5th Rule: Imagination is more powerful than knowledge when dealing with your own mind or the mind of another.
This is an important rule to remember, especially when using self-hypnosis or self affirmation. REASON IS EASILY OVERRULED BY IMAGINATION. why? because reasoning is part of the conscious function, is a logical deduction, no emotion involved, whereas Imagination although is initiated by your conscious, it will arouse some feeling, some emotion, whether you feel good or bad imagining something, you’ll most likely take action toward or against how you feel. This is why some persons blindly rush into some unreasonable act or situation. Violent crimes based on jealously are almost always caused by a overactive imagination. In a lot of cases of mis-understanding, they are almost always caused by someone letting their imagination running wild. Any idea accompanied by a strong emotion such as anger, hatred, love, or our political or religious beliefs usually cannot be modified through the use of reason. Why? you may ask again! this is because our subconscious mind which control the emotion is more powerful and resourceful than our conscious mind, that is why!
In using self hypnosis we can form images in the subconscious mind, which is the feeling level mind, and hence have much better chance in removing, altering or amend old ideas.
Stay tune for more rules, 2 more as a matter of fact.
Everybody realized children can acquired a new behavior pretty quickly, as long as they think it make sense to them, they can adopt it so easily and do it so readily.
how nice if we adult did not loose this ability over the years of growing up!Why the same does not apply to adults, you might ask? this is because we adult have been filled full in-term of our belief and habit compare to children whom their brain is sill develop and still have a lot of capacity to hold many more things.
As adult, once we get used to doing thing a certain way, we’ll stick to doing it that way, this is due to the fact that our sub-conscious are quite ‘lazy’ they will control us in a way that we use least effort to perform a task, if we can walk, we’ll not run, if we can stand, we’ll not walk, and if we can sit, we’ll not stand ……. for eg, if smoking a stick of cigarette make you feel good, you’ll not go for a 5 km run to make you feel good (some really think they feel good after a run). not that smoking is good for your health.
So, if a habit of yours formed, it most likely was being interpreted as the most efficient way of doing certain thing. In-order to remove a so-called ‘bad habit’, solely depending on ‘will power’ which is controlled by our conscious mind might not get good result. Ever heard of a joke “quit smoking is easy, I’ve done that many time!”. This is why for some, they can ‘quit’ smoking for so many times and still get the habit back. For others who go on a diet , loose some weight and the weight yoyo back on. That is because they did not replace the ‘bad habit’ with an alternative behavior, hence, to effectively replace a ‘bad habit’, there are 2 things you need to do:
- to think of something to do, or another alternative way of doing it (the ‘bad habit’) that will achieve the same effect you want to achieve. do it so many time that your subconscious ‘think’ that is the only way to do it.
- Visualizing in your mind that you are doing the ‘new habit’ and feel really good about doing it, the mind can’t differential what’s real and what is imagined, so performing step 2 more will ‘fool’ your mind in thinking it really feels good and want to do it that way.
Hopefully, with this information, you can have better success in making yourself better! mentality, physically and emotionally!
4th Rule: What the mind expects to happen tends to be realized.
The brain and nervous system respond only to mental images. It does not matter if the image is self-induced or from the external world. The mental image formed becomes the blueprint, and the subconscious mind uses every means at it’s disposal to carry out the plan. Worry is a form of programming a picture of what we don’t want, but the subconscious mind acts to fulfill the pictures situation. “THE THINGS THAT I HAVE FEARED HAVE COME UPON ME. Many persons suffer from chronic anxiety, which is simply a subconscious mental expectancy that something terrible will happen to them. On the other hand, we all know people who seem to have the “Magic Touch.” What they have is NOT a positive mental attitude but a POSITIVE MENTAL EXPECTANCY! Another way of stating it is WE BECOME WHAT WE THINK ABOUT! Our physical health is largely dependent upon our mental expectancy. Physicians recognize that if a patient expects to remain sick or even die, the expected condition tends to be realized. Here is where self-hypnosis can become the tool to remove despondence and negative attitudes and bring about a positive mental expectancy.
3rd Rule: Each suggestion acted upon by the mind creates less opposition to successive suggestion.
A mental habit is easier to follow the longer it lasts unbroken. Once a habit is formed it becomes easier to follow and more difficult to break. imagine how you brush your teeth, after so many years doing that, you can do it so well that you don’t even need to think about it at all. In other words, once a suggestion has been accepted by your subconscious mind either through hypnosis or by self-Hypnosis, it becomes easier for additional suggestions to be accepted and acted upon. This is why, when you are just beginning with self-hypnosis, it is better to start with simple suggestions. When these have been followed you can move on to more complicated suggestions. this phenomenon observed is inline with the common knowledge and advice of starting a task in its simplest form and increase complexity as you gain confidence.
Stat tune for the 4th rule coming soon.
2nd Rule: Once an idea has been accepted by the subconscious mind, it remains until it is replaced by another idea.
As the subconscious mind serves as the memory bank of an individual, all experience stored are permanent until they are destroyed by a physical damage of the brain cell. Hence the storage can only have new meaning unless a individual have learn another meaning of it.
The companion rule to this is THE LONGER AN IDEA REMAINS, THE MORE OPPOSITION THERE IS TO REPLACING IT WITH A NEW IDEA. Once an idea has been accepted, it tends to become a fixed way of working. This is how habits are formed. First there is the thought and then the action. For example, some people believe that at critical times they must have a drink of whisky to steady their nerves so they can perform effectively. This is not actually true, but the idea is there and it is a fixed habit of thought. As long as the idea became a belief or a habit, the subconscious will always oppose to replacing it with another idea. However, no matter how fixed the ideas may be or how long they have remained, they can be changed with self-hypnosis which is a natural process of communicating with our subconscious.
Hi everybody, my name is Oliver, after such long lag behind, I’ve decided to put in more effort to bring up the site and do what I intended for this side: to talk about our mind and what we can do with it.
1st thing 1st, everybody have a mind of his own, no two mind are the same, not even for a pair of identical twin.
What make you different from other is the experience that you accumulated since birth, no two brains developed exactly the same way. hence no two mind are the same. A second earlier or later in changing direction for a rocket targeting at the moon might cause it to miss the moon. so every incident experienced by individual does make a difference, at least to that individual.
Starting from this post, I’ll be talking about the few rules that the mind followed.
1st rule: Every thought or idea in you mind causes a physical reaction.
Your body is controlled by your mind and your mind does not know what is make up ( imagined) or really experienced, hence if you start to think your head hurt, the body will prepare itself to respond to the thought. if you are thinking of something scary, your heart will beat faster and you palm will start to sweat.
ie. Worry triggers changes in the stomach that in time can lead to ulcers. ANGER thoughts stimulate your adrenal glands and increased adrenaline in the blood stream causes the body to get into the fighting state. ANXIETY and FEAR thoughts raise your pulse rate. Ideas that have a strong emotional content almost always reach the subconscious mind, if this happen enough time, a program in the subconscious will be finalized, something we called habit will be formed.