Work Life Tips

Action, Progressive, and Others – The Hypnosis Suggestion Tips

You want to use action words, not ability descriptors, for your self-hypnosis suggestions. It’s not, “I can reach my sales quota,” but “I reach my sales quota every month.” Don’t tell yourself, “I am able to be creative when I sit down to write,” but, “I am very creative when I write.” Who cares what you can do if you never do it?

There are times when the present tense if not realistic, because your goal will take a while to be realized. An example is if you are recovering from a broken leg. It doesn’t work to say, “My leg is healed,” the day after you break it. We’re not dealing in miracles. Use the progressive tense. “My leg is healing quickly. It is stronger every day.” You can recover 20% faster with self-hypnosis, and obeying the doctor’s orders.

Although you can’t use self-hypnosis to control someone else’s actions, you can still include other people in your suggestions. You can see your audience enjoying your speech. You can hear the applause at the end of your recital. They’re responding to your excellence, not your will.

In the same way, if you want to help someone, work on the way you will act toward them, not on forcing them to make changes you dictate.

The Suggestion – The Hypnosis Suggestion Tips

The suggestion is what you use to communicate your goal to your subconscious. It is where you tell yourself what you want yourself to do.

In this section we describe what a suggestion is, discuss the elements of a good suggestion, and tell how to deliver it. In the section on sample scripts, we give examples of suggestions for various common self-hypnosis goals.

A good suggestion is the key to successful goal-oriented self-hypnosis.

You can, as we have mentioned, do self-hypnosis without the suggestion and still get the benefits of stress reduction and enhanced ability to concentrate. If you want to get more specific results, you have to use a suggestion.

If you have been practicing the self-hypnosis procedure and can hypnotize yourself, you’re ready to add the suggestion. (Remember, you don’t need a deep trance.)

Insert the suggestion in your routine after the deepening. The visualization goes along with, and right after, the suggestion. You will probably want to add both together.

The suggestion should be at least a few sentences but can be as long as you want. When you have experience, you may want to experiment with brief suggestions.

Keep your suggestion to one topic, and work on one goal at a time.