Sleep
Hypnosis for jet lag
Help your body clock arrive when you do, so a new time zone stops costing you the first three days.
Jet Lag Reset is a session for arriving in a new place and staying awake until the local night. It spends most of the time on a single rehearsal of the body clock agreeing with the sun outside.
The aim is to stop the first few days from costing you more than a bit of tiredness.
The first morning in a new place usually begins with eyes wide open at four in the local time. The room is dark, the hotel is quiet, and you are wide awake while the city outside is still asleep.
You spend the next three days walking through fog, hungry at the wrong hours and tired when you actually need to be working.
What’s in it
Sleeping at the right hours in a new time zone within a day instead of a week.
Why do it
A few quiet minutes tell your body which night it is, which is the whole battle.
- Theme
- Sleep
- Delivery styles
- 3
- Lengths
- Quick ~10mStandard ~20mDeep ~45m
- Ends
- Asleep — no count back
- Stages
- 4
- On this shelf
- 10 sessions
Timeline: Start to Finish
The suggestion block focuses on the body clock arriving in the new time zone. This whole build is spent pointing your mind toward the correct night, so you wake up when the city does.
3 of the 4 stages are named techniques with a published origin, credited under each.
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InductionStage 16 min
Progressive Muscle Relaxation
A classic head-to-toe relaxation. Tense and release, or simply soften, each muscle group in sequence.
After Edmund Jacobson PMR (1929); Dave Elman Hypnotherapy · what progressive muscle relaxation is
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DeepenerStage 23 min
Staircase Descent
Visualized stairs descending into a deeper level of trance. Each step takes you down.
After Ledochowski, Deep Trance Training Manual
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Suggestion ScriptStage 310 min
Jet Lag Reset — Balanced
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AwakeningStage 42 min
Sleep Awakening (drift to sleep)
For nighttime sessions. Does NOT count back to alertness. Allows seamless transition into natural sleep.
After Awakening Transformation Academy, Guided Meditations for Deep Sleep
Three ways to say it
The same goal, written three ways. You pick the one that sounds like something you would believe — and you can hear a different one tomorrow without rebuilding anything.
Balanced
Help your body clock arrive when you do, so a new time zone stops costing you the first three days. The default.
Future self
Meet the version of you who is someone whose body clock resets quickly and willingly.
New identity
Step into being someone whose body clock resets quickly and willingly, starting now.
Where it sits
Getting to sleep, staying asleep, and the hours in between.
Before you press play
Hypnosis is not for everyone. If you have epilepsy, a psychotic illness, or you are under psychiatric care, talk to your clinician before using this — here or anywhere.
Why this works — and what the research actually says
Group-level, not session-level: no study has tested this exact session, and we will not pretend otherwise. Every source below was opened and read on 2026-08-25 before it was quoted.
Why do it as hypnosis?
You cannot force your internal clock to move faster by checking your watch. What you can do is bring your attention to the idea of a different night and let that sit.
This is ten minutes spent looking at a new time zone directly, with nothing else pulling at you, until the sense of it begins to settle. It is not a button you press but a direction you face.
Sleep: promising, and thinner than you would hope
Worth knowing: The reviewers state plainly that the evidence is limited by few studies of people who actually have a sleep complaint, small samples, and low methodological quality in the studies they could include.
The exact wording and figures
A systematic review of hypnosis for sleep found studies reporting beneficial, mixed and absent effects.
Its own summary is that hypnotherapy for sleep problems 'appears to be a promising treatment to explore with little evidence of any adverse events'.
Published in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, the journal of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.
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