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1st Step of Self-Hypnosis


1st Step of Self-Hypnosis

STEP 1 – Change Your Story – Create a New Inner Dialogue

Waking/Auto Suggestion and Pre-Sleep Technique

It is important to faithfully practice this step twice daily (once upon waking in the morning and once before going to sleep). If you already have a morning/evening ritual be sure to incorporate this into it.

Do this immediately upon waking and just before you are ready to go to sleep, every day. Overtime, your suggestions will change or more will be added, but keep up this practice. This ritual will move you into your day with purpose, intention, and connection.

You are a spirit inside a body which happens to have human thoughts and human emotions.

They are not who you are. You have control. You have choice.

Why first thing in the morning? Doing this exercise before you get up in the morning sets you out with intention and purpose. You feel connected and engaged with the world. You will experience mindfulness and clarity. When the old, negative thoughts return, you will be aware and recognize them as unhelpful. It will be easy to cancel a thought and replace it with what you used in the morning exercise. In this way you begin to recalibrate throughout the day, continually bringing yourself back to mindful presence. After a while it becomes instinctive to do so.

Why again before going to sleep? It is our human default to ruminate about our worries and fears when we lie down to sleep. When you put a stress producing thought (an OMG or What If thought) into your subconscious before sleep, your subconscious will process that worry or fear all night long. You won’t go through the restorative cycles of sleep and will wake up, not only physically exhausted, but feeling emotionally stressed. By doing this exercise before sleep, you are intentionally choosing to feed your subconscious something you want it to process all night long. You will wake up restored and energized, feeling confident.

NOTE: All the suggestions below can be recited together as frequently as possible, as this is your NEW

STORY, moving your subconscious in the direction of your goals. You can tell yourself the entirety of this story continually, throughout the day, reinforcing the new you. It is only while doing the actual exercise that you choose only one suggestion.

EXERCISE INSTRUCTIONS:

Lie in bed and say your chosen suggestion to yourself, a minimum of ten times. Give yourself an emotional reward, a payback at the end of the sentence. How would you like to feel now, e.g., calm, confident, happy, content, excited, motivated, energized, optimistic, hopeful, peaceful, in control? It doesn’t matter. This is YOUR emotional reward. You can change what I wrote if you like and replace it with something that might resonate with you even more. Just be sure it is positive and uplifting.

BEGIN …

Choose one of the hypnotic suggestions.

In order NOT to be distracted by counting, every time you say the suggestion press down a finger on your right hand. When you run out of fingers, you know you’ve done five. It is purely sensory and not distracting. Then, continue with each finger of your left hand until you’ve completed the suggestion ten times. By using your fingers (just like a child) you will automatically know when you reach the count of ten. This frees your mind up

to IMAGINE yourself being successful in every way as you repeat your goal or affirmation. It generally takes at least 10 repetitions to begin FEELING the emotional reward at the end of the sentence. You need to connect emotionally to your suggestion.

This may be your first attempt at learning to effectively program yourself through suggestion. It is of the utmost importance to do this exercise (repeating the ten repetitions) every morning upon waking and every night without falling asleep.

Your New Story

  •  Every day I get better, and I feel optimistic … I feel hopeful.
  • I trust life to work out and I feel calm.
  • I expect a positive result from everything I do, and I feel encouraged ... I feel supported.
  • I am an ACTOR in my life … no longer a RE-Actor, and I feel in control … I AM in control.
  • I make choices that serve me … choices that support me, and I feel empowered.
  •  I am intelligent, creative, capable, and I feel confident.
  • I am enough … I feel secure … I feel safe in the world.
  •  I am adaptive, flexible, resilient, and I feel in charge and in control.
  •  I am taking my power back and I feel safe … I feel strong.
  •  I am a winner … a survivor … and I feel unbeatable, unstoppable, and fierce to succeed.
  •  I am a diamond of great worth and value, and I feel deserving … I feel worthwhile.
  •  I expect the best and I feel at ease in my mind and body.
  •  I naturally, easily flow over, under, around and through life’s obstacles and challenges, and I feel happy …
  • I feel at ease in my mind and body.
  •  I fluidly flow toward my goals, and I feel focus and flow.

Nothing is too good to be true … Nothing is too wonderful to happen … and I feel hopeful for the future.

 You are beginning to establish a healthy, habitual, pattern of properly programming yourself by giving yourself positive suggestions upon waking and before going to sleep. Every day you will find yourself reacting very positively to your suggestion. Over time, these suggestions become so deeply rooted in your subconscious mind you will find yourself effortlessly, easily, making positive and beneficial changes to your life.

WARNING: NEVER attempt Self-Hypnosis while driving or operating machinery.

Remember, you are placing yourself in an altered state of consciousness.