Self Hypnosis Secrets: Mind Over Matter

Does "mind over matter" really matter? Just how powerful are our thoughts?

A friend told me the story of his brother Bruce who, at the age of 10, developed rashes from an unknown cause. Bruce's mother had him wash with cocoa butter soap, assuring him that this would make his rashes disappear.

Sure enough, in the morning, his rashes were gone. What his mother didn’t tell Bruce is that she had made up the story about the powers of cocoa butter.

A pediatric dentist who never uses Novocain when drilling the teeth of her young patients told me that just before starting to drill she says, "This may tickle a little bit. Try not to laugh."

The May 3rd, 2010 New York Times carried a story about the "placebo effect" which the story defines as, "The improvement in health that some patients experience because of the feeling that they are receiving medical care."

In response, a doctor wrote about a woman he saw in the emergency room with "lower limb paralysis" but whose nervous system showed no sign of impairment. The doctor injected her with distilled water that caused her to regain the ability to walk almost immediately.

One skeptical commentator, in response to that New York Times article, asked if these are examples of "coincidence or causality?"

It doesn't matter. The fact is that these are examples of seemingly miraculous events for which we have no rational explanation. But they point to an unmistakable conclusion: Our minds can be incredible instruments of creation if we just knew how to harness our thoughts to create what we desire.

Self hypnosis provides the access to harnessing our thoughts. In self hypnosis, you relax and focus on the object of your desire. If any thought such as, "This is silly" or "This won't work" comes up, imagine that thought is a bird and let it fly away. Then repeat a phrase (silently or out loud) over and over that represents what is desired. Imagine the phrase as a recording that keeps playing the same message.

In fact, you can make a recording of the message and listen to it repeatedly. Or you can write the message down and place it on your bathroom mirror, next to your computer, on the dashboard of your car or anywhere you know you’re going to see it from time to time.

For example:

·      Some people use the phrase, "Every day in every way, I'm getting better and better."

·      I know a man with health problems who wakes up every morning repeating, "I'm happy, I'm healthy and I'm healing."

·      Others say, "Money is coming to me easily and effortlessly for my highest good."

·      A person who is always nervous when delivering a speech repeats, "These people are my friends. They want me to do well" whether she knows the people who will be in her audience or not.

·      A job seeker repeats, "The perfect job for me is here."

Whatever statement you choose, say it in the present tense and keep repeating it. Don’t give up. As the author Wayne Dyer reminds us, “Infinite patience produces immediate results.”