Method number one. what’s called self-talk therapy, or talk therapy. And what it is? It’s making suggestions, which are statements and remarks in a language that your brain or your subconscious mind, or whatever, can understand and can embrace. And within it you kind of have two types of suggestions.
You have the self-talk and then the regular talk. The suggestions are what come externally. Maybe you’re working with therapist or a psychologist, or you put some stuff onto a recording, or you’re listening to somebody else’s recordings and to feed your brain with that, you’re doing it in an alpha state. Right, what is an alpha state? What is that? What does that mean?
An alpha state is the part where you allow your body to become extremely, relaxed. It’s the state where hypnotists try to give you self-suggestions, where people like to get you to the point where they want to stimulate your immune system.
And here’s another thing that’s really critical that people may not understand. That’s one of the ideal states to learn in, when you’re talking to someone, you’re in a beta state. Some people are more beta than others. I mean, they’re more alert; they’re more focused; they have heightened mental abilities; their IQ is much stronger; they have a greater degree of focus.
But how people can improve that? One of the best ways to learn, is to be in a states when you’re studying and you’re trying to memorize stuff is in an alpha relaxed state, meaning you allow yourself to slow your brainwaves down, and then you start to read, and you memorize, and then do these auto-suggestions, whether you’re trying to memorize certain things for a presentation or for self-learning, or just trying to program yourself.
Well, the second method, is auto-suggestion. That’s where you’re doing it yourself. It’s not on a recorder. It’s you saying it to yourself, meaning you’ve allowed yourself to get relaxed or you’re using a brainwave CD that gets you into that state automatically, and you are in real time saying things, either out loud verbally or running the scripts in your head. But you’re saying it all to yourself.
Self suggestions and scripts are extremely powerful and they can really help a person to deal with emotional issues, whether you’re doing it by yourself or you’re doing it with a therapist or psychologist, one of the thing is that very few people know how to use the proper language. For example, if a person overeats and they’re trying to stop overeating so that they can lose weight, they may say stuff to themselves like, “I do not overeat,” or something like that, versus “I eat healthy, balanced, small meals.” The brain cannot focus on the opposite of an idea. So, if you say, “I don’t overeat,” in order to visualize that, what do you have to visualize yourself doing? Overeating!
Getting to the visualization and the mental techniques. “Visualizing“, It’s imagining something that you want it to happen, or imagining and picturing something the way you would like for it to be. As mentioned about overeating, it’s about visualizing where it is you want to be versus where it is that you don’t want to be.
You don’t visualize yourself not wanting to be fat. You visualize yourself being 20 pounds slimmer. And here’s another thing that’s really important also. Visualization is more than just images. You can’t just sit back and then try to get this picture in your mind, as it’s only a fraction of it. Visualization is really using all of your senses to experience the event: being able to smell it; being able to taste it; being able to touch it; getting all those sensations and really living in the moment, so that when you actually come out of your visualization session, it’s almost like you just had it. You’d feel so connected with it. There’s no disconnection in it. There’s not you with this picture on the screen of your brain, but it’s you in this picture and this event become one. And when you wake up you really felt as if it was there, and that starts to simmer and marinate throughout the cells of your body. And it’s highly effective at materializing what it is you’re visualizing in your life. And the more you can create emotion in yourself while you’re doing that, the faster you can bring it about.
And here is method three, which is the main topic that we’re talking about today, is brain entrainment.
Why brainwave entrainment is extremely powerful. Well, for many people, when they do those self suggestions, they’re doing them in a beta state. Like you and someone are talking right now. First, it could be like, “Man, I’m motivated, I’m excited and I’m successful. But if you’re trying to program your mind, a beta state is not the way to get those auto-suggestions in there to stick. So, you have to get down into an alpha brainwave state.
Well if you tried it for a while but then forgot to keep doing it, that will drawbacks to the self-suggestions and even to the visualization. While they’re important and they’re extremely powerful, it takes a lot of work to sit there and visualize this stuff and then understand and know if you’re visualizing it the right way, and then to verbalize these things.
Some people feel as if, you know, it’s just a waste of their time and they’re not getting the kind of results fast enough that they want to see, so they kind of forget about it and give it up. And I think these two are kind of tied together, because they didn’t necessarily see the results or experience any kind of stimuli that would let them know that this whole thing was working for them. The reason some people forget about it and they stop doing it is because they kind of got bored.
So get down into an alpha brainwave state and don’t forget to keep dong it until you see the results you’d wanted.
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