Sleep-Forest uses forest guided imagery to help you get to sleep. Jef Gazley has also created a self hypnosis audio tape called Sleep-Beach that uses beach imagery to help you fall asleep. Both of these tapes will help you to fall asleep naturally using self hypnosis. The only thing to decide is whether you want to imagine the beach or the forest. As with hypnosis there came much controversy and criticism over self hypnosis as there was in the past over hypnosis. Many in society believed these people to be weird and eccentric. Now though in society self hypnosis is still hit with some resistance but for the most part it is accepted. More often self hypnosis is viewed as a form of holistic medicine that one can administer to one s self. Experts That Can Help You Learn Self Hypnosis If learning self hypnosis has you confused no matter how much reading you have done on the subject, then try consulting an expert. There are experts out there that will teach you what you need to know to do self hypnosis. Even if you have been doing self hypnosis for awhile and just want to broaden your understanding or learn a new technique you can benefit from an expert also. In this you will visualize yourself coming out of the hypnosis trance and becoming alert and functioning. Visualize yourself becoming alert, then proceed to visualize yourself standing up. From there you can visualize yourself going back to normal daily activities. This should help your mind to make the distinction between hypnosis state and the alert state of mind. As for the history of self hypnosis there have been important connections between self hypnosis and the Jewish cabalistic mysticism made. Before it was used in western medicine, self hypnosis was used for healing and as part of human religious practices. Self hypnosis now a days is widely accepted as a scientific approach to self discovery and change. These pain killers not only dull the pain but also makes a person sleepy to the point they miss out on so much in life. Pain killers also destroy the liver and kidneys causes the person even more pain. This seems to be a vicious cycle that really is unnecessary. Self hypnosis has been used by many to alleviate chronic pain.