Self hypnosis is a great way to significantly change your life by re-programming thoughts and beliefs through your subconscious mind. Your subconscious can not tell the difference between real experiences and imagined experiences such as dreaming while sleeping.
The trick is to find a way to bypass the logical, critical aspects of your conscious mind so you can communicate directly with your subconscious mind. The best way to do this is through self hypnosis. By entering a hypnotic trance, your conscious mind essentially checks out, and the hypnotist can talk to your subconscious directly.
There are 5 techniques you can use to maximize the benefits of your self hypnosis sessions: suggestions, binaural beat technology, visualization, emotion, and reflection.
First, all hypnotic sessions include suggestions if the hypnotist is trying to invoke changes in your life. Suggestions are simply telling the subconscious mind the changes you want.
The brain typically operates in one of four main frequency ranges called beta, alpha, theta, and delta. The beta state is your normal awake mode where the conscious mind runs the show. As your brainwave frequency decreases to alpha, theta, and delta modes, the conscious mind steps aside, and the subconscious becomes most prevalent.
Binaural beat technology is a technique where one frequency is fed into one ear and a different frequency is played into the other ear. The brain combines these two frequencies and creates a beat frequency which helps the brain slow down into the more receptive alpha, theta, and delta states.
Whereas the conscious mind is predominantly ruled by logic and real world experience, the subconscious mind is driven by emotion and imagery. Your subconscious actually can not tell the difference between real world experience and imagined experiences (as in dreaming and daydreaming for example). This is why hypnosis works so well. When suggestions are presented to the subconscious mind, it believes them and begins working to make them real.
To increase the effectiveness and credibility of the suggestions to your subconscious, you can employ visualization and emotion while hypnotized. This simply means the hypnotist describes the desired changes in a visual manner and directs the subconscious mind to see the subject with the suggested changes – to experience the changes as if they are already real or already becoming real.
By directing the mind to see the changes and to actually feel how much better life is with the suggested changes, the hypnotist can evoke emotion which inspires your subconscious.
Finally, after making the suggestions and asking the subject to see and feel the changes, the hypnotist can direct the subconscious mind to quietly observe and reflect on the changed subject. Reflection can also occur immediately after the subject awakes from the hypnotic trance. Either way, reflection further solidifies the change.
In summary, the most-effective self hypnosis sessions will incorporate all five factors – suggestions, binaural beat technology, visualization, emotion, and reflection – to provide maximum results from the hypnotic session.
Author: Dr. Bryan Stoker
Article Source: EzineArticles.com
