30 Days of Hypnosis

Incase you guys haven’t been following the site regularly or aren’t familiar with what’s going on here, this is the gist:

• This site is focused on establishing in self-hypnosis really works
• Challenges have been issued to a few folks to try self-hypnosis for 30 days
• For now, we are using Forbes Blair’s book Instant Self-Hypnosis
• Katie and Patrick have been blogging for close to a month and are reporting mostly good levels of success
• So now I am committing myself to my own 30 day regimen

I’ve been reading Katie and Patrick blog about this process for the last month and see them go from “Is this crap real?” to “Hey, it works!” and I’m convinced there is something here.

When I originally picked up the Instant Self-Hypnosis book, I immediately honed in on the scripts pertaining to eating right and exercise, I know, how cliched… I make myself sick sometimes. In a move that hardly surprised me, after 4 or 5 half-assed days of reading the scripts (and actually having some success with them) I dropped the regiment. Naturally, I justified the broken promise to myself (mentally) by explaining how my schedule was unpredictable and I couldn’t make the time to sit down and focus on the script once a day. Naturally, this was all a load of crap, the script takes like 4mins to read. I was just protecting my delicate ego

ASIDE: A “script” is a self-hypnosis script to help you improve some aspect of your life. The Self-Hypnosis book referenced above comes with 30+ scripts in it for common things like better sex, self-confidence, better sleep, loosing weight, better memory and so on.

It was only around Day 20 or so of reading Patrick and Katie’s success with self-hypnosis that I sat down and decided to really think about what my problem was; and no matter how much I thought a rock-hard-six-pack was going to help me, I sincerely doubted that was actually my problem.

It took a good day of thought and analysis that I realized my problem is primarily with follow-through with promises I make to myself. Luckily I am a pleaser-personality, so my desire to make everyone around me happy enforces my commitments to others, but to myself… I break promises all the time.

Flipping through Instant Self-Hypnosis, I noticed an entirely different set of scripts looking more interesting to me this time through. No longer was I focused on the “Make more money” or “Have more intense workouts” scripts, but I was starting to hone in on the scripts that pertained to “Success” and “Procrastination”.

I think that underneath my half-assed-follow-through with self-improvement promises to myself is ultimately a fear of failure… a crippling fear of failure. A discomfort so deep that it’s just easier if I never try, because at least I can convince myself (through years of self-talk) that I COULD have done something… if I had tried.

That’s a lot less painful then actually TRYING something and failing horribly at it and needing to realize you just plain suck at something.

Anyway I decided on the following three scripts to juggling around (since they are all related) over the next 30 days, reading them 3-4x a week:

• Success
• Total Self-Confidence
• No More Procrastination

The “Success” one is by far my favorite… it’s a very intense/affirmative “I WILL succeed, I WILL be awesome” type of script that amps me up. Total Self-Confidence is a bit softer but I think it’s more of a longer term “shaping” script that will help in the long run. Lastly, “No More Procrastination” is really straight forward, but really works to provide the “proof” that will be required for the other two scripts to be successful I think.

In a way I think I’ve found the perfect trifecta of scripts to combine.

I hope to come out of this next 30 day period with a very subtle, but noticeable veil of confidence and success pulled over my eyes that I begin to see my life with every day instead of juggling “good days” and “bad days” like I do now.

Wish me luck, I’ll keep you guys posted!