Rules of the Mind
Posted on June 13, 2007
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This is some information called “Rules of the Mind”, that I picked up several years ago when I was being trained in hypnosis. If you haven’t seen or read these before, they are rather interesting and may help you to understand hypnosis a little better. Enjoy!
Rule Number One-
Every thought, feeling, or idea causes and includes a physical reaction.
Thoughts represented by language are powerful and regulate all of the functions of the body and its feelings, relations, and reaction to others. The so-called invisible world empowers and directs the physical world, i.e., knowledge flows from the top down, from the inward outward.
Rule Number Two-
What is expected tends to become realized.
The mental images formed in the seat of the brain, nervous system, and mind act as blueprints for projecting and shaping action and individual reality experiences. Positive expectancy quickens development, as do strong emotionally powered images, i.e., fear, danger, love, joy.
Rule Number Three-
Imagination is more powerful and empowering than intellect or will when change of the mind is desired.
Imagination is the “language” of the subconscious mind.
Rule Number Four-
Opposing ideas held or attempted to be held at the same time create conflict and contradiction which can only be resolved via synthesis of mind, accepting a harmonious belief system or understanding.
For example, you can’t both “love and hate” someone at the same time. There may be people in your life that you love one day and hate the next….but not at the same instant.
Rule Number Five-
An idea fully accepted and believed and allowed entryway to one’s subconscious mind remains as part of the projected blueprint until it is replaced.
Many thoughts, feelings, and ideas gain entry and go unchanged because they take on the nature of working sufficiently for our behalf. Those areas in our lives which seem lacking, are the areas where out-dated, inappropriate thinking needs reorganizing. This goes on at some level very subtly from day-to-day. Yet major conflicts reveal need of major inspection of one’s system of beliefs and core ideas. (Hypnosis speeds this process.)
Rule Number Six-
Emotionally induced symptoms directly reflect organic level changes both positively and negatively.
Most recently it has been relearned, remembered, and clearly re-admitted by the most reputable professional men & women of the time that more than 70% of all human ailments are functional, emotional, and mental in nature rather than organic or physically defective, i.e., birth defects.
Rule Number Seven-
Each suggestion acted upon creates more positive acceptance of the successive suggestions, which follow.
A mental trend is easier to follow the longer it lasts unbroken, especially when that trend is pleasant of fulfilling a motivation. There is a slant to living experiences, growth, and the “way things, people, and environments operate.” It is, therefore, important to build a firm foundation of practice with the mind by beginning with simple suggestions and expand from that point.
Rule Number Eight-
When dealing with the subconscious mind and its functions, the greater the conscious effort, the less the subconscious response.
The rule is “take it easy” and learn how to act, think, and perform without the idea that strain is important. Work smarter, not harder. There are the obvious times when firm, directive and dynamic action is appropriate, but even this is not the kind of thought or action, which is strained. Let it happen; don’t force it to happen.
I hope you’ve found this information both interesting and useful. Please feel free to comment if you have something to add.
Thanks and have a wonderful day!
Chris
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Wow, very cool. I kind of found this blog by
accident, but now I am hooked. I want to hypnotize myself intop being a faster typist. Typer. Typerist.
Whatever.
Hi MisterSteve,
I think you will find that hypnosis can help in areas you might not have realized. (I need to hypnotize myself to start posting more here!)
Thanks for dropping by and commenting!
Chris
Rule Number 1 is surely what is called The Ideomotor Response. What is fascinating is that every thought has corresponding impulse to the muscles - so if you are thinking of walking those impulses to the walking muscles are being activated just as if you were walking… so we don’t think with our “brain” - with think with our entire nervous system - right down to the muscles!
Hi Mark - Great comment! It’s quite amazing how our minds and bodies work together! It’s no wonder hypnosis has such a profound effect on so many!
Thanks for dropping by and best of luck to you!
These are so interesting. I can see that rule number six is the most obvious seen phenomenon.
Hi Chris
Not sure about Number 3.
“Imagination is more powerful….”
or what about merging it with Number 2:
“Expectancy is more powerful…”
Expectancy is core.
Mark
Great post.The number 6 is obviously quit common.Thanks for shearing.
Nice Article,