Either way works fine. If you can stay with it long enough you can do it without a recording since often you want to change it somewhat anyway. You can also produce a tape. This frees you of remembering all the steps and affirmations that you wanted to tell yourself while at the Alpha/Theta level.
Some people just grab a trance inducing tape and stop it when they feel that they are at the right level for implanting their own affirmations rather than pre-recorded ones.
Many roads lead to Rome. It's a matter of just picking one. Fortuately you can try a few techniques. Don't overlook the method Win provided in the Genius Code course. And the easy way to get back to your best experience 
. That is useful in Self Hypnosis too.
Alex
