Book Report: The Self Hypnosis Book by Cherith Powell and Greg Ford (c)1995

The Self Hypnosis Book by Cherith Powell and Greg Ford (c)1995

This is a pretty standard and useful book on self hypnosis. It thoroughly describes how hypnosis works and how you can use it. 

It starts with basic hypnotic inductions and goes on to scripts for various practical goals, like weight loss, healing, confidence and so forth. 

With it, you can easily make your own self-hypnosis recordings to axchieve your goals. 

This book originally came with a tape cassette of the hypnotic sessions. (Mine didn't include it, so I can't comment on the quality of the recordings).

Book Report: The Einstein Factor by Win Wenger and Richard Poe (c) 1996

The Einstein Factor by Win Wenger and Richard Poe (c) 1996

This is a really interesting and thought provoking book. The Author, Win Wenger has spent most of his career exploring methods for accelerated learning, increasing intelligence and enhancing creativity, and has written over 50 books on the topic for educators and lay people. 

The book includes a series of easy and interesting mental exercises, which he encourages you to try as soon as you've read them. There's also explanations of the concepts behind them, but throughout the book he stresses that you have to actually take action to get results. 

His basic exercise, is something called "Image Streaming," which is as simple as closing your eyes and being aware of images that you see, while describing them to a partner or an audio recorder. He claims this had been proven to increase the IQ scores in test subjects, and with something so simple, why not give it a try? 

That building block forms the basis for many of the other exercises in the book which are designed to improve creativity, inspiration, descriptive skills and much more. 

The book is also available as an audiobook from Nightingale-Conant, and the author is and engaging and entertaining speaker.