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