A Review: Deep in my Mind… Self-Hypnosis and Subliminal Technology
December 8, 2012
I’ve suspected for a long time that the key to behavior change – and, yes, even law of attraction – lies in our subconscious mind. We can say affirmations until we’re blue in the face, but if we don’t believe them on some deep level, those affirmations won’t produce the results we’re looking for.
As a real estate broker, my money life is often up, then down — I’ve often wondered, “What is it that keeps me from attracting what I know I deserve into my life?” I look at a Donald Trump, for instance, who doesn’t think he’s a success unless he is a billionaire — and so he becomes one, not once, but twice — and I wonder where that belief is at home in his mind? When I see someone who has been happily married – and they lose their love – within a year, they are with someone else. Do they have a belief that life is partnership? A belief I don’t have and that is why I have been single these many years since my divorce?
A few weeks ago, I listened to one of many brain scientists give a lecture online. At one point, he stated: “The way to change behavior, and therefore, results, is three-fold. 1. Self-hypnosis and subliminal messages, 2. Practice, practice, practice, and 3. Enlightening and transformational courses and classes that create insights into our own behavior.”
Three days later, God, in His infinite Wisdom, sent a book my way – I was asked to review Eldon Taylor’s, “Self-Hypnosis and Subliminal Technology.” I couldn’t believe the synchronicity of this book coming into my life mere days after I heard that this was a modality that was necessary to change the brain – and therefore, behavior and results. I said, “Yes, I’ll review it.”
The author, Eldon Taylor, makes a complex subject very simple to understand. It’s a small book packed with the focused information anyone needs to understand why hypnosis and subliminal messages work. Briefly, we have a conscious mind – that we think is directing the course of our lives; and we have a subconscious mind, which really is directing everything we do.
That subconscious mind is a very simple, yet powerful force that directs behavior. It doesn’t understand shades of grey, not fifty, not one. If you believe that you have to struggle with money, the subconscious brain will make sure that you struggle with money. If you believe in your subconscious brain that you are meant to be alone, then no matter how many guys ask you out, you will find something wrong with them and remain alone.
The reason it works this way is that it is a survival mechanism. That subconscious mind has to be sure you are right – it sees any deviation from your being right as a threat to your survival. So, it insures that everything you believe in your deepest mind, comes to pass just as you believe it. The subconscious mind believes that this is what will keep you safe – even if all reasonable examination says otherwise.
It makes sense, then, that the way to create something other than what you currently believe in your subconscious mind – is to change what that part of your brain believes! What could be more simple? Yes, the concept is simple, but the doing of it is much harder. The conscious mind stands guard at the door of the subconscious and so you must find a way of by-passing that ferocious guard. And, here it is: self-hypnosis and subliminal programming.
I couldn’t wait to order some of the tapes and test them out for myself. I’m changing the way I eat because I believe it is better for my health AND I’d like to lose some weight – something I’ve found difficult to do over the last eight years or so. I realized that it was a way to protect myself, but now I’m done with that, so maybe these tapes can help. Eldon Taylor has a very successful weight loss tape that has been proven effective in a clinical study at the Munich Armed Forces University. The women in the study averaged a 13 pound weight loss in 30 days. This will be my first experiment.
I’ve ordered others, too: “Attracting the right love relationship for me,” and the subliminal CD on “Grief” as well as one called “Joyous Day.” I’m looking forward to receiving them and doing my own subliminal “test.” I’ll report back to you.
In the meantime, do get this book. It’s a quick and interesting read AND includes a free self-hypnosis CD. My feeling is, if you want a better life, you have to find ways to change your mind so that your life can change around that.
Then, practice, practice, practice… But, you won’t want to practice unless and until your brain thinks this is a benefit to your survival.
There are so many books with this theme, but I believe it is true: Change your mind and you’ll change your life!
Deliciously yours in the Infinite Mind that is All, Linda
Here’s the link to purchase the book on Amazon:
Disclosure: I received Eldon Taylor’s book, “Self-Hypnosis and Subliminal Technology: A How-to Guide for Personal-Empowerment Tools You Can Use Anywhere!” for free from Hay House Publishing.
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“You Can Only Dance When You’re Dancing…”
January 16, 2012
It’s that time of year when we all are trying to live up to our New Year’s resolutions. How are you doing? Are you still on target? Or, after only two weeks, are you back to old familiar habits and ways of being, those resolutions already forgotten, those promises and dreams for 2012 already driven away by cynicism and doubt and “Oh, what the hell? This chocolate cake is just too good to pass up…”
I sat in church last week, listening to my favorite priest, Monsignor Stern, give his homily on just this very topic. I didn’t want to hear it as I don’t believe in New Year’s resolutions – I’ve never known one person in my life who has ever lived up to them, including myself.
But, what he said was different and new enough to resonate with me – he said, “Instead of thinking of a New Year’s resolution, think instead of a ‘mid-life course adjustment’.” He gave examples, but none of them fit for me as much as that phrase made me think of the film I had watched the night before, “Jaws”.
There’s a part in the movie when they’ve got the barrels on the Great White shark and they’re trying to run along side of him. The Captain, Quint, is out on the farthest part of the bow with the harpoon laying in his arms like a baby, yelling adjustments up to Matt Hooper, the marine biologist, who is steering the boat: “Five degrees starboard!” and then a few moments later, “I said, five degrees starboard, Hooper!” Quint wanted to be sure the huge shark didn’t get away from them.
And, so it is with our dreams, our goals, our intentions. Do we simply say, “I’m going on a diet this year?” or do we set an intention to look and feel great twenty pounds thinner and watch and correct when we are running off course? What are the dreams that you gave up on a long time ago? Do you now say, “It’s too late?”
Don’t let your dreams get away from you. Watch and adjust… Keep pace with that huge prize…
Never give up. Make that mid-life adjustment and full-steam ahead! Okay, so maybe I’ll never be a prima ballerina, but I love dancing of any kind. Am I doing that? No. So, time for a mid-life adjustment. I’m not going to jump right into the Argentine Tango because I know I won’t stick it out. But, I can start with Zumba fitness classes and get the feeling of the rhythm back again, feel the beat of the drums, hum along to the music – and I’m there! I’m dancing! Yay, Me!
There’s an old saying, “Change one part of your life and you change your whole life.” That’s because life is holistic – the way you go into a swimming pool is the way you do all of life. You just need to change one little thing and your whole life will change as a result – and then keep making those “five degree starboard” adjustments.
I remember that my father took up the guitar when he was in his 50’s. We all made fun of him, but he kept at it. He loved music – he used to listen to opera all the time. He knew he would never be an opera singer, but he could pick up a guitar and take lessons and participate in life.
I never appreciated that lesson from my father when I was younger, but I sure do appreciate it now. Life is growth. Death is stagnation. You can only dance when you’re dancing…
Five degrees starboard, Mates! Happy New Year!
Deliciously yours in the Grand Opening Number of it All, Linda
The title is from a quote by Werner Erhard:
“You can only dance when you’re dancing. You can’t dance ‘by the numbers.’ You can’t dance when you’re checking to see if you’re dancing. You can’t dance when you’re comparing your movement to your ideal. In order to dance, you have to dance. That’s what freedom is. That’s who you are!”
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“A Course in Weight Loss”: A Review
March 19, 2011
I was looking forward to receiving Marianne Williamson’s new book, “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons For Surrendering Your Weight Forever” to review for Hay House Publishing. As a student of “A Course in Miracles”, the spiritual self-study program that Marianne herself turned me on to many years ago, I had a feeling that this was not going to be your typical weight-loss book – and I was right.
To begin, I’ve been on a diet since last May and lost 16 pounds doing that. I was so proud of myself for making it through most of the Christmas holidays without gaining anything back – I thought I had this “monkey” off my back for good.
Alas, that was not so. At the end of the Christmas holidays, my ex-husband and wonderful friend called to tell me he was getting married in the new year. I never expected my grieving reaction until I realized that I never mourned my marriage the way I needed to. January started that time – and, in the two months since, I’ve gained back 8 of the 16 pounds I lost.
I received Marianne’s book right in the midst of all the pain of my long over-due grief.
My original plan — before I found myself plunged into my unexpected despair — was to read it and review it here on this blog. If I could take something on for myself – Well, then, I would, but I really didn’t think I needed it as much as someone else might need it.
How wrong could I have been? I needed this book to come the very moment it did! As spiritual as I think I am, the fact is that circumstances can and do throw me for a loop – and send me right back into thinking the old disempowering thoughts about myself that get me to start eating without thinking: “I’m not good enough,” “I was a terrible wife,” “Who would want me? I’m so selfish”. Before I knew it, I re-gained the 8 pounds I’d lost!
“A Course in Weight Loss” addresses these very issues of how we disempower ourselves, how we hate how we look, how we feel about ourselves when we don’t feel good about ourselves. Bottom line? Marianne’s book was exactly what I needed to appear in my life!
This is a book that is definitely a “course” – a step-by-step approach to – a diet? NO! The approach is to assist us in being willing to take on that which, as “A Course in Miracles” says, is our only problem – we think we are separate from God. It is a step-by-step approach to have us remember Who we are: a beautiful, perfect child of God — and, as such, everything we need is right here already. We need only remember Who we are.
Marianne’s instructions are graceful and loving: to build an altar to ourselves and that which we know to be the Divine within us. Then, Marianne guides us: to enhance our altars as a symbol of being in touch with our own spirit, buying ONE piece of carefully and lovingly chosen piece of fruit to put on the altar, to write letters to the self we are leaving behind so as to transform to the Self we are becoming, and to become aware of those triggers that send us right back into our pain. It is nothing less than a spiritual journey into our own hearts and minds to find the Real Self, the thin and whole spiritual Self that has been there all along.
Marianne doesn’t hold back, that’s for sure. There is one chapter called, “Exit the Alone Zone” that I am positive she wrote just for ME! I spend a lot of time alone – I work alone in my home office every day – and I always feel a bit lonely about that. This book made me realize that I – or the ego part of me – orchestrated that”alone-ness” in order to keep me separate from others – as separate as I sometimes feel when I forget my spiritual path, when I forget that “alone” is an illusion that I have created.
Well, now it’s time to create something new!
There are beautiful prayers at the end of each chapter that moved me to tears, each one inviting God in to heal us, to heal our un-healed wounds – as only He can do.
I finished reading the book through once, and now I have started it again, beginning with my altar in my window: a beautiful Buddha and a flower and a picture of a laughing Christ. As “A Course in Miracles” resonated for me as my spiritual path, Marianne’s “Course in Weight Loss” is resonating for me as the path to healing all my wounds, not only weight, but money, relationship, and career. That is a plan that I am joyfully taking on!
I want to end with one of Marianne’s beautiful prayers – the prayer that is at the end of Lesson 15, “Exit the Alone Zone.” To me, this is the essence of so much of this wonderful book:
“Dear God, Please melt the walls that separate me from others, imprisoning me within myself.
Please heal my wounded places and free my heart to love.
Help me connect to others that I might isolate no more.
I know, dear God, that when I am alone, I fear;
and when I fear, I self-destruct.
What I suffer now and have suffered before,
dear God, may I suffer no more.
Amen”
And, to that, my own “Hallelujah!”
Deliciously yours in the Sacred Self that we all are, Linda
This is Marianne Williamson, a New York Times best-selling author several times over. Her book, “A Return to Love” is a spiritual classic and widely considered by many to be the cliff notes to ‘A Course in Miracles'”. Marianne is an internationally known speaker and teacher. You can visit her site: www.marianne.com to see where she is speaking in your area.
Here is the link to Hay House publishing where you can purchase Marianne’s book:
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Disclosure: I received Marianne Williamson’s book, “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons For Surrendering Your Weight Forever” for free from Hay House Publishing.
© Linda Ruocco and “Spiritual Chocolate”, 2011. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Linda Ruocco and ”Spiritual Chocolate” with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. Thank you.
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