Creative Self-Hypnosis: New wide-awake, nontrance techniques to empower your life, work, and relationships [Paperback]

Roger A. Straus (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 17, 2000

DE-HYPNOTIZE YOURSELF AND EMPOWER YOUR LIFE , WORK AND RELATIONSHIPS We are all victims of post-natal suggestion. By learning how to use your thoughts, feelings and imagination through the dramatic new approach to self-hypnosis presented for the first time in this book, you can become more fully aliveand make your life and yourself what you want them to be. Grounded in state-of-the-art clinical sociology, this wide-awake approach to self-hypnosis enables you to use your creative imagination to redirect and empower all areas of your life without having to put yourself in a trance. Rather, you will learn how to free yourself from the trance of everyday life limitations and misconceptions. Teaching you how to be your own life-change consultant, this book gives you practical techniques you can use to get what you want out of your life, your work and your relationships. It provides a training program for self-empowerment, with detailed exercises, techniques and tactics that you can use anywhere, any time, in any situation. This very useful book shows the readers step by step how to live more fully by combining modern (alert) self-hypnosis with advanced principles of social psychology. I highly recommend it for all who wish to enhance their task performance, their social relationships, and their life enjoyment. Theodore X. Barber, Ph.D. Director, Biomedical Research Foundation Author of Hypnosis, Imagination and Human Potentialities

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About the Author

Roger A. Straus, Ph.D., an internationally renowned clinical sociologist, is currently a healthcare marketing consultant and researcher in Philadelphia. Dr. Straus has taught seminars and workshops to business people, mental health professionals, students and educators on the subject of change through self-hypnosis. He has also written Creative Self Hypnosis, Marriage and Family Therapy: the Sociocognitive Approach (with Nathan Hurvitz) and Using Sociology. He lives in Cherry Hill, NJ with his family.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse (May 17, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595001920
• ISBN-13: 978-0595001927
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,222,474 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent low-hype instruction in self-hypnosis!, January 7, 2002

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Joseph Brown "jlbrown7289" (Menlo Park, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Creative Self-Hypnosis: New wide-awake, nontrance techniques to empower your life, work, and relationships (Paperback)

Straus' book is one of the few reasonable, low-hype self-help books out there. It is a thorough, clear and exciting book, with exercises that are illuminating and easy to do. There is a lot of excellent material on what hypnosis is and how to best use it to accomplish one's goals. This book, and its companion book, Creative Self-Hypnosis, bear little similarity to the lurid, sensationalistic, and shoddy popular books out there on self-hypnosis and mental training...this is the real deal, by a practicing clinical sociologist and hypnotherapist. A very very good and useful book.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Mislabled Guide to Personal Transformation, May 24, 2008

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M. Khan "onevoguer" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Creative Self-Hypnosis: New wide-awake, nontrance techniques to empower your life, work, and relationships (Paperback)

In one word, I was "floored" by this book.

Initially drawn in by the subject title of the book, my expectations was that the author would explore a variety of induction techniques related to hypnosis. Having been disappointed by many guides on meditation that inextricably link active introversion to spiritual nonesense, my hope was that this book would be different. My hope was more than satisfied.

The authors primary argument is that a society has been socialized into behaving mindlessly by what are acceptable norms, in much the same way as an individual is susceptible to being lulled into a mindless trance by their monotonous habits or rituals. The result is an society of sleep-walkers, incapable of finding spontaneous joy or personal satisfaction. By employing a degree of active creativity through self-hypnosis, one is then able to direct life in a concerted, thoughtful and meaningful way.

A clinicial sociologist, Roger Straus is a follower of the "Chicago School" of humanistic thinkers. It is these individuals who are responsible for recognizing the concepts of self fulfilling prophesy and mid-life crisis. Their method? The study of human behavior as an aggregate. This approach is very unique and very different. This is not pop-psychology nor pseudo-scientific tripe.

A reader will find exercises and alongside them, relevant principles and tactics to guide a personal transformation journey starting with a very profound set of self-directed observations. In a masterful way, Straus has already anticipated the readers answers and this I find makes the book ingenious. If one is familiar with the Landmark Forum, the themes of this book will be familar, sans the commercial promotions.

The commonality between the author's message and other personal development material is the idea that your self-esteem is the key factor that governs the quality of your life. Whereas other books will work head on towards changing the self-concept of the consumer, this book allows self-esteem to build itself.

Creative living through Creative self management implies that a person should recognize situations in life and treat each situational fact as resources. The author contends that we are all actors in the game of life and we cannot not participate. Our lives are really works of art, not science. How we live, and what we do is really what we are.

Straus' approach is to guide a reader through a process of self-discovery, visualization and active participation in a strategic program while adapting with the ebbs and "flows" of life. Goals and future state are drawn from the inside out, not imposed. All of this makes up "Creative Self Management", the belief that you don't have to follow rules for living, particularly those that you have not chosen or with which you don't agree.

I find that the principles and ideas contained in this book transcend the intellectual boundaries of mind control, and are applicable to any field. Eminently practical, extraordinarily well structured and an outstanding book for those serious about continuous improvement. In the final analysis, I cannot deny the authors conclusion that you get what you create and your create what you get. Amen.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great., June 6, 2011

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M. WILLIAMS "Martin" (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Creative Self-Hypnosis: New wide-awake, nontrance techniques to empower your life, work, and relationships (Paperback)

I thought I'd already reviewed this book, so here goes. I'm still working through the text, but the content and structure are remarkable.

It also helps greatly that the author is a first-class writer, so the book is fantastically readable.

I've had the privilege to correspond with Roger Straus, and he is an extremely nice person and clearly dedicated to sharing his knowledge for the common good.

I think I'll post a fuller review once I've finished the text, but I can already tell you that this and his earlier book, Strategic Self-Hypnosis, are top-shelf, and not just in the self-hypnosis literature but in the 'self-help' category in general.

Straus's books are not in the same league as the rubbish out there. They are the work of a scientist who knows what he's actually talking about.

It's a tragedy that work like this is not as well-known as the rubbish that gets the limelight.

Nuff said for now.