Hypnosis Focuses on the POSITIVE
Your unconscious mind can NOT process negatives. (Yes, I AM using negatives … because your conscious mind can process what I am saying.)
Have you ever told a child “don’t slam the door” and … they slam it?
Have you ever told yourself “don’t forget to do xxx” and … you forget to do it?
In the 1950’s and 60’s industrial plants concerned with worker safety used to hang up posters declaring things like “don’t slip.” They’d show a guy slipping on some grease and put a big red X through it. It took years for someone to figure out that wherever they hung the posters, the incidents of the EXACT accident shown on the poster increased significantly.
Why? Because your unconscious mind only processes “slam the door” “forget to xxx” and “slip”!
In hypnosis, you need to be very careful what you tell your unconscrious mind. Giving yourself instructions to “don’t eat chocolate” will only increase your need to have chocolate, right now! You are basically hypnotizing yourself to want chocolate!
You MUST focus on the positive aspect of whatever it is you want to do. “I choose to eat fruit whenever I feel a craving for chocolate.” When working on my own chocolate craving I would constantly say to myself … “just ONE piece of chocolate is perfect, I love the way it feels in my mouth, I love the way it tastes, and just ONE piece totally satisfies me.”
If you want to exercise more create feelings that you want to have in regards to exercise. Get specific. For example.
“I LOVE to get out and walk for 30 minutes first thing in the morning” is much more effective than “I exercise daily.”
Here are examples of positive statements you can use:
Feel free to add some of your own positive statements into the comments section. I’ll help you out if you are having problems!
Melanie