Dispelling Doubts about your "Dreamtime"
This is from a very interesting clinical hypnotherapist based in Canada, Dr. Laura DiGiorgio. I like her thinking a lot.
However, in my experience it is also important to emphasize that sometimes the doubts or resistances we find in ourselves are fueled by emotions stuck in the body that need direct attention in order to heal. Usually a combination of assertive "dreaming" in some form, and the healing of the feelings (in the form of lettting the emotions flow and getting support) does the trick.
So with that caveat, here are Dr. DiGiorgio's thoughts on hypnosis, one form of "dreaming".
DISPELLING DOUBTS
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true.You may have to work for it, however. - Richard Bach
Every once in a while I get emails from people who have heard that their success with hypnosis (KIM'S NOTE - HYPNOTHERAPY IS ONE FORM OF "DREAMING") depends on their beliefs and are wondering how can they possibly believe in something which they have never experienced.
I also get emails from people who have experienced some initial success and then they found themselves stuck and began doubting their ability to successfully reach their outcomes.
This newsletter is intended to help you overcome doubts in your ability to successfully reach your desired outcomes.
What are doubts? Doubts are beliefs. They are judgments you have formed based on the information you have and on your past experiences.
To dispel doubts, you need to do 2 things:- gather more information, and- take massive action.
Gathering more information consists of learning about what it takes to accomplish what you desire to accomplish, what are the necessary steps and skills needed to accomplish your desired outcome, exploring what skills you have and which you may yet have to develop, learning about others who might have accomplished what you desire to accomplish and how they did it, finding out what resources - books, tools, courses - are available to you to make it easier for you to learn what you need to learn.
Taking massive action consists of learning the required skills, and applying what you have learned. The learning process consists of engaging in your own experiments - experiments which will help you to prove the assumptions you created in the gathering information stage. Just reading about something won't make much difference in your life until you apply the information you gathered. You may read about many wonders you can accomplish with your mind, but that information will be practically useless to you until you take action to prove this to yourself through your own personal experience.
If the goal you have in feels so big and overwhelming for you that it seems impossible to accomplish - break it down into smaller, manageable steps which you know you can accomplish with a little bit of practice. In this way, you will also get positive feedback and program your subconscious mind with success consciousness.
For example - if you have never used hypnosis and you desire to create changes in your body, your first step may be just learning how to relax, your next step may be to notice the changes in some part of your body, perhaps a finger, as you focus upon it, or to become aware of how when you think of biting into a lemon, your salivary glands begin to secrete more saliva. Through these kinds of experiments you learn to establish solid communication between your mind and your body and you learn that you indeed can influence what goes on in your body with your mind.
If you have read previous newsletter articles, you are already familiar with the two simple secrets of successful self-hypnosis:
1. Experience your desired outcome, in your imagination and in your feelings, as if it were already real for you
2. Maintain an open state of mind: if you don't have yet a firm conviction that you can have your outcome, then engage in self-hypnosis with an attitude of openness and curiosity "I wonder what will happen if I do this" and then just let whatever happens happen.
Sometimes people email me and say "I want to be sure that I am doing it correctly. I want to be sure that I am not making any mistakes" and they get stuck and discouraged because, usually, a lot of practice and a willingness to make lots of errors precedes doing something really well on a consistent basis. Watch any child learning to walk or talk or write and see how "perfect" are their first attempts. Then look back into your own past and examine those skills you mastered in this life - would you say that your initial attempts were perfect?
Three ways to shorten your learning curve and move past the "impossible" barrier
When you learn any skill which is entirely new for you it may seem very hard or even impossible to do.
The first thing you can do to move past the "impossible" barrier is to make a list of skills which even though seemed hard or impossible initially, you have mastered them anyway. You can stick it somewhere on the wall in front of you, as a reminder that you can do anything you set your mind to accomplish.
The second thing you can do is - search your mind for any similar successful learning experiences from your past. For example, if you were learning how to dance, obviously the more dance steps you learned in the past, the easier would it be to master new ones. But even if you never learned any dance steps in your life, you have learned how to move your feet in order to walk - so you start from there. It is important to keep your mind focused on what you can do. You make it easier on yourself by focusing on success. It will help you through any frustrating moments that are a natural part of the learning process. Have a firm "I can" attitude to push through all the obstacles on your path and the "I can" conviction comes from your past experiences.
The third thing you can do - and this is where the bulk of self-hypnosis comes in - is mentally rehearse your desired outcome as if it were real for you now. Here you are playing with an idea - it doesn't matter how perfect or imperfect you can visualize it and it doesn't matter if that imagery is purely symbolic. If you have a desire for a certain outcome, then you also have an idea of what would you get if that desired outcome were real for you now. You are pretending that it is real to the best of your ability, engaging as many of your senses as you can. You are testing it to see how would you like experiencing it in your outer world. At the same time, you are impressing it upon your subconscious mind. It is becoming a part of your neurology. Through repetition, it is becoming a familiar experience for you. It is helping you to establish a new comfort zone.
However, in my experience it is also important to emphasize that sometimes the doubts or resistances we find in ourselves are fueled by emotions stuck in the body that need direct attention in order to heal. Usually a combination of assertive "dreaming" in some form, and the healing of the feelings (in the form of lettting the emotions flow and getting support) does the trick.
So with that caveat, here are Dr. DiGiorgio's thoughts on hypnosis, one form of "dreaming".
DISPELLING DOUBTS
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true.You may have to work for it, however. - Richard Bach
Every once in a while I get emails from people who have heard that their success with hypnosis (KIM'S NOTE - HYPNOTHERAPY IS ONE FORM OF "DREAMING") depends on their beliefs and are wondering how can they possibly believe in something which they have never experienced.
I also get emails from people who have experienced some initial success and then they found themselves stuck and began doubting their ability to successfully reach their outcomes.
This newsletter is intended to help you overcome doubts in your ability to successfully reach your desired outcomes.
What are doubts? Doubts are beliefs. They are judgments you have formed based on the information you have and on your past experiences.
To dispel doubts, you need to do 2 things:- gather more information, and- take massive action.
Gathering more information consists of learning about what it takes to accomplish what you desire to accomplish, what are the necessary steps and skills needed to accomplish your desired outcome, exploring what skills you have and which you may yet have to develop, learning about others who might have accomplished what you desire to accomplish and how they did it, finding out what resources - books, tools, courses - are available to you to make it easier for you to learn what you need to learn.
Taking massive action consists of learning the required skills, and applying what you have learned. The learning process consists of engaging in your own experiments - experiments which will help you to prove the assumptions you created in the gathering information stage. Just reading about something won't make much difference in your life until you apply the information you gathered. You may read about many wonders you can accomplish with your mind, but that information will be practically useless to you until you take action to prove this to yourself through your own personal experience.
If the goal you have in feels so big and overwhelming for you that it seems impossible to accomplish - break it down into smaller, manageable steps which you know you can accomplish with a little bit of practice. In this way, you will also get positive feedback and program your subconscious mind with success consciousness.
For example - if you have never used hypnosis and you desire to create changes in your body, your first step may be just learning how to relax, your next step may be to notice the changes in some part of your body, perhaps a finger, as you focus upon it, or to become aware of how when you think of biting into a lemon, your salivary glands begin to secrete more saliva. Through these kinds of experiments you learn to establish solid communication between your mind and your body and you learn that you indeed can influence what goes on in your body with your mind.
If you have read previous newsletter articles, you are already familiar with the two simple secrets of successful self-hypnosis:
1. Experience your desired outcome, in your imagination and in your feelings, as if it were already real for you
2. Maintain an open state of mind: if you don't have yet a firm conviction that you can have your outcome, then engage in self-hypnosis with an attitude of openness and curiosity "I wonder what will happen if I do this" and then just let whatever happens happen.
Sometimes people email me and say "I want to be sure that I am doing it correctly. I want to be sure that I am not making any mistakes" and they get stuck and discouraged because, usually, a lot of practice and a willingness to make lots of errors precedes doing something really well on a consistent basis. Watch any child learning to walk or talk or write and see how "perfect" are their first attempts. Then look back into your own past and examine those skills you mastered in this life - would you say that your initial attempts were perfect?
Three ways to shorten your learning curve and move past the "impossible" barrier
When you learn any skill which is entirely new for you it may seem very hard or even impossible to do.
The first thing you can do to move past the "impossible" barrier is to make a list of skills which even though seemed hard or impossible initially, you have mastered them anyway. You can stick it somewhere on the wall in front of you, as a reminder that you can do anything you set your mind to accomplish.
The second thing you can do is - search your mind for any similar successful learning experiences from your past. For example, if you were learning how to dance, obviously the more dance steps you learned in the past, the easier would it be to master new ones. But even if you never learned any dance steps in your life, you have learned how to move your feet in order to walk - so you start from there. It is important to keep your mind focused on what you can do. You make it easier on yourself by focusing on success. It will help you through any frustrating moments that are a natural part of the learning process. Have a firm "I can" attitude to push through all the obstacles on your path and the "I can" conviction comes from your past experiences.
The third thing you can do - and this is where the bulk of self-hypnosis comes in - is mentally rehearse your desired outcome as if it were real for you now. Here you are playing with an idea - it doesn't matter how perfect or imperfect you can visualize it and it doesn't matter if that imagery is purely symbolic. If you have a desire for a certain outcome, then you also have an idea of what would you get if that desired outcome were real for you now. You are pretending that it is real to the best of your ability, engaging as many of your senses as you can. You are testing it to see how would you like experiencing it in your outer world. At the same time, you are impressing it upon your subconscious mind. It is becoming a part of your neurology. Through repetition, it is becoming a familiar experience for you. It is helping you to establish a new comfort zone.
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