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- Do you want to know how you have been hypnotising yourself and why you are not getting what you think
you are asking for?
Well, you are probably using self hypnosis to get the opposite of what you want.
Remember the old saying "Be careful what you ask for?" You should also be careful how you ask for it.
- Karen was walking along the beach when she tripped on a half-buried metal canister. As she
scraped it loose from the sand, a genie appeared. Exactly as rumored, the genie offered to her three
wishes.
“Oh my goodness,” Karen exclaimed, “Well, I mean, I didn’t…I mean, it’s not like…”
Noticing the genie’s tapping foot and irritated expression, she thought quickly. “Well, okay. Uh,
how about a universal cure for poor health.” Seeing his frown, she added, “And, a large diamond.”
His face cleared, and there was a hint of a smile, so she blurted, “And a dinner date with a famous
movie star.”
“Your wishes will be granted within twenty-four hours,” he announced, and he disappeared.
The next evening Karen rushed home from work to ask her teenage daughter if anything had
been delivered.
“Yes, she replied, “It’s been a weird day. A freight company delivered a 55 gallon drum of chicken
soup, then the Postman brought a certified letter saying a some ancient cousin left you a minor-
league baseball stadium, and a few minutes ago a movie studio called, inviting you to dinner with
Lassie.”
We laugh at old fashioned Genie jokes, but there is a lot of wisdom in them. We all have a genie in our mind,
hidden away and waiting to do our bidding. But, if we sometimes manage to make it work for us, it’s often an
accident. It’s more likely that we get the opposite of what we want and wonder why. Like Karen, we say
what we think we mean and it gets us what we asked for but that isn’t what we think we want.
Your subconscious mind is very much like Karen's Genie, and its power is just being discovered.
Revolutionary PET Scan Research recently revealed some remarkable discoveries.
A PET Scan takes an electromagnetic scan image of brain activity by tracking the blood flow to the active
parts of the brain after the person has been injected with small amounts of radioactive isotopes. The
“thinking” places light up, showing what, where, and how much “work” the brain is doing.
Scientists made a really fascinating discovery when they gave a whole bunch of people math problems to
solve. As has been suspected for a long time, the Pet Scans registered brain activity in about the same area
of the left brain in all the subjects. However, five other areas of the brain also lit up at the same time.
Which was interesting, but no big deal, until…
While the subjects, still doing math tests, were given a sedative that gradually put them to sleep, ONLY the
place in the left brain associated with math problem solving went out. THE OTHER FIVE AREAS STAYED LIT
UP.
What does this mean? It proves, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that more than 80% of your brain is still
thinking, even when you are asleep. Your subconscious (below your level of awareness) is always
processing information, beliefs, and ideas. And, like Karen's genie, it does not always process information the
same way “you” do.
- Your subconscious processes information in pictures and symbols, and because of that, it can't DO negatives
well. What's that mean?
QUICK! Do NOT think of a PURPLE BALLOON.
So, what shade of purple was your balloon?
Now, what does that tell you about what happens in your mind when you tell yourself, “I will not overeat, ”
or, “I won’t oversleep in the morning,” or, “I won’t yell at the kids for being kids”?
The messages get translated as “I will”, and the more intense your message, the more likely it will be carried
out. In fact, you are hypnotizing yourself to do what you don't want to do!
Like the Genie in the joke above, your subconscious also tends to be very literal. It is better to avoid irony,
humor, and “organ language”. “His lies just break my heart” is organ language. “She gives me a headache” is
a good way to invite a migraine.
Your subconscious is always listening. Be careful what you tell it.
Your mind is incredibly powerful. Everything that exists now, or that ever existed, was once a thought: This
page, the computer that put this page together, the building in which ,you are reading it, the vehicle that
delivered you to the building… Even you, for that matter – before you existed, you were a thought in your
parents’ minds (possibly a very different thought in each mind, but that’s another matter, entirely.).
Brains don’t come with owner’s manuals, and schools are the usually the worst place to learn about how your
mind functions. And, that’s a shame, because, with a little patience and practice, and a basic understanding of
how your mind ACTUALLY works, you can direct that genie inside to achieve the goals you REALLY want,
instead of getting you a “date with a dog”.
Fortunately, the lessons of Self Hypnosis are easily mastered. Since it is something you do everyday anyway,
why shouldn’t you learn to do it well? The SELF HYPNOSIS TOOLKIT is designed to help you use your mind
intelligently, day by day, so you can become the person you were born to be. This program will soon be
available for purchase on-line. Until then, call (717) 509-5550 or email leemengel@changebyhypnosis.com
for further information and availability.
Whatever you would like to change, it is simple to achieve when you know what you want, you believe you
deserve it, and you TAKE ACTION, NOW.
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