I am considering Hypnotherapy to eliminate my social anxienty/AA and to improvide my confidence. Anyone tried this ? Toughts ?

Hypnosis generally doesn't directly affect things like confidence, but it does indirectly.

Confidence is something that can only be gained through experience. Hypnosis can make you more excited about going out there and getting that experience, but it all boils down to you taking action. There's no avoiding that.

What many guys try to do here is they to get rid of fear before doing the thing they fear, which really isn't how life works. If you want to get rid of social anxiety, you first have to try to be social. If you want to get rid of AA, you first have to do approaches. What you need to understand here is that fear is in no way a legitimate excuse to not take action (women and children are, of course, exempt from this rule).

If you want to waste your money on mental masturbation, though, be my guest. That might at least stimulate the economy a bit or something.

Yes.. In fact I have my first session booked this week

Its what guys like Hypnotica do and Hypnotherapy is very established, so I believe it can help.

When you were a little boy.. were you afraid to talk to the girl on the table next to you in the restaurant?.. I'll bet not.. you had no fear.. like the kids at the ski resort going down the black runs without a care in the world.

I believe we become fearful through our lives from bad environmental conditioning i.e. parents or teachers or friends or rejection from girls.. which makes us feel what we feel today through one or a series of events. Hypnotherapy can help take you back to the events that set it off and collapse them. So yes I believe it can help.

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thanks for the replies guyz. I asked a hypnotherapist to reduce my social anxienty fear and AA. Heres what he replied:

"Hypnotherapy is a beautifull therapy to develop yourself and to be powerfull in life, but the goals of "The Game" are against what I try to teach people: to be your own strength, without the need on controlling yourself or others. The last one is exactly what The Game is trying to do. Becouse of this reason I've to let you down andI cannot help you"

Hmmm :s

Pfffsh... That so-called hypnotherapist who replied to you can't even fucking spell!

You're better off consulting real professionals while ignoring the wannabes who think that controlling yourself isn't inherently intertwined with "being your own strength."

Never trust a guy who can't even spell with your money. It shows that they've ignored the basics in education and therefore probably aren't very disciplined in their own fields. An occasional typo here and there is to be expected from time to time but the ones he made were the very definition of unprofessional.

well, it was my translation from dutch to english. Seems I can improve my spelling lol. What did I spell wrong ?

Anyways, time to consult other ones. Keep u guyz updated

Damn, that makes me feel stupid haha

You can ignore everything I said about the spelling then...
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here is free advice, it will really help you save money and not do anything stupid like hypnotherapy.


There is no "shortcut" to getting good with women. All dating gurus are doing is giving you tools you need to get good with women. No SHORTCUTS! Is your job to go out and apply these tools you have.
Lets say skill level with women goes up to 10 (10 being the highest). If your starting at a 1 (0 lays, no making out, no female friends or guy friends) as oppose to guy who is starting at a 6 (had couple of girls in the past, and has friends to hang out with), the road is gonna be a lot longer for the guy starting out with 1 then the 6.

For me, it took me about 1 year to get my first lay off pick up (from a girl that opened me) and another whole year where I hooked with girls off cold approach. My skills were practically at a 2. Had a girlfriend for long time, after I broke up with her, no friends what so ever.

Oh and your AA problem, you can get over it, but it is hard. Once you get over your AA, this is when your game skyrockets. I myself could not open set for at least the first 6 or 7 months.

Saw this thread and since I'm a Certified Master Hypnotist and PUA, I figured I'd weight in on the topic.

Hypnosis and NLP can definitely help you with AA. I've helped numerous clients with it. It's like getting over any fear or anxiety (which is created in the brain and passed on to your physical body).

I'm working on making some recordings that people can eventually download but just haven't had the time.

But here's what I would recommend for you: find a hypnotherapist in your area who has taken a good deal of training. There is no licensing of hypnotherapists so ask about their education (some people take a weekend course and call themselves hypnotherapists).

Secondly, find someone who will not be ridiculous about "The Game" and PUA in general. Sounds like the person you spoke with was letting his own bias get in the way of helping you (which is perfectly acceptable but perhaps he doesn't understand you're not doing mind control on women, you just don't want to be nervous as you approach someone you're interested in).

And here's a couple big tips for you that are totally free:

A. Each night before you go to bed write out in cursive (long-hand) something along the lines of "I am totally confident in approaching girls." You're giving yourself a positive suggestion using an ideomotor response (handwriting--difficult to explain with limited space here). It needs to be written as if it's already true and as a positive (i.e. do not write, "I am not fearful..." because that draws your mind to being fearful). You do this right before you go to bed because that's when we naturally go into a highly suggestible state. Do it every night for 21 nights.

B. Each day set some time aside where you can shut the world out and relax in a chair. Then, with your eyes closed, visualize approaching women exactly as you would like to--with confidence. Should your mind try to switch things up and put in the usual fears in the visualization, see yourself making a correction in your behavior and getting back to confidence. That which we vividly imagine cannot be differentiated in our minds from that which actually occurs. I can go into a lot more detail of why this works but don't want to bore you. Basically, you are conditioning yourself to believe that you are confident. It becomes ingrained in your subconscious.

Let me know how it goes for you. The mind is an incredibly powerful force. In fact, everything you have or don't have in your life has started with a thought you had leading to a choice you made and so on and so on.

All the best,

Richard

Thanks richard, I will do this and let you know if I have results with this!