Mindfulness in Health and Happiness – Creating Contentment and Joy 0 (0)

16 Oct 2020 Mindfullness , , ,
Ron Eslinger, CRNA, MA, BCH, FNGH

Chapter One:

What Is Mindfulness?

People often confuse the concept of mindfulness with the idea that one should “stop and smell the roses.” However, if you found yourself with your nose stuck deep into a flower in a field where an angry bull was bearing down on you, this would be the exact opposite of being mindful. Put simply, mindfulness is a state of mind where you are fully conscious and engaged in the present moment and with the demands of the present moment.

 

Buddhist Concept

The concept of mindfulness comes to us through the Buddhist religion. The word “mindfulness” is one translation of the Pali word sati (Sanskrit smrti). Other translations of this word include “awareness” and “memory.” Mindfulness is one’s capacity to avoid distraction from the present moment, but in Buddhism it also means to avoid forgetting what one already knows and to remember to do what one has an intention to do.

If mindfulness means avoiding distraction, what is it that distracts us from the present? People are constantly besieged with needs. Our basic needs such as food and shelter, and our more complicated needs for love, respect, happiness, and so on all compel us to consider our past and future in terms of what to avoid and what to seek after. Consequently, the tempting answer is to blame all the things going on in our world as the source of distraction. A Buddhist would disagree. Instead of everything that goes on “out there” being the source of distraction, Buddhists blame what they call the “monkey mind.” The monkey mind refers to our own mental capacity to engage internally in constant chatter.  Sometimes internal mental chatter can be helpful for working out problems, for analysis, and even for play. However constant mental chatter can also distract us from the things that are most important. And often, it can actually mislead us into misunderstanding a given situation. Buddhism teaches techniques in meditation to cultivate mindfulness and quiet the monkey mind.

 

Bare Attention

One aspect of mindfulness is the cultivation of bare attention. Bare attention is attention that is devoid of judgment or elaboration. Whenever we are faced with a new situation, we are tempted to try and consider what this new situation means to us. Will it be pleasant, scary, long lasting, or of minor importance? More often than not, we do not have enough information yet to make that assessment. When we start attempting to evaluate the situation before it has played out, this takes us into monkey mind style thinking, which often leads to distortion. One component of being mindful is to approach any present moment with our full and neutral attention.

Another way of thinking of bare attention is in the Zen Buddhist concept of “beginner’s mind.” To a Zen Buddhist, being a beginner is an ideal state because someone with no experience of something will also have developed no prejudice against it or other ways of placing limits on an experience. Since every moment of your life is unique, approaching each moment with innocence, as if you are a beginner and this is your first time experiencing this moment, allows you to keep yourself open to a host of possibilities that a more experienced person would either ignore or never consider.

Psychological Concept of Mindfulness

Although mindfulness originated as a Buddhist concept, psychologists from the 1970s to the present have studied the effects of Buddhist mindfulness meditation techniques and found that these are effective in reducing anxiety and reducing relapse rates in both depression and drug addiction. Recent studies have found that incorporating mindfulness into your life can increase positive emotions, improve the immune system, and reduce stress.

Despite the nearly universal agreement on the benefits of mindfulness, psychologists disagree on an exact definition of mindfulness or an exact method for developing mindfulness. Jon Kabat-Zinn , one of the first psychologists to study mindfulness as a secular concept, defines mindfulness as “paying attention, in a particular way, on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.” According to a later study, mindfulness studies in psychology tend to require two components for mindfulness:

  • A quality of high attentiveness and concentration
  • An attitude of curiosity and openness.

 

Memory

To this point, we have focused on just one aspect of mindfulness, that of bare attention in the immediate moment. However, as mentioned earlier, another translation of the word sati is memory, and there is a very good reason for this. Paying close attention to your immediate moment and environment sounds like a beneficial practice, and for the most part it is. However, there are times where paying too much attention can be detrimental and force you into mistakes. If you have ever been told or told someone else not to over-think a situation, this is a good example where bare attention can be detrimental. In fact, a recent study has found that a mindful state can be detrimental for certain kinds of learning.

When you learn to ride a bicycle, for example, you pay less attention about the process and feel of yourself pedaling. Instead, much of the learning occurs subconsciously in what is known as muscle memory. Muscle memory is one example of a special kind of memory called implicit memory. This type of memory occurs through practice. For musicians who read music, for example, at a certain point in practice, they no longer consciously think about what the squiggles on the page actually mean. In fact, reading in general relies primarily on implicit memory. If you tried to be really mindful of what you were reading, by focusing on the shape of each letter or the makeup of each sentence, you would likely miss the overall meaning of a written passage, and it would take a long time to do it.

Mindfulness is helpful in tasks that make use of another kind of memory called explicit memory. This type of memory is helpful in learning new things and in memorization. However, when you wish to develop a habit, the combination of mindfulness when you are consciously willing yourself to do or notice something and scaling back your awareness as you allow the new task to be taken up in your unconscious mind through implicit memory is the ideal way to go.

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Hypnosis and HypnoAnesthesia Suggestibility and Sabotage – Part Two 5 (2)

11 Dec 2019 Captain’s Blog, Mindfullness

Ron Eslinger, RN, CRNA, APN, MA, BCH, CMI, OB, FNGH
www.Healthyvisions.com
In my previous article, I discussed Emilé Coué and why I use his book, My Method, as a hand out to my clients to help them understand the power of suggestion in hypnosis or simply by one’s own self-talk and self-thought. Many of my clients experienced amazing positive responses in using hypnosis to maintain comfort, quit smoking, weight reduction, and several other issues. It appears that the ones that respond the fastest are the highly hypnotizables, which is a good thing. However, I have also noticed that the highly hypnotizables can sabotage themselves with negative self-talk.

A couple of examples:
1. Family sabotage – A lady with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) worked with me daily for a week with amazing recovery. She returned to her home enthusiastic about being able to walk, do things with the kids, and have a normal life following six years of pain and suffering. She gets home and right away the family responded by saying. “So, it was in your head.” She was devastated. She was expecting them to be happy for her and feel the joy she was feeling. Her pain returned because of what was said. She phoned me and using phone hypnosis she regained control of her comfort. I said, “You are in control, to be comfortable is your decision not what others think.” To receive a copy of the case report email ron@eslinger.net, Put A618 in the subject line.
2. Husband sabotage – Early in my practice a client who wanted to lose between 60 and 70 pounds lost 30 pounds and then stopped losing weight. Why did she stop losing? Her husband started bringing candy home and taking her out to dinner. His lack of self-confidence and fear of losing his wife to another man created his sabotaging behavior. He wondered why she wanted to lose weight when he was happy with her the way she was. Since then I always ask a married man or woman who is seeing me for weight loss, how does your spouse feel about your decision to use hypnosis to lose weight?
There are less obvious self-talk and self-thought comments that result in sabotaging success. Here are a few: I hope this works. Hope used here is an expression of doubt. If only I can get rid of this pain. I feel great, I hope it last. I feel a headache coming on. A cigarette would taste good right now.
At the start of the session, I have the client write down 3-things they want me to say to them. Here are some examples with my responses.
1. Tell me I don’t hurt anymore – I changed to, every day you are more comfortable…
2. No morning negative self-talk – I changed to Every morning you choose to see things with a positive, happy and healthy attitude
3. Pain in feet will not return – I changed to – Isn’t it amazing how comfortable you are because you practice your affirmation; I am relaxed, comfortable and in control.

I give the Emile Coue’ book to every client because the book is about positive self-talk. The book is specific in its explanation that suggestions only become permanent with repetition. Bruce Lipton, a research biologist, explains that to make self-talk effective two criteria are needed. 1) The person must be in a meditative or hypnotic state. 2) The talk should be in the form of pictures or images. A Chinese proverb states, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” Consider that your client has been using negative self-talk, which reinforces how much pain they are having. Every Dr. visit reinforces pain by asking, on a scale of 1-10 how much “pain” are you having?

I also include in the cost of the session a CD player and batteries so there is no excuse for the client to not listen to the CD I make during their session. Suggestion become permanent with repetition.

The most significant change I made to my practice, was to start seeing my client twice the first week rather than once a week. I found that by reinforcing the first session with only one day between session one and two made a major difference in positive client outcomes. The key was not having a weekend between session one and two where family and friends could sabotage the suggestions from the hypnosis session.

With your next client, during the second session interview, ask what family and friends said to them about hypnosis and comments they may have made about the session. Here are some examples I recorded that family and friends asked or made comments to the client after the first session.
• Wife – How bad do you want a cigarette?
• Doctor – I can’t believe you would let someone have control of your mind.
• Husband – So it (pain) was all in your head.
• Husband to weight client – Honey lets go out for pizza tonight.
• Friend to weight client – Have a piece of cake, you deserve it.
• Wife to husband – Honey is your back still hurting?
• Self-talk – It feels good to be without pain (Better to say it feels good to be comfortable.)
How many such comments have you heard from your clients?
The 3rd session is usually within seven days. During the third session a date is set for the 4th session.
• A smoker who has not had a cigarette between the 2nd and 3rd session is followed up in 8-12 weeks. If continuing to smoke, I will schedule their next appointment in one week.
• A pain client who reports significant improvement during the 3rd session is scheduled 2-4 weeks out.
My documentation shows a significant difference in clients who listen to the CDs as prescribed from the session and read the Coue’ book. However, even more dramatic is the positive effect of daily practice of self-hypnosis.

The Limbic System and Memory 0 (0)

11 Dec 2019 Mindfullness, Back Pain, Fibromyalgia, Pain

By Ron Eslinger www.healthyvisionshypnosis.com, www.mycecredit.com,www.hypnosiscertification.com

The hippocampus, which controls memory, is another player within the Limbic System.

There are three types of memory: working memory, declarative memory, and procedural memory.

The hippocampus is critical in cementing declarative memory, which can be compared to the memory in the hard drive of a computer.

Types of Memory
Working Memory Completes short-term functions like adding, speaking, and following directions. Does not become permanent memory.
Declarative Memory Composed of facts, figures, and names. This information is stored by the hippocampus.
Procedural Memory Composed of actions, habits, and skills. This information becomes reflexive.

 

Three types of memory exist, but only declarative memory impacts our perception of reality.  

The working memory is similar to the RAM of a computer or a temporary file. The information stored is used as needed.  Then the cache is deleted to make room for more temporary files. So you wonder why you run to the store intending to buy a loaf of bread, but when you return home you wife asks, “Okay. Where’s that loaf of bread?” You just forgot it, because you started thinking about other things and the temporary file was deleted.

My wife always reminds me to write down more details when asking for directions.  Although I listen to the directions, I fail to create a picture image with their words or I do not write the instructions.  The details vanish before I am able to even use the information.  Other examples of short-term memory include addition of numbers and composing sentences. You use the information and then erase it.  There is no need to remember it anymore.

Declarative memory is similar to the hard drive of a computer; composed of all the facts, figures and names you learn throughout your life.  For example, I have a difficult time with names.  I recall my experiences with someone long before I can recall their name.  As an acquaintance approaches, I start thinking to myself, “Oh no. I can’t remember their name. What’s their name? What’s their name?” and finally out loud to my wife, “Honey, what’s their name?” My own self-talk activates my Amygdala System, creating fear and producing stress hormones that degrade and suppress my memory. I have such a difficult time that I depend on my wife to remember names for me.  When we see someone we recently met, she speaks first and says their name.  It is so helpful and then all of my memories about that person start flowing.

In the Navy I was in a position where I had to remember 50 names and give all of those names to my commanding officer during an inspection. I could have actually written them down, but I wanted to make an impression.  I established a system.  Every time I introduced myself to one of the people in my platoon, they gave me their name and I repeated it back to them.  On inspection day, my commanding officer asked,  “Well, where’s your list?” I answered, “It’s in my head.” She was not too confident, but I did remember each name.  There is solid proof that I can remember names, I just need the right self talk.

The details you have learned in the past are present in your memory today. You can bring them back by relaxing your mind and focusing your attention.  All your experiences are in your memory as well.  Unfortunately some experiences are negative.  Recalling those moments sends shivers up and down the spine.  Other memories are happy and make you smile.

For example, a mother can recall a really funny thing her toddler said years ago.  Recently, I attended the 75th anniversary celebration of my hospital’s nursing school.  A classmate and I sat chatting about college and careers when a memory from 35 years earlier popped into my head. I recalled a child who refused to drink her milk. I stood next to the child trying to coax her into drinking her milk. All of a sudden the intercom system blared,  “This is the Lord speaking. Drink your milk.”  The kid’s eyes got really big and she grabbed her milk and started to drink.  My former classmate even remembered the little girl’s name, Jenny.  I had not thought of Jenny for 35 years, but sitting next to my classmate brought back the memory and the humor of that moment.

All of our memories are stored and there is no way to know when a memory will be triggered, or while that memory may be.  However, we do not know where the hippocampus stores all of these memories. We do know cortisol, a stress hormone can degrade memory.  Memories, which can be activated with electrical impulses tile so stimulate hormones and neurotransmitters. Cortisol can degrade this activation which is demonstrated in the video, What in and the bleep… do we know.  As a result, the memory as a single unit or file is fragmented.

During recall, we fit together a piece of the puzzle here and a piece of the puzzle there and put it back together as a complete memory.  Hypnotic processes help reconstruct the pieces of a puzzle. Hypnosis helps one to remember how they are supposed to feel, replacing the memory of pain or stress with a new memory of comfort.  Hypnosis brings memories back together completing the picture.   However, memories can be as false as they can be true. All members were based on perception and perception becomes the reality.

Procedural memory is stored as conditioned responses for reflexes. Reflexes are actions, habits or skills that are learned simply through repetition.   We all develop procedural memories.

One of the first procedural memories you may remember was learning to drive a car.  I learned to drive on a standard shift or standard transmission. Do you remember the first time you were sitting in the car?  You may have been thinking, “Okay I’ve got my right foot on the brake. I’ve got my left foot on the clutch. I’ve got to take my right foot, put it on the gas and lift my left foot up at the same time.”  The next thing we hear is ‘thump, thump, thump’ and the car stalls in the driveway.  You go for a drive. You are driving down the street and you see a red traffic light. “Oh no, there’s a red light. I have to take my right foot off the gas and put it on the brake. I have to put my left foot on the clutch.  Oh please don’t stall. Please don’t stall.” That is the first week.  What happens during the second week? Well guys, you have one arm around your girlfriend and you say, “Here, change the gears for me.” The process becomes natural, a reflex condition.

Great athletes become great athletes by developing reflex conditions that put them in the zone for their sport.  One afternoon I listened to a broadcast of National Public Radio (NPR).  The host interviewed a gentleman in his sixties. This man holds the Guinness Book of World Records for the most consecutive free throw shots in basketball. How many free throws do you think he made? What did you guess? He made ten thousand consecutive free throws without missing one. As the story went, this record holder stopped because a basketball team scheduled a ball game on the court and he could no longer continue his shots. Some athletes make millions of dollars a year if they can make five out of ten free throws.  During the interview, the Guinness Book of World Record’s narrator asked, “Sir, what are you thinking about when you’re shooting?” He replies, “Young man, you can’t think. If you think, you’ll miss.”  That is really the truth of it.

How many golfers, when teeing off at a water hole, automatically take out the water ball?  You guessed it. Their expectation is to hit the ball into the water.  Sure enough, it goes in the water.

In a similar manner, individuals with chronic pain may have created a reflex condition or trigger that activates the pain. Chronic pain patients actualize the pain reflex response. They expect to wakeup each morning with back pain, leg pain or even a migraine.  Has that ever happened to you?  Have you ever waked up in the morning thinking “I hurt all over?” So I emphasize to my clients, that the first thing to do when you wake in the morning is to say to yourself, “I feel better today. I feel better today.” Although, I certainly care if the person is in pain, the idea is to recreate in the procedural memory, a reinforcement and repetition of a healing memory.

Words make a difference because words and thoughts affect the Limbic System that affects the perception and response to pain.  Positive repetitions enforce new neuro networking which decreases the pain.  Conversely, negative thoughts and even the fear of pain can increase pain.

Pain Relief Without Medication 0 (0)

11 Dec 2019 Mindfullness, Miscellaneous, Pain

There Is No Pain Until It Reaches the Brain

Hypnosis and self-hypnosis can take the hurt out of pain.  Hypnosis – for pain management is an amazing tool that when used, produces measurable results in pain relief. The reason for this phenomenon of success is explained in research done at such universities as Yale, Stanford, and Harvard.  The success is in the ability of suggestions to by-pass the cortex, the thinking, and reasoning part of the brain, and goes directly to the Limbic endocrine system of the brain.  The Limbic system is that part of the brain that deals with fear, memory, homeostasis (maintaining a base line for the body) and stress.  What was unknown until recently is that the Limbic system takes its orders through perceptions given to it by the cortex, but even more astounding is that the suggestions can go directly to the Limbic system from external sources and suggestions.  Hypnosis is the most dramatic of the external sources.

Chronic pain is that pain that has lasted for over six months and by medical standards has no purpose.  Phantom limb pain, Fibromyalgia, headaches, and back pain can fall into this category.  Because cells actually have their own consciousness and respond to messages sent to them by the Limbic system hormones (neuro-chemical transmitters), these cells can through thought and hypnotic suggestion recreate their base line feelings of comfort which changes how we physically feel. There is evidence (empirical data) suggesting these cells when given directions by the Limbic system to decrease Cortisol respond favorably.  Cortisol is the stress hormone when received in small amounts protects, however in large amounts over time it can cause arthritis, and other chronic pain syndromes.  The beauty of hypnosis is that it decreases Cortisol levels.

There is nothing mystical or magical about hypnosis.  Hypnosis is simply a state of concentration and focused attention.  It is actually a state of consciousness that we enter naturally, but we usually don’t call it hypnosis.  For example, how many times have we pulled into the parking lot at work with no recollections of what we passed on the way.  We are so focused on our thoughts that we don’t consciously notice what we are driving past.

How does hypnosis work?  We all have a conscious and subconscious mind.  The conscious mind is like the RAM on your computer.  It is the program that acts and reacts to what is in front of you.  The subconscious mind has two basic responsibilities:  to keep all internal systems functioning properly, and to record everything seen, heard, or felt with no distinction of good or bad.  The subconscious is therefore like the hard drive on your computer.  Everything you have seen, heard, or felt either good or bad is recorded within the subconscious mind.  The professionally trained hypnotist uses relaxing techniques with the client so that the conscious mind is relaxed or distracted in order for the subconscious mind to be open and receptive to specific suggestions as it relates to the clients needs to alter their negative habits.

In a nutshell, Change your mind (change how you think about your pain) – Change your brain (rewire your brain to send signals of comfort not pain) – Change the pain (if it is sharp make it dull, if burning make it cool).  The brain is an amazing thing and can be triggered by our thoughts, our emotions, our memories and our rewards.  You are in control of your thoughts so watch want you think, what you say and what/who you listen to.

The Lemon and Mindfulness Training 0 (0)

11 Dec 2019 Induction, Mindfullness

 

I found that by understanding the dominant sense by which a person takes in information my use of visualization, guided imagery and direct suggestion take on a much stronger affect.  At the same time the focus and concentration used to determine the dominant sense also allows the person to enter into a relaxed Alpha State, hypnotic relaxation or a mindfulness state.

Below is the script I use to make my determination and to let the client experience how they use their senses to relate to their environment.

If you don’t mind let your eyes gently close as you take in a nice abdominal breath.

Imagine or pretend that you’re at home in your kitchen.

Look around the room and pay attention to the sounds the sights and the light.

Listen for the hummm of the refrigerator…

Walk over to the refrigerator and as you do pay attention to your footsteps as you walk across the floor …you may or you may not hear your steps on the floor.

Open the door to the refrigerator… feel the cool air as it spills out onto your body.

Hear that hiss as the vacuum releases as you open the door… now today whether you normally have one or not today there’s a lemon in your refrigerator…

Look at the lemon… pay attention to its color as you reach in and take the lemon.

Notice the texture, the temperature, the size and the shape.  Now take the lemon over to a place where you would normally cut up fruits or vegetables…

Take out your favorite knife… now slice the lemon… you may slice it lengthwise from end to end or down the center.  If you sliced from end to end then make a second slice creating a wedge. If you sliced it down the center make another slice creating a ring and then cut the ring in half…

You may have noticed the juice as it oozes out on the cutting area … reach down and take either the wedge or the half ring and bring it up and smell the fragrance…you may notice memories being created…

Now open your mouth and take a big bite into that lemon.  Feel and taste the juice as it squirts on your teeth and on your tongue… experience the increased salivation and notice the tart and tangy feeling at the corners of your jaw.  Now swallow the lemon juice.

Open your eyes.  What did you notice? What did you experience?  What senses were stimulated?

Increased salivation was a biochemical, physiological response from a thought and every thought that you have creates some type of biochemical, physiological response in some part of your body.

What the mind possesses the body expresses.

THE REALITY OF AUTO-SUGGESTION 0 (0)

11 Dec 2019 Induction, Mindfullness, Miscellaneous

I wish to say how glad I was to come into personal contact with the great American public on their own side of the Atlantic. And at the same time I could not help feeling just a little embarrassed. I had an idea that people on that continent expected from me some wonderful revelation, bordering on the miraculous, whereas, in reality, the message I have to give is so simple that many are tempted at first to consider it almost insignificant. Let me say right here, however, that simple as my message may be, it will teach those who consent to hear it and to give it fair thought a key to permanent physical and moral wellbeing which can never be lost.

Autosuggestion disconcerting in its simplicity. To the uninitiated, auto-suggestion or self-mastery is likely to appear disconcerting in its simplicity. But does not every discovery, every invention, seem simple and ordinary once it has become vulgarized and the details or mechanism of it known to the man in the street? Not that I am claiming auto-suggestion as my discovery. Far from it. Auto­suggestion is as old as the hills; only we had forgotten to practice it, and so we needed to learn it all over again.

Think of all the forces of the Universe ready to serve us. Yet centuries elapsed before man penetrated their secret and discovered the means of utilizing them. It is the same in the domain of thought and mind: we have at our service forces of transcendent value of which we are either completely ignorant or else only vaguely conscious.

Power of auto-suggestion known in the Middle Ages. The power of thought, of idea, is incommensurable, is immeasurable. The world is dominated by thought. The human being individually is also entirely governed by his own thoughts, good or bad. The powerful action of the mind over the body, which explains the effects of suggestion, was well known to the great thinkers of the Middle Ages, whose vigorous intelligence embraced the sum of human knowledge.

Every idea conceived by the mind, says Saint Thomas, is an order which the organism obeys. It can also, he adds, engender a disease or cure it.

The efficaciousness of auto-suggestion could not be more plainly stated.

The Role of the Imagination 0 (0)

11 Dec 2019 Induction, Mindfullness, Miscellaneous

Imagination, before beginning to explain the practical application of auto-suggestion and the extremely simple method by which it is possible for everyone to gain complete mastery over his or her physical organism, I must speak of the all-important role of the imagination.

Dominance of the imagination

Dominance of the imagination over the will. Contrary to the generally accepted theory the will is not the invincible force it is claimed to be; in fact, whenever imagination and will come into conflict it is always imagination that triumphs. Try to do something while you are repeating: “I cannot do it”-and you will see this truth confirmed. The mere idea of inability to accomplish a thing paralyzes the will power.

Self-mastery and the imagination

Self-mastery is attained when the imagination has been directed and trained to conform with our desires-for although, in one sense, the imagination is inclined in the subconscious, yet it dominates the latter, and therefore, if we know how to guide it, our subconscious self will take charge of our material being and do its work just as we wish it to be done; or, in other words, exactly in conformity with our conscious suggestions.

I cannot too strongly insist that in the practice of auto­suggestion the exercise of will must be strictly avoided, except in the initial phase of directing or guiding the imagination on the desired lines. This is absolutely the only manifestation of will necessary, or even desirable. Any other voluntary effort is positively harmful in connection with auto-suggestion, and will almost certainly have an effect contrary to the one desired.

Intimation and famous people

Analyze the so-called strong-willed characters of history, Caesar, Napoleon, etc. You will find that they were all men of big imagination. Certain ideas were implanted in their minds, and their tenacious suggestions impelled them into action. This, however, is a digression.

Law of converted effort

Law of converted effort. What I want to drive home for the moment is the law of what my friend Charles Baudouin calls “converted effort.” Suppose a man suffering from insomnia decides to try the effect of auto-­suggestion.

Unless previously warned, he will repeat to himself phrases like this: I want to sleep; I will sleep; I am going to sleep. And all the time he will be making desperate efforts to coax sleep. That is fatal.

The very fact of exerting effort has converted the latter into a force acting in a sense contrary to the original suggestion, with the result that the poor man tosses and turns in his bed in sleepless wretchedness.

Imagination should be unhindered

The imagination should be unhindered.

Let the imagination do its work alone, unhindered.

Be quite passive.

Through mysterious, still unexplained processes, our subconscious self accomplishes marvelous things.

Think of the very commonest movements of the human body and ask yourselves how they are operated.

What has set in motion the complicated mechanism when you stretch your arm to reach a glass on a table or when you take a cigarette from your case? No one knows.

But if we cannot explain the phenomenon we do know that, in actual fact, it is an order resulting from a mere suggestion which is transmitted through the nervous system, and translated into action at a speed infinitely greater than that of lightning.

Interested in putting your imagination to work? Read Ron Eslinger’s eBook Hypnosis The Imagination at Work only $9.99!

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