The placebo effect in the cycle of life. How does self-hypnosis give us superpowers?

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.

Self-hypnosis techniques

Where to begin?
First of all, you need to learn how to enter a trance state. Further, in this state, you will be able to make deep self-hypnosis for yourself, including post-hypnotic ones, i.e. those that will work outside of trance, when you need it. How to enter a trance? In general, any person is already familiar with the trance state - for example, when you “withdraw into yourself”, into your thoughts, you can lose your sense of reality for some time

While thinking about something important or being carried away by reading, you may not notice how much time has passed and may not hear the words addressed to you. Such states differ from self-hypnosis only in that the latter involves targeted, motivated influence with the formulation of suggestions that correspond to specific goals.

Contrary to popular myth, in a state of hypnosis and self-hypnosis you not only do not lose control over yourself, but also strengthen it. And if you need to respond to an external situation, you can, even while in a trance, react quite adequately.

Leonardo da Vinci's opinion on one of the rules for constructing self-hypnosis

Leonardo da Vinci also advised his students, after carefully examining an object, to close their eyes and, slowly, imagine it in all details. Then look at the item again and check how well the representation matches the original. The great artist and scientist considered this exercise very useful for developing attention and recommended doing it as often as time allows, ensuring that the performance completely repeats the original.

This exercise can be performed in combination with movement: while looking at something, take a slow breath, as if “pulling” into your brain, into your memory what you are focusing on; while exhaling, even more slowly, close your eyes and mentally reproduce the image of the object or phenomenon that was just in the focus of your attention.

Usually, when it comes to concentration, many people associate this thought process with a kind of mental stress. Yes, indeed, very often concentration is accompanied by subjectively felt mental stress. It is known: the more carefully we do something, the more successful it is. When we are highly focused on something, our brain automatically switches off from everything around us, and nothing extraneous simply cannot “enter” our consciousness.

Being extremely concentrated, attention in the practice of self-hypnosis should nevertheless remain completely relaxed. For only calm and unstrained attention allows one to maintain a dormant state of the brain. Any mental stress (including the process of attention) destroys drowsiness and brings a person out of it into a state of one or another activity, that is, it turns off the first main mechanism of self-hypnosis from useful activity.

Watch a video with a psychotherapist's opinion about the power of self-suggestion: only 10 minutes

Self-hypnosis technique

The Coue technique is based on verbal formulas that reflect desires, goals and aspirations. Essentially, these are the same affirmations. By compiling formulas for patients, Coue helped them get rid of not only psychological problems, but also some physical diseases. In addition, character correction took place, for example, stinginess was replaced by generosity, reserved people became sociable. The panacea was replacing negative thinking with positive thinking.

Correctly composed formula

When composing formulas, you must adhere to the following rules:

The thought form should be short and understandable.
The wording should be simple and easy to remember.
The formula is positive and does not contain the particle “not”.
The formula is aimed at oneself, it uses the pronoun “I”.

Examples of successful formulas:

I am happy in my relationship with my husband.
I enjoy my work.
I live in my own apartment.
I travel twice a year.
I'm healthy and feeling great.

When creating a formula, you don’t need to limit your imagination. If you want something that seems impossible, don’t be afraid to talk about it in affirmations. The subconscious mind doesn’t care what desire to tune in to, it’s just that it will take a little more time to complete complex tasks.

Time to pronounce

The best time to pronounce formulas is morning and evening. In the evening, when you go to bed, it is easiest to relax and tune your brain to a positive wave. At this time, the mind is ready to perceive new information, it will be easier for it to visualize it. When you wake up in the morning, you can take a few minutes to recite the formulas. But at this time it is better to tune in to a generally positive mood, for example, say to yourself: I am happy and full of vigor; I am ready for the new opportunities this day opens up; I'm confident.

But you shouldn’t limit yourself to just these periods. A great time for affirmations is traveling on a minibus or subway, or waiting in line at the dentist. The main thing is to tune in to the wave of positivity.

Rule 20 times

Each formula must be repeated at least 20 times. If it is difficult for you to combine counting and pronunciation of the treasured phrase, you can finger a rosary with 20 beads, a cord with knots, and if you don’t have anything suitable at hand, you can simply press the pads of your fingers.

It is also important not only how many times the thought form is pronounced, but also how exactly:

You need to speak on your own behalf.
You need to do this out loud, maybe in a whisper, but so that the fur coats move and the person hears himself. Then the formula will be perceived by the brain as a task to be completed.
Coue advises pronouncing words monotonously and mechanically. But many psychologists do not agree with him and recommend filling every phrase with emotion. This allows you to feel what exactly the fulfillment of a desire will give, what state it will plunge a person into. The brighter the emotion, the faster the subconscious will begin to look for ways to fulfill a dream.

Psychology and a little magic

Each person must decide for himself what will help him fulfill his desire. Some people have a lucky dress that helps them pass an interview. For someone to have a successful day, they need to see 3 white poodles in the morning. Someone buys amulets. It's not stupid at all. This way, it’s easier for the brain to concentrate and believe that the wish can come true.

How to create an effective formula for self-hypnosis.

Yesterday I held a webinar on the technology of creating effective self-hypnosis formulas.
I revealed to its participants 2 formulas for self-hypnosis of a new life.

The first of the self-hypnosis formulas is in the picture above, and the second is on the bottom slide, directly following this entry.

The second formula of self-hypnosis from the webinar.

Self-hypnosis formulas from webinar participants:

Here are examples 1 and 2 of the self-hypnosis formula from the participants in my webinar yesterday.

FIRST FORMULA OF SELF-SUGGESTION:

“I prefer to eat in moderation and be healthy, slim and athletic!!!”

“I prefer to be healthy!”

“I prefer to be confident and happy.”

“I prefer to do things right away and to the end.”

“I prefer to be “collected” and carry out my plans right away.”

“I prefer to look young, be healthy, positive, live long and enjoy every day and every activity I do.”

“I prefer to be healthy, young and smell fresh.”

SECOND FORMULA OF SELF-SUGGESTION:

“When I start to feel insecure, this is a signal to straighten my back, raise my head higher, smile and take action!”

“When I want to eat before bed, that’s my cue to count to ten, drink a glass of water and do 10 push-ups.”

“When I think I'm going to start dreading being at home, that's my cue to take 10 deep breaths and calm down.”

“When I start thinking about the inevitable death, it will be a signal to think about enjoying life and finally go on a trip!!!”

"When I feel like I'm about to smoke, then I take a deep breath and drink water."

“When I put something off for later, it’s a signal to go and start doing at least a little bit in relation to this matter.”

“When I’m about to buy another unnecessary item of clothing, this will be a signal to count to ten, go to the ATM and set aside this unspent amount for a vacation.”

“Whenever I think about how bad I feel, it will be a signal to complete one more item on my whole-body diagnostic plan.”

Listen to the recording of the webinar by the happiness psychologist:

How to convince yourself of everything

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.

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.

Self-hypnosis methods

The essence of various self-hypnosis techniques is the formation of a positive stimulus through the systematic repetition of special phrases until they are transformed into a working model of the person’s subconscious, which is activated under the influence of this stimulus, transforming thoughts into a physical component. Regular reproduction of setting words for the subconscious determines the strength of self-hypnosis.

Each installation sentence is spoken to oneself. For effective self-hypnosis, an affirmative form and an imperative tone . All Phrases are spoken in the first person. Self-hypnosis formulas do not allow negative semantic load, and it is also forbidden to use the negative particle “not”.

If a person wants to get rid of alcohol addiction using the technique of self-hypnosis, then instead of the sentence: “I don’t drink,” it is necessary to say the phrase: “I quit drinking.” A protracted monologue is not encouraged.

The installation should be concise and spoken slowly. In this case, you should focus on the object of suggestion . When pronouncing each installation, it is useful to imagine what is being suggested in bright colors.

The most effective methods are those that include a target formula (we are talking about positive thoughts that carry meaningful attitudes to the subconscious). And the relaxed state of the body creates a beneficial environment for introducing target settings into the subconscious.

How effective self-hypnosis will be largely depends on the degree of the individual’s desire to achieve the established goal, as well as on the degree of focusing on the setting phrases for the subconscious.

Psychology considers many methods of self-hypnosis. Today the most popular methods are:

affirmation
visualization
autogenic training
meditation
mantra and various psychotechniques.

Affirmation

The simplest and most accessible method of self-hypnosis. It consists of regularly reproducing verbal formulas out loud or silently. The essence of such psychotechnics is to formulate a sentence that communicates that the task was successfully completed. For example, “I cook delicious food.” Regularly saying affirmations will allow positive thoughts to crowd out negative attitudes . As a result, everything said will be reflected in real life.

The effectiveness of an affirmation is related to the frequency of repetition and regularity. Affirmations should accompany a person throughout the day. In other words, during the working day you can do any thing, but at the same time keep the necessary affirmations in your head.

Visualization

This is a method of self-hypnosis in which imagined events are mentally depicted . The meaning of this psychotechnics is not only in modeling the desired events, but also in imagining oneself in such a situation, feeling one’s own experiences.

The effectiveness of visualization is explained by the fact that the mind is not always able to differentiate a real event from an imaginary one. The mind, drawing a certain picture in its head, is not able to distinguish it from reality . The visual perception of an object is important to the individual. That is, not just watch from the outside, but also experience the episode yourself. For example, a man dreams of a motorcycle. To do this, he needs not only to imagine a motorcycle, but to feel its material, feel the steering wheel and pedals, and see himself driving the desired unit.

There is no place for negativity in visualization. They practice the visualization technique in a calm environment, sitting comfortably in a chair and relaxing the body. Mental images embedded in a person’s subconscious must be quite clear and vivid . The duration of the process does not play a special role. The main criterion for the effectiveness of psychotechnics is the emotional satisfaction of the practicing subject.

Autogenic training

Autogenic training is a combination of self-hypnosis and self-hypnosis . The author of the technique is I. Schultz. The auto-training is based on the principles of Eastern meditation, elements of E. Coue’s self-hypnosis technique and an analysis of the feelings of people immersed in a hypnotic trance.

Using this method of self-hypnosis, you need to be in a relaxed state, which acts as a link between reality and sleep. Having reached a relaxation state, you should:

Remember pleasant life moments that evoked positive emotions
Activate calming
In parallel with the settings, imagine colorful images

The more focused a person is, the higher the chances of a successful self-hypnosis session.

By practicing self-hypnosis, a person strengthens the body’s protective functions, increases its vitality and improves emotional mood. Regular positive attitudes help eliminate blues, apathy and emotional decline. For example, it is believed that mental pain resulting from the severance of a close relationship lasts no more than a few days. Longer torment is self-hypnosis.

SELF-SUGGESTION TECHNIQUE

Currently, there are a huge number of self-hypnosis techniques. In this article, I suggest you familiarize yourself with the three most popular ones.

Verbal formulas or affirmations are a technique of self-hypnosis. It consists of repeating verbal (verbal) formulas to oneself or out loud. Some examples: “I am healthy”, “I have a good job” and so on. Create verbal formulas based on what you need and repeat them to yourself regularly. Thus, all negative attitudes in your subconscious are replaced with positive ones. You can learn more about the rules for forming verbal formulas in the article on the subconscious.

Visualization - this technique consists of a mental representation, as well as the experience of the events that you imagine (just the same, most negative attitudes are realized using the visualization method). The main point of this method is that you imagine the situation as much as possible and, as it were, begin to live in it. The effectiveness of this method is determined by the fact that our brain cannot distinguish between a real event and an imaginary one. When you visualize something, your brain thinks it's actually happening.

Self-hypnosis E. Coue. This technique can be compared to meditation with the only difference that when meditating we need to clear our brain of everything. To perform this technique, you need to take a comfortable position (lying or sitting), close your eyes, relax and whisper a certain self-hypnosis formula several times, by analogy with verbal formulas. The formula should be simple, consisting of a few words. This exercise can be done for 3-5 minutes, several times a day.

Self-hypnosis and mind programming in action

To change your subconscious mind, autosuggestion is just one of the tools you can use. But using it correctly, you will notice the first results.

The effectiveness of self-hypnosis depends on three things:

the amount of emotion put into words;
number of word repetitions;
priority of what is desired.

There are many ways to turn on self-hypnosis, but the most effective and fastest is through affirmations.

Affirmations are statements that focus on a positive outcome.

Next, we will tell you step by step about the process of self-hypnosis through affirmations.

Determine what you want to change

The human brain is an automatic goal-seeking mechanism. If you have not programmed yourself for something new, you will automatically strive for those goals that are laid down in your subconscious by other people (they may also be negative).

If new goals are in conflict with goals that are firmly ingrained in your subconscious, they will not work. For positive changes it is necessary to eradicate old attitudes. This can also be done through self-hypnosis.

Just relax

Suggestions are accepted more readily when your conscious mind, the guardian of the subconscious, is turned off. This happens most often during:

sleep;
driving;
flow states;
hypnotic trance state (for example, meditation);
any other relaxing activity (for example, listening to music).

An experienced hypnotist can suggest certain things to your subconscious and make you act on them.

For the purposes of self-hypnosis, meditation in an isolated environment is the most effective tool. Meditation involves relaxation in an awake but comfortable state. This induces a trance that opens the subconscious to greater influence.

Believe

Your words must be believable. You must have deep faith in the amount of change you can take on yourself and your environment as a whole.

Most of us spend the entire day thinking about negative things. Why don't we think otherwise for once?

There is only the present

Your suggested statements should be in the first person and present tense. For example:

I am open to positive changes;
I am valuable at work;
I cope well with any difficulties.

You must see the future as already accomplished.

According to quantum physics, there is no such thing as past and future. Everything exists now and will always exist because it is the only reality. This means that who you want to be already exists, you just need to take action to turn your life in the right direction.

If you like your current position, keep doing what you are doing. But we're guessing you want some improvements in your life, otherwise you wouldn't have read this article this far, right?

Think positively

Your self-hypnosis should be positive - you should not use the words “no”, “never”, “don’t”, “can’t” in statements. The subconscious mind responds only to positive commands. Compare the phrases “I am always confident” and “I am never nervous.” Do you see the difference?

When you focus on an outcome such as “I never get nervous,” you are focusing on “don’t get nervous.” What happens in the end? You start to get nervous.

Practice, practice and more practice

If you want your affirmations to be effective, you need to practice them often.

Repetition is the best way to influence the subconscious. How did a person even learn to do anything? He did it again and again and again and again. Repetition is part of the learning process.

It's the same with your self-hypnosis. You need to do this again and again until you feel that your affirmations are you, and you are them.

Self-hypnosis is very effective if used correctly, but it is not a cure for all diseases. Consider it as one of your self-improvement tools. As with everything, there are no shortcuts here. But if you use persistent, diligent, repeated action, your life will change in incredible ways.

Here are some of the amazing books that inspired this article. Check them out if you want to continue your research into autosuggestion and mind programming:

"Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill.
"Psychocybernetics", Maxwell Moltz.
"Break the habit of being yourself" by Joe Dispenza.
"The Power of Positive Thinking" by Norman Peale.
“Conscious self-hypnosis as a path to self-mastery”, Emile Coue.

Do you use self-hypnosis? How have you achieved your goals using self-hypnosis? Share your stories in the comments.

We wish you success!

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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.

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.

conclusions

Self-hypnosis is an effective psychological method for improving physical and mental health, working on aspects of your personality (increasing self-esteem, getting rid of shortcomings).
But self-hypnosis can work both for good and for harm: we are talking about the daily use of incorrect negative attitudes (“I’m a loser,” “I won’t succeed,” etc.). Therefore, it is important to constantly monitor what mental beliefs you give yourself.
There are different self-hypnosis techniques (Emile Coue's method, self-hypnosis, affirmations, meditation and others). A specialist will help you choose the most suitable one.

Self-hypnosis practice:

For the practice of self-hypnosis to work, you need to apply everything in a special state of consciousness. Some call it alpha and theta, others simply change it. To achieve it you should learn to calm the mind, slow down the internal dialogue, and relax. There is no need to rush. Don't waste your time. First, achieve peace of mind and body, then visualize what you want or use beliefs. Remember to be regular. For self-hypnosis to work, you need a systematic approach. Daily exercise. And most importantly, faith. Believing that you will get what you want.

Rating of the best books about self-hypnosis: TOP-10

“How a Man Thinks or the Thinking of a Man” James Allen.
“The Power of Now or The Power of Now” Eckhart Tolle
“Conscious Evolution of Man” Alexander Klyuev
“The Silva method. Mind Control” Jose Silva, Philip Miele
“The Power of Thought” by Vishnudevananda Giri
“The Power of Thought and the Law of Attraction” William Walker Atkinson.

What is self-hypnosis

Self-hypnosis

- This is the psychological impact of an individual on his consciousness. Characterized by an uncritical perception of worldviews and attitudes. A person inspires himself with various attitudes, ideas, feelings and thoughts.

Self-hypnosis can be carried out using autogenic training, which involves independently pronouncing and reading certain phrases - whether this happens out loud or silently. Influences one's own personality

We encounter self-hypnosis of varying intensity all the time. Example: suppressing anxiety before the unknown, trying to calm yourself before public speaking, and the like.

Self-hypnosis can be divided into active and passive, harmful influence and beneficial. There have been precedents in medical practice when self-hypnosis of harmful effects significantly worsened the patient’s condition, even to the point of paralysis. There are also many stories recorded when conscious self-hypnosis of beneficial effects provided significant assistance in treatment.

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!

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.

Self-hypnosis formulas and mechanisms: positive affirmations

Affirmations for willpower:

I am above all my temptations;
I am the captain of my life;
Every day my habits become more controllable;
I am fully responsible for my actions;
I can count on myself in any situation;
I have an iron willpower when it comes to my goals;
I am able to control any of my impulses;
I bring any task I start to completion;
I have enough strength to continue;
I know that willpower is trained through exercise;
I pay attention to what I like, and this strengthens my willpower even more.

Affirmations for beauty and attractiveness:

Every day I feel more and more beautiful;
Every day my inner beauty shines brighter;
I'm stunning!
Everything about me is beautiful - body, soul and spirit;
I'm proud of my body;
I deserve to look great;
Every day I take proper care of myself;
I have an amazing sense of style.

“We create a mess in our own heads. Confusion arises within us and does not come from outside.”
Paulo Coelho. Adultery

Affirmations for fear and anxiety:

Calm fills me with every breath;
Every day I approach life easier and easier;
Every muscle in my body is relaxed;
I accept everything that happens with a calm soul;
I am at peace with my past;
I am immune to stress;
I am calm and relaxed; I am in control of the situation;
No matter what happens around me, harmony and peace reign in my heart.

Affirmations to improve performance:

Every day I have more and more vital energy and strength;
Everything I do increases my energy;
I am a human engine;
I am filled with drive;
Positive energy overwhelms me;
I have access to limitless reserves of wild energy whenever I need it;
I constantly recharge my batteries with enthusiasm;
I exercise every day to fill my body with crazy energy;
I have incredible stamina.

Affirmations for developing self-confidence

Every day I become more and more convinced of my talents;
I understand myself better and better;
I am completely responsible for what I think and what I do;
I like being here and now;
I choose to be human, not perfect;
Today I choose to live in the present, and enjoy all the gifts life has to offer;
I consciously take part in the events of the world around me;
Whenever my unconscious mind makes unpleasant statements about me, I refute them immediately.

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.

The power of self-hypnosis: facts and examples from life

Self-hypnosis can have an equally strong, and sometimes even stronger, effect on the body. Under its influence, you can both be cured and get sick. What is self-hypnosis and what is its mechanism?

The nervous, suspicious man felt slightly unwell. But he begins to think about a serious illness. For example, he is hoarse from a cold, but it already seems to him that his voice will disappear completely. This thought haunts an impressionable person; he seems to convince himself that he will soon lose his voice. And he really loses his voice!

Here is a real example from life of the power of self-hypnosis: the famous actor I. N. Pevtsov stuttered, but on stage he overcame this lack of speech. How? The actor convinced himself that it was not he himself who acted and spoke on stage, but another person - a character in the play who did not stutter. And it always worked.

Often, when talking about the power of self-hypnosis, they cite a fact attested by the Parisian doctor Mathieu, who performed such an interesting experiment. He announced to his patients that he would soon receive from Germany a new drug that would quickly and reliably cure tuberculosis. At that time, there were no medications for this disease. These words had a strong effect on the sick. No one, of course, thought that this was just the doctor’s invention. The doctor’s suggestion turned out to be so effective that when he announced that he had received the medicine and began to treat with it, many began to feel much better, and some even recovered. How did he treat the sick? Plain water!

You can probably remember a time in your life when you convinced yourself of something and it helped. Here is another example of the power of self-hypnosis: a person is afraid of the dark and at the same time knows that it is stupid; he goes into a dark room and says to himself: “There is nothing to be afraid of! There is nobody there!" Such psychological treatment with the help of self-hypnosis works, and unaccountable fear disappears!

Under the influence of self-hypnosis, a person may lose their legs and arms, and may experience sudden deafness and blindness. In medicine, such diseases are called psychogenic. They occur easily in people susceptible to hysteria. And here’s what’s important: for example, in a person who has lost his sight, it is not the optic nerves that are damaged, but only the activity of the part of the brain that controls visual perception is disrupted. In it, under the influence of self-hypnosis, a persistent focus of painful inhibition develops, that is, nerve cells stop working for a long time. They stop receiving incoming signals and responding to them.

Suggestion and self-hypnosis have a huge impact on such psychogenic diseases. With hysteria, seizures, convulsions, vomiting, muteness, deafness, and paralysis of the limbs may be observed. All these disorders are often associated with self-hypnosis.

Self-hypnosis formulas and mechanisms

First component

– the ability to mentally imagine or imagine the content of self-hypnosis formulas as clearly as possible, but without straining mentally.
If, suppose, the formula “ My hands are relaxing and warming up ...” is used, then
simultaneously with each word of the formula that is thought out, a mental image corresponding to the word should appear.
Having said to himself: “My hands...”
, the person engaged in self-hypnosis must immediately mentally imagine his own (and not someone else’s) naked hands with all their features.
Simultaneously with the word “relax,”
an extremely clear (and not dimly vague) image of relaxed muscles should appear.
Simultaneously with the word “getting warm,”
an extremely vivid mental image of the factor that causes heat should appear (steam room, sun on the beach, warm water pouring onto your hands, etc.), and an equally vivid mental image of the warm muscles of your hands.

Second component

– the ability to maintain one’s concentrated but relaxed attention on a chosen object (first on one’s body and its individual parts).
So, if the formula “My face is relaxing”
, then at that moment the focus of the student’s calm, concentrated attention should be nothing but the image of his own face. In the first stages, attention often “runs away” from the image on which it should be held. This should be treated calmly, as a temporary difficulty in the process of learning self-hypnosis, and, without getting irritated, you should again focus your relaxed attention on the desired object.

“If a certain object irritates you, then it is not the object itself that is to blame, but your judgment about it. And you have the power to change this judgment.”
Marcus Aurelius

Self-hypnosis formulas and mechanisms: the third and fourth components

Third component

– the ability to extremely relax the muscles of the arms, legs, torso, neck, face, that is, to “switch off” your skeletal muscles from tension, reduce their tone and thus reduce the flow of proprioceptive impulses coming from the muscles to the brain. As already mentioned, such voluntary switching off of skeletal muscles (and they, as is known, obey our orders, our volitional efforts) helps to calm the nervous system and plunge into a drowsy state. Athletes master PMT more easily than people who are far from sports, because they know how to relax their muscles well. As you know, physical exercises are based not only on tension, but also on the obligatory ability to relax after each effort. The higher the athlete's qualifications, the better he knows how to relax. So if a person who is far from sports wants to master mental self-regulation and, in order to achieve this goal, begins to systematically engage in physical exercise, this will bring him double benefit - not only physical, but also mental health.

Fourth component

– the ability to influence oneself with the necessary verbal formulas and corresponding mental images at the moment of a decrease in the level of wakefulness and the onset of a state of drowsiness. At the same time, as already mentioned, the word and the accompanying mental image (imagined or imaginary) acquire utmost power and can even regulate autonomic functions (for example, the activity of the cardiovascular system or gastrointestinal tract), which, as is known, are able to active wakefulness do not obey our volitional orders. Moreover, it does not matter in principle where passive attention stops first: first there may be a word, and then a mental image is connected to it, or first a mental image appears in consciousness, and then it is fixed by the corresponding word. In the process of mental influence and self-influence, the word and the image always act unidirectionally and mutually reinforce each other.

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

Self-hypnosis treatment method

Speaking about self-hypnosis, one should take into account the fact that for each person a different method may be the most effective. Self-hypnosis methods allow you to concentrate on your own sense of self. As a result, a person acquires useful skills that allow him to understand his own feelings and not be afraid of unexpected manifestations of trouble.

Psychologists identify several of the most effective methods:

Affirmations - writing on paper, repeating out loud stable phrases or verbal formulas: “I will overcome allergies...” or “I will have a strong immune system...”.
Visualization – you need to imagine yourself healthy, cheerful, energetic.
Meditation is a long stay in a trance, when a person combines the first two methods mentioned above.
Self-hypnosis is a powerful technique that allows the patient to enter a trance and program themselves to heal.
Recapping is experiencing the situation again. If a person is injured after an accident, he mentally replays the event in his head, coming up with a happy outcome. Thus, it lets the body know that nothing happened.
Shichko method - written statement of your desire

Subconscious formulas of Emile Coue and Georg Rauch

Conscious self-hypnosis according to Coue is a therapeutic method that allows you to suppress painful ideas that are harmful in their consequences and replace them with useful and beneficial ones. Coue argued that all people are at the mercy of the power of their own imagination. Everything is very simple. The same is true of the technique of suggestion. Verbal influence on the psyche of patients was used for therapeutic purposes by Plato, Aristotle, and Hippocrates. For a long time, suggestion was surrounded by an aura of mystery, mystery and mystical fear. The physiological basis of the mechanisms of suggestion and self-hypnosis has now been elucidated.

As G. Wright, a great expert on witchcraft in underdeveloped countries, writes, “the psychological enslavement of some people by others is as old as the world. There have always been people on earth who have thirsted for power. But the skillful, well-thought-out practice of mastering human consciousness, controlling it, the practice of turning this consciousness into clay from which anything can be molded is the contribution that society owes primarily to the healers.”

The use of autosuggestion for medicinal purposes became especially popular in Europe in the 1920s. A lot of interesting things were published at this time by Couet, Baudouin and Pierce.

He believed that the main cause of the disease was a morbid imagination, in which unconscious impulses manifest themselves. Coue compared the power of imagination to a mountain stream, which in its elemental uncontrollability destroys everything in its path, but which can be “tamed” - then it will be able to generate positive energy. He argued that all people are at the mercy of the power of their own imagination and that a sick person, “armed with the right idea, can again achieve his mental equilibrium.”

Impact

How does self-hypnosis work? It has helped against diseases more than once, so scientists decided to conduct a detailed analysis of its effect on the body, what happens on the physical level. By scanning the patients' brains, they discovered the following: in response to taking a placebo and being assured of the effectiveness of the therapy, neurons began to produce endorphins - natural narcotic substances that can relieve pain by blocking nerve endings. As a result, the person immediately felt much better.

It is a well-known fact: people use only a small part of the capabilities of their own brain, so it is not surprising that ordinary self-hypnosis can sometimes truly work wonders, saving patients even from a complex form of cancer. Of course, auto-training does not always help. For example, he is completely powerless in cases where people with mediocre intelligence have convinced themselves that they are geniuses. One way or another, there are hidden reserves in each of us, so we need to try in practice any method that promises to get rid of an obsessive illness.