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The power of your Mind is truly awesome. You can use your mental powers to achieve success that, up until now, you have only ever dreamed of. It is a Universal truth that life tends to move you towards the physical equivalent of your predominant thoughts and feelings. A great many people are well aware of this fact but most find it extremely difficult to apply this knowledge and put it to work effectively in their lives. Are you one of those people? If you are, then do not worry because I am about to show you how to overcome this little problem.
It seems to most of us that our thoughts are random, sometimes erratic and beyond our control. Our emotions truly do run us most of the time. When we have an emotional response to a thing we tend to go into automatic thinking as the subconscious programs in our mind take over. All too often these programs are just rehashed memories that create negative emotions and negative thoughts that hinder us from moving in the life direction that we really want. Our dominant thoughts and feelings are usually negative in nature due to the conditioning that has taken over on this planet.
The real power you wield is the conscious ability to change your dominant automatic thinking. By doing so you can ensure your feelings and thoughts are more positive in nature, more aligned with your desires and are therefore creating the life experiences that you want. This may sound like a tall order but there are many great techniques and tools to accomplish this. One of the best tools to recondition your mind for success is self hypnosis.
Hypnosis has been used by wise men and women for centuries to create relaxed physical and mental states and condition the mind to respond differently to outside stimuli. It is just as relevant and effective today as it ever has been. In fact with technological breakthroughs and advances in mind conditioning it is possible to create profound lasting change with self hypnosis recordings.
Many of the new recordings, by the best hypnotherapists, include binaural beat technology which entrains the brain to enter into specific mental states ideal for learning and reconditioning, and NLP exercises. There are a great many recordings that are of poor quality, both in their sound and their suggestions, so beware. However, there are some excellent pre-made sessions on subjects that are as varied as the people who use them.
It is, however, possible for you to enter a hypnotic trance by yourself and then give yourself carefully chosen post-hypnotic suggestions, with just as much power as any hypnotist. These can be a list of simple affirmations that you mentally repeat while in the deeper stages of trance. I find it better to use pre-made recordings or have my own custom hypnosis CDs made as I like to let my mind wander during the trance state.
The trance state is so relaxing that most times you don’t really want to leave it as the conscious mind becomes extremely lazy while hypnotized. This is why I prefer pre-made sessions or to visit a trained hypnotherapist.
However, if you prefer to perform your own hypnotic session, which many people do, you must first ensure that you have a clear intention about your purpose and the objective you have in mind before you enter into a hypnotic state. Ask yourself what you want to achieve from the hypnotic session.
You can use self hypnosis and post hypnotic suggestions very effectively to make any mental or emotional change you can think of.
Once you have decided what it is you want to achieve from your hypnotic session write a few affirmations that reflect your desires. Make sure you word these statements in the first persona and also in the third person, as though you were talking to someone else with your name. For example if you wish to develop more confidence you would write “I grow more confident everyday” and “[state your name] you grow more confident everyday”.
Also form a mental picture of what that new confident you looks like. Imagine how you will feel when you have that new found confidence. Exactly how does that “other” you walk with confidence? How does that “you” talk with confidence? How does the “other you” react to everyday life, stressful situations and other people? How does that confident you think, dress and what is their approach life?
This picture is very important. During trance you will picture that confident you standing before you and bring it to life in your mind’s eye. Then you will step into this confident you and actually become that person. Afterwards you should recite your affirmations while thinking, feeling and imagining you walk, talk, dress and approach life as this confident “other” you!
This form of self hypnosis incorporates NLP and is used to directly program your subconscious so that it will help you create that confident you in the real world. The affirmations act as post-hypnotic suggestions which reinforce the NLP work and ensure your subconscious mind holds the correct “self-talk” that you are constantly involved in during the day. This inner dialogue can make or break a person and it is important to program your mind with positive messages.
To create a state of trance in order to perform these mental sequences is quite easy. First find a quiet restful place where you will not be disturbed. Once there sit or lie down in a comfortable position. Keep your head looking straight ahead and lift your eyes to look at a spot on the wall just above eye level.
Count from 20 down to 10 in a slow manner until you feel your eyes start to strain. You will want to close them. Allow your eyelids to close and continue counting until you reach the number 1.
Then imagine that a long winding staircase with 20 steps is there in front of you. Move to the first step as you mentally say, “20. Going down, down, down. Deeper, deeper and ever deeper. Then take the next step and say, “19. Deeper and deeper still”. Then move to the next step and say, “18. Going down, down, down. Deeper, deeper and ever deeper. Then the next saying, “17. Deeper and deeper still.”
Continue this until you reach the last step and imagine that the staircase has led you to a door. Open the door. Open it and see what is there. This is your special sanctuary where you are relaxed and safe at all times.
Once you enter your sanctuary perform the mental exercise given above. When you are finished your exercises, count up from 1 to 10 telling yourself that you are becoming wide awake with every number. You will find that when you return to normal consciousness you are fully revitalized yet calm and relaxed. Perform your self hypnosis everyday for 30 days and you will have created permanent changes in your mind and body. Now that you understand the process involved with self hypnosis and now have the skills to bring yourself into a hypnotic trance, the changes you can make and results you can create are only limited by your imagination! Have fun.
Have you ever wondered why there are people who seem to be born lucky? If you are not one of them would you like to learn to be? Let me show you how easy it is.
For many years I pondered on this question: “Why is it That some people seem to be way more lucky than other people?” I am here to tell you that it frustrated the hell out of me.
Why was it that wealthy people seemed, on average, to win lotteries more than lower socio-economic people?
Why did some people seem to thrive financially, healthily, family wise, more so than other people?
Why couldn’t I for once in my life, have something really good happen to me?
It just seemed to me that that was the way it was.
My belief that there are those of us who are born lucky and those who are born unlucky.
If you read my story over to the right you will see that I made good things happen to and for me.
What made the difference? I made the decision to change my own luck. To change the way things happened to me. I wanted to become a magnet for everything I ever wanted. And as you will have read in my story things changed in a really big way when I started to get my thinking straight.
I discovered that I could do it just by using the power of my mind. I stumbled along and had good successes and then some monumental failures. I didn’t have the resources available to me that are available today.
The truth of this whole luck thing is this “You can and do make you own luck each and everyday.” Now I know that statement is going to tick a lot of people off, but just hear me out and don’t close your mind just because this idea is foreign to the way you have been conditioned to think.
The guy I mentioned in my story also said something that made me want to smack him really hard. He said “Neale, you are where you are today because that is where you want to be”
So I developed a little self hypnosis mantra for myself that consisted of ten little two letter words “If It Is To Be It Is Up To Me” and if I was to achieve anything I had to start attracting to me the things I wanted.
It was at about this time that I discovered the secret. It was called the Law Of Attraction although I prefer a different term. Synchronicity. That is a much sexier word. Basically this law is responsible for everything that we experience in our lives GOOD or BAD.
We become what we think about the most. Our predominant thoughts WILL and DO manifest themselves in our lives.
Maybe this is the first time you have heard about this law. It really does not matter if you know about it or not. You didn’t know about gravity until you learned about it through experience and then being taught. But it didn’t stop gravity from existing did it.
A note here is important. It doesn’t matter what you have or haven’t done or achieved in your past. YOU can change if you want to. Just remember that it is you as a living breathing consciuos individual that activates this law. If you drop a stone from a great height it will eventually hit the ground. Of that there is no doubt.The same thing applies to your thinking. If your thoughts are emotionally strong then the Law of Attraction will immediately begin to manifest these thoughts.
It is your predominant thoughts that become manifest in the world of matter. Many people try the art of visualization. Some succeed but most do not!
Why is this?
Well if you spend 15 minutes visualizing your goal and then spend the rest of your day thinking about the fact that you do not have it, you are really focused on the lack of your desire rather than on having it.
Your predominant thoughts must support your visualizations.
It is important that you understand two critical key principles.
1) It is not just the thought that manifests itself and it is not just the thought that activates the law. It is your emotional state when you think the thought that starts the manifestation. The real magic is in how you are feeling when you think your thoughts.
When you combine positive emotions with a visualized scene the law of attraction goes into overdrive. You can visualize your desires endlessly for hours at a time and they will never materialize if they are not backed by strong positive emotions. Ask yourself why you want the thing that you want. Once you have identified several reasons look more deeply into them. What is the feeling you will get from achieving these things?
Having identified the feelings behind the desire it is now easy to use the law of attraction.
All you have to do is visualize yourself already in possession of your desire. Visualize the scene in a way that is clear and represents exactly what you want. Imagine you are in that scene seeing it through your own eyes. Then start to feel the feelings that you would have if that mental image were real.
These emotions are necessary as your visualization will not work without them. It also takes care of the negativity you may otherwise experience throughout your normal day. The more you practise your visualization in this manner the more positive you will feel during your normal day and therefore the less negative thoughts and emotions you will be focused on.
2) The second reason for failure, when trying to consciously use the law of attraction and visualization is the lack of action. We live in a world that is regulated and created by thought but it is also in a state of motion. You need to take some action that will get you closer to your goal. No matter how small the action is it will add power to the forces of the law of attraction.
I cannot stress this enough! We may be capable of achieving things through thought alone but we, as a species and individuals, are not yet spiritually/emotionally evolved enough to create our desires through thought alone - we are carrying around too much negative thoughts and feelings. So take some action!
For many people, myself included, it is hard to create a mental image that is clear and detailed. There are a few times when I also find it hard to evoke the emotions that are necessary to activate the law of attraction.
I have found that hypnosis is invaluable on such occasions. When I am hypnotized and deeply relaxed I find it much easier to create mental images and mental movies. I also find that it is easier to get in touch with my emotions and thus evoke the necessary feelings I need to activate the law of attraction.
Follow my guidelines and people will soon by commenting on how lucky you are. However, you will know that it is not luck but merely magnetism deliberately created by following laws as old as time itself!
There are hundreds of studies that have shown how the power of hypnosis can be used to create amazing changes in your life from alleviating pain to creating new behaviours. It has worked for millions of people in the past, continues to work for millions today and it will probably work for you also!
Are you hypnotizable? Is there a possibility that YOU could enter into the deepest states of hypnotic trance? If you are an average person you will most likely think that you can’t be hypnotized. This is normal. The majority of people feel that if it were possible for them to be hypnotized then this, in some way, indicates that they lack any real will-power are naive or of below average intelligence. This could not be further from the truth.
The best hypnotic subjects are actually very intelligent, have a great deal of concentration and have a highly developed ability to focus. You should also be aware that the hypnotic state is different for each person who enters it. It is a state that can vary from individual to individual. Some people can enter extremely deep states of trance where their awareness completely changes and their memory of the event is hidden when they awaken, while others find themselves in a state that is equal to complete relaxation. Most of us fall somewhere in the middle. Wherever you find yourself on the hypnotic trance scale one thing is for certain everyone can be hypnotized to some degree.
In fact you go into trance states constantly throughout the day. Have you ever been “going through the motions”, just performing a task without any conscious effort and been thinking of something completely different? If you travel on the bus or train have you found yourself day-dreaming or remembering past events and been so engrossed in your mental image that you lost track of time or your surroundings? Have you watched a great movie and totally identified with the characters or got so lost in the plot that it was all you were focused on? If you can answer yes any of the aforementioned questions and everyone can, then you have already experienced the state of trance.
Although just entering a hypnotic trance can be very therapeutic, as your body and mind relax and ease tension throughout your whole system, the real power comes from the suggestions and images that are used in this state. Such suggestions can easily, quickly and permanently alter your behaviour and your dominant thinking about any subject you choose. Through suggestion a hypnotist will, mostly, guide you into a mental rehearsal of the new behaviours. New feelings are also anchored to old memories or a visualized future event in order to retrain your mind and body to respond to certain situations differently.
So are YOU hypnotizable?
Well, research shows that the best hypnotic subjects are those people who can easily immerse themselves in any imagined event. This is, in and of itself, a skill that many people in the self improvement field strive very hard to acquire. Hypnotic subjects who can easily enter the deepest, conscious altering, states of trance are those than can easily become absorbed in a fantasy while blocking out their external surroundings.
This basically means the better your imaginative abilities the more profoundly you will experience the hypnotic state.
However, as I have already stated, everyone can be hypnotized and you are no exception! Under the correct conditions you most definitely can and will enter a state of trance. With the right stimuli you can then use this state as catalyst for change in your life. It is possible to remove unwanted behaviours, instil new ones and even program yourself with characteristics and personality traits that you desire.
You can use hypnosis for making changes in just about every area of your life utilizing it to heal your body, mind, and spirit. Hypnotists are now finding that its uses are almost endless! I remember watching a television program featuring the UK hypnotist Paul McKenna, called “I Can Change Your Life”, where he hypnotized a man diagnosed with a form of hysterical blindness. The man’s doctors believed a psychological trauma had caused the man’s blindness and that his eyesight should be working perfectly. After a few sessions with Mr McKenna the man’s sight began to return and he was able to function more productively than before. However, and this is the fascinating bit, before the program had finished shooting the man was sent to an eyesight specialist who discovered that he had been wrongly diagnosed and in fact there had been substantial damage done to his visual equipment! As far as medical science was concerned this man should not be able to see anything, yet through hypnosis his sight was dramatically improved. Why? Because both the hypnotist and the subject believed that it was possible!
Here’s a small example of what hypnosis can be used for. This list could fill a book but I have included these to give you some indication of how you could use it to benefit your life. What do you think hypnosis can do for YOU?
Aid In relaxation
Weight Loss
Smoking Cessation
Improve Sleep
Pain Management
Eliminate Fears & Phobias
Alleviate Depression
Reduce Anxiety & Stress
Awaken Your Creativity
Create More Success
Improve Your Self Confidence
Past Life Regression
Improve Your Memory
Improve Your Sports Performance
Better Study Habits
Release Issues From The Past
Healing Of Skin Conditions
Elimination Of Warts
Lucid Dreaming
Remove Addictions
Change Habits
It would appear that the only limitations of hypnosis are those you place on it! Try it you might just like it.
Over the years hypnosis has been seen as the domain of stage shows, charlatans and evil characters preying on innocent individuals.
But over the last few years a lot of research has been done into hypnosis, hypnotherapy and the power of the mind. Some of this research has been positively mind blowing.
Did you know that hypnosis has been around since about the 3rd century BC. Those Egyptians where really advanced and even animals have been known to practice a form of hypnotic control.
It doesn’t matter, generally speaking, who you are, everyone can benefit from the use of hypnotic techniques. Studies have also shown that hypnotherapy training is in some sense like an art form, the more you practice the better at it you become. Practice of hypnosis does make perfect. Hypnotic trance states are a natural state and are as normal as breathing.
If you don’t believe me just think back to a time when you were listening to someone rabbiting on about a subject that bored you to distraction and the next thing you knew you were off with the fairies for a length of time. We have all done it. And that dear reader is what hypnosis is. It is a relaxed state of mind, where we connect with our subconscious mind. Not unlike meditation except that in a hypnotic state you do not disconnect from the present world.
To my mind, though, the obvious benefits are those allow us to miraculously change things about us for the better and improve our lives and circumstances.
The power lies within each and every one of us and with the advent of what used to be called “The Information Super Highway” the techniques for self improvement through self hypnosis is available through online hypnosis courses. If you choose carefully you will see some outstanding transformations in your life.
