Create the reality you deserve. Unlearn your limiting beliefs. Reprogram your subconscious mind.

Napoleon Hill & W. Clement Stone

Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude

What this book offers

Hill and his co-author Stone propose that mental attitude can be learned, and that you change it through short phrases repeated often. Our daily appointment comes from this book, along with the idea that repetition builds the habit. Their phrases are meant to be learned by heart; you write yours with us, and listen to them evening after evening.

The author

Napoleon Hill, American author (1883-1970). On Andrew Carnegie's advice, he spent twenty years interviewing the industrialists of his day, to understand what sets those who succeed apart from the rest. From this came Think and Grow Rich, published in 1937, one of the world's best-selling self-help books and a founding text of the genre. It inspired W. Clement Stone, with whom he published Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude in 1960.

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Dr Joseph Murphy

The Power of Your Subconscious Mind

What this book offers

Murphy argues that the best time to speak to your subconscious is as you fall asleep, or as you wake, and that the subconscious accepts whatever the conscious mind holds to be true. He suggests repeating a short sentence in the present tense, slowly, like a lullaby. He is the reason we placed your ritual at bedtime, with short sentences, and you can also listen to it in the morning.

The author

An Irish-born minister and author (1898-1981), he led a Divine Science church in Los Angeles that would later bear his name. He devoted his ministry and more than thirty books to making one idea accessible: the subconscious mind is shaped by what it is told over and over. The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, published in 1963, became an instant best-seller that sold millions of copies, and still reads like a practical manual.

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Dr Bruce Lipton

The Biology of Belief

What this book offers

Lipton argues that our beliefs, true or false, have more influence on our biology than our genes do, and that a positive affirmation fails when it contradicts a program installed in childhood. This book gave HypnoSelf its initial spark: the idea that working on your beliefs takes more than an intellectual exercise. From it came a conversation before you write a single sentence, to heed his warning, then listening in a relaxed state.

The author

American cell biologist. He taught anatomy at the University of Wisconsin's medical school, then at St George's University in the Caribbean, before doing research at Stanford University School of Medicine. His years in the laboratory led him to the conviction he sets out in this book: that a cell is steered by its membrane, more than by its DNA, in response to what it perceives in its environment.

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Dr Norman Doidge

The Brain That Changes Itself

What this book offers

Doidge recounts how the brain changes its structure with activity, thought and experience, including in adulthood. He also describes the flip side, which he calls the plastic paradox: the same flexibility can make us more rigid, and some of our most stubborn habits are its product. That is why we offer a regular ritual, focused on what you want to experience: if what you repeat leaves its mark anyway, you might as well choose what to repeat.

The author

Canadian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. For thirty years he was on the faculty of the University of Toronto's Department of Psychiatry and on the research faculty of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. This book, published in 2007, introduced neuroplasticity to the general public: it describes the work of the neuroscientists who brought it to light, and tells the often remarkable stories of patients, theirs and his own.

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Gregg Braden

The Spontaneous Healing of Belief

What this book offers

Braden proposes that most of the beliefs that limit us are subconscious, and take hold early, when we absorb the beliefs of the people around us. To change one, he suggests naming it, putting its opposite into words, then gathering facts from your own life that support what you are aiming for. His method inspired our conversation: saying in your own words what holds you back, then looking for the sentence that replaces it for you.

The author

An American who started out as a geologist at Phillips Petroleum, he went on to design computer systems in aerospace at Martin Marietta, then worked at Cisco Systems before devoting himself to writing and speaking. For more than twenty years, he visited monasteries and combed through ancient texts to set them alongside contemporary science. Out of this came the question this book asks: what is the role of belief in our world? For him, belief is the program that shapes reality itself.

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Joe Dispenza

Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself

What this book offers

Dispenza sets out a two-step way to change: become aware of your automatic patterns (the thoughts you keep repeating, the emotions your body has memorised), then install something else through daily practice. Our approach follows this order, with the conversation first, which brings your automatic patterns to the surface, then listening every day. This book also gave us the idea of recording your sentences in your own voice, and we made it the heart of the app.

The author

American chiropractor, also trained in neuroscience. He studied hypnosis in 1981, then went on to teach it. He says that at 23 he was knocked off his bike during a triathlon, refused to have his six fractured vertebrae operated on, and visualised his spine being rebuilt every day until he could walk again. Today he runs meditation seminars and, in this book, likens meditation to hypnosis.

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Joe Dispenza

You Are the Placebo

What this book offers

Dispenza takes the placebo effect as his starting point and asks: if the body responds to what we expect from a treatment, can we learn to produce that response ourselves, without a pill? He argues that a thought repeated every day ends up conditioning the body, and that a strong emotion speeds up the change. We owe him sentences worded to be felt, and a ritual you practise knowing what it is, like a placebo you know you are taking: your sentences are spoken plainly, with nothing hidden, and you are the one who chose them.

The author

An American chiropractor with a passion for neuroscience, he now teaches meditation in his seminars. Early in this book, he tells the story of his own accident: at 23, he was hit by a car during the cycling leg of a triathlon, refused the surgery he was offered for his six fractured vertebrae and spent his days mentally rebuilding his spine, one image at a time. He then promised himself that if he walked again, he would devote his life to research on the link between mind and body. Nine and a half weeks after the accident, he was walking again.

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