Meditation or self hypnosis for anxiety?

Which would be better to decrease my anxiety (just in general), meditation or sellf hypnosis. I’ve tried both but I usually wind up falling asleep!

Meditation and self-hypnosis tend to be different flavours of a very similar state.

With a structured outline for your session, self-hypnosis can be orchestrated by your conscious mind to actually achieve particular outcomes. Mainstream forms of Meditation tend to be focused on simply achieving a beneficial state that has a progressive and positive effect upon your levels of anxiety.

If you are looking at overcoming anxiety or phobias, then self-hypnosis is a far, far more applicable means of achieving this in my opinion and experience.

I am of course deeply biased, but the best selling self-hypnosis book “The Secrets of Self-Hypnosis: Harnessing The Power of Your Unconscious Mind” is the best structured way to learn how to use it that I have encountered in 20 years of studying it. I am the author of that so let me give you some others too choose from too:

The Power of Your Subconscious Mind By Joseph Murphy.
Self-Hypnosis By Brian Alman.
Through The Open Door By Kevin Hogan.

All are great ways of learning more about how to communicate with your subconscious mind when you achieve self-hypnotic states.

Effectiveness of Meditation at Treating Anxiety

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