Self Hypnosis Secrets: That Voice In Your Head Is Not Your Friend

Have you seen the movie, “The Soloist?” It’s based on a true story about Steve Lopez an LA Times reporter named who tries to help a homeless man named Nathaniel Ayers whom he encounters playing  a cello on the street. It’s clear to Lopez that Nathaniel is a very talented musician. How did he end up on the street?  

Lopez learns that Nathaniel was a brilliant musician with a great future until he started hearing voices in his head that told him the world was an unsafe place. Unable to escape these voices, Nathaniel gave up his studies at the Juilliard School and ended up homeless.

Consider that the only difference between you and Nathaniel is that you’re not homeless and on the street.

Like Nathaniel, you hear voices in your head. If you doubt this, stop reading and listen. If you’re thinking, “What voice?” that’s the voice. You don’t believe every voice in your head, but you do believe some. Consider the possibility that it’s the voices you do believe, the one’s you’re sure are “true,” that keep you stuck.

For example, I’ll bet there’s a voice in your head that says, “Change is hard.” You’ve hypnotized yourself into believing those words through a lifetime of repetition (yours and everyone around you) until you are now “sure” change is hard.

But is it really? Consider: How long does it take to stop smoking? If you answered anything less than a millisecond, you’re wrong. Yes, it may take years to choose to finally stop smoking. But the actual transition from being a smoker to a non smoker takes about as long as it does to throw a pack of cigarettes in the trash.

Or, consider: How long does it take for a dieter to choose to stop eating desserts?  You now know the answer. But it may take decades to make that choice.

What happens during those decades?

What happens is that you’ve spent those decades hypnotizing yourself into believing the voice in your head that stopping smoking is hard or losing weight is hard that your brain is now “hard wired” to believe that voice. Then, when you try to replace that voice with a different one that says, “I’m going to stop smoking (or lose weight)” the “change is hard” voice takes over and change seems very hard.

I know that “Change is hard” feels very real. But there are lots of things in life that “feel” real but aren’t. Feelings are like the weather: Wait a while and they will change.

All of these are just voices, no different in essence than the voices Nathaniel heard. If you want to hypnotize yourself to stop believing them it’s quite simple: Stop believing them.

Here’s a video you must watch if you doubt this: