Self-Hypnosis, Help a teen. Options

[fotia]

Greetings. I would like to re-program the subconcious aspect of my mind so I can have more control and focus in what I do. The most effective method I could think of was self-hypnosis. Please give me accounts of self-hypnosis so I can see if I was right about it being an effective method, and also [if possible] refer me to sites/books/give me instructions on how to perform self hypnosis. I think this will be a good way to become who I want to be and do what I aspire to do.
-Fotia

[Lindsay]

Dianah:As long as we keep in mind that it is all about coming AWAKE--to consciousness, I'm okay.

BTW, Dr. Franz Antoine Mesmber--he was a medical doctor--called it "animal magnetism". Those who were taught by him called it "mesmerism". Mesmer was driven out of Vienna by the religion and medical authorities--obscurants all. He took refuge in Paris and became famous when his methods, which worked for a lot of people, when, just before the French Revolution, he was investigated by a special royal
commission headed by the American ambassador to Paris, Benjamin Franklin.

The following site gives us more on the history of the concept:
http://www.danielolson.com/hypnosis/hypnosis_history.html

I am pleased with the interest there is in this subject. IMHO, it helps explain the power behind faith healing, at its best. I am not talking about the many frauds in the field. Any success they have, it seems, is purely accidental.

Keep in mind: I am not cynical about the power of a genuine and sincere faith, but faith does have its limitations, as I indicate below.

Years ago--in the 1970's--I wrote several columns, in a Toronto paper, and exposed some of the so-called "faith healers" who made fantastic claims. I followed up on people, with serious physical conditions, who claimed that they were healed at their services. Parents of a stone-deaf child---born with with no physical hearing mechanism--told me that they believed their son was "healed tonight". This and other cases I looked into proved false. A well-known Canadian journalist and author, Tom Harpur, who I know, had the same experience.

With the cooperation of a "healing team", from a local church, I actually set up an extensive experiment involving my own health problems--chronic conditions--and agreed to have the team "Pray with and for me". They assured me that if I did not have the faith, God would give me the faith I needed. "Meanwhile, our prayers will make up for any doubt you have."

The experiment went on for weeks. It did not work.

To make a long story short, quite awhile later, I had surgery, which did improve the problem, greatly. However it did not completely eliminate it. Science, too, has its limitations.

Question: If Benny Hinn, Peter Popoff, Pat Robertson and Oral Roberts, Jr., etc., have a direct line to God, how come they do not simply take this "magic" into a major hospital and empty it?

Who would waste time and money on medicare if healing was as simple as the faith healers say it is?