Covert Metaphor

I find it very peculiar that hypnotherapists don’t use more hypnotic imagery in their practice. Hypnotic imagery is extremely powerful. I wonder if it is because it is not usually formally taught and therefore they just don’t know how to approach it.

Occultists have always known the true power of imagery. There are books out there that introduce creative visualization in order to manifest goals, but it takes a little more searching to find those books that really hit hard, and if you think books on the occult and magic are the work of the devil, you’ll probably not dig that deep.

Franz Bardon’s Intitiation Into Hermetics is a wonderful book of exercises that lead to full control of your mind. Many of the beginning exercises train you to create any image at will in three dimensions with your eyes open. This level of mastery is not really necessary to affect the brain and modify behavior. Unfortunately these days most people have weak visualization skills since movies, TV, and video games create their images for them. They are programmed by someone else’s images. This may be one reason why the masses are programmed to fear occult and esoteric practices, since that might lead to self-mastery. The more you fear, the easier you are to control.

There are different types of hypnotic imagery, each resulting in its own unique phenomena.

The first type is when, for example, an athlete imagines themselves already achieving their goal. They practice visualizing their goal until the unconscious mind really believes it is a reality, making the necessary changes in their physiology to actually achieve that goal. This is the type of imagery most books on the market teach.

The second type of imagery will create specific experiences within your mind and body. Dr. Milton H. Erickson was known to do this through metaphorical imagery. For example, if the patient imagined being cold, it would result in anesthesia. This type of imagery is taught mostly in expensive hypnotherapy textbooks and in a few schools.

The third type of imagery, which some might consider experimental, works at recreating past experiences with vivid color, sound, and sensation. For example, if you can remember the feeling of walking on the beach, with practice you can recreate that experience within your mind until you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between the imagined experience and the real one.

If you can master the third type of imagery, the first two fall naturally into place. If you can master the third type of imagery, you can create reality as you want to. Think about this. All your memories are nothing but images, sounds, and sensations stored in your head. They aren’t “real” are they? How are they any more real than an image you might create?

You may argue that it is more real because you had the experience, but if you could create an image just as real as any memory, think of the consequences. You could change your levels of consciousness at will. If you ever had social anxiety, you could recreate all your memories portraying you as a self-confident speaker with a charismatic personality.

You are who you are now because you believe in those past images. Learn how to change them and you will literally change reality.

My technique Psychic Sleep is designed to condition your body to experience the deeper levels of relaxation necessary to create the vivid imagery I’m writing about. Anyone who has received or bought Psychic Sleep will have access to the future audio files I’m working on which will teach the listener systematically to construct hypnotic imagery that will produce deep relaxation, time distortion, dissociation, age regression, post-hypnotic triggers and anchors, and overall permanent behavior modification. Yes, these kind of results are for real. This is the real secret of “The Secret”, but you’re not going to really learn these things in a DVD produced for the masses.

I’m not looking for numbers here. I’m looking for sincere people who are willing to really learn the power of these techniques and then teach other sincere people as well. Learn how to deeply relax and create vivid imagery at will, and you will learn the secrets to being anybody you want to be. Unfortunately, there are those that use the same techniques to shape people according to their own design. Propaganda and brainwashing are alive and well.

admin :: Aug.16.2007 :: hypnosis, altered states, magic :: No Comments »

The main character goes out searching for a god in order to find a suitable gift for the village shaman. During a hunt he comes across Odin.

I introduce Odin as a higher power who will help the main character to discover new abilities.

Odin, the Allfather, God of Poetry, Battle, and Death tells the main character he must first pass a test of courage, and then he will recieve the gift of magic to help his village. Magic will help him heal, give an advantage in battle, call the rain and the sun for crops, and protect the village against attacks.

The process of passing the test and Odin giving the power of magic will symbolize the conquering of fear and newfound self-confidence.

Odin gives the main character a test which requires a skill he has never developed. He must trust himself and break through his own fear in order to pass the test. He will learn his limitations are self-imposed.

When the main character returns to his village he will teach others about magic.

Looking back we started with:

1. Address a problem. (example: insecure and self-doubting)
2. List new abilities. (example: developing new skills and teaching others)
3. Offer desired outcome. (example: self-confident and secure)

Address A Problem

The main character has a problem with insecurity and self-doubt. This is addressed by showing his feelings of not being able to provide, in his eyes, an adequate gift for the local shaman. So, he ventures out to find a god which can give him the ultimate gift.

List New Abilities

The main character will need to pass a test by using abilities he does not know he already has. This will be done by going beyond his self-imposed limitations. What should the test consist of? And what abilities will he discover?
This is still undecided. What do you think?

Offer desired outcome

The main character will pass the test given to him and receive the power of magic. He will realize he already had the power of magic in him to begin with. After returning to his village he will teach others, increasing his self-esteem and self-confidence.

It may look a bit sloppy so far, but like I said, don’t concern yourself with details just yet. Just address the three key points and let the metaphor follow a natural progression. But we’re far from finished.

admin :: Jul.31.2007 :: metaphor, magic, myth :: No Comments »

A metaphor is a verbal or written representation of an experience, but is not necessarily limited to conventional language. Universal language is as old as human beings themselves; a language comprised of symbols. Symbols can be thought of as primal metaphors.

The Swiss psychotherapist Carl Jung believed that there exists a set of universal symbols deeply embedded within the human psyche called archetypes, symbols which every human being reacts similarly to without conscious thought. These archetypes encompass all natural forms of the material universe.

Symbols are just as visual as any written language, but their difference in energy is noticeable. Symbols are the language of the unconscious mind, and hold within them a significant amount of emotional, psychological, and spiritual power. Symbols can inspire love, fear, hate, and peace. People will even die for a symbol. When enough imaginative force and emotion is applied to a symbol, it can control entire nations.

Anchors and Personal Symbols

In neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), anchors are associated with specific emotions, and can be triggered later to release emotional content based on a particular memory. Anchors can be visual, tactile and vocal, and tend to set more permanently when matched with a person’s dominant representational system.

Self-created symbols can produce the same effect as an anchor, and are in the author’s opinion a much more powerful method in affecting the unconscious mind to induce self-transformation. By creating a set of symbols, and attaching our own imaginative force and specific emotions to them, we can develop our own personal metaphorical language. This language can then be used to communicate our desires easily and directly to the unconscious mind. This is the key to the law of attraction.

Roll Your Own Symbol

• Sit yourself in a quiet spot where you will not be disturbed for ten to twenty minutes. Make yourself comfortable.
• Place a pen and notepad within arms length if you decide to draw the symbol (read further for details).
• Now for approximately five to ten minutes just breathe naturally through your nose, focusing your awareness on the breath, and the sensations it produces inside the nostrils.
• After some minutes or until you feel a deep sense of calm, intentionally bring up images and emotions related to the outcome of your desire. Wrap yourself up fully in these images and emotions, giving them vivid colors. Spin these colors and images around your body until you feel as if your desire has already been fulfilled.
• Then silence your thoughts and focus only on the pure emotion resonating within your being.
• Ask your unconscious mind to present you with a symbol which represents this desire. When a symbol appears within the dark theater of your mind, draw this symbol immediately on your notepad. Your constructed symbol does not necessarily need to be a drawn symbol. It can be a certain physical gesture or made-up word.

In subsequent meditations you will simply pull up the same images and emotions and mentally link them to your symbol. The more you do this, the stronger those emotions and images will be associated with your constructed symbol.

Begin to use this symbol in your art, notes, and scribbles. Create a paper talisman to carry in your pocket. If your symbol is a physical gesture then incorporate it into dance. If it is a word, use it in poetry and song. Be creative!

It is suggested that your symbols remain private until you are completely convinced of their power.

admin :: Jul.23.2007 :: metaphor, NLP, magic, symbology :: No Comments »