This will allow you to go forward with no interruptions. Once you have your time frame for uninterrupted self hypnosis, sit on your floor cross legged. This will keep you relaxed but not allow for you to become too relaxed. In this state of self hypnosis you do not want to be going to sleep. Now you will be breathing in and out and helping yourself reach a relaxed state. Hypnosis can be traced back as far as 3,000 years to the Evers Papyrus of Egypt. But Franz Anton Mesmer helps us to understand better modern hypnosis. While I know you are wanting the history on self hypnosis, you must first understand the history of hypnosis as self hypnosis is hypnosis minus another party hypnotizing you. At work we suffer because we lack the confidence to speak up and be noticed. Without speaking up and being noticed we are then suffered to being passed over for promotions and acknowledgement of our talents. Self confidence can be obtained easily by using self hypnosis. Self hypnosis will allow you to tap into that sector of your subconscious mind. The way our minds works is that it takes your personal experiences and shapes them into who you are. This provides for bad habits that seem impossible to break. When you use positive messages inside your mind while in a hypnotized state you can change the impressions that are in your mind, thus allowing for you to successful make positive changes in your life. Self hypnosis can keep the team focused and motivated, it can help build confidence in each member of the team and overall performance of the team will improve. As the coach you need to learn what you can about self hypnosis techniques and inductions. Then teach this with your team members. This will allow for all of you to be together and benefit from self hypnosis. Say to yourself in your mind what you need to for your mind to make the distinction and to draw the line mentally between hypnosis and alert. One thing you can say to yourself is that I am going to count backwards from 5 and when I reach 1 I will become alert. Then proceed to count backwards slowly from 5 to 1.