming this difficulty.

Having another person direct you through process is a common method. This is way many of us view hypnosis - as a process of one person leading another through a series of steps. If this person is trustworthy, and has a solid grounding in psychology and spiritual beliefs you hold, then this is best option, as any variation that comes up during process of hypnosis can be dealt with effectively.

We have all heard that our beliefs shape our lives. Some will say that our beliefs will influence Universe to become what we believe it will be. Others say that our beliefs simply direct course of our actions, which in turn shape pathway we take through life. Either way, I'm sure you will see that more your beliefs allow you to take a rewarding pathway, more rewarding life will become. And a tool that is used quite often for changing beliefs is called an affirmation.

Affirmations are generally used as a sort of 'mini-prayer'. If there is something that you want in your life, general instructions are to repeat an affirmation that basically says that you already have it, and this will influence causative force (either Universe or your behavior patterns) to bring it into your life. In other words, if you want a fulfilling relationship in your life (assuming you don't already have one), then you would repeat to yourself "I am loved by a very special person who makes me feel wonderful. I am in a very rewarding relationship that fulfills my every desire." By repeating this affirmation, you will eventually find that desired relationship.