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Everyday Self Hypnosis?
How to Use Your Daily Routine to Change Your Life

by Forbes Robbins Blair

Abe Lincoln apparently said, "If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first four sharpening the
axe." I believe my approach is a different way to incorporate self hypnosis. I meld the power of auto-suggestion
with the symbolism of your daily tasks to get results easier and just as effectively. That's what you need to
spend most of your time sharpening.

Otherwise, you would be missing out on a huge opportunity for self-improvement by not taking your daily simple
chores and applying the symbolism of applied psychology to change your habits.

Here's a good way to start to understand what I mean. When you think of conventional hypnosis or self hypnosis,
you probably just think about closing your eyes and entering a deep trance. Good. But you're leaving out those
trances you enter into each and every day which are called "natural trances." And they can be used to promote
powerful personal growth when repeated through the various and multiple daily tasks you perform.

Natural trances are a kind of hypnosis you experience in daily life. You slip into and out of them while
performing common chores like cooking, cleaning or driving. You tend to go on AUTOMATIC as your
brainwaves slow down into what is called the "alpha state." You can take advantage of these natural trances
as you go about your everyday routines.

Self-talk and Goal-setting -- Powerful Tools For Self-growth

Dr. Shad Helmstetter, Phd, one of the founders of modern personal life coaching and author of thirteen books
on personal programming and goal-setting, said this in his ground-breaking classic, "What To Say When Your
Talk To Your Self":

"My objective all along has been to find the REAL solution to self-improvement -- to separate the
practical from the not-so-practical, and find out what works for real people."

He encouraged people to ask themselves the right questions first. Then he explained how there was real
value in applying positive self-talk on a daily basis to help people find direction, stay motivated, and move
forward.

My twist on that concept uses the science and art of self hypnosis and Jungian symbolisms, and then shows
how you can apply those lessons to everyday tasks.

How I Discovered It

I began using natural trances to improve my physical and emotional health one morning a few years ago. It
started like any other morning: I was taking my usual morning shower. I was becoming very relaxed as the
warm water passed over my body. My mind was drifting off very pleasantly. But instead of just humming or singing in that private moment, I carried out
an experiment.

Little did I know I was about to stumble upon a way to take that simple experience, apply its symbolism, and then rearrange it into a personal
meditation that would help me reach my life goals. So, with this "simple" idea, my life began to change very positively over the coming months.

Achieving Everyday Self Hypnosis, Step by Step:

Attach the correct symbol to the task. I asked myself the question of what kind of symbolism showering or bathing carried. The answer was
cleansing. Then I thought about how I could create a kind of auto-suggestive mantra.

Create an appropriate auto-suggestion phrase. I'd repeat that out loud three times with emotion, "I cleanse myself of all accumulated anger,
fear and self-doubt." I imagined that the symbolic form those negative emotions took became like dirt leaving my body and going down the
drain. Taking that shower had become a symbolic ritual to cleanse my inner self!

Do this on a daily basis for as long as it took to see a positive change in myself. At first, I barely noticed anything. But after several days of
repeating this everyday self-hypnosis I noticed my mood brightening and my thoughts turning much more positively toward how to get what I
needed and wanted in my life. It seemed that the natural trance state together with the power of everyday self-suggestions were really paying
off.

Create a list of task-symbols-suggestions to cover your most common daily tasks. Here are just two examples (of many): Ironing my dress shirts
became a way to use natural trance to "iron out the wrinkles in my relationships." Driving to the farmer's market became a way to work on
"driving myself to greater success."

It's An Easy Method to Create Self-Empowerment

There's nothing complicated about the technique. Here's how you can start to incorporate it too:

Select an ordinary activity,

Recognize its underlying or symbolic meaning as it applies to your life,

Create a beneficial suggestion to accompany the activity,

Recite the suggestion three times as you initiate the task, and

Await the positive life changes you want.

You can choose among several activities you perform on any day. If you follow the rules of the technique, after
about a week you'll start to notice genuine change start to manifest in your thoughts, emotions, actions -- and
then behaviors. (For stubborn habits I suggest that you stick with this new system for at least three weeks.)

It's a Powerful Technique for Busy People

I'm a very busy person and you might be as well. You might not have enough time to use the traditional closed-eyes methods of self hypnosis.

Everyday self hypnosis allows you to use natural trances during the things you have to do each day (brushing your teeth, walking the dog, etc.) to get
the benefits without interrupting your life.

Everyday life tasks turn into powerful opportunities for personal transformation. The combination of natural trance, suggestion and the symbols found
in your daily tasks makes a strong impression on the subconscious mind.

Generic affirmations cannot compare.

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Forbes Robbins Blair is the author of three self-hypnosis books: the popular Instant Self-Hypnosis, The Self-Hypnosis
Revolution and More Instant Self Hypnosis. He produces his own series of hypnosis audios. Mr. Blair works in private
practice as a hypnotherapist and offers distance hypnosis (hypnosis-by-phone).

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