Please forget what you may have seen about hypnosis being used to manipulate people's decisions. If that were true, company's would pay millions of dollars to do exactly that during a Super Bowl halftime show. Oh, wait, they do. Well, at least they attempt to, and it obviously works enough of the time to make it a good business decision. But, you know it doesn't work every time or even most of the time.
People are trying to create and trigger behavior reactions in you every day. And not just TV and radio advertisements. Your friends and family do this too. And, you do this to them.
When you first meet someone you like and smile at them, that is you attempting to manipulate a smile from them. Maybe your response to the previous sentence is "I smile because I'm happy". You smile because you're happy and want others to respond by being happy. And if someone doesn't smile back, aren't you slightly offended or put-off? Probably. A smile helps increase the odds that the other person will remember you with good emotions attached to the memory. Sounds complicated until you start seeing how common it is.
The popular cola drink advertisement shows video that stimulates feelings of happiness, satisfaction, and companionship. People want to feel good and this ad's emotion combined with repetitive exposure to the images will tend to make you think of that brand with good feelings. When you next see that brand of cola in the store, how do you immediately feel? Below the surface of your thinking? It may only be a subtle feeling, but it's there. That's emotional association at work.
This is evident in all aspects of your life. Your mind began collecting these associations soon after you were born. It is the same for all of us. Of course, it is common sense, but we don't always realize how powerfully it influences our behaviors and choices.
The stronger the emotion is, the stronger the association. The stronger the association is, the more vivid the memory. The more vivid the memory, the more real it is to your mind and more influence it has on your behavior. Your mind does not have a real concept of time passing. What it sees in your imagination, or memory, it believes. At least, most of the time.
Look at all the ways your life is guided by outside influence. The food you eat (and how much food you eat), the car you drive, the clothes you wear. The bad habits you have, as well as the good habits. You probably have more habits created unintentionally than intentionally.
Understanding this concept gives you the power to intentionally change your associations. Some you can do on your own. If you need help, find a professional you can trust and make it happen.
There are many people who claim to be happy with where they are in life and for some part that may be true. However, we all desire more success. It is a trait that drives the human race forward, ever evolving and stretching ourselves, expanding our limits and horizons. If you are truthful with yourself then you will admit that you desire more success in your life. With hypnosis and this one simple success principle you can achieve all the success in life that you want. Let me show you how.
Although this fundamental success principle is simple it is only used by about two percent of the world's population. When you use this principle in your own life and follow some simple guidelines there is literally nothing you cannot achieve.
The pursuit of success, at its root, is merely the pursuit of happiness. We all want to achieve success so that we feel happy and content in our lives. Some people only want to find something that they enjoy doing, living a life without stress in the company of people they like. For others it is constantly pushing themselves forward.
Success and happiness to one person may be completely different to another. In fact the saying "one man's meat is another man's poison" is very fitting. What one person considers success another may consider extreme failure. Take a career woman who has dedicated time and effort to building up her reputation and standing in the buisness world. She loves her job and excels at it. She would perhaps consider the lifestyle of a stay-at-home mum to be failure and unhappiness personified. On the other side of the equation, the stay-at-home mum may well consider the prospect of having to leave her children and home to work long hours and go to office meetings a most undesirable and unhappy life. Then there are those that see no conflict between having the two! Success and happiness mean different things to different people.
This leads to the most important principle of success. This is the principle that only 2% of the population use. It is simple yet highly effective and may even seem like common sense to you. Yet, if you are truthful with yourself you will find that you have not fully embraced this principle.
What is the principle?
It's simple. To have success you must first know what success means to you!
Sounds like a very elementary statement but if you give it some thought you will probably find that you have never really answered the question "what does success mean to me?" If you can answer that question then you are ahead of 98% of the world. However, how well can you answer it?
Try an experiment. Ask some people you know what would they have or where would they be if they were successful. Ask them what success meaqns to them. You will probably get some of the following answers. "Success is having more money", "happier relationships", "a better job", or "just being happy". I am sure you can think of a few of your own and will get some responses similar to those I have outlined. Now these answers may seem ok and even appropriate. But wait a minute, are they really answering the question and defining success? Are they even defining what would make them happy?
So they want more money. How much is more? Exactly what amount represents financial success? To the ones that want better relationships I say this -? Better in what way? Do they want more friends, what kind of friends would like and what qualities would they have? Do they want more lovers? Do they want a soulmate? What qualities would that person have and what would they bring to the relationship? Do they have children? Are they divorced or never married? Do they enjoy a certain amount of freedom or would they be with you every minute of the day? Perhaps they just want to improve their existing relationships. Well in what way? Ok so they may want a better, more satisfying job. What type of job? What type of work is involved, where is the location of this job, what hours would you have to do? Would be 9 - 5, on call, in the type of position that requires you wait until the work is finished? Does it require creative input, leadership, targets etc.?
Are you starting to get the picture?
In order to achieve success you must first define success. You must know exactly what success means to you. In order to reach a destination you need to know where you're going or else how would you know when you get there?
Once you have a clear definition of what success means to you, you can begin to build a picture of yourself living this life with all the success that you currently desire. From this mental image you can begin to work backwards in your mind and contemplate how you reached that place. Then you can begin to build a plan for attaining that dream. This inner mental image or movie will help to keep you motivated when obstacles stand in your way. By seeing the whole picture you can take simple effective steps to reaching it!
If you remain true to your inner vision nothing will be able to stop you from achieving the success that you have defined. You will surely encounter obstacles along the way but with a clear vision of what you want and where you are going you will inevitably succeed in the long run. Once you have overcome these obstacles then reaching your goal will make your success taste even sweeter.
Begin to build your clear vision now. With the aid of even the simplest hypnosis recording you can imprint that vision into your subconscious mind. You can eliminate any negative thoughts and feelings that are contrary to you achieving your goal. Visualize this goal every morning and every night to keep you motivated. Think in terms of already having it or at least that you are moving closer to it everyday.
So get clear and build your vision, then prepare for your upcoming success!
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