From treating cigarette addictions to losing weight, from setting career goals to getting a good night's sleep, this updated second edition by noted psychologist and hypnotherapist Roberta Temes shows how to use hypnosis responsibly to improve one's quality of life. Includes updated step-by-step instructions for self-hypnosis, plus clear explanations of what hypnosis is and how it works, tips for finding a reputable hypnotherapist, tips on solving problems in one's love life, career, health, and more. • First edition is the bestselling book on hypnosis on the market • Revised and updated with more thorough step-by-step instructions for self-hypnosis • Author websites: www.drroberta.com and www.hypnosisbyphone.com "Want to kick a habit or a field goal? The secrets in this book will improve your game and your life." - Bob Reese, Peak Performance Specialist

You’re no idiot, of course. You know life is a journey and that physical birth and death are its points of transition. Many people, across cultures and faiths, believe the spirit lives on—and have experienced contact with the spirits of loved ones who have passed to the higher side. This contact is joyous, comforting, and healing—but you wonder if it’s really real and whether you can share in it, too. Don’t give up the spirit! The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Communicating with Spirits will show you exactly how to uncover your own mediumistic capabilities and connect with those no longer on the earth plane. In this Complete Idiot’s Guide®, you get: --Tips on how to connect with your personal divine energy through prayer, meditation, and dreams. --Information on the birth of the human soul—as perceived through theological, metaphysical, and spiritual viewpoints. --Exercises to help you develop your mediumistic abilities. --Tangible evidence of the continuity of life as presented through the experiences and spirit drawings of medium Rita S. Berkowitz.

Answers what hypnosis is and how to use it as a therapeutic tool for yourself, your family, your friends, or as a professional hypnotist.

Self-Hypnosis For Dummies is a hands-on guide to achieving your goals using hypnosis. Whether you want to lose weight, overcome anxiety or phobias, cure insomnia, stop smoking, or simply stop biting your nails, this guide has it covered! The reassuring and straight-talking information will help you harness the power of your mind and re-train your subconscious to think in more healthy and constructive ways, and to overcome specific issues, such as anxiety and paranoia, and break bad habits, such as smoking. The easy-to-follow style will guide you through every step of the process, empowering you to take control and start making changes right away.

You’re no idiot, of course. You know that shamans are also known as medicine men and women, who use the power of the mind and call on spiritual helpers to heal the afflicted. However, this ancient art has been put to more modern uses, including problem-solving, empowerment, and personal mastery. But you don’t have to trek through steamy Amazonian jungles or frigid Siberian tundra to become enlightened in the ways of shamanism! The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Shamanism will show exactly how to discover your own shamanic power—and how that power will guide you in your everyday life! In this Complete Idiot’s Guide®, you get: - Shamanic history—from its origins in Paleolithic times to its spreading influence today. - Power animals—where to locate them and how they communicate with you. - How to take a shamanic journey—traveling through the Lower, Upper, and Middle Worlds, and exploring your past or future. - Shamanic healing techniques in use with modern medicine.

Explains what hypnosis is and how it works, provides tips on finding a hypnotherapist, and shows how to use hypnosis to improve quality of life.

Judging by the more than 2 million web pages dealing with past lives and past life regression (PLR), people aren't only - seeing dead people, - they're interested in finding out whether or not they were some of those dead people in a previous life. Going way beyond a belief in reincarnation and karma, 'regressionists' want to know who they were and what their lives were like - and reputable psychiatrists are using hypnosis to reveal the past life issues that are keeping their patients from living better lives today. In CIG to Past Life Regression, a board-certified past life regression therapist reveals the ins and outs of PLR. Is past life regression for real? Are children really closer to their past lives than adults? Can I be hypnotized - and can I trust the hypnotist and what he/she tells me? What will a session be like? Is one session enough? And what about self-hypnosis? How can knowledge of past lives make my life better today?