Full hypnosis download Overcome superstition

I was surprised to learn there are no houses numbered 13 in Paris, and that black cats crossing your path in America are supposedly unlucky while in England they are lucky! Actually, there is nothing particularly wrong with a little bit of superstition as it makes us feel secure (even if it’s not based on logic) and can give us a sense of controlling events, but for some it becomes an obsessive preoccupation that prevents them living life to the full.

The new hypnosisdownloads.com session ‘Overcome superstition’ is designed to get people back in touch with their logical minds and be liberated from having to rely on other people’s beliefs rather than themselves. When we become less superstitious we become more self confident. Think about it. If you do well at something, you don’t have to say ‘Gee, I was lucky! That rabbit’s foot in my pocket really helped me out!’ You can feel justly proud that you did well.

But why are people superstitious?

Superstition and magical thinking

To be superstitions is to believe that certain phenomena in life will bring good (or bad) luck. Superstition is linked to ‘magical thinking’ –a misconception of the real links between causes and effects. The cause of a soccer player scoring a goal is much more likely to be natural talent and thousands of hours of practice rather than lucky socks. The cause of the sun coming up each morning is more to do with the turning of the earth than with nightly prayers to the sun god. Something is no longer ‘magic’ (although it can seem miraculous) if it can be understood in more sophisticated or scientific terms.

Superstitions and expectation

Some people feel their day is ruined if they see one magpie in the morning (‘one for sorrow, two for joy’). Interestingly, superstitions may ‘work’ – but not in the way superstitious people may insist. For example, we know that psychological expectation is very powerful. This is testified by the clinical power of placebos in medicine. So someone who expects to have a bad (or good) day after seeing one (or more) magpies, or black cats, or having walked under a ladder, may indeed have the expected type of day because they are looking out for reality to confirm their superstitious bias. If we have a mental ‘set’ for bad things we are more likely to a) notice the bad things and b) frame neutral or even good things as bad things. This is also what depressed people do!

Liberation: being free of superstition

Ironically, the very anxieties that superstitions are meant to assuage (uncertainty and lack of a sense of control) can actually increase these worries. You can control whether you walk under a ladder (most times), but not whether you seen a lone magpie or black cat. To be free of superstition means having a greater sense of personal control and autonomy. Much better to build positive expectation from within rather than relying on what might or might not happen ‘on the outside.’ It’s actually luckier not to be superstitious.

Let me know how you get on with this one.

All the best

Mark

Full hypnosis download Be more objective

In the latest hypnosisdownloads.com session Be more objective, I encourage people to minimize emotion so they can think more clearly in situations where they may be overtaken by anxiety, anger, or any other distorting emotion.

When we are more objective we can observe and perceive events, people and even ourselves as if through a clear lens, without the distorting effects of emotion, prejudice, hidden agendas, greeds or needs.

Being objective – easier said than done

Now this is easier said than done because we can have motivations and biases that operate from the unconscious mind that can prevent us from being consciously aware that we are not being objective. But it’s true to say that, as a rule of thumb, when you can relax and diminish emotionality then you have a much better shot at seeing what is really going on in a situation

In many ways our current culture encourages emotion, excitement and the idea that it’s important to ‘get in touch with feelings’. Being more objective isn’t about never being emotional; it’s more to do with having some control so that when you need to be clear headed, you can be.

If we think about it, all anxiety, depression and addiction are either caused by or maintained by an over-identification with emotional subjectivity and a limited perspective.

Fun with a gorilla suit

It’s not just excessive emotionality in the wrong circumstances that prevent us being objective. IF we ‘have an agenda’, then we often fail to see what is in front of us.

You may well have heard of a study performed with college students in which they were asked to watch a video of several people passing a ball around. The subjects were instructed to count the total number of passes and catches. At one point, a man with a gorilla suit enters the scene, thumps his chest a bit, and hangs out for nine seconds – a long time in video terms.

After watching the video, subjects were interviewed about what they had seen. A full 50% of the students did not see the man in the gorilla suit! This experiment has been repeated with all types of people. We so often see what we expect to see and fail to see what we don’t expect to see. Magicians and con men rely on subjectivity, distraction and the blinding effects of emotion. Being objective doesn’t mean going around doubting everything or being cynical as this is still a strong perceptual bias. It means seeing through clear eyes without too much bias of any sort.

So being more objective doesn’t just mean putting emotion aside and seeing clearly, it also means putting expectations aside. The 50% of students who did see the gorilla clad man were also still able to manage to successfully count the number of passes and catches of the ball in the video.

Mark

Full hypnosis download Overcome heroin addiction

Years ago I helped a young woman who was severely hooked on heroin to gradually wean herself off it. She was the first of many heroin users whom I have helped to detox. Hypnosis should be used as an adjunct to other medical help if possible – but what an amazing help it is!

Heroin and escape

Many people begin using heroin as an escape from difficult realties, or boredom, or because people around them are users and not using would socially isolate them. Of course, eventually the tide turns and the very stuff they used as a vehicle for escape becomes what they need to escape from. In the new hypnosisdownloads.com session Overcoming heroin addiction I have used the analogy of an abusive relationship. Heroin seems like a wonderful lover and friend – to begin with – but over time the user starts to be undermined, stolen from and physically threatened and abused by the heroin. Love turns to hate and the abused needs to escape the clutches of the abuser - heroin.

Overcoming heroin addiction: breaking away

We all have basic emotional and physical needs in life, and there are real, genuine and healthy ways of meeting these needs and there are methods that seem to meet our needs but actually leave us more needy. Part of coming off heroin is to do with having a satisfying and real life beyond heroin use. Hypnosis is an excellent way not only to help ease heroin withdrawal but also to build up a ‘template’ of how to replace what is missing in the user’s life.

Like all ‘bullies’, heroin uses different tactics on its victims. It charms, threatens and frightens. Hypnosis is a powerful relaxant and a massive confidence booster and motivator - a match for the wiles of heroin.

Mark

 Writing Song Lyrics Sample [3:31m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (640)

Great songs can speak truths to us like nothing else. Maybe you can think of a song that really seems to connect with you. However, to write wonderful lyrics, the songwriter needs to be inspired and ‘in the zone’. I have put together the new writing song lyrics hypnotic download for hypnosisdownloads.com to more reliably get the mind of the song writer in the right ‘groove’ for writing song lyrics.

The language of song and hypnosis

Actually, the language of song and the language of hypnotic communication both appeal to the right hemisphere of the brain. So there is a real overlap between the way a good hypnotist will communicate with you and the way a song connects.

Like hypnotic language, lyrics have a deep effect and produce associations and sensations within the listener. You’re not just listening to the words, but on a deeper level ‘taking part’ in the reality of the song. When we become captivated by wonderful song lyrics we can become ‘entranced’ – which is just what happens when good hypnotic language helps us experience hypnosis. But to write great song lyrics you need to be in a similar state of mind to the effect those words are going to have on your listeners. This hypnotic session on writing song lyrics seeks to produce a reliable state of ‘writing trance’.

When we relax very deeply and hypnotically we bring to the fore the pure creative part of our minds that deals in metaphor and larger life patterns. I think relaxing to this session regularly and often will enable aspiring and experienced song writers alike to write reliably better songs.

All the best

Mark