Using Self-Hypnosis For Self-Gathering – What Is That?

by Adam Eason

 

In amongst my usual ranting and commentary on my blog this week, I owned up to a big mistake I made when my new website went live… My business partner has been berating me on his blog for committing this cardinal sin and I have regressed to being a naughty schoolboy… When our new website went live, I deleted my old blog… Yes indeed I deleted three years of entries, links, articles, commentaries and much more besides… Apparently since then, we have lost on average 200 people a day visiting the website… Naughty Adam!

Recently, I wrote an article describing the utter busy-ness going in my life with my work, wedding, moving home, TV recording, new projects – I would not have life any other way of course. I want to take a slightly different strand of this, let me explain…

What with all this activity in my life and some emotional roller coaster events this past week, I can often feel scattered… Like a tiny amount of butter spread too thinly over a very large piece of bread!

You know the feeling I am talking about, don’t you?

This technique is designed for self-simplifying and uniting us with ourselves once again.

It is all too often, that we gather around ourselves making situations, things, people, and desires far too complex in our lives. We can get lost as to who the real us is. When we gather ourselves in the present, things get simplified.

I use this technique in self-hypnosis to help myself and I also use it with my therapeutic clients. What we do within this technique is to unite opposites and reclaim our real sense of who we are.

Step One: Be somewhere where you are free of distractions and are going to be undisturbed for a while. Have your arms and legs uncrossed.

I recommend you learn how to take yourself into self-hypnosis – go get my self-hypnosis book, it is well worth the small investment for the skills it teaches you. However, in the absence of such, focus on your breathing, slow it down, engage in the moment, move your awareness inwards and really tune in to your body. Close your eyes and move your awareness inside of you.

Use any relaxation or meditation technique you may know to get into a truly receptive state of mind and having a nice relaxed body. Take all the time you need to do this step thoroughly – the receptivity and stillness you create is what is going to amplify this technique to make it so very effective for you.

Step Two: Engaged in the moment and focusing on yourself, begin to imagine a safe, beautiful place; this can be somewhere you have been to before or somewhere you create in your mind. Really immerse yourself in this place, see the sights of it, hear the sounds, smell the air, sense the life and feel how it feels to be in this wonderful place.

Step Three: Now we let the fun begin and now we start gathering…. Let yourself begin to imagine, first, to your right, a sunny landscape of yellows and blues; then, second, to your left, a darker place; maybe a swamp at dusk or nighttime or a forest with a cave barely visible between the trees. Go back and forth, right to left, picturing the landscape and its brightness, then to your left, picturing the darkened swamp or forest. Let the images become more and more detailed each time as you look at them, flicking between them in your mind: right, left, then right, and so on.

Step Four: Now, moving your awareness behind you, let yourself become aware of heat. Imagine a very, very warm, fire; the sun on a hot, tin roof; or a desert or a furnace bright with heat. Let yourself begin to imagine feeling that heat radiating from behind you. Sense how it feels. As the heat begins to become uncomfortable, move your awareness ahead of you, where there is freezing water, floating ice, or a barren, frozen tundra. Begin to feel the front of your body; notice your face and your hands becoming very, very cold. Let all the coldness gather.

Bring the previous two steps together – Now move, right (light) to the sunny landscape; left (dark) to the darkened swamp; behind to the heat; and ahead to the coldness. Become familiar with a pattern of going slowly from right (light) to left (dark) and then back (hot) to front (cold). You can do this, giving yourself time in each direction to gather the feelings and sensations of each direction.

Step Five: Gradually moving your awareness to high above you, imagine a water wheel turing high above you. What is special and unusual about this water-wheel is that the liquid turning it is liquid feeling. That’s right folks, imagine a mass of feelings all liquidly and flowing through this water wheel.

Now allow a rainbow of that liquid feeling to spill from the water wheel and wash over you and through you. Let it surround you, so that you can now move from feeling to feeling. That great water wheel is slowly spilling its liquid feelings all over you, washing all over you. As each feeling washes over and through you, the next one begins to come from the next bucket of the wheel, splashing and washing over you. Imagine that as this happens, you are becoming freer of all that is not you. You are beginning to sense your true self and get a sense of oneness. Step Six: The first feeling that washes over you from the water wheel is one of curiosity and confusion. It washes over and through you. Let it soak in; feel it.

Then, the liquid of fear begins to wash over and through you. Let yourself feel fear, knowing there is another feeling on the way. Let it soak in and through you. And as it does, the next feeling of anger begins to wash over and through you. Let it soak in; tense your body, tighten your jaw just a bit, and feel the tension, the readiness of fight or flight. Let it soak in and through you.

As the water wheel above you continues to turn, spilling over and through you, begin to let go, releasing, and relaxing. Let this continue to happen and imagine that you are feeling lighter and clearer, feeling as if you are cleansing and gathering yourself together. Gently, allow your body to feel peaceful, safe, and free from the complexity of life.

Step Seven: As you develop this sense of oneness with yourself, know that you are participating more fully in the now, in this moment. Being here now, you are free of all divisions, and this unitary awareness of you is nurturing you and healing.

As you reach that deeper sense of oneness and of gathering all those opposites, imagine that you begin to hear your name.

Listen to your name, called affectionately, like it is an invitation. Hear your name being called out three times. Gently, you hear your name and begin to move slowly back into your usual state of being.

Wiggle your toes and fingers and open your eyes.

Really get yourself gathered in one place and develop a sense of oneness and that way you’ll hopefully avoid being told off for deleting an entire blog when you should have known better!

Adam is a best selling author, consultant and speaker please visit his website because it has a vast range of personal development resources and to receive your free, instantly downloadable hypnosis session and amazing ebook: http://www.adam-eason.com Thanks.

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February 7, 2008 | Filed Under Information

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