Self Hypnosis and Paraliminals

Hypnosis can be a very powerful tool for dealing with anything in life and guitar is no exception. This is an option that isn't usually considered or even known about because people don't know how feasible it is. Self hypnosis pretty much just involves lying down and listening to a track recorded by a hypnotist. I've used it to deal with everything from stage anxeity to musical creativity and it's saved me a lot of work and frustration. You can listen to self hypnosis tracks either during the day, before you go to sleep or while you hold your instrument (playing will usually be too distracting).

Paraliminals are a special type of self hypnosis that play you two tracks at once, one in the left ear and one in the right ear (you have to be wearing headphones), this is significant because each ear is connected to a different half of the brain and each half processes information in different ways. One channel of the track will be geared towards your creative right brain, speaking in images and metaphors while the other will be optimised for your logical left brain, speaking in concrete academic terms.

Here are some self hypnosis tracks and paraliminals that I've found useful:

Self Hypnosis for musicians:
http://www.sambrown.co.uk/

Paraliminals: