Pearson, a mental health counselor and life coach specializing in hypnotherapy and neurolinguistic programming, teaches readers how to use self-hypnosis and neuro-linguistic programming. She details the history of hypnosis and its use today, definitions of hypnosis and neuro-linguistic programming, the roles of affirmation and visualization, how to induce and deepen trance, and applications for eliminating habits and addictions, stopping smoking, losing weight, getting motivated to exercise, improving sleep, maximizing motivation in general, stopping procrastination, improving performance and self-esteem, passing a polygraph, managing emotions and pain, preparing for surgery or medical procedures, healing emotional pain, accessing intuition, and finding a life's purpose. The audio CD contains a guided hypnosis session. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)