Dream Psycles - A New Awakening in Hypnosis

TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 1 CHAPTER 1. HOW DREAM PSYCLES SHAPE YOUR REALITY . . . . . . . . . . 10 CHAPTER 2. A SHORT HISTORY OF HYPNOSIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 CHAPTER 3. THE MAGIC OF HYPNOSIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 CHAPTER 4. THE AWESOME POWER OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND . . . . . . . 52 CHAPTER 5. THE 20 ESSENTIAL KEYS TO AWAKEN YOUR DREAMS . . . . . . . 71 CHAPTER 6. POWERFUL TOOLS FOR HYPNOTIC INDUCTION AND SUGGESTION. . . .89 CHAPTER 7. AGE REGRESSION, AND PAST LIFE EXPERIENCES . . . . . . . . 112 CHAPTER 8. DEALING WITH LIFE'S COMMON PROBLEMS . . . . . . . . . . 130 CHAPTER 9. THE TRUTH ABOUT MONEY AND HAPPINESS . . . . . . . . . . . 165 CHAPTER 10. HOW TO TURN YOUR WILDEST DREAMS INTO REALITY . . . . . .182 CHAPTER 11. A COLLECTION OF SAMPLE INDUCTION SCRIPTS . . . . . . . . 204 CHAPTER 12. POTPOURRI . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . 231 CHAPTER 13. VISUALIZATION AND AWARENESS EXERCISES. . . . . . . . . . 258 CHAPTER 14. A NEW AWAKENING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 APPENDIX A. A DREAM PSYCLE AWAKENING WORKSHEET . . . . . . . . . . . 272 GLOSSARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276 When you suddenly realize that you have been mistaken all along - then you will have awakened. - Carl Allen Schoner INTRODUCTION "Life could be a dream, sha-boom!" - The Crewcuts I can still vividly remember the feelings of wonder and amazement I experienced one evening when I was a young boy of about 12 or 13 years old. My older brother had recently received a brand new telescope, and he was giving me a tour of the night sky. He pointed the telescope at what seemed to me to be a random spot in the middle of darkness and invited me to take a look. Then, as I peered through the eyepiece with eager anticipation, I gazed in awe at the magnificent Andromeda galaxy for the very first time. Andromeda is an object far larger than the entire bubble of stars that form our own visible universe; it is an island universe, millions of light years away, grander in scale than our own Milky Way galaxy, with hundreds of billions of stars. As my brother proudly expounded upon what I was looking at, I continued gazing in stunned silence, amazed that something so large, so stunning, so unimaginably vast in size and enormous in implications, could have always been right there in plain view without me ever knowing it existed! That little demonstration of my brother's telescope had a profound effect upon my thinking, and I pondered its implications often during my years as a teenager. And as I matured, so did this thinking, until it eventually dawned on me that the universe, as vast and expansive as I knew the universe to be, was also a series of very personal observations, perceptions, and beliefs contained within my own brain. The Andromeda galaxy is too distant a place for me to visit, and yet I was carrying it around in my own head! I suddenly realized that the universe is a kind of dream! The universe is, in fact, whatever I personally perceive it to be, and every star in the heavens, as well as every grain of sand on every beach on earth, is in a very real sense, a construct of the human brain and imagination. They are perceptions within the human brain. Every galaxy spinning in the heavens above spins gloriously in the miraculous human brain. Every thought, every idea, and every observation resides there. Indeed, everything we think to be true can be reduced to a mere dream within the human brain, so life really is a dream! Imagine the awesome wonders of the human mind! Yet for all that it dreams of the universe around it, the human mind knows very little of the universe within itself. Over 90% of the processing that takes place within the human brain is completely subconscious in nature. Our normal, "waking" state of consciousness is totally blind to these dream-like processes that play quietly just below the surface, in the subconscious mind. These hidden processes include pre-wired reflexes, stored emotional responses, patterns that become automatic by way of habit, and processes screened from consciousness via repression. In any case, we are usually totally unaware that these processes - these dreams - even exist. And while they may be as different from our conscious thinking as day is from night, it is these subconscious patterns that form the very foundation that our conscious mind builds upon as we interact with the world around us. In very simple terms, people who achieve success in life have learned how to master these subconscious processes in order to build a foundation that will allow them to realize their goals. They have learned to visualize and manipulate their subconscious dreams, and this in turn allows them to turn their dreams into reality. Alternately, those who have been less than successful in life may actually be constructing subconscious processes that work more toward derailing their chances for success, rather than helping them. They remain blind to the universe of subconscious processes that control their behavior, and so rather than mastering them and achieving important goals in life, they facilitate subconscious repression by forming idle or rote patterns of behavior, and shielding these patterns with transparent excuses for their failings. This is a very important concept to grasp: your own subconscious patterns are the single most significant variable governing your ability to achieve happiness and success in life. Life does not just happen to you; rather, your own thinking sets the stage for the direction you will go in life, and how far you will go in that direction. More specifically, it is your ingrained subconscious thought processes, your dream psycles, which make this determination. If you can dream of achieving some goal in life, then you can achieve it! It is only when you abandon or lose sight of your dreams on a subconscious level that your goals become inaccessible, and that is because the psycles necessary to maintain your dreams never materialize. This book is about the art of awakening and redefining your dream psycles. It is important to note that the concept of dream psycles is my own way of illustrating and modeling the nature of habits and how they might be managed through hypnosis. It is not a concept that you are likely to encounter in other books on hypnosis or psychology, and it is not my intention that this model be considered a replacement for established theories of the subconscious mind. I simply use this model of dream psycles to illustrate my ideas of how habits, relationships, and lifestyles do not form in isolation, but rather form in harmony with a host of other behaviors, and therefore personal change can be effectively initiated by changing any of these elements. You might think of this concept as a kind of user-friendly approach to the clinical process of bringing about behavioral change using any other methodology in addition to self- hypnosis. The model of dream psycles presented in this book will allow you to awaken, visualize and get a handle on any of the supporting psycles that surround self-limiting behavior, and to take control of them in order to make extraordinary changes in your life.