sunrise,

As I posted in the Hypnotherapy post a few months ago, everyone uses hypnosis every day.

The most basic description of hypnosis is:

The ability to achieve a single thought, whereby excluding all others.

This is hypnosis. So when you read, drive, watch tv or a movie, daydream, or zoneout you are in hypnosis. I'm sure you use hypnosis everyday.

The difference between what you do everyday and what happens in the Hypnotherapists office is the depth of hypnosis. To have access and effective communication with your parts you need to be at a greater depth then just zoning out. You can be taught to do self-hypnosis in a effective way, and achieve the depth needed to communication with your ego states. The ability to communicate with your ego states during self hypnosis may work for some and not others. Like I said in the other thread, it would be sooo much easier with the Hypnotherapist as a guild.

Rick