Welcome to this course! Whether you're curious, want to manage stress better, or seek lasting change, you’re in the right place. Mind Alchemy offers practical, empowering, research-backed tools to help you become your own therapist. You’ll learn self-hypnosis to calm your nervous system, shift negative thoughts, boost confidence, and pursue meaningful goals, combining hypnosis with mindfulness and stress management for a holistic, adaptable approach. Let’s begin!

In this lesson, you will learn what hypnosis really is—a natural, focused state of mind where you become open to positive change. You’ll discover how self-hypnosis lets you access this state on your own, using your imagination and intention. Plus, you’ll find out how clinical hypnotherapy combined with CBT can help you reshape your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours for lasting improvement.

In this lesson, you will discover that all hypnosis is really self-hypnosis—you are always in control, actively creating your own experience. You’ll learn how focusing your attention and engaging your imagination from a first-person perspective helps your brain make real change. Plus, you’ll explore the key qualities that make self-hypnosis effective and begin practicing with the Eye Stuckness exercise to experience the power of your focused imagination first hand.

In this lesson, you will prepare yourself for self-hypnosis by learning how to create a calm, focused mental space using your imagination. You’ll practice a simple exercise to help you slow down, set clear intentions, and envision a positive future. This foundational skill trains your brain to shift habits and mindset, making real change possible.

In this lesson, you will explore how learning and change happen best with the right support—called the Zone of Proximal Development. You’ll discover how hypnosis gently guides your mind into a focused state where helpful suggestions feel natural and your body can respond automatically. Through a simple experiment, you’ll experience firsthand how your imagination and suggestion can create real physical and sensory responses, helping you build trust in your own mind’s power to change.

This lesson explains how negative self-talk is a form of accidental self-hypnosis—old, unhelpful thoughts we repeat without realising. These patterns shape how we feel and act. By becoming aware of them, writing them down, and replacing them with empowering beliefs, we can shift our mindset. Self-hypnosis gives us the tools to rewire these thought loops and build stronger self-belief—turning mental “spam” into something that truly supports us.

In this lesson, we explore how hypnotic relaxation calms your autonomic nervous system—the body’s automatic “boiler” that switches between stress (fight or flight) and rest (repair). Hypnosis isn’t just relaxation; it’s a focused state where your mind is open to positive change. Using relaxation suggestions helps your body shift into rest mode, building confidence and easing stress. Practice daily with Exercise 5 to train your brain that calm is safe and welcome.

In this lesson, we explore how the Suggestion Effect works—how ideas can trigger automatic changes in the body. We look at ideodynamic responses, where thoughts lead to physical or sensory reactions. You’ll learn a simple technique, the Eye Fixation Induction, to practise inducing relaxation and suggestibility. This lays the foundation for using hypnosis in a focused and effective way.

In this lesson, we explore how to shape your inner reality using the power of positive suggestion. You’ll learn how to form effective suggestions that are positive, present, and meaningful. We practise self-hypnosis techniques and use affirmations like “Every day in every way I’m getting better and better” to promote calm, confidence, and personal growth. You’ll also reflect on how suggestion can improve decision-making, focus, and emotional wellbeing.

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to create SMART therapy goals—Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time-based—to make real, lasting change. We’ll explore how to focus on specific situations from daily life (like parenting challenges), identify your current responses, and shape new, empowering ones using the ABC model.

In this final lesson, you’ll bring together everything you’ve learned to create your own personalised hypnosis scripts. Starting with specific challenges, you’ll craft new responses and generalise them to build lasting change. You’ll learn how to adapt each part of a script—from induction to affirmations—and rehearse it using your voice. This is your toolkit to become your own therapist and create transformation in real-life situations.

“You can pretend anything and master it.”
— Milton H. Erickson