Self Hypnosis Visualization Technique - Create Your Day

Obviously, you cannot control every aspect of every day, however you can definitley control how much the day affects you.  Your personal feelings and thoughts create your own inner reality.  This directly affects your mood and even your sense of well being.  By creating a quality mindset, you make maintain a positive inner reality.  Using this quick self hypnosis visualization you can achieve a great day.

When you first wake up, take a few minutes and think about how you would like your day to progress.  Do not focus on actions, but rather how you want to feel and how you want to think.  Thinking about a million dollars does not mean that it will come to you.  You can only control yourself, not everything around you.  This means controlling your reactions to the specific events of the day, not the events themselves.  Here is an example, if you have an important presentation you need to think about what skills and resources your need for the day.  You can focus on skills such as clarity, being calm under pressure, and even some basic reassurance.  Maybe you just want to remain confident and professional.  This is all part of setting up your day, every day.

One way to do this is to grab a notebook and write these items down.  Take a few deep breaths calm your mind.  Spend some time, just 5 or 10 minutes at most, and visualize yourself thinking and behaving exactly like you want to through the day.  Try to add details and make it as real as possible.  Try to experience how you would like to feel through the day.

When you are done, you should feel great and confident about the day ahead of you.  Try to make note of the positive affects that you can note during the day.  Every time you notice yourself using the positive feelings that you wrote down earlier will further reaffirm positive feelings.

You can use this on a normal day, you do not need any special events in order to use this process.  Actually, by doing this on a daily basis you will become much better at it, both visualizing and accessing your inner resources.

Get Your Self Hypnosis Suggestions Right

Here are 4 tips about how to use self hypnosis to achieve your goals.

Get Realistic
Do not, however, believe that you can achieve anything you want.  Self-hypnosis will not increase your chances of winning the lottery or make you grow taller. You must choose realistic goals. If you think that you can learn Kung Fu as fast as Neo in “The Matrix”, then you’re bound to become disappointed. 

Get Specific
Let’s assume that you have a goal that you’re having trouble achieving, such as losing weight.  Instead of saying, “I am going to exercise more”, try a more specific approach like; “I enjoy going for a 45minute walk every morning”.  Try this approach for a month and you can see a change in your mindset and daily patterns.  Don’t be surprised if you start to wake up in the morning excited about going for a walk.

Get A Timeframe
If your goal is to stop smoking then you need to set a timeline so that you can focus your efforts and measure what you have accomplished.  If you do not have any form of timeline, then you will have no idea how well you are doing and in the end, you will lose your focus and motivation.

Some types of goals such as increasing self confidence or becoming less shy, timelines can be difficult to create.  If there is no way to quantify your efforts, you need to make it a daily focus and simply recognize when and how you are making progress.  If you do not recognize that you are getting better, you will soon lose the motivation to succeed.

Get Repetitive
You goals become easier to accomplish if you repeat your suggestions in the form of affirmations while in a waking state. This will reinforce the idea because it is recognized by both your conscious and subconscious mind.  This will make it even easier to attain your goals.

Preparing Yourself For Self Hypnosis

If you are just starting to practice self-hypnosis it might take you longer to get yourself into the hypnotic state. This is to be expected because essentially you are re-training your mind to “behave” according to how you want it and since this is a new experience for your brain, you will naturally encounter some “resistance”. But don’t worry; I have outlined some steps to get you into the right state of mind.

•    Learn to relax both your mind and your body - Take a warm bath to loosen up your muscles and to make you feel refreshed.

•    Let go of your thoughts – Clear your mind of daily cares and worries and open your mind to being hypnotized. Do not get frustrated when you encounter difficulties in emptying your mind of your usual thoughts, it is really harder than people think. With practice you will soon get it right.

•    Visualize yourself being calm and relaxed – If you find it hard to clear your thoughts then focus instead on picturing yourself slowly becoming more and more calm and relaxed with each passing breath.

•    Make a suggestion - This is where you tell your subconscious to act in the way you want it to. This is when you retrain your mind to help you achieve the goals you have set out for yourself. If you want to lose weight, picture yourself already having lost weight. Suggest that you will only eat when you are really hungry, not when you are frazzled with other emotions that have nothing to do with physical hunger.

•    Awaken to a new you – Will yourself to awaken from the hypnotic state back to the conscious state. Awaken to the belief and the feeling that you have indeed achieved the purpose of the hypnotic session 

Practice self-hypnosis daily and soon you will be able to hypnotize yourself anytime and anywhere

The Physical Benefits Of Self Hypnosis

Self hypnosis tends to deal primarily with the subconscious mind, however it has been shown to offer a large number of physical-related advantageous as well.  Some of these benefits include decreased levels of stress and also diminishing cortisol levels.  Cortisol is a stress inducing hormone naturally occurring in the body.
Hypnosis also has been shown to reduce and even eliminate free radicals that can cause premature aging of tissue and individual cells.  Additional benefits also include: a decreased average heart rate, healthier levels of blood pressure, ability to physically heal small cuts, improved breathing, and even a slower onset of aging.

So next time you're doing self hypnosis, remember all of these "fringe benefits" that your practice will have on your body.

The Psychological Benefits Of Self Hypnosis

Self hypnosis can have a much greater effect on your mind than just helping you achieve your goals.Looking at the psychological benefits of self hypnosis, you can see that it has been proven to have a positive affect on the brains wave coherence, which can also decrease the number of anxiety attacks, decreased irritability, decreased levels of depression, and mellower mood swings.  It has also been shown to help improve memory along with the brains learning ability, increased ability of self-actualizing, increased youthfulness, a higher feeling of mental rejuvenation and vitality, along with an overall positive outlook and sense of being content which leads to more emotional stability.

Other commonly experienced benefits are:
1.    Overall whole-body relaxation
2.    Better rest and rejuvenation when starting a new day
3.    Better healing and control over illnesses that are caused by exhaustion both mental and physical
4.    More emotional stability
5.    Improved relationships with others including a relaxed family life
6.    Enhanced control over brain functions
7.    Higher levels of creativity
8.    Decreased addictions and vices such as cigarettes, alcohol, and eating
9.    Increased sense of self-confidence and willpower
10.  Increased overall power of the human mind

Tomorrow, I'll tell you about some of the physical benefits of self hypnosis. And I'm not talking about how it can help you to lose weight or quit smoking either.