Several years ago I experienced what I can only call a "Transcendent experience". I had bought a CD containing tuning fork tones that were sold as a way of tuning one's Chakras. The producer of the CD was an acoustics expert. For several days I would utilize the sounds to relax before going to sleep. Around the third day of doing this, something shifted in me. For the next 36 hours, nothing could negatively affect me. I was in my own little bubble of bliss. People who were around me said that they sensed that there was something different about me. They wanted it, whatever it was. Eventually, I returned to my regular equilibrium and to this day, I have never experienced this sense of general well-being again. I knew instinctively that somehow I lost it due to my own negativity. Today, I have all the pieces, and I wish to impart my insights.
Over the past month, I have been under the tutelage of a psychologist who specializes in hypnosis training and therapy. I have also been studying the basics of Neuro Linguistic Programming. I have been searching for so long for a missing piece, and I believe that I now have it.
As stated in the movie,"what the Bleep", the reason affirmations do not always work is because the affirmation is nothing but a thin veneer that merely covers the negative baggage. The truth of hypnosis is given to us by what is called Le Cron's Dictum and simply states, "All hypnosis is self-hypnosis".
My insight is this: Imagine what you want. Not what you don't want. We all have an internal dialogue. Most if not all is negative. This is a low energy state. The universe brings us more when we send this level of energy. Affirmations do not work unless they change our energy level. A good hypnotist will always try to get us to feel what we want. It is about shutting off the negative internal dialogue and replacing it with a mantra such as, "Every day, in every way, my life is NOW better and better". When this replaces the internal dialogue that is negative, a new habit is created. A habit that raises our energy level and attracts more and more of like energy. After all, we create with our imaginations. Remember, it is not enough to think about positives. One must imagine it and experience the feelings, the emotions. This creates the magic. I know it sounds trite. There may be no greater truth though.
One other thing, when I experienced that 36 hour state, when I was at total peace, it was because my internal dialogue was totally shut down. It seems that I was vibrating at such a high level, there was absolutely no place for it in my reality, at that time. Something to consider...