Photo by stuartpilbrowGo to bookstore and get overwhelmed.
All because you want to help yourself get better.
The self-help section’s groaning at the weight of all the self-help books out there on every subject imaginable. And every one of those books promises it’s the final, be-all end-all cure to whatever it is that ails you. Whether it’s feeling stuck, procrastinating, overeating, or not Getting Stuff Done, all you have to do is buy the book and do the 10-step system and you’re golden.
At least, that’s how it worked for the book’s author. For you? Your mileage may vary. It can get a little frustrating.
I want to propose today another be-all, end-all self help technique. Yet I don’t want to offer it because it helped me and I have a book to sell. Instead, it helped me and I am absolutely convinced it can help you too. I’ve gone so far as to all it the “Key Secret of Self-Help,” one that can underlie ANY self-help program you wish to undertake.
Looking back at them, those are some big claims. How can I back them up?
Simple. With self-hypnosis.
Hypnosis, a recognized therapy for treating everything from overeating to relationships, has an unfortunate veneer that masks its ability to create lasting change in a willing subject. Partially, that’s the fault of Hollywood. The movie hypnotist, with his laser eyes and unfortunate goatee, stands far removed from the world of real hypnosis.
All hypnosis is, is a way of using a relaxing state of trance to install positive ideas into your mind. In particular, they’re installed into your subconscious mind, the part that underlies out actions and decisions. We usually decide things based on emotion, controlled by the subconscious. Then we justify those decisions with the conscious, logical mind. It’s a funny balancing act, one that self-hypnosis can use to its advantage.
When you self-hypnotize, you first decide on one small project you’d like to improve. Perhaps it’s your exercise habits. Perhaps it’s your work habits. Fix in your mind the specific way you want to improve, then go into self-hypnosis. You will become relaxed, following a countdown of 10 to 1. With each number, feel yourself growing more relaxed. At one, you are in a mild trance state. And you’re highly suggestible. Now you can repeat to yourself the positive suggestions you want to act on. After you’ve enjoyed this state of relaxation, count from 1 to 3 and come out of hypnosis with a snap of your fingers.
This probably sounds far afield of a typical self-help program. There’s no charts, no affirmations, no complicated forms of self-assessment. Yet it offers a real hope when most other self-help systems have failed outright. Because with self-hypnosis, you’re not working to make a change in yourself from the outside. It’s coming from the inside, with your subconscious moving you along the entire time. What’s more, self-help and self-hypnosis come from the same source.
One of they first books to launch the entire self-help movement teaches what’s fundamentally self-hypnosis. In “Psycho Cybernetics,” the plastic surgeon Maxwell Maltz spoke of making positive, lasting change in himself and others using a part of the human mind known as the “automatic success mechanism.” He would program it with the changes he wanted to make by repeating certain phrases to himself every day for a 21 day period. If we change “automatic success mechanism” to “subconscious mind,” then it’s starting to look a lot like hypnosis. And your outlook is starting to look a lot better. When you start to use self-hypnosis, you will find that you will be able to succeed easily.
Automatically, even.
Self-hypnosis expert Teddy Maynard curates Hypnotize Yourself Today! The site includes self-hypnosis tutorials, personal stories, and tips on making self-hypnosis audio. Teddy constantly scours libraries, conferences and the Net to find the latest breakthroughs in self-hypnosis.Article Source:http://www.articlesbase.com/self-help-articles/the-key-secret-of-selfhelp-1605101.html
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