Self-Hypnotism: The Technique & Its Use in Daily Living [Unknown Binding]

Leslie M. Lecron (Author)

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• ASIN: B00005WSTZ
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars All one needs to learn effective self-hypnosis, March 17, 2003

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calmly - See all my reviews

This review is from: Self-Hypnotism: The Technique and Its Use in Daily Living (Signet) (Paperback)

Leslie Lecron has a warm, conversational writing style that makes this book very easy to read. He also knows this subject very well, which makes this book very worthwhile to read. At one time during her career, he provided help via hypnosis to Marilyn Monroe, which seems impressive evidence of his reputation.

We do natural things like breath, be aware, and rest. Systems come back to us with a varity of techniques of meditation which primarily "teach us" to breath, be aware, and rest. One nice thing about "self-hypnosis" is that, while it also leverages some natural abilities we have, it does so largely without hocus-pocus, without expectations that one join some organization, and without the need to become reliant on some teacher. Nevertheless, hypnosis can be extremely effective, even if we are only being taught a simple technique that we had the capacity for all along.

There are so many books on self-hypnosis. I've owned a few and browsed many. This book is the best I've found and, after searching around looking at others for a while, I realized that this one contains more than enough by itself. Whatever theory may be invoked to explain hypnosis, being pragmatic one can see for oneself how effective it is.

I don't seem to go into especially deep traces but I'm able to enter a very restful trance easily. It didn't take me long to learn how to do that, other than to learn not to expect too much. Self-hypnois can be very effective especially after one learns not to chase after some of the exaggerated claims made for it. Lecron's integrity is helpful in this regard. I'm glad I found it soon after I became interested in self-hypnosis.

I haven't tried to regress my age yet, but self-hypnosis seems to have helped my bruxism and provided a nice space in which to review my day and put my mistakes into a healthy perspective. I have hundreds of books stored away or on remote shelves: this is one of just 3 books that I keep next to my bed.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Old but better than most, March 26, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Self-Hypnotism: The Technique and Its Use in Daily Living (Signet) (Paperback)

Part of the reason why this book gets three stars is because there is so much garbage written about hypnosis. This book is way less misleading than most. I think LeCron is dated in certain respects. Too much emphasis is given to Freud, who really mixes quite poorly with the way that hypnosis uses the word "unconscious". And not enough respect is given to the individual and the individual's relationship to trance. Also, the inclusion of homosexuality as a sexual disorder is offensive. There is too much emphasis on the importance of regression to cause (which has been shown to not always be necessary for successful therapy). In spite of all this, I learned from the book. LeCron does make a number of useful distinctions. He is a bit too dogmatic. The distinctions are useful except when they're not... No map of the interactions between thought ad feeling will always be accurate, all of these maps are merely hypotheses and will be accurate on a percentage. The best first book for self-hypnosis is Alman and Lambrou's Self Hypnosis. Read Lecron, only if you're fascinated by the subject and are curious about how our understandings of trance have evolved. Still, as a first book, it won't steer you as far wrong as many, many others.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A good self-help book, February 26, 2004

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Joseph H Pierre "Joe Pierre" (Salem, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Self-Hypnotism: The Technique and Its Use in Daily Living (Signet) (Paperback)

Leslie Lecron is no beginner in the field of hynosis. He's written several books on the subject and is an established and highly qualified authority on the subject.

Over the years, I have been interested in this subject. Everyone uses hypnotic suggestion on themselves, whenever they tell themselves (or others) that they are "no good" at something, or that they've "always been able to" do some feat. Those are both examples of negative and positive suggestion (self-hypnosis).

But, with this book you can go much further. You can learn techniques which will enrich your life, heal certain illnesses, and generally inprove your situation. Tried and true methods.

I recommend it.

Joseph (Joe) Pierre