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. When you reach 1 you will be alert and your self hypnosis session will have ended. Some people may choose to do a self hypnosis session at night before bed. 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 save you a lot of time and money over hiring a hypnotist to hypnotize you. By using what you already have available to you, you can hypnotize yourself for free. 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. Calvin D. Banyan has created a self hypnosis CD titled, Free to Sleep. This is were self hypnosis comes in. Self hypnosis is going to basically train your employees to be more efficient and better employees all around. Thus allowing you the boss to have a more sharper and quicker memory. By strengthening your memory, you will be able to encode more details about a specific event, more of these details will be stored into your memory and later more of the details can be retrieved at one time. As human beings the majority of us need a place to start. There are some great books out there that will give you a starting point and help you to expand on your knowledge of self hypnosis. Self-Change Hypnosis by Richard Mackenzie is a great book to help you get started in using hypnosis to rid yourself of negative thoughts and opinions of yourself. Most hypnotists that work with people who want to stop smoking boast a high success rate. This high success rate generates them more and more clients all the time that are seeking to stop smoking. So why then are these hypnotists able to flourish with such lack of doubt in their methods within the majority of the publics mind?