It seems like there are a lot of people worrying these days. Even if they’re not naturally prone to worrying, they can find something in the world to worry about. It’s not necessary to go through a litany of things that seem worrisome. You can create a list in less than a minute. But is there some alternative to this recital of all the possible negative things that can and might happen? Is there another way?
Yes, there’s more than one alternative. And here’s the first: Recognize that when you worry, you’re projecting your negative thoughts onto the future. You’re creating the worst possible scenario. You’re painting pictures with a shadowy paintbrush. This recognition is your acknowledgement that you have some responsibility in this matter and that there is some choice here. Take a look at your negative projections. Seeing that there’s another possibility and that you can take an alternate point of view if you like is an important step in shifting your worrying mind.
Next, tell yourself to think about what you want instead of what you don’t want. See that when you worry, you’re making a mental list of what you don’t want. And since your mind is electromagnetic in its very nature, it attracts what it thinks about. So decide to think about what you want instead.
Then you can create in your mind or write down new projected pictures that are life-fulfilling and positive, even if you feel at a given moment that they may be difficult or impossible. Think new projections anyway, and shift your thinking onto another level. Think about, write about, record it or put it on your computer – the thoughts, feelings, images, projections of what might be possible if and when everything goes well for you.
Next, here’s a fascinating idea from a man named Noah St. John. He changed the word “affirmations” into “afformations” and decided to express what he wanted in the form of questions. It goes like this “Why am I so rich, happy, loving, loved? – Or whatever words express what you’d like to see in your life. “Why do I receive so much good luck?” “Why is my life getting better and better every day?” You phrase these the way you’d like to phrase them for yourself. Noah says that the brain likes and responds to questions. Try it. These “afformations” can help you to feel very expanded and uplifted.
Another way to work with your worries is to find a part of yourself that habitually feels doubt, insecurity, and worry. Imagine going over to that part of yourself and perhaps putting your arm around him or her no matter how old that part of yourself might be. Then you reassure that part that it’s okay, that everything’s okay, and that vast improvement is coming now. Then you watch that part grow courageous and confident and integrated with who you are now.
It also always helps to work with your breathing. Breathe in deep breaths, and bring those breaths into your worries. Then exhale and as you do, exhale them into the universe as you transform the way you’re feeling.
Here’s a major question you can ask yourself: “What would my Wise Mind tell me about this situation?” Your Wise Mind is the part of you that knows the answers and has great wisdom. If it’s something positive, you know it’s coming from this source of wisdom, and you can listen to it telling you the truth.
Tell yourself comforting positive things like:
‘Everything will work out for me. It always does.
‘This may be a challenge, but tough times don’t last.
‘Everything will be fine in the end.
‘I don’t know how this will be solved, but I know it will.
‘I think about what I want and not what I don’t want.
‘I’m grateful, and I think grateful thoughts.
Your mind can always be transformed if you look upward and don’t dwell on the difficult things. There’s such thing as faith, and when you cultivate it, you can open yourself to miracles and expanded possibilities that are waiting to be seen.
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You already know that suggestion is powerful, but most people don’t know the full extent of its influence. This includes autosuggestion in which you make suggestions or affirmations to yourself, or it can be about others making suggestions to you. Suggestion happens with words repeated over and over, with deep emotions, with mental pictures, and especially with “belief.” It’s very potent, and we haven’t even fathomed the extent of the law of suggestion in our world and in history. Let’s take a look at all this and what it means for you.
Proof of Its Power
The power of suggestion is significant in politics. Certain politicians are highly influential and seem to “hypnotize” people into believing what they tell them to believe. They use language to appeal to the subconscious mind, and they have the power of influence. This power is also significant in advertising, in which persuasion has a hypnotic effect on many susceptible people. Likewise, in history, many demagogues and other leaders have used suggestion for power. Look at Hitler and Stalin and others who’ve repeated slogans over and over as their beliefs took hold in the subconscious minds of the masses. In religion, the power of suggestion is great as well. Parents and other influential adults have made suggestions about their world view to their children and their students. And the beliefs have taken hold. The same goes for sports, business, and education. The power of suggestion works to create healing as well.
Repetition of Words
Words repeated over and over can be readily accepted by the subconscious mind - especially as the conscious or everyday mind is made quiet. Chants or mantras or rituals can make the conscious mind almost drowsy so the subconscious mind will more readily accept suggestions. Through this process, you create “belief,” and belief has a potent effect on the deep inner mind as well. Then emotions enter the picture and mental images. When something is accepted as possible and these other factors are present, changes in behavior can take place.
Healing with Suggestion
When belief, mental pictures, repeated words, and deep emotions exist, healing is possible. A true shift in circumstances can take place. Hypnosis relaxes the conscious mind so that the subconscious mind can receive the messages of shifts and changes to come, and anything then becomes possible. You can create new pathways in the brain, neural pathways, containing information about new behaviors that will make any changes you’d like. You just need to relax the conscious mind, repeat the information, amplify the process with mental pictures and positive emotional states, and you can make powerful changes.
The Superconscious Mind
You can also involve the Superconscious Mind, the spiritual self, in this process, bringing in love, wisdom, and healing power. In this case, you super-charge the healing process and create what seem to be miracles. They can be miraculous, and they are also events that can be understood by examining our true inner powers.
Have you thought about being a hypnotist or hypnotherapist? If it’s been in your mind, perhaps it’s time to get your certification. If this is the first time the idea has come to you, check it out and see how it might work for you. You can do it as a profession, or you can do it whenever you like as a way to help people and earn money as well. Here are six reasons why it could be the next great thing for you to do:
Help People When They’ve Tried Almost Everything Else
There are issues of great consequence to people’s lives, the solutions for which they’ve been searching. After wandering near and far from one modality to another, they can find themselves getting in touch with you, and you may just have what they’ve been looking for. Hypnosis can solve people’s problems in very deep ways, and there is no end to the solutions that people can find in so many areas. They might be able to finally solve the problem of overeating or how to overcome their fears, or let go of old difficult habits, like smoking. They might want to address their spiritual concerns, overcome their perceived failures and create success, and finally solve the lack of self esteem.
Solve Things that Traditional Methods Might Have Missed
Sometimes traditional modalities can miss deeper understandings of the issues in people’s lives. Hypnotists can often find out what’s really going on inside people. You can see how a particular behavior is connected with emotions – why, for example, a student might be doing poorly in school because of emotional or other reasons, or why certain feelings might be creating physical symptoms like rashes or body pains.
Help People to Relax
Some people have no idea how to relax. They may have trouble sleeping or feel tense much of the time. And when they come to have an experience of hypnosis, they can finally relax. They might sigh with great relief or smile with joy. Hypnosis is a state of profound relaxation and in itself creates a state of healing and an opportunity to transform any issue of life.
Access the Subconscious Mind
The subconscious mind is one of the most powerful parts of the self. It operates the automatic processes of the body. It is highly suggestible, and suggestions made to it can affect any behavior and make important changes in any area of life. You can help people (and yourself) stop smoking via suggestions or change your food habits or create greater success.
Set Your Own Work Hours
You can work full or part time, increase your income, and make a contribution to people at the same time. It’s great to have your own business, either in addition to a current job or as your own full time enterprise.
Help People Do Better in Any Area
It’s extraordinarily fulfilling to see peoples’ lives improve after you’ve shown them the way. People can excel in sports, shift their diets, deepen their spiritual growth, improve their health, transform their emotions, shine in school and on tests – thrive in any area at all.
If you’d like to transform your own life and become a hypnotherapist, check out our hypnotherapy certification program at http://www.lifetransformationsecrets.com. Our certification intensive begins June 27. Marilyn Gordon is a life transformation teacher, healer, school director, and author with 30 years of experience.
Law of Attraction - Send and Receive Empowering Thought Waves
You can transmit actual thought waves that can create abundance and healing power. Most people don’t understand this, but most people don’t have any idea how their cell phone or TV transmits energy either, and yet everyone knows it’s so. You can feel thought vibrations emanating from extraordinarily happy people or from very negative people. You can take Kirlian photos of energy fields created by dominant thoughts, and you can see the differences between various thought vibrations in these photos.
The Quality of the Energy You Send and Receive Affects Your Life
Science often corroborates what mystics and seers have understood for years – that you are an actual sender and receiver of energy, frequency, or vibration, and the quality of the energy you send and receive affects your life in powerful ways. A number of people have read about the Law of Attraction, and everyone is using it every minute of every day. The trick is to use it with awareness so you can attract and send out energies of the most positive and life-affirming kinds. If you are aware of this sending and receiving talent that you’re born with, you can attract more income, more harmonious relationships, better health, and much more happiness. You need to become aware of the quality of the thoughts you’re thinking and how you’re using the gifts of thought transmission that you’re given as your birthright.
What are Your Dominant Thoughts?
Do you have any particular repetitive thoughts that you know are bringing you less-than-stellar results? Are you thinking about being a great success – or just the opposite? Are you thinking about all the blessings you have in your life – or what you don’t have? Are you thinking about the good qualities of your mate – or about what’s wrong? Are you concentrating on the contributions you might make to your own life, the lives of others, and the world – or are you thinking that you might not have anything to offer? If you take a good look at the thoughts you’re sending out and transmitting, would you actually feel good about them? See if you can shift them so that you actually feel uplifted by the quality of the thoughts in your mind.
Creating Empowerment
Now that would be a most wonderful thing to do! Becoming aware in this way creates empowerment in you. You’re not at the effect of the notion of some whim or force that’s controlling you, but you actually have some measure of personal power in shaping your life.
And if you’re interested in finding out much more about how you can transmit great thoughts, uplift your life, be much more abundantly successful and more, take a look at our Realize Your Greatness membership program. It’s awesome! Go to http://www.realizeyourgreatnessnow.com.
So many people get discouraged when they pick up a cigarette again after stopping, or they eat a Hostess Twinkie when they’ve committed themselves to spinach and apples, or they take another sip of that drink they’d said goodbye to. And so many people are hard on themselves and call it a failure. “There I go again,” they say. “I’ll never make it.” But what if this is normal and really okay? Read on to find out why and how you can use it to your advantage.
Sometimes a Setback is a Message
Sometimes it’s a message that you have something more to learn from the food or substance and the habit. If, instead of castigating yourself for what you perceive as failure, you instead say, “What is it I have to learn from this?” You might find that there’s a particular thought or feeling that’s a trigger for you. Perhaps there’s something in your life that’s a stress-producer, so you take another bit of the old substance because you’re intending to alleviate the stress. Instead of feeling like a failure, take a look at what’s stressing you. Take a deep breath in, as breathing is an amazing healing tool. It changes the chemistry of your stress. Then ask yourself if you can let go of this problem. Keep asking yourself this question, and see if it’s possible to go to another level of yourself where the solution to the problem appears as if by magic – or the problem dissolves as you breathe.
Instead of Feeling Like a Failure, Consider Divine Timing
You may or may not believe in this, but it’s a long-held understanding by many people. It’s the sense that everything is on a divine schedule, and the perfect time makes itself known to you. You may feel it strongly inside, perhaps in your “gut.” That may be the moment you can say to yourself, “I’ve had it, and I know I’ll never do that again.” Up until that time, all attempts are rehearsals to get you there. They have their own importance, and they are certainly not failures.
All Previous Attempts are Steps Along the Way
There are no wasted moments, no failures – just steps in the passage of life transformation. Some of those steps feel like you’ve won the Academy Award. Other steps feel like you’ve tumbled to the ground. But all of these are valuable. A reporter asked Thomas Edison how it felt to fail1,000 times, as Edison had made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb. Edison said to the reporter, “I didn’t fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps.” Let that be the same for you.
Release Techniques
By ·The Wise Mind Process
© Marilyn Gordon 2006
1) Pay attention to what’s going on inside. Describe it to yourself.
2) Take a deep breath in, and breathe deeply into whatever you’re experiencing.
As you breathe out, disperse it. Break it up into tiny molecules, and release it.
Do this as many times as you like.
3) Ask your Wise Mind what it would like to tell you about this.
4) Imagine yourself as you’d like to be. Then, find a word or phrase that symbolizes the healing of the experience or issue. Put your thumb together with your index finger, and say your word or phrase.
Check to see how you feel, and see if there’s anything else you need to pay
attention to. You can do the process again and also ask yourself if there is anything else you need to do to heal this issue. Do this process as often as you like at any time.
The Letting Go Technique
Adapted from The Sedona Method
Ask yourself these questions about anything that’s going on in your life, and answer them:
Would you like to pay attention to it?
Could you accept it for now?
Would you let go of it?
Would you let go of it more?
Could you let go?
When would you like to release it?
The Feeling Good Technique
From Dr. Robert Anthony
Whenever you have a thought that isn’t productive or is negative, say to yourself:
“I choose to feel good now.”
