Fear of subliminal on cd

[bjb]

I just started with the cds today and I find myself fearful of the subliminal messages. Has anyone else experienced this? Anyone done the cds and had weird response?
~bjb

[CS04]

Someone did mention something similar about getting nervous when the guy gets real stern, on maybe the Hypnotic CD. I don't remember who, though! Search for "Hypnotherapy" thread.

[Heavenly]

I am always wary of that kind of thing too...but I suppose it could be on anything ...and we wouldnt know ?

[bjb]

I read a suggestion on another thread to go to the hypnotist's website and read what is said subliminally. Great suggestion...maybe the script for the messages can be included with the cd set.
~bjb

[A Work in Progress]

I just got the CDs in the mail... sorry to say that they kind of added to my skepticism (I am TRYING to engage a spirit of willingness... really I am... ). The insert that came with the CD's says that what is being said on the subliminal CDs is, basically, something along the lines of: (subliminal) that you really enjoy listening to the recordings, and (sleep) that you are going to sleep really well.

The guy's voice sounds robotic. I had a bit of training in therapeutic hypnosis, quite a while back, and I'm pretty sure that the hypnotherapist should be using a voice that is at least human-sounding, with some inflection and tone, and maybe even a bit soothing...

It could very well be that these recordings help a lot of people, and that's great. And, I do still intend to sit down with them and make a serious effort. Hell I am so committed to getting AL out of my life that I would (possibly) even do rolfing! After all, here I am, a Southern girl, eating something called kudzu!! Kudzu is a noxious invasive WEED!!!

But at first glance (first listen), I am not very impressed...

wip

[Determinator]

the hypno was wierd for me at first but i have listened to it almost every night for over a year and really rely on it as a sleep aid! Ironically I find I don't sleep well to the 'sleep learning' tracks, but fall to sleep promptly during normal hypno. ?? maybe I'm just a tad off my rocker.

[A Work in Progress]

Ha! Well my sleep has not been great for months, I had hoped that getting off the AL would help with that... but I am still (8 days AF) typically waking up, unable to get back to sleep, and getting up around 3:30 or 4 or so...

Maybe I'll set up a machine in the bedroom to play the hypno recordings at me and see how that goes...

wip

[Larisa]

I've gotten to where the sleep c.d. (the one that sounds like a stream) puts me out like a light...it's kind of nice.

[Wally22]

One of the reasons (excuses) I started drinking at night, was because I had a real problem sleeping. Passing out and sleeping are the same thing (right). I haven't received the cd's yet, but I sure hope they help!

[CS04]

I have had issues with sleep now for a while also -- waking up at 3 or 4 AM and not being ableto get back to sleep. I read on Joan Larson's Seven Weeks to Sobriety website that this particular sleep patern (not just vague "sleep problems") is associated with alcohol related depression.