I Think I Can. I Think I Can. Can I?

I think I can. I think I can. Can I?

Your mental train ticket to self-empowerment

We all find ourselves at certain points in our lives holding first class tickets to negative mental trains of thought. Michele Wahlder (MS, LPC, PCC), a two-time cancer survivor and Dallas, Texas-based Certified Life Coach and Psychotherapist, has placed thousands of people on the right track to self-empowerment via a plan she calls the 5 C Process. The journey challenges individuals to:

One

Clarify Current View – Where are you now- honestly?

Conscious awareness of your current view is the first step in becoming the best you can be. Getting clear about how your life aligns with your values, talents and unique gifts is vital to your happiness. You need to know where you are in order to learn where you want to go.

You can clarify your current view by completing a review of eight life areas. Be honest with yourself about how happy are you with your profession, finances, health and overall well-being, primary relationships, personal development, spirituality, environment, hobbies, etc.

Two

Connect with Your Highest Vision – Where do you want to be?

Example: A client of mine, a yoga instructor, decided she was happy teaching but wanted to contribute to the world on a larger level. She wasn’t happy with the quality of the yoga clothing that was accessible to her and her fellow yogis. Her vision was to design and create fun, hip and timeless yoga clothes using eco-conscious fabrics.

You have to get really clear about what you want. It is crucial that you connect to your highest vision of yourself because you can’t create it unless you are clear about what it looks like. If you don’t have a vision of where you want to go or what you want to be, you will most likely NOT get there. To quote Henrietta Klauser, “If you have a connection to what you want, take the next step and write it down.” If you don’t have any idea about what you want, or how you want to be in life to bring about greater happiness, begin looking through magazines and create a Vision Board/Collage of what attracts you. You may also want to consider getting an outside perspective from a friend or a professional coach. I take my clients through a guided imagery that gives them a glimpse of what their future could look like. There are also books that can help guide you. Just get help assessing your talents, divine gifts and abilities and then determine how you want to use them more fully in the world. We can’t help others as fully, if we are not aware of how we can best serve. So instead of thinking of it as selfish to engage in knowing yourself better, I would suggest you consider it selfish to hold back and not be the best you can be. Only in this way, can we help the world and others.

Three

Create Inspiring Goals – How will you get there?

Example: My client created a tiered plan of what needed to happen step by step – outer goal. All of this was influenced by her inner goal of keeping a measured pace and a balanced life. Her goal was to enjoy the process.

You have to create a plan and take specific actions to get you from where you are now to where you want to be. When most people write goals, they just write a list of action steps, usually external actions. I believe it is more powerful to have inner and outer goals. An outer goal is what you want. For instance, you might think, “I want a new house”. An inner goal is more focused on the how. How will a new home benefit me and my family? Will it offer more common gathering areas, a larger kitchen so that we can cook together, etc.? How can I appreciate what I have now until I get this home? How can I make this a joyful experience rather than a stressful one? If you can not be grateful for what you have now, then when you get a new home, it will only create very short-term happiness for you. Then, you will be focused on the next external illusion of happiness. For 2008, I suggest taking at least three of the life areas I mentioned earlier and jot down how you couldbenefit from living your highest vision in each area. Next, add action steps toward your desired achievements along with completion dates.

Four

Clear Obstacles – How will you remove obstacles in your way?

We all have dreams and visions for our life, but frankly, there are many things that can get in the way. The two most common obstacles I see with my clients are:

The inability to say NO— In order to bridge the gap from your current view to your highest vision, you have to make room for what “Could Be”. If your life is full and you want to add more of the things that are truly important in your life, you should start the change process by making room first. You must say no to some things in your life, so you can say yes to what is most important. You have to give up the destructive habits, behaviors and activities to make room for new ones.

A metaphor would be a water hose watering a flowering plant. The water in the hose is your life force and the flowering plant is what you are trying to grow in your life. If the water hose has leaks, it will not have enough water or life force/energy to reach its desired outcome or vision (to grow the plant into full bloom). Examples of leaks might include toxic friendships, unrealistic expectations, watching too much television, eating sugar, overspending, negative relational patterns with your spouse or working on an outdated job.

Example: A client’s obstacle here was that her 8- year-old daughter needed caring for and she was afraid she wouldn’t be able to be a good mother plus jumpstart a successful, new business. We remedied this issue by getting clear on the proper definition of a good mother. Also, practically speaking, she needed help picking up her daughter from school. So she got her husband to assist her in this area so she would have time to create this new business.

Negative self-talk—Research shows we have approximately 50,000 internal messages we say to ourselves daily. We are constantly walking around having conversations with ourselves. And it is what we say that makes all the difference in the overall quality of our lives.

Example: I was once in Starbucks, and I watched this woman spill her coffee while reaching for a sugar packet and I heard her say out loud, “I’m so stupid. I can’t believe I did that.”

Now, I just happen to hear her, but this is an example of something you might say internally as well. You might think, “No big deal. I say things like this to myself all the time.” Well, IT IS A BIG DEAL as our subconscious hears these messages and acts on them as if they were real. Don’t say anything to yourself that you wouldn’t want someone else saying to you.

Think of self-talk like mental fuel. Now, imagine filling your car with dirty water. We all know you wouldn’t get very far. Now, take that same car and fill it with high quality gasoline. You’ll most likely reach your destination. It is the same with people and the words we use. If the words are negative and toxic, we will sputter along with low energy and our performance suffers. If our words are positive and tender, we will feel confident, energized, encouraged and will most likely meet our goals faster and easier. Here are some key things to remember if you ever find yourself preparing to board the train of BAD self-talk:

B– stands for belittling self-talk. Stop telling yourself, “I am not good enough.” If your dream is to have a healthy self-confidence, which of the following examples is more likely to get your there:

A. “I’m so stupid. I can’t believe I did that.”

B. “Whoops, mistakes happen.”

Can you see how the Answer B is much kinder?

A – stands for awfulizing. Stop predicting a future filled with gloom and doom, and dwelling on scary thoughts. If you dream of obtaining a career you love, which of the following will move you closer to your vision:

A. “I did terribly on my interview, I’ll never find a job I like.”

B. “I will answer that question on past employment differently next time and I will ace it! I know I will one day have the job I love.”

Can you see how Answer B places you in the mindset of a successful job search?

D – stands for deceiving. This is when you deceive yourself into thinking you are a victim, and that other people are to blame for your circumstances. If we want a happy relationship which will of the below responses will aid in achieving this goal:

A. “If my spouse would only do more around the house, then I would be happy.”

B. “I can and will choose happiness today, no matter what my spouse does.”

Answer B is the right choice, wouldn’t you agree?

S – stands for shoulding – This is when you give yourself a lot of shoulds, musts, and ought tos, then beat yourself up for not living up to unrealistic standards. Say your dream is to be in top physical condition, which will further that:

A. “I should have eaten a salad for lunch instead of that big ol’ hamburger. I’m such a pig!”

B. “I could have eaten a salad, but I chose not to. Tomorrow I will make healthier choices.”

The second choice is so much more inspiring, don’t you think?

Five

Commit to Action – Are you willing to do what it takes?

The final step of the 5 C Process is to commit to action. How many times have we all made plans and never carried them out, or started off excited and lost motivation? No one ever does anything great alone. We all need encouragement and support from others including an accountability partner who is willing to help hold the vision of the person you want to be. In the previous example of my client, her biggest negative self-talk was how to be a good mom and a good business woman. Her thoughts were, “If I don’t pick up my child every day from school, I am a bad mother.” Instead, we replaced it with, “Picking up my child from school daily is not what makes me a good mother. I am, indeed, a fabulous mother.”

Here are the four action steps that have been proven to help you eliminate your negative self talk:

• Become aware of your negative messages –listen to voice in head

• Stop! You have to stop immediately if you find yourself dwelling on any negative thoughts

• Replace negative thoughts with a kinder alternatives

• Practice. It takes a commitment of time in order to turn a pattern of negative thinking into a more positive train of thought.

Creating Your Vision

Creating Your Vision

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one" Albert Einstein

I feel that one of the most important ingredients in your formula for success is having a clearly defined and vivid vision of where you want to be. At first the “how” is not that important, you need to create a vision that gets you so excited that you develop the mentality that you will stop at nothing to get what you want. Many people first focus on the how than very quickly find themselves overwhelmed with too many details and just as quickly talk them selves out of pursuing their goals. You have to take a leap of faith and trust that the how will be shown to you as you go along. Do you remember the days as a kid with dreams of epic proportions? What happened those dreams? You got older and domesticated by a society that says that having those dreams is foolish. That’s nonsense, why wouldn’t you want to accomplish the things that even as a kid you knew would make you happy. I encourage you to dream like you once used to.

“Shoot for the moon…even if you

Miss you’ll still be amongst them stars”- Beanie Sigel(rap artist)

One way I keep myself motivated and keep my vision alive is through my picture book. In my book I have everything that I want and every morning I look at it to remind me what I want in life. Go right now and get some magazines and cut out every picture of the things you want and places you want to visit, don’t be thinking if you can actually get those things now, dare to dream. Remember your mind thinks in pictures, look at your picture book until in becomes as vivid as possible in the theater of your mind. Your mind cant tell the difference between something you remember or something you experience in real time.

Visualization Exercises(meditation):

(Please read this whole section, I will explain why almost all self help fails to produce the results people want)

You can think of meditation as conscious sleeping. Just as you sleep to gain energy for your daily functioning, meditation is conscious sleeping that gives you all the energy(creative abilities) you need for what you intend to accomplish.

I also use lucid dreaming as another way to increase creativity, I will soon write a hub on lucid dreaming.(Lucid dreaming is when you actually become aware in your dream that you are dreaming, once properly trained you can control your dreams)

Use the power of meditation to help you achieve your goals. Strive to everyday meditate one minute for each year of your current age. I am 24, so everyday I try and meditate at least 24 minutes. If you are new to meditation check out this website on transcendental meditation .There are many techniques find something that feels good to you.

Quantum Mind Power

Daily Routine:

1. Pick a nice comfortable place where to meditate. Have an intention on what you plan to meditate on before hand. Ex. A destination you want to visit.

2. Find a comfortable position to sit. Sitting on a chair or on the floor, does not really matter as long as it is comfortable for you.

3. Cross your legs, clasp your hands together.(this helps make your own energy circuit and gives stability)

4.Close your eyes, than stop inner and outer chatter.

5. Relax, begin thinking that your whole body is becoming extremely relaxed.

6. Eyes should be closed.

7. You will notice that your mind is full of many thoughts. Your mind will than begin to ask questions to those thoughts and try and come up with answers whether they are known or unknown. This is why your mind(ego) can be your enemy if it mostly thinks in negative terms.

8. You will need to transcend your mind and thoughts in order to meditate. Your mind and thoughts are what separate you from your higher self, you can also think of your higher self as your subconscious mind don't worry about the labels.

9. You transcend your mind by simply observing your breath. Don't inhale/exhale consciously just observe your natural breathing. Don't go behind your thoughts, if you catch your self drifting just always come back to your breathing. Slowly the amount of thoughts reduces and your breathing becomes thinner and shorter. If you are able to keep all your focus on your breath, you will get to the point of no thought and no breath. This state of no thought is your connection to your divine being and energy body. The more you meditate the more benefits and energy that you will receive. Your own self awareness and consciousness will also expand.

10. You will feel a very pleasurable feeling meditating. If you feel any discomfort in your body these can be possible areas of disease or illness. If you meditate everyday you will heal your body naturally.

11. Now that you are in a state of no thought and total relaxation. Begin to think only on your intention. Remember whatever you think now is in a state that will be impregnated directly into your subconscious. It is incredibly important that you don't color any of your thoughts with any lack,limitation,dis belief or doubt. This is why almost all self help material does not produce the results people expect. Wishing for more money(or anything else) never works, the thought of wanting more money also has the thought of doubt attached to it. Ask your self how many thoughts that you think about have been modified in a way that is not beneficial to you. You just never realize that you are programming your sub conscious all day. This is why meditation is so powerful. You are able to make suggestions to your subconscious where the thought is not modified in any way shape or form. So if you want to make things happen fast you need to get rid of the concept of attaching time to yourthoughts. You have to remember that everything you get in your life comes based on the conditions that you set up and time is usually one condition that cuases the most frustration with people. Just as a computer programmer gives a computer instructions to complete a task, you program the most powerful computer you have which is your subconscious. Your conscious mind acts as the gate keeper as to what thoughts you let in. Now that you know this choose to become more aware and conscious about what you think all day long. Learn to see the world in a non linear way, remove time from your consiousness and watch how things show up in your life faster than you ever thought.

Thoughts = feelings = actions = results (just like that you can begin to shape your life)

12. Mentally rehearse every moment of it with all your senses. Dare to be like Peter Pan :)

13. Visualize in vivid detail, your intention as established fact. Also make sure you meditate only on days you feel good. Remember you want your thoughts to be as pure as possible. This also means that you really find out what you want, make sure its not something you want solely for ego purposes. Thoughts that involve the ego are usually always colored with negativity.

14. With time you will begin to be able to hold vivid pictures of anything(you will develop you third eye). The more you are able to hold onto an image in your mind the more power you give it.

15. Get up and go have a great day :) notice how much energy you have the rest of the day. As you advance in your discipline, you will have a lot of fun basically creating your day before it starts.

Beliefs:

To start making that vision a reality you will have to change some of your beliefs and adopt beliefs that will help you reach your goals. Because if you have this great vision of you retiring on your own private beach but deep down you don’t believe you can do it, you have already sabotaged yourself. Your desire and your belief are in conflict with each other and therefore you will not manifest what it is that you want into your life. If you want to be a good leader one day but you currently have the belief that you are a shy person, it will not happen. You need to truly make a decision to adopt the belief that you are really outgoing. When you truly decide to do something you will find a way to do it.

“Nothing happens unless first a dream” – Carl Sandburg

Some Ways to shape your beliefs:

1. Always think Success- as soon as you think about failure forget about it and don’t let anymore negative thoughts snowball. The more attention you give a thought the more powerful it will become than you will make it harder for yourself to get back to a productive mind state. The only way to change how you feel is to think about something else. Whenever you feel doubt, fear, and failure creeping into your mind have a default thought that you can use to avoid giving attention to mental poison. As soon as I feel I am entertaining thoughts of negativity I immediately begin to think about relaxing on a beach and affirm to myself that “I attract abundance to all areas of my life”. The more I try and have the feelings of being on the beach with no worries and remind myself that I am in complete control of how I feel, I immediately feel the negativity begin to melt away as I begin to focus on my new positive thought.

2. Develop the belief that you are better than you currently feel- don’t look at your weaknesses as a burden but as an opportunity to improve your self. When I find something I don’t like about my personality I don’t get down on myself for it, I just realize that now I have something I can work on to make myself better. Most importantly love and accept who you are, not who you will or should be.

3. Believe that sky’s the limit- if you have little goals you will have little success, the bigger your dreams the more potential for your possible success. Even If you think your dream is too big, strive to reach that dream, because you will end up at a better place than if you would have set your sights on a smaller goal. The trick is to really believe you can do it, this just isn’t wishful thinking. Wishful thinking never got anyone anything, you need to find out what you want and get out there and get it. If you really want that house on the beach your mind will come up with ways to help you get it.(develop faith in your self)

How to remove junk beliefs:

1. Meditate on your old belief and tell the truth about it. Now replace it with a belief that will better serve you. Meditate on it until you feel you have changed that belief.

Now when you accept these beliefs it means you will have to raise your standards and develop a strategy that will put you on the road to accomplish what you set forth. Do whatever you have to do. Read any books that will spark your interest or help you discover any distinctions that will point you in the right direction. Find a role model, a person who has already accomplished what you want. Find out what some of their beliefs, interests, body language, image, etc. is and adopt them as your own. Your role model can serve as a blue print, the goal is to cut down on the trial and error so you can get where you want faster than you ever thought possible. You can take all the qualities from all the people you admire and add your own personal touch. Just think of if it as if you are trying to build the person you want and know you can be. Thomas Edison is one of the greatest inventors in history, he was able to elaborate, modify and adapt on other peoples ideas. You don’t have torecreate the wheel just constantly be aware of any success ingredients you come across and make them part of your identity. Think of your mind as a warehouse the more you learn and store will eventually serve as an inventory for future reference, which will breed new ideas and perspectives.

Consistency is key we are all creatures of patterns and habits. In order to become the person you desire to be, start by changing your patterns. Think of all the quality traits you must possess, make a pattern which uses those traits efficiently than strive to be consistent. Consistency will develop into habits and this is key because if you fail to be consistent with your actions you will not be consistent with who you desire to be. This lack of confusion between your actions and what your mind knows you are capable of leads to tremendous amounts of stress, confusion, and even depression. Many other consequences also come from a lack of consistency.

This is why awareness of self is critical; you need to be constantly evaluating your self. Decide if the persona you are currently displaying is the reality that you want for yourself,because with enough time thats what your reality will become.

Understanding Hypnosis Treatment For Weight Loss

Most people who use diets and exercise to help lose weight can’t stick to their routines for too long. They lack the motivation, and let’s face it – losing weight and keeping the extra pounds off consistently is hardly an easy task. The trick is to break the pattern of habits surrounding extra weight. To break this pattern, hypnosis treatment for weight loss can be used to effectively get rid of the habits which inevitably lead to someone remaining over weight.

Hypnosis treatment for weight loss is a very powerful tool for weight loss, among myriad of other problems such as depression, smoking, low self-esteem, post traumatic stress and health problems. Using hypnosis treatment for weight loss, you can lose weight naturally and easily. In this way, your weight loss will be permanent, and very healthy. Of course, exercise and a healthy diet must form a part of this routine but hypnosis treatment for weight loss will give you the powerful motivation you need to keep going.

Your weight loss will be gradual, but healthy. It will take time, but will happen inevitably and naturally. Surely you are willing to wait a little when the alternative is a lifetime of being overweight? Using hypnosis treatment for weight loss will give you confidence, willpower and the potential to go through with your weightloss plans. You will literally think yourself thin.

Hypnosis treatment for weight loss will give you a while new image of yourself, and you will radiate confidence. You will also be more relaxed about the whole weight loss issue, thus reducing stress levels which will stop the vicious cycle of stress induced comfort eating and poor diet. Hypnosis treatment for weight loss will also lead you to think positive about weight loss and the management of a healthy weight. Not only your weight but your entire perspective about it will be straightened out using hypnosis treatment for weight loss.

Hypnosis treatment for weight loss will also make you feel better about yourself, thus helping you create a sort of self fulfilling prophecy. A healthy, happy cycle of good feelings about yourself and weight loss will follow naturally. All the unconscious barriers and obstacles you would normally face will be removed with the help of hypnosis treatment for weight loss. You will refrain from eating too much – indeed; you know it is not what you want. You will feel the desire to exercise and eat healthy food.

With the help of hypnosis treatment for weight loss, you will retrain your whole sub consciousness into learning new, healthier habits. The mind and body connection is stronger than most people imagine that it is, and your own hypnosis treatment for weight loss will give you a practical demonstration of this fact.

Use hypnosis treatment for weight loss to create a whole new you, and see how much weight you lose. Apart from that, let hypnosis treatment for weight loss give you a whole personality make over too, letting you repair self esteem or depression issues which might have been the root cause of your weight problems.

Use Time Line Therapy To Solve Your Problems

Developed in 1985 by Tad James, Time Line Therapy is a derivative of Neuro Linguistic Programming as well as Ericksonian Hypnosis. As a model, Time Line Therapy can represent temporal experiences, and also change how we feel about certain things in order for us to create a significant future. It has the potential to change our understanding of how negative emotions and limiting choices adversely affect us – indeed, the basic components of our history can be changed to alter the human temporal experience and usher in positive change. How your subconscious stores and interprets memories is what forms your timeline. It allows you to distinguish between a memory from the past and a dream for the future.

It’s a process you’re barely aware of, but your awareness of your time line may vary from time to time. The techniques of Time Line Therapy help to resolve problems with important situations or events in the past which have had an effect on the person concerned. Time Line Therapy allows the person to let go of the negativity surrounding these unpleasant past experiences, while allowing him or her to retain the lesson learned from those incidents or experiences. Time Line Therapy, in this way, forms an effective coping mechanism for traumatized people. A lot of us wish we could turn back time and change some choices or decisions we have made in the past.

Using Time Line Therapy can make this possible, in a way, because with it you can re appraise that past decision, and come to terms with it, and break the limitations binding you to the consequences of those choices or decisions. Time Line Therapy gives you access to the past and enables you to change how the past affects you. Finally, Time Line Therapy also makes possible for you a future as you always wanted it to be. The techniques used for creating the desired future are as potent and as effective as those used to change how the past affects you. The past, limiting decisions and the future – there are the three major components of Time Line Therapy and you can learn them in order to achieve your desired aims.

Although Time Line Therapy has been developed fairly recently, the idea of a time line is very old. Aristotle used this idea in his work, and the Greeks are said to have knowledge about the phenomenon of temporality. The fact that we have a structured language gives us temporal knowledge as well.

It is generally agreed that we are products of our past histories. Our past experiences determine who we are – our identity and what we do or how we act – our behavior.

Time Line Therapy allows you to gain total control over your emotional behavior. Time Line Therapy comprises of a collection of effective techniques that will let you release all the negativity from your unpleasant past experiences and the anger or bitterness you still feel about them, which damages you even more. Try Time Line Therapy to gain control over your own life and let go of the past while building a beautiful future for yourself.

The Power Of Waking Hypnosis

Melvin Powers first used the term waking hypnosis in 1955. This phenomenon involves the altering of one’s behavior without a trance being induced in any way. The phenomenon of waking hypnosis is closely related to the placebo effect.

In a state of waking hypnosis the subject is lead to become totally convinced that whatever is told to them at that point is the truth. Even if this is completely ridiculous or illogical, the individual in the state of waking hypnosis will believe in it and consider it absolutely correct, such as the fact that the air in the room will cause him or her to swallow.

To induce waking hypnosis successfully, the subject needs to totally trust the source first or be suggested by a calm and authoritative voice in a state of hypnosis. In this case they can even be convinced that a completely harmless substance is a drug which has potent effects. This is where the placebo effect comes in – waking hypnosis is induced in order to cure many patients simply by making them believe that a placebo drug will cure them.

Needless to point out or overtly emphasize, waking hypnosis has immense power. Another example of waking hypnosis is the "forgetting syndrome" in which selective memory is used. This happens when someone is interrupted before saying something he or she was about to, and then forgetting what it was.

The three main elements of waking hypnosis include rapport, representational system alignment and directed thought patterns. Waking hypnosis may be used in group as well as individual experiments. Suggestibility is greatly enhanced in a state of waking hypnosis, and multiple variable induce the mind into the waking hypnosis state, in order for the mind to escape the extreme input.

Everyday activities can induce waking hypnosis – a mother humming a lullaby is actually often times inducing it onto her child, just like some soft tunes on the radio can induce you to fall asleep. People get affected by stimuli from various sources, inducing them into waking hypnosis states. When the human mind has been conditioned through suggestion to accept something as the truth even though it may not be so, it will recognize reality is per what it is conditioned to believe through waking hypnosis.

A trance is not induced but the message is still deeply embedded in the subconscious mind of the subject. The use of waking hypnosis in a session can make or break the session, depending upon how effectively or otherwise the waking hypnosis state has been induced by the practitioner onto the subject. These suggestions are given in a relaxed state that is not a trance; nevertheless they have a potent effect on the subconscious mind of the patient or subject being hypnotized.

Waking hypnosis has been used in medicine with tremendous results, in contact with the placebo effect when really serious diseases have been cured merely by the patient’s ability to believe that it can be cured or by taking a pill which has no actual effect but believing that it is a miracle drug that will cure them merely by inducing waking hypnosis.

An Introduction To Walking Hypnosis

Walking hypnosis, which is also known by various other names such as environmental hypnosis and zoning out, is a trance like state achieved inadvertently by doing a task that is monotonous and repetitive, such as walking, listening to a lecture, reading, gardening, etc. In the process of walking hypnosis one’s focus shifts from the task at hand and one slips into the walking hypnosis state. Walking hypnosis is a state of hyper-suggestibility. We lapse into walking hypnosis often, even several times daily.

Walking or environmental hypnosis happens when too many message units coming from the environment trigger this state, leading to a kind of zoning out in order to escape the extreme input. Although it is naturally inadvertent, going into a walking hypnosis state can be learnt. Students do it in classrooms so that all the information they get is permanently stored in their subconscious and can be accessed whenever it is needed. These techniques can be taught to anyone by a competent hypnotist. Many athletes use walking hypnosis to enter the “zone” where they can focus on the hypnotic state rather than the exhaustion or pain they are feeling while exerting their bodies in strenuous physical activities.

Listening to music, watching a soap opera, watching movies, driving, day dreaming – any where and at any time you can enter a state of walking hypnosis. When you learned how to drive a car, the whole procedure got registered in your subconscious mind so if you enter walking hypnosis while you are driving the subconscious mind is doing the thinking for you, thus letting you drive unhindered even though you are hypnotized. The cathartic feeling experienced during tragic movie sequences also amounts to walking hypnosis, as you start to concentrate very hard on the movie and so engrossed in it that you actually begin to “live” the movie. Whatever emotions are expressed in the movie, your state of walking hypnosis leads you to feel them too.

You are sad if the movie is tragic and if it is exciting or thrilling it causes you to feel a maelstrom of emotions. Nothing but the hyper-suggestive effect of walking hypnosis can make you feel like that. In fact, at this stage the messages portrayed in the movie can become powerfully embedded in your subconscious mind and lead you to identify with it – even strong messages of fear and hatred register very deeply in the walking hypnosis state. Thus, be very careful what movies your children watch and which ones you watch yourself. If you think that you have never been hypnotized, think again.

Those times when you have day dreamed and gone into a trance are actually times when you have gone into a walking hypnosis state. So if you though that hypnosis was scary, dangerous or impossible to get out of, you can now remember those times and realize that it is a completely natural phenomenon, especially environmental or walking hypnosis. It is completely safe to be hypnotized and you can come out of the trance when ever you wish to. In fact you can harness the random power granted to you by walking hypnosis and use it to enrich your own life.

Hypnosis As An Alternative Medical Treatment

One form of alternative medical treatment that can be used for treating a large number of illnesses and medical conditions is hypnosis. The exact dangers and benefits associated with the practice of hypnosis are still being studied, but many patients have had great success with this technique. If you suffer from an illness that you think hypnosis could help you overcome, talk to your doctor or a mental health care professional for more information. Research the hypnotic option carefully and thoroughly before making any decisions about its validity in the medical world.

Medical hypnosis, or hypnotherapy, can be used to treat a variety of conditions. Hollywood has caused a number of stereotypical misunderstandings to shadow the world of hypnosis, but the fact is that most hypnotists do not cause their patients to perform funny or embarrassing acts. These hypnotists, who often travel doing comical performances, represent a very minute number of hypnotists in the world and do not accurately represent how hypnotism can help someone.

Hypnotherapy is not done on a stage, but in a doctor's office. Hypnotism is natural-if you've ever been driving and suddenly reached your destination without remembering the drive or if you've ever been so engrossed in a book that you didn't hear someone talking to you, you've hypnotized yourself. Hypnotism doesn't cause you to sleep or becoming unconscious, it simply opens up your subconscious mind to the power of suggestion.

Hypnotism is usually done with verbal guidance, in which a licensed professional will ask the patient to visualize certain things. The mind then opens in a unique way so that the hypnotist can plant suggestions into it. Hypnotism is, therefore, especially useful for those battling alcoholism or drug addiction. A therapist can also reach a person's memory at a deeper level when the person is hypnotized, so it is useful for patients with mental disorders.

Some people are more easily hypnotized than others, so it is not a treatment for everyone. After treatment, the patient usually feels very calm and rested, but it affects everyone differently. Consult your regular doctor before beginning to see a hypnotist to make sure this option is healthy for you and your body. Hypnotism should be included when you are searching for treatment options. Although it is still being studied by many skeptics in the medical field, many people have found great success with hypnotism when other treatments have failed.

Understanding The Major Theories Of Hypnosis

A state of hypnosis is often accompanied by a deep and soothing relaxation and comprises of a state of heightened awareness. It cannot be forced upon anyone, and someone who is under hypnosis can come out of it easily. It is a relaxed and often highly rejuvenating and enjoyable experience. It is a very effective solution for many problems that people tend to face. In fact, people get into hypnotic states several times a day, while day dreaming, or turning a page only to forget what you just read, or even driving and going somewhere and forgetting the whole trip.

There are three major theories of hypnosis used for research – the Social Cognitive perspective, Neo disassociation theory and the Interactive-Phenomenological theories. Apart from this, paraprofessionals have used hypnosis for ages, thus their perspective on the issue counts as well.

The Social Cognitive theory, out of all the theories of hypnosis, looks at hypnosis in terms of a response or reaction in a social context. Social Cognitive theorists believe that hypnosis isn’t just a single process or an altered state of consciousness but that the situational and social context of the hypnotic session along with the subject’s pre-conceived notions, attitude and expectations will all contribute to the process. Role enactment and conformity form a major part of the analysis of hypnosis done by Social Cognitive theorists, such as Coe and Sarbin, Spanos and Wagstaff.

Theories of hypnosis also include the Neo disassociation theory, developed by Hilgard who derived it from the work of Pierre Janet, a French psychiatrist. This theory propagates that when memory, perceptions and motor controls are altered (that is, in the hypnotic state) it is due to the fact that the executive functions of the hierarchical arrangements of the cognitive substructures are altered via suggestion. Hilgard supports the state theory in the state versus non-state debate in hypnosis research. That is, this theory supports the belief that hypnotic is an altered state of consciousness from the “normal” one – and one that is induced by an induction process of hypnosis. This theory believes that under hypnosis, usually available conscious experience can be repressed and usually repressed processes are made more accessible by the hypnotist. Experimentally, the “hidden observer effect” demonstrated by Hilgard supports this theory.


The third major research theory of all the theories of hypnosis is the Interactive-Phenomenological perspective. This school of thought emphasizes the importance of the interaction of numerous variables while the process of hypnosis is going on, and the fact that this interaction depends upon the perception of the subjects and what the subjects make of their experiences. This perspective stresses on the differences between hypnotic and waking behavior, and the fact that the personalities of the subjects have a part in forming the whole experience of hypnosis. The Socio Cognitive and Interactive-Phenomenological theories of hypnosis have some parallels but are essentially different.

For paraprofessionals, the main elements in the practice of hypnosis are the words – trance and suggestion. Paraphrased by Heap, these words form the basis of the paraprofessional approach to hypnosis.

Understanding The Major Theories Of Hypnosis

A state of hypnosis is often accompanied by a deep and soothing relaxation and comprises of a state of heightened awareness. It cannot be forced upon anyone, and someone who is under hypnosis can come out of it easily. It is a relaxed and often highly rejuvenating and enjoyable experience. It is a very effective solution for many problems that people tend to face. In fact, people get into hypnotic states several times a day, while day dreaming, or turning a page only to forget what you just read, or even driving and going somewhere and forgetting the whole trip.

There are three major theories of hypnosis used for research – the Social Cognitive perspective, Neo disassociation theory and the Interactive-Phenomenological theories. Apart from this, paraprofessionals have used hypnosis for ages, thus their perspective on the issue counts as well.

The Social Cognitive theory, out of all the theories of hypnosis, looks at hypnosis in terms of a response or reaction in a social context. Social Cognitive theorists believe that hypnosis isn’t just a single process or an altered state of consciousness but that the situational and social context of the hypnotic session along with the subject’s pre-conceived notions, attitude and expectations will all contribute to the process. Role enactment and conformity form a major part of the analysis of hypnosis done by Social Cognitive theorists, such as Coe and Sarbin, Spanos and Wagstaff.

Theories of hypnosis also include the Neo disassociation theory, developed by Hilgard who derived it from the work of Pierre Janet, a French psychiatrist. This theory propagates that when memory, perceptions and motor controls are altered (that is, in the hypnotic state) it is due to the fact that the executive functions of the hierarchical arrangements of the cognitive substructures are altered via suggestion. Hilgard supports the state theory in the state versus non-state debate in hypnosis research. That is, this theory supports the belief that hypnotic is an altered state of consciousness from the “normal” one – and one that is induced by an induction process of hypnosis. This theory believes that under hypnosis, usually available conscious experience can be repressed and usually repressed processes are made more accessible by the hypnotist. Experimentally, the “hidden observer effect” demonstrated by Hilgard supports this theory.


The third major research theory of all the theories of hypnosis is the Interactive-Phenomenological perspective. This school of thought emphasizes the importance of the interaction of numerous variables while the process of hypnosis is going on, and the fact that this interaction depends upon the perception of the subjects and what the subjects make of their experiences. This perspective stresses on the differences between hypnotic and waking behavior, and the fact that the personalities of the subjects have a part in forming the whole experience of hypnosis. The Socio Cognitive and Interactive-Phenomenological theories of hypnosis have some parallels but are essentially different.

For paraprofessionals, the main elements in the practice of hypnosis are the words – trance and suggestion. Paraphrased by Heap, these words form the basis of the paraprofessional approach to hypnosis.

Learn How Self Hypnosis Can Help You

Millions of people all over the world are using self hypnosis right now to help themselves improve their own lives – politicians and housewives, musicians and scientists, young professionals and retired people – so many people have discovered the positive effects that self hypnosis can have. Moreover, once you learn, you can do it anywhere, and at any time, with no cost at all. There are some popular myths surrounding the issue which need to be dispelled, and they are listed below:


1. In the process of self hypnosis, you cannot get “stuck” in that state. You can come out of it whenever you so desire.

2. While using self hypnosis you do not “go to sleep” or pass out – you are fully conscious, in fact more so than any other time.

3. Self hypnosis does not cause you to lose your mind – you know what is happening at all times.

4. It is not related to the occult or magic in any way, in fact it is in the process of entering mainstream medicine in a major way.

5. Self hypnosis is an absolutely natural state which you go into yourself, several times daily.

6. Self hypnosis is a technique of treatment.

7. It is a hundred percent safe.


Self hypnotizing is a skill, which like all others needs to be mastered and definitely improves with consistent and focused practice. Learning how to use self hypnosis can benefit anybody who does so. There are many free lessons and websites who help you learn the skill, although it is advisable to approach a professional initially.

Self hypnosis can help you overcome the fear of public speaking, enhance your performance when it comes to athletics, get rid of unhealthy self esteem and depression, build your confidence and ward off panic attacks, and help combat phobias and post traumatic stress.

Words are a part of daily life but with self hypnosis they take on a deeper and more potent implication. These words help you heal. What one word means to you can have a totally different or even opposite meaning to some one else. Thus, in self hypnosis choose only the words that evoke wonderful memories and positive feelings, and avoid those which carry negative connotations.

You know yourself best, and so in self hypnosis do your word selection yourself. Choose words that will get the most out of you – cause you to respond in the most powerful manner possible. In addition to good sounding words such as peace, harmony, happy, relaxed, and cheerful, use words such as "increasingly" and "more and more" in order to enhance fluidity and prompt growth.

Self hypnosis includes excluding static words, even if they carry positive meaning - choose "happier" instead of "happy", and tap into the potential this simple change of word can give you. Shun negatives at all costs, like "don’t, can’t, won’t, shouldn’t", instead try and make a list of positive transformation of these words. It is important to be relaxed and follow the self hypnosis step by step to achieve total heightened awareness. Tap the power of self hypnosis to help yourself heal.

Learn How Self Hypnosis Can Help You

Millions of people all over the world are using self hypnosis right now to help themselves improve their own lives – politicians and housewives, musicians and scientists, young professionals and retired people – so many people have discovered the positive effects that self hypnosis can have. Moreover, once you learn, you can do it anywhere, and at any time, with no cost at all. There are some popular myths surrounding the issue which need to be dispelled, and they are listed below:


1. In the process of self hypnosis, you cannot get “stuck” in that state. You can come out of it whenever you so desire.

2. While using self hypnosis you do not “go to sleep” or pass out – you are fully conscious, in fact more so than any other time.

3. Self hypnosis does not cause you to lose your mind – you know what is happening at all times.

4. It is not related to the occult or magic in any way, in fact it is in the process of entering mainstream medicine in a major way.

5. Self hypnosis is an absolutely natural state which you go into yourself, several times daily.

6. Self hypnosis is a technique of treatment.

7. It is a hundred percent safe.


Self hypnotizing is a skill, which like all others needs to be mastered and definitely improves with consistent and focused practice. Learning how to use self hypnosis can benefit anybody who does so. There are many free lessons and websites who help you learn the skill, although it is advisable to approach a professional initially.

Self hypnosis can help you overcome the fear of public speaking, enhance your performance when it comes to athletics, get rid of unhealthy self esteem and depression, build your confidence and ward off panic attacks, and help combat phobias and post traumatic stress.

Words are a part of daily life but with self hypnosis they take on a deeper and more potent implication. These words help you heal. What one word means to you can have a totally different or even opposite meaning to some one else. Thus, in self hypnosis choose only the words that evoke wonderful memories and positive feelings, and avoid those which carry negative connotations.

You know yourself best, and so in self hypnosis do your word selection yourself. Choose words that will get the most out of you – cause you to respond in the most powerful manner possible. In addition to good sounding words such as peace, harmony, happy, relaxed, and cheerful, use words such as "increasingly" and "more and more" in order to enhance fluidity and prompt growth.

Self hypnosis includes excluding static words, even if they carry positive meaning - choose "happier" instead of "happy", and tap into the potential this simple change of word can give you. Shun negatives at all costs, like "don’t, can’t, won’t, shouldn’t", instead try and make a list of positive transformation of these words. It is important to be relaxed and follow the self hypnosis step by step to achieve total heightened awareness. Tap the power of self hypnosis to help yourself heal.

An Introduction To NLP

Based on the subjective study of the phenomena of language, communication and change, Neuro Linguistic Programming or NLP is a perspective in psychotherapy as well as a model for interpersonal communications. Richard Bandler and John Grinder (who is a linguist) co-founded NLP in the 1970s as a personal developemt process. Various psychological fields contribute to NLP among numerous other disciplines – occupational therapy, cognitive science and linguistics.

Thus, NLP has diverse and sound theoretical foundations. NLP is taught through workshops, seminars, books and audio-visual programs. It defies a single definition and is spread over a lot of schools of thought. Training and standards also vary accordingly. Badler and Grinder developed sets of techiniques and/or practices modelled on effective psychotherapy methods of the era. The application hardly remained limited to just psychotherapy, but spread to interpersonal communications that were applied generally and loosely.

In simpler terms, NLP looks at the structure of human thought and experience. Since this is a subjective phenomenon, it cannot possess a streamlined, clear cut, statistical structure but leads to various models of thought, expression and experience. These models then help to quickly changing thoughts, beliefs and behaviors that can limit an individual.

Various people who did things exceedingly well have been studied, and models have been structured based on these studies. Just some of these models include the meta model, Milton model, sensory acuity, sub modalities and representational systems. Presuppositions form an integral part of NLP. They are the beliefs that anyone practicing NLP can create changes within themselves as well as in the environment they are surrounded in. People who practice NLP often have different presuppositions but some common ones have been outlined in this article for your benefit –

a. communication matters more than mere speech

b. you already have everything you need in order to change

c. having a choice is a better situation than having none

d. each type of behavior has a context and situation in which it is positive and has some value

e. failure doesn’t exist; feedback does

f. if one person can do it, anybody else can (when taught properly)

g. people can and do work perfectly

h. if you aren’t getting the response you want, try another approach

i. all your communication amounts to is the response you get from it

j. by changing a person’s "map", that person’s reality can be changed (perception is changed by representation)

In NLP, the five senses are central to the purposes of representational systems. For example,

a. visual (the eyes) – it looks good, positive visual image
b. auditory (the ears) – I have heard good things about it
c. olfactory (the nose) – it smells favorable, pleasant, effective
d. gustatory (the tongue) – it tastes like it will be successful
e. kinesthetic (the skin) – it makes me feel good

All these representations have certain attributes or qualities that you can perceive by using all your five senses – these are the sub modalities used in NLP. They fine tune your representation and can thus be used to create great changes.