Rules of the mind

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Rules of the mind

It's All in Your Mind Scientific Rules of the Mind RULE 1: The unconscious mind has many varied purposes that go far beyond keeping our body functioning.

Our bodies have an innate natural intelligence for the purpose of allowing us to reach our highest purpose in life. Operating below our conscious mind, this intelligence is within the unconscious mind and is constantly being bombarded with input that can be either enhance or corrupt it. Of course, the unconscious mind runs, preserves and heals the body according to its current physical and emotional condition. It also stores the blueprint of perfect physical and emotional health. It generates, stores, distributes, and transmits energy and it causes the body to create and distribute of many chemicals (usually thought of as hormones, enzymes, blood, etc.) It controls and maintains ALL perceptions and transmits those perceptions to the conscious mind. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO SEPERATE THE MIND and BODY. The unconscious stores memories of EVERY significant emotional event and the memories begin occurring during gestation, and through DNA/cellular memory even before conception. (This is how we have instincts.) It organizes those memories and will repress memories with unresolved negative emotions. As a protection technique, the unconscious may keep the repressed negative emotions bottled up, or it may continue to bring them up so there can be awareness and rational resolution. We also have to use memory to remember to repeat a behavior until that behavior becomes a habit. The unconscious mind is also the province of emotions. It enjoys following emotional instructions. It works on the principle and path of least resistance. The theory of perception is projection is based on the fact that the unconscious takes everything personally. It is highly visual and cannot process a negative. (In your mind's eye, how do you not' see a blue tree when you are told not to think of blue tree? You first have to see it before you shift away from it.) Words have no meaning until they are given
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definition and symbols are created for the definition. Every definition and symbol is uniquely personal and accesses memory to give them meaning. We respond based on those accessed memories. The unconscious mind enjoys serving but follows commands literally. The unconscious is also very moral; following whatever morality you were taught and accepted. It also functions best as an integrated whole. If there are parts that are in conflict, emotional distress typically results. Moral dilemmas, reluctance to change habits, and other conflicts often occur when parts are not integrated into the whole higher self. We cannot function at peak efficiency or for our highest purpose if there are conflicting parts.

RULE 2: What is imagined tends to be realized.

The unconscious mind automatically seeks more and, therefore there is always more to discover, and the discovery begins with imagination. Psycho-CyberneticsI author, Dr. Maxwell Maltz, describes the unconscious mind as a "goal-striving mechanism." (World champion bullrider and coach Gary Leffew credits Psycho-Cybernetics for his success.) Pursuit of goals is one of the primary purposes of the unconscious mind. EVERY external incoming impulse or internally generated thought goes through the Reticular Activating System (RAS) within the brain. By setting a goal, imagining it as if already accomplished, the RAS will automatically instruct your conscious mind to work toward achieving that goal. The individual, who strongly believes in success, unconsciously strives to bring about favorable circumstances leading to success. When advantageous conditions arise, he is able to recognize the opportunity and take the steps necessary to complete his success plan. We all know people who seem to have a "magic touch." Life seems to shower them with blessings for no apparent reason and we call them "lucky." What appears to be luck is actually nothing more than POSITIVE MENTAL EXPECTANCY -a strong belief and mental image of success. A Smoker who expects to be able to become a Non-Smoker activates his unconscious mind to help him stop. On the other hand, the person who conceives himself to be a "failure type" will find some way to fail, in spite of all good intentions. The student who believes he is poor
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in arithmetic must make poor grades in that subject to justify his own convictions. His original negative belief is reaffirmed by his poor grades and a vicious cycle is set in motion. The person who believes his personality type, his life-style, his stress level, his yada yada yada will not allow him to stop smoking probably won't. Always focus on what you want, not what you don't want. The unconscious mind cannot process negatives. (Don't think of a blue tree.) When people expect good things to happen and believe good things will happen, they find that good things happen! Focus on what you want. Stay focused on the positive desired results. Imagine every minute detail of how those positive results will look, feel, hear, taste, smell, AS IF you have already achieved the positive results. Vividly imagine yourself successful and you are on the way to achieving the success you deserve and desire!

RULE 3: Every thought, idea or emotion produces a physical reaction and every physical response produces an emotional reaction.

The mind/body relationship is responsible for this rule. You cannot think without a physical response! It is impossible. Think of having a cigarette and the body will kick out the chemicals to anticipate a nicotine hit. Think of being calm and relaxed as a positive non-smoker, and the body will kick out the chemicals to bring about the calming effect. Many scientists believe that muscular movements are an integral part of the thought process. For example, whenever we think of a word, our vocal muscles react and become part of the thought. To convince yourself of this phenomenon, try the following exercise: Holding your mouth wide open, try to think the word "bubble." Upon first trying this you may find it very difficult to think the word, or the thought may at first seem slurred, as though you were attempting to pronounce the word aloud with your mouth held open. Thoughts and ideas with strong emotional content produce physical responses in the body characteristic of the emotion. Anger and fear thoughts stimulate the adrenal glands that in turn affect the activity of most body functions. Recent studies have shown that the body's natural resistance to disease is affected by one's thoughts and emotions.
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In order to adapt successfully to the stresses of life and eliminate or change chronic negative physical reactions, we must first learn to change our habitual thought processes. This change HAS to be done at the unconscious level! We must learn to accept situations positively. We must learn to change fixed negative ideas into strong positive attitudes. This can be done with autosuggestion and self- hypnosis.

RULE 4: Law of reversed effect When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception! Emile Coue Coue first formulated this law in the early 1900's. The father of autosuggestion (Everyday in everyway I am getting better and better) Coue called this the "Law of Reversed Effort." Coue also said, "whenever there is a conflict between the will (conscious effort/ will power) and the imagination (mental imagery), not only do we not do that which we wish, but we do the exact opposite." When one thinks that he would like to do something but feels he cannot, then the more he tries, the more difficult it becomes. If a smoker has the thought, I will not smoke, the more he thinks of not smoking, the more likely he/she is to have a cigarette. It's when they stop thinking about what they don't want that they'll be able to achieve their goal of not smoking. Another example of the Law of Reversed Effect is when you forget a name. The more you consciously try to remember the forgotten name the more impossible it becomes. Later, when you have stopped trying and are thinking of something else, the name easily comes to mind. The attitude reflected in the Law of Reversed Effect is: I want very much to do it, but I know that I cannot. What is expected then tends to be realized (Rule I) and you obtain the opposite of that which you seek.

RULE 5: New habit patterns can be formed with visualized images.

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When you look at an object, light reflected from the object enters your eyes causing an electrochemical change to occur. This change produces nerve impulses that are transmitted to the visual center of your brain where they are interpreted as visual images. It is these mental images in the brain that you react to and not the actual object itself. For this reason, visualizing some object or action in your imagination can have the same affect as the real event. Realizing that our nervous system cannot tell the difference between an actual experience and one that is vividly imagined opens a new door to self-improvement. It offers the opportunity to practice, without effort, new skills, traits and attitudes until new habit patterns are formed. Habit patterns can be modified and even reversed simply by practicing or "acting out" the new response or behavior in your imagination. However, this rule can work for or against you. An imagination preoccupied with negative images will only serve to hinder your improvement. Successful living starts with a picture held in your imagination -- a picture of what you want to be and of what you want to accomplish. Decide how you want to act, then picture yourself acting and feeling that way. Dwell upon those ideas -- keep going over them in your mind and new habit patterns will begin to form. Once the habit patterns are established, the desired result will occur automatically without conscious effort.

RULE 6: Habit patterns and reactions can be changed with self-talk (Self-hypnosis, auto-suggestions) There are specific ways that spoken or unspoken words and phrases must be structured to be effective suggestions when used with self-talk. So often these suggestions are poorly formed and interfere with obtaining the results you deserve and desire. For instance, many people want to quit smoking. All our life we have been told, Nobody likes a quitter.; Quitters never win. Winners Never quit. Because the unconscious mind has these thoughts stored, to quit smoking takes on a negative connotation and we resist it. Kimball Young once said, "words are an expansion and creation of total reality." Correctly change your language and you change the behavior. Because repeated use of words and thoughts can act to form new habit patterns, we
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must be careful in our everyday life to repeat only the words and thoughts that result in productive responses. It is vital to avoid negative words and thoughts that evoke destructive responses. It is also important to realize that when someone else says something, it becomes your thought for the moment. Therefore it is equally important to avoid situations in which you are continually exposed to negative words, negative thoughts, and negative goals. You can automatically shift those negative words and inputs into positive affirmations.

RULE 7: Attitudes and habits are best learned or changed without effort. The beliefs we currently hold - good or bad, true or false, positive or negative - were formed without effort, with no sense of strain, and without the exercise of "will power." Habit patterns, whether good or bad, are formed in the same way. Recent neurological findings indicate we do not break a habit. We just adopt a new habit and the old one dies from atrophy. Rather than trying to use will-power to force elimination of unwanted habits, it is much more effective to let your unconscious mind make the changes easily and effortlessly. When the new habit pattern has started, it will automatically strengthen itself with each repetition and each successful performance and the old habit will become overgrown from lack of use.

RULE 8: Once a habit has been established, it will remain until replaced by a new habit. Starting at birth, and from then on, every individual is continually exposed to a variety of situations requiring some degree of adaptive behavior. Similar situations occurring repeatedly soon begin to establish certain conditioned responses. Once this happens, each repeated occurrence serves to reinforce the responses, until they become so strongly established that we are unable to exercise much voluntary control over them. If all habits, attitudes and emotions were beneficial there would be no problems. Unfortunately, often they are not.

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To adopt a new habit pattern, you must start forming new conditioned response patterns for the trigger until they become so strongly associated with the habit situation that a new pattern of behavior is formed. A smoker easily learns new reactions to stress, starting the car, etc. just as a person with stage fright, for example, can easily learn to associate a feeling of confidence, poise and success with situations requiring his performance in front of an audience. As the new response pattern becomes stronger with each repetition, the old responses just wither away.

RULE 9: Habit patterns can be formed without repetition. Usually habits are acquired through repeated practice (how many time did it take to learn how to smoke without coughing?) However, reflexes and behavior patterns (negative or positive) can be formed from a single experience. When any strong emotion is present there is an intense focusing of mental activity and undesirable reflex responses may develop accidentally and a negative habit formed. This is how a kiddo can be barked at or chased by a dog and learns to fear all dogs with only that one event. On the positive side, hypnosis can provide such strong positive imagery that a single event, created within trance, can have such an intense sense of pleasure, satisfaction, pride, etc. in the mind, the unconscious sets up the new response habit of being a non-smoker. Hypnosis allows mental activity to intentionally shape sought-after behavior patterns with little or no repetition. The process occurs most easily when the body is completely relaxed and all competing or conflicting thoughts and ideas are held to a minimum. Carefully structured hypnotic suggestions and imagery can be used during this time to rapidly develop new habit patterns.

Hypnosis CAN help YOU to make positive and dynamic change using The Scientific Rules of the Mind!

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