30 Days of Hypnosis

Alright so it has been a bit over two weeks since the 30 days were over and I thought I would throw up an update on how things are going. Things are going pretty well. Before the challenge I was having massive problems sleeping. My insomnia was raging out of control and I was sleeping two or three hours a day if that. I think I might have been slipping into a psychosis which could easily have led to federal prison time had I not gotten some sleep. Now? I get at least 6 hours of sleep a day but generally I can manage more than that. There have been a few days where I have been up for 34 or so hours straight but that was by conscious choice as opposed to lack of ability.

I will admit that since the end of the challenge, I have slacked off a bit with reading the script. I HAVE read it but I have certainly slowed down to the tune of about once a week. I am not sure what the needed amount of self-hypnosis is to maintain results from the self-hypnosis but it seems to be effective at my current rate of practice, which is not much.

I think that the more you do the self-hypnosis the less you have to do it, if that makes any sense. It is as if once you manage to open the door to the subconscious it stays open and the doorman is perpetually flirting with some hot girl trying to get in which allows you to Sam Fisher your way in much more easily than before. I don’t know if self-hypnosis has a shelf life but if it does, mine has gotten longer over time.

I still use the sleep process most of the time I go to sleep. I am finding that I don’t have to actually start counting anymore but rather just run the beach scenario and THINK about counting and I am out. My ability to slip into sleep and stay that way has improved 100 fold and I can’t think of a time since the challenge ended that I have really struggled to get to sleep. The worst case scenario is usually I have to count to 40.

As skeptical as I was about the whole process to begin with I have to say that I really buy into it now. There has been a definite change in how I sleep and the only thing I have done differently is the self-hypnosis. I genuinely plan to start doing the scripts for some other things in the book at some point soon but I haven’t started yet. I might take a look at the procrastination one next, but, you know, I will do it later.