When you need more than a book, there is a great audio tape available that will guide you through the self hypnosis session. The use of this audio tape during self hypnosis is the subliminal messages that the tape send to your subconscious mind during a hypnosis session. This allows for the mind to redirect signals so that the body is not feeling the pain. This applies with ending a self hypnosis session as well. With that said then you should not be discouraged when you have tried one or two different ways and neither one of them are working for you. Just keeping trying out different ways until you find the one that is right for you as an individual. One way to end a self hypnosis session is to use visualization. Self hypnosis can help you to tap into your own inner strength and help you to over come your own weaknesses but it will not give you special powers. As you can see self hypnosis can help with some things but not all things can be done with self hypnosis. Self hypnosis is a form of therapy and used to cure or improve upon yourself physically and mentally but it is not magic. Do not use the phrase, "I will not become stressed", because your mind will wrap around the word stressed. Instead use a phrases such as, "I am relaxed", "I am in control", "I feel great today", "Life is good and everything in it is good". These positive words will become imprinted in your mind allowing for your subconscious mind maintain this outlook. Mesmer had great fame and success until a group of people one of which was Benjamin Franklin began to investigate him. The group concluded that the people who were cured had done so with the powers of their own imagination and that their cure had nothing to do with Franz Anton Mesmer and his magnets. The above self hypnosis audio tapes and audio Cds will give you back the control you need to get the sleep you want and need. All of these audio tapes and Cds work, the one you choose to use is dependant upon what you like and what sounds you want to hear. After all if the sounds of the forest annoy you then this would not be a choice for you to try and use to sleep.