Interest in psychology has increased significantly in recent years, and this is due to effective techniques of internal transformation. Self-hypnosis and active self-hypnosis help control your psycho-emotional state, manage yourself and your own life and not depend on the “mercy of fate.” My sister has been practicing self-hypnosis for 4 years, and this is a completely different person.
She gained confidence in her abilities, stopped having complexes and depression for any reason. Autosuggestion (self-hypnosis) was discovered at the beginning of the last century, but people began to become actively interested in self-hypnosis techniques not so long ago. Let's consider the issue in detail.
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How does suggestion differ from ordinary mental activity? It lacks a critical component. That is, information is perceived as an axiom - without evidence. This presentation of information is perceived by the subconscious as true, so the necessary changes begin to occur in the depths of the human psyche. Self-hypnosis is a suggestion directed at oneself. By practicing self-hypnosis, you can change a lot within yourself and even construct a new personality.
Self-hypnosis can cause:
- the right sensations;
- necessary representations;
- necessary emotional states;
- changes in the autonomic system.
The basis of self-hypnosis is the constant repetition of verbal formulas. Correctly composed verbal formulas create positive impulses through repeated repetition. Formulas are repeated until they become a working tool of the subconscious for transforming something.
On a note! The subconscious is capable of transforming mental impulses into a physical equivalent, that is, materializing thoughts.
The rules of self-hypnosis are simple:
- all phrases are pronounced in the first person;
- all phrases must be affirmative;
- phrases should be short, but succinct in content;
- You cannot use the particle “not”; phrases must be formed without it;
- you cannot pronounce phrases automatically, without awareness;
- accompany the words with visualization (preferably).
What do self-hypnosis phrases look like? For example: “Every day I become more and more beautiful.” If you want to quit smoking, you should not repeat a phrase like “I don’t want to smoke.” It needs to be replaced with the phrase “I quit smoking.”
Psychologists have noticed that self-hypnosis works better when the body is relaxed. There is a direct relationship between physical and mental state: the more relaxed the body, the better the subconscious mind perceives information. Also, the effect of self-hypnosis depends on the strength of the desire to change something and on the degree of concentration of attention on the subject of self-hypnosis.
There are several methods of self-hypnosis:
- psychological mood;
- meditation;
- affirmations;
- mantras;
- prayers;
- visualization.
This is an incomplete list of psychotechniques to achieve the desired goal. Let's look at psychotechnics in more detail.
The power of self-hypnosis: examples from life
There are many examples from life that demonstrate the power of self-hypnosis. Initially, we will consider a theoretical example, and then we will talk about real facts discussed by many historians.
How the power of thought could hypothetically operate. A simple example that has happened to almost everyone. For example, you are walking down the street and see a dog on the side of the road. She is quite impressive in size and looks at you carefully. It’s a rare person who will pass by without reacting internally to this circumstance. At first we are confused, then we continue on our way, convincing ourselves: “I’m not afraid of her, I’ll calmly pass by, and she won’t touch me. I don’t care about her, and she doesn’t care about me.” We pronounce approximately these phrases mentally. This is self-hypnosis. If we don’t connect it, but are really afraid of the dog, then we’ll hardly be able to take even one step. Self-hypnosis pushes us.
Remembering examples of self-hypnosis, many psychologists periodically talk about the actor I.N. Pevtsov. He had an unenviable feature for an artist: a stutter. However, when going on stage, Pevtsov seemed to forget about his speech impediment - it simply disappeared. Illarion Nikolaevich inspired himself, going on stage, that he was a different person - a character. Since in the story the hero didn’t stutter, Pevtsov didn’t do it either - it’s as simple as that! .
Many years ago, the French doctor Motier decided on an interesting experiment, telling patients that a medicine would soon be delivered from Germany that would quickly cure tuberculosis. At that time, the disease was not treated. The doctor's words had an amazing effect on the patients - they did not allow the idea that the doctor was making things up. The power of suggestion turned out to be incredible: many patients felt relief after taking the “medicine”, and others were even healed. The placebo effect in action! In reality, Motier offered ordinary water to the sick. Subsequently, the doctor’s experience was repeated by other specialists, and systematically these experiments demonstrated impressive results. Many scientists still argue about this feature, but the fact remains that self-hypnosis works in different areas of life.
Affirmations
This is the simplest method of self-hypnosis, based on repeated repetition of the same phrase. You can repeat the verbal formula both out loud and silently: it does not play an important role.
In an affirmation, a person reports that he has already achieved some goal. For example: “I was healed of (name) disease.”
Thanks to the constant repetition of a positive formula, it will gradually begin to displace negative thoughts and attitudes. When not a single negative thought remains, the words of affirmation will come to life - materialize.
A type of affirmation is thanksgiving. This is an even more powerful psychotechnic, since the energy of gratitude is only slightly inferior to the energy of love. When uttering words of gratitude, strong emotions appear that directly affect the psyche and consciousness.
How do gratitude affirmations work? You need to thank the universe (God, the Absolute, etc.) for something, for example, for a new home. You may not have it yet, but the energy of sincere gratitude can materialize even such a seemingly complex object. Sincere faith, gratitude and self-hypnosis will do their job, and the house will materialize.
How to practice affirmations, when should you say them and how many times? Psychologists claim that the effectiveness of affirmations directly depends on the ability to make them the essence of your day. You can do whatever you want, but keep a verbal formula in your mind and repeat it.
So, affirmation is the simplest method of influencing the subconscious. Of course, they are not comparable to visualization, so frequent repetition is required to achieve success.
Definition and meaning of the concept
Self-hypnosis is the influence on one’s own consciousness and subconscious through various methods. It can be either conscious or not. With the help of self-hypnosis, you can introduce various attitudes and programs into the psyche that will help increase efficiency, improve mental and physical health, and achieve the desired results.
Scientists became seriously interested in the phenomenon of self-hypnosis in the middle of the last century. The French psychologist and pharmacist Emile Coue is considered a pioneer in the study of this phenomenon. He noticed that the psychological mood of patients largely determines the course of the disease.
People who believed in a favorable outcome recovered much faster and easier than those who were pessimistic. The opposite effect also applies. A healthy person can easily get sick if he makes himself feel unwell.
Self-hypnosis underlies such an effect as a placebo. When unsuspecting patients were given “dummy” drugs instead of real drugs, they often turned out to be no less effective and speeded up recovery.
John Kehoe is considered the most famous popularizer of self-hypnosis. His book “The Subconscious Mind Can Do Anything” created a real sensation after its publication. The techniques described in it are incredibly simple, and the narrative is replete with many vivid and surprising examples that prove their effectiveness. However, the mass euphoria from reading the book very soon gave way to disappointment. People bitterly stated that their desires were not fulfilled and self-hypnosis did not work.
Why did it happen? Obviously, they began to expect too much from self-hypnosis, as from a magic pill. People took the method too literally and took it to the point of absurdity. I personally know several comrades who happily abandoned everything they were doing and began to fanatically engage in self-hypnosis. While they were visualizing their desires, without doing anything concrete to achieve, their lives fell into disrepair.
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Today, the attitude towards self-hypnosis is more equal and adequate. But the risk of falling into the same trap still remains. Therefore, you need to approach this process wisely.
Visualization
Another psychotechnic for influencing the subconscious. Visualization is like a feature film inside your mind. A person sees vivid pictures of any event, smells and tastes, feels emotions. What should you present? For example, you need your own home - imagine it. You can first make a drawing of the house or find a picture and print it on a printer.
What do we have to do? Just imagine how you are already living in this house, that you are the rightful owner (mistress) of a two-room apartment/three-room apartment/cottage/dacha. You can imagine before bed, when the body is relaxed and preparing for sleep. You need to get used to this situation that you imagine, live in it constantly.
What is the effectiveness of visualization based on? The brain perceives imaginary pictures in the same way as real ones. Some time will pass, and all your ideas will come to life and be embodied in matter.
You just need to imagine not from the side or from above, but from inside the situation. For example, you are sitting behind the wheel of a car and looking at the road. If you imagine that the car is somewhere near you, then everything will come true - next to you. It's the same with the house. You should vividly imagine inserting the keys into the keyhole and entering your home. You can first visualize empty walls, and then gradually furnish the house with furniture.
How long does it take to visualize? There is no clear time frame for this psychotechnics. It is more important to completely relax your body before visualization than to track the duration of the internal movie session.
How suggestion and self-hypnosis work: the mechanism of influence on humans
Despite all the seeming improbability of such phenomena as the treatment of diseases by self-hypnosis and suggestion, they have their own explanation.
There is a well-known case: a sister was present during the cruel punishment of her beloved brother with whips - and her back was covered with the same bleeding scars as his. We have the same result of self-hypnosis. Of course, it is only possible on streets with an exceptionally excitable, highly upset, painful psyche. How does self-hypnosis and suggestion work in this case? Not only real suffering, but also imaginary suffering affects suggested people so strongly that it affects the functioning of internal organs.
The mechanism of influence of suggestion and self-hypnosis on a person is so strong that in painfully suspicious people, thoughts about a disease cause a disease that looks very much like a particular disease. There are known cases when bleeding from the throat began, as with tuberculosis, ulcers appeared on the body, reminiscent of various skin diseases, etc.
The same psychological mechanism of suggestion also operates when ulcers occur in stigmatics. All such patients are fanatically religious people. In the last week before Easter, when in churches they read about how Christ was crucified, this can have such a strong impact on a sick person that his psyche cannot stand it: an obsessive thought appears about the torment that Christ experienced when he was nailed to the cross. Hallucinations begin. Before the eyes of this man, as if alive, there is a picture of the crucifixion. The entire nervous system is shocked. And here is the result: in those places where, according to legend, Christ had wounds, open bleeding wounds appear in a person tormented by mental illness.
Coue's self-hypnosis method
The technique of self-hypnosis according to the Coue method is based on repeating the same phrase (or 3 - 4 phrases) in a drowsy state or immediately before falling asleep. At these moments, the human brain works at a special frequency, which allows information to penetrate the subconscious without obstacles.
For example, immediately after waking up, before opening your eyes, you need to repeat to yourself at least 20 times the key phrase “I am healthy” (or another). You will also need to find time to repeat affirmations 2 times during the day. You need to relax - lie down or close your eyes while sitting - and say the key phrase out loud or to yourself at least 20 times. It usually takes 2 - 2.5 months to materialize the plan.
Scientific substantiation of the theory of autosuggestion.
G. Wright, who studied witchcraft in underdeveloped countries, called the main reason for the effectiveness of their methods the ability to manipulate the consciousness of others. Control was carried out in the form of instilling the required information into a person. The effectiveness of the technique depends on the level of emotionality and impressionability of the patient.
While shamans and sorcerers throw dust into their eyes, scientists began to study this psychological phenomenon. With autosuggestion, they called suggestion directed at oneself , allowing one to evoke certain sensations, influence memory, control attention and feelings. According to Pavlov, at the moment of self-hypnosis, concentrated irritation of the central part of the cerebral cortex is observed, and all other parts of it begin to work more slowly.
In Europe in the 1920s, non-standard medicine based on suggestion became popular. In particular, this was facilitated by the opening of a self-hypnosis clinic founded by Emile Coue.
Autogenic training according to Schultz
The essence of this psychotechnics is active self-hypnosis and self-hypnosis in a state of relaxation or hypnotic trance. Schultz bases his technique on the ancient techniques of yoga, the sensations of people who have been in a deep trance and other similar methods.
For self-hypnosis, it is necessary to achieve a state similar to the state between reality and sleep. The recommended pose for relaxation is “coachman”. To achieve the necessary relaxation of the body, you need to remember something pleasant from the past. During self-hypnosis, you should be able to combine physical relaxation with psycho-emotional activity and be able to accompany verbal formulas with figurative representations.
To practice autogenic training, you need to completely abandon everyday worries and direct your attention to the subject of concentration. You need to train every day at least once; skipping even a one-day workout will negatively affect the result.
Meditation
Meditation is the concentration of thought on one object and the exclusion of all other thoughts and experiences. An important part of any meditation is stopping internal dialogue. Inside himself, a person scrolls through different thoughts, remembers conversations with other people: his mind is constantly busy with mental activity, which is called internal dialogue.
What can you do to clear your thoughts of internal dialogue? There is a very simple technique for this: you need to look at both your hands at the same time, and carefully. The mind will immediately stop conducting internal dialogue, as it will be busy contemplating two objects at the same time. Another method to stop the flow of unnecessary thoughts: focus on your breathing process, carefully record each inhalation/exhalation and listen to the sound of breathing. After a couple of minutes, your thoughts will be completely cleared of the vain dialogue.
The stages of meditation are as follows:
- determination of the object of meditation (installation);
- entering a state of emptiness;
- feeling within oneself of a given attitude and contemplating it;
- exit from a state of emptiness with an attitude embedded in the subconscious.
For meditation to be effective, the instructions must be short and succinct. It is important to feel them inside yourself, your inner world. How long will this take? Everyone has their own deadlines for implementation. During meditation, you need to be aware of the creation of another reality, as if in an “empty place” or in emptiness. The meditation can be repeated as needed.
The effect of suggestion as a special type of influence on a person and the degree of suggestibility
What is suggestion from a psychological point of view? Suggestion is defined as the transmission and induction from one person to another of thoughts, moods, feelings, autonomic and motor reactions, and behavior. The less the person who is being suggested thinks about what is being suggested to him, the more successful the suggestion is.
Suggestion as a method of psychological influence involves the participation of two parties. The suggestor usually has mental and physical qualities with which he can influence the state of mind of another person. Suggestion occurs through words, as well as facial expressions and gestures. The setting is of particular importance. If we are talking about therapeutic suggestion, then the fame of the psychotherapist plays an important role in this process. Knowing about him as a high-class specialist in a certain way prepares the patient for the session.
The power of a person’s suggestion is largely determined by the degree of suggestibility, that is, susceptibility to suggestion on the part of the one who will serve as its object. Typically, increased suggestibility is observed in people with a weak type of nervous system and increased impressionability. Alcoholics and drug addicts have a particularly weak nervous system. Accordingly, suggestion as a method of influencing such people is especially powerful.
Axel Munthe, a Scandinavian, worked in Paris as a doctor, assistant to the famous neurologist, psychiatrist and hypnotist Charcot. This is how he described an example of suggestion in psychology in his book “San Michele”. A very intrusive and arrogant patient came to see Munta. The doctor asked him to show his tongue, which was constantly coated as a result of alcohol and smoking abuse, and stated that the patient was seriously ill. The arrogant behavior immediately gave way to a state of depression and anxiety. Thus, both patients and doctors were spared from the unpleasant person.
It is known that symptoms such as headache, uncontrollable vomiting, lack of appetite, insomnia, neurotic paralysis, can be treated by a skilled psychotherapist with the help of suggestion better than with drugs. The Bible describes a scene of the treatment of immobilized people by suggestion when they began to walk confidently after hearing the phrase “Rise and walk.” This phrase is a typical example of how suggestion works if people deeply believe in their healer.
Unfortunately, suggestion as a method of influence is often used for criminal purposes. Weak people and losers become slaves to dishonest or psychopathic leaders who turn them into criminals. We can give the following example from life when suggestion was used by criminals. Several years ago, the US media was literally inundated with reports of a mass tragedy. On the initiative of one psychopath, a sect was formed. This man led hundreds of adults and children into the jungle, where they created a colony. At some point, he began to instill in them the idea of mass suicide, and those who did not dare to do so were killed with poisoned injections by fanatical members of the sect.
Another example of suggestion as a way of influencing a person: a blindfolded criminal sentenced to death was told that his vein had been opened and he was bleeding. A few minutes later the man died, despite the fact that instead of blood, warm water was flowing through his body!
Self-hypnosis
Psychologists agree that self-hypnosis is the most powerful psychotechnic of all. First you need to completely relax physically and psychologically. You need to achieve a state of peace, and then say to yourself, “I am deeply asleep.”
After this, you should slowly count from five to zero and plunge into a state of hypnotic oblivion. After saying the word “zero,” you need to say to yourself again: “I’m sleeping deeply.” You have reached the depths of your own subconscious. Now we need to anchor this state for future self-hypnosis practices. Tell:
“When I say the phrase “I am in deep sleep,” I enter a state of self-programming.”
After this, you need to repeat the self-programming formula several times, for example, “I am completely healed and healthy.” Programming should only be in a positive way and without the particle “not”.
For what diseases is self-hypnosis most effective?
It is clear that you will not be satisfied with auto-training alone. If you do not take medications prescribed by a doctor, avoid necessary procedures and do not adhere to a daily routine, no words can heal the patient. Phrases can only be an addition to the main therapy. In this case, they will become effective, especially in the following situations:
- During a long-term or chronic illness.
- When a person undergoes rehabilitation after an accident, injury, or heart attack.
- The patient has been suffering from psychological problems, neuroses, and depression for a long time.
- He was diagnosed with bronchial asthma, cancer, gastritis, sexual dysfunction, angina pectoris, and so on.
Thought Release Technique
How to quickly clear your thoughts of negative memories? For this there is a simple and effective psychotechnique “Balloon”. Imagine a deflated balloon above your head. Take a breath, and as you exhale, imagine how all the black negative thoughts come out of your head like a dark cloud into a ball. The balloon is inflated not by air, but by your negative thoughts.
Do this until you are free of the burden of negative memories and worries. Then take a deep breath and exhale and imagine how a round ball, along with your thoughts, comes off and flies into the sky. This psychotechnics always helps, especially if anxious thoughts prevent you from falling asleep at night.
Text of self-hypnosis for weight loss:
I'm at the ideal weight and I know it. Every day I work on my body and achieve my desired weight. I clearly know that I am a beautiful, slender woman. I eat healthy and I like it. Thanks to proper nutrition, I am losing weight even faster. I have an excellent metabolism.
Every thought I have about the ideal shape of my body immediately materializes. I correctly organize all my thoughts about losing weight. I love and accept my appearance and body. And the beauty of this body increases every day. I experience the joy of getting rid of excess fat cells and see the results of losing weight. The body becomes healthier and stronger.
I have a toned figure. My curves are beautiful to everyone. I'm happy with the work I've done on myself. Every day I achieve even more. Losing weight is easy and I know it.
Self-hypnosis text for rejuvenation:
Every day I notice how young my body begins to look and how easy it becomes for me to be in it. I take care of myself and see wonderful results. I saved myself from unnecessary stress and worries and began to notice how my skin and my condition became much better. It was at that moment that I realized that everything depended on me.
Rays of healing light pass through my body, returning me to my former youth and energy. I also do exercises to always look young, fit and beautiful. Every day I become younger and more energetic, and I again feel the same as I did many years ago. I feel like youth, energy and strength are returning to me to carry out my long-standing plans. I don’t just feel that I look young, people around me tell me so. And it's a wonderful feeling.
