The Pre Induction Interview 3

And then in a way we don't understand, but we do know it happens, there is a communication between this part of us called the critical factor of the conscious and the subconscious mind. The critical factor says, "Well, this person wants to stop smoking, can I let this suggestion in?" Now remember, if that suggestion goes into the inner mind, it must happen. But the subconscious mind says, "Wait a minute. He's been smoking for twenty years, he needs cigarettes for security." Or whatever reason there may be for that person. "Besides you realize I have to do so many years of re-programming and I just don't feel up to it, I don't want to do it, reject the suggestion!" Well, that's the critical factor's boss, so the critical factor of the conscious mind kind of turns into a mirror and rejects that suggestion and it can not go into the inner mind.

Now, we only have one other place to take that idea and that is to will power. That is in the conscious. And we all know how long will power lasts. How many diets have we been on, how many times have we tried to stop smoking.

Well, how do we get suggestion into that subconscious mind? Well, in this facility we use something called hypnosis. Now, what hypnosis does is this. It by-passes the critical factor, that is blocking part of our conscious mind. It's like giving it a couple of dollars and sending it to Wendy's and we'll tell it when to come back. Now, this is what most people who are ignorant of hypnosis think hypnosis really is. If this was all hypnosis was, then some of the stories you may have heard about hypnosis might be true. Things like I can control you or I can make you do anything I want you to do and you'd have to do it. We'll if this was all it was, that would be true. But God did not leave us that vulnerable. Yet, this is true up to this point. But the instant this critical factor of our conscious mind is bypassed, what happens is this, we go into a very deep state of hypnosis.

Now, when we are in the state of hypnosis, it is not what you expect it to be. Our bodies, if we are using a relaxation type of hypnosis, are very relaxed; but, the more we go into hypnosis, the more our conscious mind becomes alert. In the deeper levels of hypnosis, your conscious mind is two to three hundred percent more alert than you are at this very moment. All of your five senses, including hearing, smelling, tasting, and seeing are hundreds of times better than they are right now.

So when you are in hypnosis, you are not asleep, you are extremely alert, probably more alert and clear minded than you have ever been before. Now the important thing to understand about this is that the conscious mind takes on a different role when you are in hypnosis. I want you to think of it as playing the role of the guardian of the gates protecting you. When you receive a suggestion in hypnosis, you hear it loud and clear.

Now when you hear that suggestion, and these are the tools for success or failure with hypnosis. When you hear that suggestion with your conscious mind, you must, and you really do have no choice, make one of four decisions about that suggestion. Which decision you make determines whether that suggestion is allowed to enter your subconscious mind or whether it is rejected. If it is allowed to enter, you will have the change that you are here to achieve, if it is rejected, there will be no change.

What are those four decisions or choices? Well, the first one could be, when you hear the suggestion, you think or say to yourself something like this, "I like that suggestion, boy, I know that one is going to work!" Now, that mental attitude at the conscious level allows that suggestion to go into your computer, the subconscious mind, and change begins. Unfortunately, you have three other choices. The next choice could be, well, forget actually hating a suggestion, or feeling it is something against your morals or beliefs, but perhaps that suggestion is just a tiny, little bit uncomfortable to you. Like that pair of shoes you wanted to buy that time, but you knew if you did, you would end up a cripple in about three months, because they just didn't fit right. Well, if that suggestion sounds just the tiniest bit uncomfortable to you for any reason, it is automatically blocked with the conscious mind and it is not allowed to enter the computer—and there is no change.

The next choice could be that you are neutral about the suggestion, you don't care if you get it or you don't care if you don't get it. It is kind of a meaningless suggestion to you. The conscious mind automatically blocks that suggestion and it can not get into your computer. The last choice you have is probably the choice which causes more people to fail with hypnosis, if they do fail. It goes something like this. When you hear the suggestion, you say to yourself, "Oh, I like that suggestion, boy, I hope it works!" The word hope is the twin sister of the word try and try means automatic failure. If you look back on your life being honest with yourself, anytime you tried to do something, you failed. "Okay, mom, I'll try." "Okay, dad, I'll try." Try means failure. If you look back at your life, anytime you have said to yourself, "I'm going to do it," and there was no question about it, you did it, and you probably did it very well. Hope is the twin sister of try. You could hope for the cows to come home, that doesn't mean they are going to come home. So, if you say hope or try, that suggestion is blocked by the conscious mind, it is not allowed to enter the computer and there is no change.

A little thought. If you eliminate the words hope and try from your personal and professional vocabulary from this moment on, within a week you are going to feel better than you have felt in a long time. The only time a suggestion is allowed to go into your computer is if you take the mental attitude when you hear that suggestion, "I like that suggestion, I know it's going to work." And that is how easy it is!

Now, let me give you some real truths. The first is this, there is no such thing as hypnosis! There never has been and there never will be. I have been in the field for many, many years and I have never hypnotized a single person and I doubt that I ever will. There is only one form of hypnosis, there always has been and there always will be. ALL hypnosis is self- hypnosis. You don't need me to go into a beautiful, deep state of hypnosis all by yourself and you certainly don't need me to give you suggestions of positive change in any area of your life. You can do that all by yourself. The reason you are here today is only because you do not know how to do it! But, we teach people how to do that all the time. It's the easiest thing in the world. But all I can ever be for you or anybody else is not a hypnotist, because if I called myself a hypnotist, that means I could do something and I guess you are suppose to respond in a certain fashion and I can't do that. The reality and the truth is all I can ever be is a guide for you, and nothing more.

If you allow me to be your guide, I'll show you how to place yourself in a beautiful state of hypnosis. Feeling the physical relaxation and mental alertness. If you allow me to be your guide, I'll show you how to stay there until we're finished. If you don't want to be in this beautiful relaxed state, the slightest thought by you and it is over and you are back to your normal state of awareness. But, if you follow my guidance, I'll show you how to stay there. And then the most important thing of all is, if you accept the suggestions given to you with the correct mental attitude, I like it, I know it's going to work, you'll have change in the way you want it. If you take one of the other choices, you'll fail. I can't force a suggestion into your mind. Only YOU can ALLOW it to happen.

Hypnosis is a 100% consent state by you. You must allow things to happen. You can stop them from happening with the slightest thought if you don't want it to happen. Now, I want you to understand that anyone, as long as their IQ is above 70 and they want hypnosis, can go into a very deep level of hypnosis, how fast? (SNAP FINGERS) Just like that! The only thing that keeps a person from going into that beautiful state of physical relaxation and mental alertness is if they have a fear or a misconception about what hypnosis really is and I would like to talk briefly about some of the more common fears and misconceptions of hypnosis.

Some people feel that when you are in hypnosis, that you are asleep. Well, I want you to know that when your mind is three or four hundred percent more alert than you are at this very moment, this is about as far from sleep that you are ever going to get, in this lifetime anyway. Hypnosis has nothing to do with sleep.

Some people are afraid they won't "wake up" from hypnosis and that is true, I agree with that, I have never known anyone to "wake up" from hypnosis. You see there is only one thing you can "wake up" from and that is sleep. If you are not asleep, you can't "wake up." Semantics, yes, but we use words in our profession. They are our only tools. The term is emerge from hypnosis. Anytime you would want to emerge from hypnosis, all you have to do is have the slightest thought that you don't want to be in this relaxed state anymore and instantly, it's over and you are back to your normal awareness.

Then there is that powerful misconception that some people have that says I can control you and make you do anything I want you to do. I have to be honest with you, I wish that was true, because than I could guarantee you success. But remember you have those four choices when you hear a suggestion and that the only time the suggestion is allowed to enter your computer is if you say, "I like it, I know it's going to work." I can't force that in, I can't control you!

I want you to know that you and you alone are responsible for your success. You and you alone are responsible for your failure. What mental attitude you take when you hear a suggestion determines success or failure.

Some people have the misconception that they will tell me all their deep dark secrets when they are in hypnosis. For the same reasons of mental alertness, you are more in control of anything you choose to do or say while you are in hypnosis then you are right now. If you don't want to tell me something, then you won't. If I was to ask you for information that was none of my business, you would simply tell me it is none of my business. No one can make you divulge information that is proprietary. As a matter of fact, if I wanted that kind of information from you, I would have a much better chance of obtaining it now, in your normal conscious awareness, because right now, you are mentally dull compared to your mental capabilities when you are in hypnosis.