Having the faith and discipleine to do self hypnosis in the mind set that guiding your intent with clarity and patience, your prayer will be answered is not in dispute.
IT works.

But there are millions of people adding baggage onto the process for profit , power or ego reasons, that the whole world suffers for the fighting inside and between brand names of self hypnosis. Brand names such as Christian, Islam, and even some of the on prosletizing religions.