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.
Enter the 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
Watch The Spiral playlist from Hypnosis Is Great With Rusty.
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 ↗You are not lost. You are overloaded.
Find Your Damn Thing
Maybe you have 47 ideas, a job that does not fit anymore, a half built project, and a voice in your head asking whether any of it is realistic. Good. Bring the whole beautiful mess.
I am not here to hand you a life. I am here to help you hear your own mind.
This is not beige career coaching and it is not hypnosis pretending to predict your future. Rusty uses conversation, hypnosis, guided visualization, curiosity, and a lifetime of taking strange ideas seriously to help you separate what is yours from what everybody else told you to want.
NOBODY ELSE HAS YOUR BRAIN. THAT IS THE POINT.
Untangle your idea with the Spiral ↗Dump out the brain junk.
Every idea. The genius ones, the embarrassing ones, the one about the haunted taco truck. Nothing gets judged yet.
Find the electricity.
Which idea keeps tapping you on the shoulder? Which one makes you talk faster, sit up straighter, or forget to check the clock?
Try on another reality.
Use hypnosis and visualization to mentally walk through different futures. Not fortune telling. A rehearsal room for possibility.
Interrogate the bullshit.
Is that fear protecting you, or repeating somebody else's rules? We look at money, confidence, perfectionism, and the opinions renting space in your head.
Make reality answer back.
No five year fantasy spreadsheet. Build one small, weird, useful experiment and learn from what actually happens.
From “what the hell am I doing?” to doing it
Your thing changes shape.
You do not have to know the whole route. You only need to know which kind of trouble you are in today.
Find Your Thing
Turn the volume down on everybody else long enough to hear what is actually yours.
Grow Your Thing
Feed the idea. Question it. Stretch it. Find out whether it has legs, wings, or glorious little tentacles.
Build Your Thing
Stop worshipping the perfect plan. Make the first honest version and let reality teach you.
Share Your Thing
Find words that sound like you, not a marketing robot wearing your face.
Sustain Your Thing
Build a life around the work without feeding your entire nervous system into the machine.
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.Rusty's two minute mind hack
Make reality flinch.
No soothing waterfall. No beige meditation voice. Pick something boring and make your mind misbehave on purpose.
2 MINUTES • ZERO INCENSE REQUIRED
- GRAB THE BORING THING.Pick a mug, key, shoe, receipt, or whatever is within reach. Stare at it like it just challenged you.
- BREAK ONE RULE.Make it impossibly heavy, tiny enough to inhale, neon hot pink, or floating three inches above reality. Do not ask whether it makes sense.
- SWAP THE SENSES.What color is its sound? What texture is its name? If it had a bad attitude, what would it say?
- TAKE YOUR POWER BACK.Drop the weirdness. See the ordinary object again. Reality did not change, but your experience did because you directed attention and imagination.
THAT'S THE TRICK. You did not wait for your mind to change. You gave it a job. That is one doorway into self hypnosis.
Keep your eyes open, stay seated or still, and stop if the exercise feels uncomfortable. Never do this while driving or doing anything that needs your full attention.
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.
Frequently asked weirdness
Ask the questions everybody is thinking.
No mystical fog machine. No clinical wallpaper paste. Just honest answers about what hypnosis can do, what it cannot do, and why your brain is more interesting than you were told.
CURIOSITY WILL NOT BE PENALIZED
Okay, what the hell is hypnosis?+
It is focused attention, imagination, expectation, and responsiveness working together. You already visit neighboring states when you disappear into a movie, miss your exit while thinking, or become completely absorbed in making something. Hypnosis gives that natural ability a direction.
What is it supposed to feel like?+
Maybe heavy. Maybe floaty. Maybe calm. Maybe surprisingly ordinary. Some people see fireworks behind their eyelids. Some think, “Am I doing this right?” the entire time and still respond beautifully. There is no official hypnosis face.
Can everybody be hypnotized, or is my brain too weird?+
Your weird brain is welcome. Most people can experience some form of hypnosis, but people differ in how they focus, imagine, and respond. Rusty does not hammer everybody through one script. We find the doorway your mind actually uses.
Will I lose control and reveal my deepest secrets?+
No. Ethical hypnosis is collaboration, not psychic burglary. You can talk, move, disagree, laugh, open your eyes, or stop. You remain a participant, and your boundaries still belong to you.
Is hypnosis like the hypnotist scene in Office Space?+
The movie gets one delicious thing right: changing your state can change how you experience a soul crushing job. The rest is comedy. If a hypnotist died before snapping their fingers, you would not remain permanently blissed out and start gutting fish at your desk. You would return to ordinary awareness on your own. Still, Peter finally questioning a life he hates? That part is worth exploring.
Can I get stuck in hypnosis forever?+
No. Hypnosis is not a supernatural bear trap. If the hypnotist stopped talking, you would usually drift into ordinary awareness, fall asleep, get bored, scratch your nose, or wonder what is for dinner.
Can hypnosis fix my job, creativity, confidence, or entire life?+
Hypnosis is a tool, not enchanted duct tape. It can help you explore reactions, rehearse possibilities, focus attention, and experiment with new responses. It cannot guarantee outcomes or replace medical, mental health, legal, or financial expertise.
Did hypnosis prove that my memory or past life was real?+
Nope. Vivid does not mean verified. Memory is reconstructive and can be influenced. Treat hypnotic memories and past life material as meaningful subjective experiences unless independent evidence supports a factual claim.
Do I need a private session with Rusty?+
Probably not as your first move. Start with the free education, videos, exercises, and Rusty's Spiral. If you want help shaped around your particular mind, history, goals, and glorious collection of complications, then a private session may make sense.
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.
- Every participant must review and sign the informed consent agreement before working with Rusty.
- 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 CONSENT
First complete the informed consent agreement. Save or print your signed copy, then email it with your session request.
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