The Genie Within: Your Subconscious Mind by Harry Carpenter Read Free Book Online
Authors: Harry Carpenter
that controlling involuntary functions such as blood pressure, heart rate, and circulation in a given area of our bodies, is possible.
The following chart sums up the differences between conscious mind and subconscious mind:
COMPARISON OF THE CONSCIOUS MIND
AND THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND
ALPHA CONDITIONING
Your mind can be led into the alpha state by sitting in a comfortable chair and listening to a relaxation routine read by someone else, or recorded and played back. The routine usually takes about ten minutes.
You will want to go into the alpha state many times each day to give your genie instructions. It would not be practical to depend on someone else to read the routine, or to play a CD every time you wanted to go into alpha. You need to condition yourself to simply take a deep breath, count down from three to one, say to yourself the word “ALPHA,” and be in alpha. It is that quick and that simple—after you are conditioned.Conditioning exercises are given at the end of each lesson.
Alpha conditioning is easy. It just takes a little practice. Some people can condition themselves in a few sessions; others take a little longer. Closing your eyes and relaxing tends to induce alpha. Relaxation is often associated with heaviness and warmth. Once in alpha, you can condition yourself to return to this state quickly any time you want.
SELF, DEEP RELAXATION
The conditioning exercises presented in these lessons are similar to procedures called by different names. The most common is self-hypnosis. I would like to call it something else because the word “hypnosis” has negative connotations. Hypnosis is often associated with mind control or being make a fool of in front of an audience. That is unfortunate. First of all, nobody really knows what hypnotism is. Kreskin, a well-known “mentalist” (he refused to be called a hypnotist), offered $100,000 to anyone who could prove conclusively the existence of a “hypnotic trance.” Nobody ever claimed the money. Kreskin never puts anyone in a trance yet he is highly successful in planting suggestions in subconscious minds.
Ernest Rossi states in The Psychobiology of Mind-Body Healing, 1993: “Since the inception of hypnosis more than 200 years ago it has been impossible to find general agreement among professionals on just exactly what hypnosis is. No definition or empirical test has ever been devised to accurately assess whether or not a hypnotic state even exists!” Some experts claim there is no such thing as a hypnotic trance or hypnotic state.
So let’s not be concerned about what this method is called. “Self-Alphamation” (I just made up that word) would be a good descriptive word but no one would know what I was talking about. These exercises are simply ways of going intothe alpha state so you can plant suggestions in your subconscious mind.
An added benefit when you practice deep relaxation is that you will sleep better. Better sleep has been shown to improve health, memory, and disposition. Many people who practice deep relaxation find they need less sleep.
PROCEDURE
There is nothing magic about the routine. The routine can be done in infinite ways. You can start, for example, by relaxing muscles from the feet to head or vise versa. Any procedure that gets you to relax is good. The aim is to relax so that your conscious mind loses interest, gives up control, and sinks into the background, and at the same time, to coax your subconscious mind to the surface. Once you are in alpha, you can then use your subconscious mind to relax your body even more than you ever could when in beta using your conscious mind.
You can have someone read the routine to you or you can record it and play it back. A CD containing this routine is also available. 4
Some self-help books describe tests to determine whether you are truly in an altered state. Do not test yourself . Do not doubt that you are in alpha. Should you fail the test for any reason, even just
The following chart sums up the differences between conscious mind and subconscious mind:
COMPARISON OF THE CONSCIOUS MIND
AND THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND
ALPHA CONDITIONING
Your mind can be led into the alpha state by sitting in a comfortable chair and listening to a relaxation routine read by someone else, or recorded and played back. The routine usually takes about ten minutes.
You will want to go into the alpha state many times each day to give your genie instructions. It would not be practical to depend on someone else to read the routine, or to play a CD every time you wanted to go into alpha. You need to condition yourself to simply take a deep breath, count down from three to one, say to yourself the word “ALPHA,” and be in alpha. It is that quick and that simple—after you are conditioned.Conditioning exercises are given at the end of each lesson.
Alpha conditioning is easy. It just takes a little practice. Some people can condition themselves in a few sessions; others take a little longer. Closing your eyes and relaxing tends to induce alpha. Relaxation is often associated with heaviness and warmth. Once in alpha, you can condition yourself to return to this state quickly any time you want.
SELF, DEEP RELAXATION
The conditioning exercises presented in these lessons are similar to procedures called by different names. The most common is self-hypnosis. I would like to call it something else because the word “hypnosis” has negative connotations. Hypnosis is often associated with mind control or being make a fool of in front of an audience. That is unfortunate. First of all, nobody really knows what hypnotism is. Kreskin, a well-known “mentalist” (he refused to be called a hypnotist), offered $100,000 to anyone who could prove conclusively the existence of a “hypnotic trance.” Nobody ever claimed the money. Kreskin never puts anyone in a trance yet he is highly successful in planting suggestions in subconscious minds.
Ernest Rossi states in The Psychobiology of Mind-Body Healing, 1993: “Since the inception of hypnosis more than 200 years ago it has been impossible to find general agreement among professionals on just exactly what hypnosis is. No definition or empirical test has ever been devised to accurately assess whether or not a hypnotic state even exists!” Some experts claim there is no such thing as a hypnotic trance or hypnotic state.
So let’s not be concerned about what this method is called. “Self-Alphamation” (I just made up that word) would be a good descriptive word but no one would know what I was talking about. These exercises are simply ways of going intothe alpha state so you can plant suggestions in your subconscious mind.
An added benefit when you practice deep relaxation is that you will sleep better. Better sleep has been shown to improve health, memory, and disposition. Many people who practice deep relaxation find they need less sleep.
PROCEDURE
There is nothing magic about the routine. The routine can be done in infinite ways. You can start, for example, by relaxing muscles from the feet to head or vise versa. Any procedure that gets you to relax is good. The aim is to relax so that your conscious mind loses interest, gives up control, and sinks into the background, and at the same time, to coax your subconscious mind to the surface. Once you are in alpha, you can then use your subconscious mind to relax your body even more than you ever could when in beta using your conscious mind.
You can have someone read the routine to you or you can record it and play it back. A CD containing this routine is also available. 4
Some self-help books describe tests to determine whether you are truly in an altered state. Do not test yourself . Do not doubt that you are in alpha. Should you fail the test for any reason, even just
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