02. Your Subconscious Mind & Imagination

Effortless changes

This is the miracle bridge, where amazing results can happen.
It’s about using parts of us - the subconscious mind and imagination - which are closely linked with each other.

This is the place where we can get instant changes and massive results easily and effortlessly.


Your conscious mind

The conscious part of your mind makes decisions for you, but it tries to take over where it shouldn’t.

Your subconscious mind

The subconscious does things automatically for you (such as digesting or breathing). It also contains the power of your imagination and your memories.

About the relaxation exercises

For the exercises to work, you must consciously decide to do them and make time to do them each day.

The effort required is the decision to do it, even if you have resistance about it.

The exercises are actually easy to do, as you are just listening and relaxing but oftentimes your subconscious mind will work against you and try to throw you off course. Your mind cannot help you if you’re not relaxed.

The critical, negative part of your mind may begin to influence you in an unproductive way. We’re trying to get the anxious thoughts out of the way just long enough to sow the seeds of calm and confidence.

The best way to do that is through relaxation. Relax your body and then you can access your imagination.

If your body is relaxed, you will be able to use your imagination in a positive way. This is a simple process. It is always available to us but how often does anyone actually do this?

Even if it has worked, how often do we go back and do this again and again? Do we give up after one or two days or do we remain committed to long term progress?

If you do this purely on your own, you have to think yourself through it and be very disciplined. If someone else guides you, then that helps to take away the thinking and the negative side of your mind.

All hypnosis is really self-hypnosis, because even if someone is leading you, it’s only because you’re allowing yourself to become relaxed.

Whether you choose to get help or not, the important thing is to sick with it and never give up.

Hypnotherapy is nothing more than becoming absorbed in creative daydreaming.

If you listen whilst someone is able to guide you and use your imagination in a state of relaxation, you can go from a state of high anxiety to total relaxation very quickly. You can become an expert.

This is true for any person, however long or to what extent they’ve suffered from anxiety.

Even a specific phobia or a life-long fear that creates terrible anxiety can, in a short period of time, be overcome. This is also a grounding activity too. By doing this, you’re going out of your head and coming back into to your body, and also getting the benefits of relaxation right now.

Using this self-help method, and listening to a voice that guides you, gives you the tools to overcome anxiety yourself. When relaxing, the important thing is to take the step to imagine something.

This is true even if you think you cannot imagine it very well. That’s all you have to do. It doesn’t mean that, if you’re not fully relaxed, it won’t work. It can still work but, as time goes on and you become more and more relaxed, you’ll have more and more success using this process.

You can have great success even in light relaxation. By repeatedly doing this, it makes the earlier cognitive techniques so much easier because you have far less negative thoughts bluffing and tricking you.

In summary, it is very simple:

• Relax your body.

• Use the power of your imagination.

• Come back again and again to this exercise.

I have recorded a selection of different audio relaxation exercises to use.

These are a variation of exercises that provide lots of choices. Use the ones that work for you and set the others aside.

Due to our busy lives, they are of various lengths (between 2-25 minutes long).

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