Self Hypnosis
Use attention, breathing, imagery, and personally meaningful suggestions to guide yourself.
Begin with an exerciseCreate a personalized exercise ↗Education. Exploration. Empowerment.
Explore your mind.
Discover your potential.
Hypnosis is more than relaxation. It is a practical tool for self exploration, creativity, and lasting change.
Learn how to use it for yourself.
You already
have the power.I'll show you
how to use it.
have the power.I'll show you
how to use it.
Not sure where to start?
Ask Rusty's Spiral
You may have an idea, a question, a dream, a creative block, or 58 different possibilities fighting for space in your head. Rusty's Spiral is a personalized AI guide designed to help you slow things down, explore what is happening in your mind, and discover your next useful step.
Use it to explore:
- Self-hypnosis
- Creativity and writer's block
- Business and project ideas
- Finding direction
- Dream recall and dream exploration
- Visualization
- Consciousness exploration
- Turning unusual ideas into small experiments
There are no generic scripts and no single correct path. The Spiral asks questions and adapts the conversation around you.
You do not need to be fixed. You may simply need help hearing what your own mind has been trying to tell you.
Start Your Spiral →Rusty's Spiral opens in ChatGPT. A free ChatGPT account may be required.
Rusty's Spiral provides educational and exploratory guidance. It is not medical care, mental health treatment, crisis support, or a method of verifying recovered memories.
Learn Hypnosis
Understand what hypnosis is, how it feels, and how to use it safely.
Explore →Explore Consciousness
Approach altered states, memory, and past-life experiences with curiosity and care.
Explore →Boost Creativity
Use focused attention to loosen writer's block and invite new ideas.
Explore →Explore Dreams
Strengthen dream recall and use dreams as material for self exploration.
Explore →Watch & Learn
Visit the Hypnosis Is Great YouTube channel for free education.
Watch →Work With Rusty
When free resources are not enough, request guidance built around you.
Explore →Start here
What is hypnosis?
Hypnosis is a learnable skill involving focused attention, imagination, and suggestion. You are not asleep, broken, or surrendering control. You are learning how your own attention works.
Different people experience it differently. Some feel deeply relaxed. Others feel alert, absorbed, imaginative, or simply more focused.
Try a two-minute exercise →Learn hypnosis
Build understanding before belief.
Start with the basics, then follow the question that interests you.
Dream Exploration
Improve recall, notice patterns, and explore meaning without pretending every dream has one fixed answer.
Choose what to learn nextExplore your dream with the Spiral ↗Creativity
Create enough mental space for unexpected connections, scenes, language, and solutions to appear.
Try focused imaginingTalk through what is blocking you ↗Consciousness Exploration
Explore unusual experiences as experiences. Stay curious, grounded, and appropriately cautious about certainty.
Read the safety notesExplore this with Rusty's Spiral ↗Clarity before commitment
Find Your Thing
You do not need another person to choose your future. You may need a way to untangle the ideas, fears, and possibilities already competing for your attention.
Let's figure out what you actually want.
Hypnosis and guided visualization cannot predict which future is objectively correct. They can help you mentally rehearse possibilities, notice your reactions, and discover what feels meaningful enough to explore.
Untangle your idea with the Spiral ↗Empty your brain.
Write down every idea. Good, bad, strange, practical, and impossible.
Find the reason underneath.
Ask why each possibility excites you and what need or value it represents.
Imagine each future.
Use guided visualization to mentally rehearse different paths and notice what you learn.
Name what stops you.
Fear, money, perfectionism, confidence, other people's opinions, or unclear direction.
Run one small experiment.
Choose one thoughtful action you can take this week instead of writing a five-year plan.
A complete possibility journey
Take the next honest step.
Find Your Thing
For people who do not know what they want.
Grow Your Thing
For people who have an idea worth exploring.
Build Your Thing
For people ready to create something real.
Share Your Thing
For people ready to let the world see it.
Sustain Your Thing
For people who want progress without burning out.
You already have more ideas, creativity, and potential than you realize. Rusty's job is not to give you your future. It is to help you uncover it, test it, and build the confidence to take the next step.
A business, a novel, a career change, a board game, a volunteer project, or something completely unexpected are all valid outcomes.Free exercise
The two-minute focus shift
- Choose one ordinary object and notice its shape, color, and texture.
- Take three comfortable breaths without trying to force relaxation.
- Imagine the object becoming brighter, larger, or unexpectedly light.
- Notice what changes when you direct attention on purpose.
That shift in attention and imagination is part of the territory hypnosis uses. Stop if you feel uncomfortable.
One-hour guided practice
Move. Breathe. Reset.
Join Rusty for a full session blending yoga, qigong-inspired movement, meditation, hypnosis, and affirmations. There is no pressure to perform and no need to be perfect. Follow along at your own pace and adapt or stop any movement that does not feel right for your body.
Approximately 60 minutesFree resources
One library. No dead ends.
THE TOOLS.THE KNOWLEDGE.THE POWER IS YOURS.
About Rusty
A teacher first.
Rusty Diamond helps people understand hypnosis through education, exploration, and individualized guidance. His work is built around curiosity, consent, and the belief that people can develop confidence in their own abilities.
Private sessions are available when a person wants focused help that cannot be answered by a general article or exercise.
Books by Rusty
Go deeper at your own pace.
Explore hypnosis with Rusty's practical, direct approach. Choose a book below to view it on Amazon.
Hypnosis Is Great: For the Rest of Us
A straightforward introduction for people who want to understand and explore hypnosis for themselves.
View the BookErotic Hypnosis Is Great
This book contains adult subject matter and is intended only for readers age 18 and older.
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Continue to the 18+ BookImportant cautions
Explore memory without overclaiming.
Hypnosis can make imagery and recollection feel vivid, but vividness is not proof of historical accuracy. Past-life regression can be approached as an exploratory experience. Do not treat hypnotic recall as verified evidence, and do not use this website as a substitute for medical or mental health care.
FAQ
Questions are welcome.
What is hypnosis?+
Hypnosis is focused attention combined with imagination and responsiveness. It is not mind control. You remain a participant in the experience.
Can everyone be hypnotized?+
Most people can experience hypnosis in some form. Depth and style vary, and there is no single correct way for it to feel.
Will I lose control?+
No. Ethical hypnosis is collaborative. You can speak, move, question, or stop at any time.
Is memory recovered in hypnosis always accurate?+
No. Memory is reconstructive and can be influenced. Treat anything recalled in hypnosis as subjective material unless independently verified.
What should I learn next?
Follow your curiosity.
Personalized guidance
Work with Rusty
If you have explored the free resources and would like a session built specifically for you, Rusty would be happy to work with you.
- A refundable consultation fee is required to reserve a consultation.
- The full session fee is required before a session can be booked.
- The advertised payment total will include processing costs.
- Scheduling will be controlled through Rusty's Google Calendar.
START WITH A REQUEST
Tell Rusty what you want to explore. You will receive the next steps, payment details, and available times.
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