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A guide for faster learning and
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CONTENTS

Introduction by Hypnotherapist Gil Bojrne xv

PART ONE: GETTING ACQUAINTED

WITH HYPNOSIS

1. Self Hypnosis: A Tool for Success,

a Key to Genius

A Natural Gift That Can Be Acquired 3

A Tool for Success 4
Self-Hypnosis for Students 7
Concentration 7
Studying On the Double 7
Photographic Memory 8
Sleep Learning 8
Self-Hypnosis for the Layperson 9
Self-Motivation 9
Success Motivation 9
Elimination of Fatigue 9
Self-Hypnosis as a Fount of Creativity 10
Hypnosis Is Simply a Condition 1
Self-Hypnosis 12
Self-Hypnosis for Businesspersons 16
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2. Objective: Discovering Your Own
Electronic Brain

A Blinding Truth 19
The Eyes Have Never Seen Anjrthing 19
The Ears Have Never Heard Anything 21
Paradoxes Gsdore 21
The Brain Does It All 21
Corollary 22
The Wilder Penfield Experiments 23
Printed Circuits Are Constellations 24
How You Perceive an Orange 24
The Role of the Conscious Mind 26
Circuit Resonance 27
Your "Viveotapes" 28
More Corollaries 29
Thinking 29
Memory 29
Imagination 29
Conditioned Reflexes 30
Hypnotism 30
Learning 31
Hypnotism Defined 31
Trademarks of the Conscious and
Subconscious Minds 32
Dangers of Hypnosis 33
Various Methods of Bypassing the Conscious
Mind 33
The Method of This Book 34
Self-Hypnosis: A Two-Phase Process 35
 Contents vll

PART TWO: ACQUIRING

SELF-HYPNOSIS

3. Objective: Acquiring Self-Hypnosis

A Bird's-Eye View of the Chapter 39

Dehypnotizing Yourself on Hypnosis 40
Will I Lose Consciousness? 40
How Do I Know I Will Awake? 41
Why Did My Mind Keep Wandering? 42
Maybe I Was Trying Too Hard? 43
Is It Dangerous? 44
How Do I Know I Can Do It Myself? 44
Playing Broken Record 45
How to Terminate Each Exercise 46
Body Postures 47
Lying On a Couch 47
Sitting Down 48
The Price Must Be Right 48
Exercise Number 1 50
Aim 50
Method 50
Automatic Effects 50
Printed Circuits Used 50
Techniques Used For By-Passing the
Conscious Mind 51
The Broken Record 51
Procedure 51
Series of Three Per Session 52
Important Notice 52
Passing Grades 52
Exercise Number 2 53
Aim 53
Passing Exercise Number 2 54
Exercise Number 3 54
vlll POWER HYPNOSIS
Aim 54
Method 54
Automatic Effects 55
Printed Circuits Used 55
The Broken Record 55
Procedure 55
Passing Grades 55
Exercise Number 4 56
Aim 56
Printed Circuit Used 56
Sentences Used 56
Procedure 57
Passing Grades 57
General Considerations 57
Marginal Effects 58

4. Objective: Deepening and Timing

Hypnosis

Posthypnotic Suggestions 59
The Subconscious Mind 60
Phase One: Training in Deepening Hypnosis 61
Procedure 61
Imagery to Be Used 61
Exercise Number 5 62
Exercise Number 6 63
Exercise Number 7 65
Exercise Number 8 65
Exercise Number 9 66
Exercise Number 10 67
Phase Two: Building an Inner Clock to Time
Your Hypnosis 67
Exercise Number 1 68
Exercise Number 12 68
Exercise Number 13: Deepening and
Accelerating the Hypnosis 69
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5. Objective: Entertaining Yourself AND

"Proofing" the Pudding

Aim of This Chapter - 71

Exercise Number 14 72
Procedure 72
Blueprint 73
Exercise Number 15 74
Procedure 74
Exercise Number 16 75
Procedure 75
Exercise Number 17 76
Blueprint Optional 76

6. Time-Delayed Reactions

Training Yourself in Posthypnotic Suggestions 78

Definition 78
OneMotivation Source 78
Varieties of Posthypnotic Suggestions 79
Keyed Suggestions 79
Limited Duration Suggestions 79
First, the Suggestion 81
Four Techniques of Self PHS (Posthypnotic
Suggestion) 82
PHS Technique Number One 82
Mental Blueprint Before Hypnosis 82
Exercise Number 18 83
Talking to George 83
Other Applications of This Technique 84
PHS Technique Number Two: The Folded-Paper
Technique 85
PHS Technique Number Three: The L-K-U
Technique 86
PHS Technique Number Four: Tackling Your
"Worst Subject" 88
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The Hypnotist's Suggestion 88
Exercise Number 19A: Ameliorating Your
Worst Subject Using PHS Technique
Number One 91
Exercise Number 19B: Ameliorating Your
Worst Subject Using PHS Technique
Number Two 92
Exercise Number 19C: Ameliorating Your
Worst Subject Using PHS Technique
Number Three 92
Exercise Number 19D: Ameliorating Your
Worst Subject Using PHS Technique
Number Four 93
Some Additional Testing 93

PART THREE: UTILIZING SELF-

HYPNOSIS AS A STUDENT
7. Improving Your Concentration, Your
Memory, and Your Learning Tools

The Tools of the Student 97

Memory 97
Three Phases 98
Printing 98
Retention 99
Recall 100
Exercise Number 20: Intensifying Your
Concentration 101
Choose Your Technique 104
Improving Your Memory 105
Mnemonic Methods 106
Homophony 107
The Number Code 107
Wholing Images 108
Exercise Number 21: Improving Your
Memory 110
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Rapid Reading 112

Reading 112
Definition 113
Reading Signposts 114
The Role of the Eyes 115
Exercise Number 22: Increasing Your Reading
Speed £ind Efficiency 116

8. Self-Motivation: The Bootstrap

Operation

The Eternal Trinity of Success 119

Your Number One and Number Two Private
Enemies 120
Conscious and Subconscious Obstacles to
Success 121
Exercise Number 23: The Cloud and Sun
Exercise 122
Exercise Number 24: The Burning of the
Leaves 125
Exercise Number 25: Making Self-Discipline
Pleasurable 127
Willpower Versus Go£il Power 128
Exercise Number 25A: Taking the Lead Out 129
For the Visualizers 129
Exercise Number 25B: Taking the Lead Out 130
For the Nonvisualizers 130

9. Sleep Learning Without Machines

Free Night Shift 132

Exercise Number 26: Sle«p Learning Without
Machines 134
Pre-Blueprinting PHS Technique 134
Exercise Number 26A: Sleep Learning Without
Machines 134
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The Tape Recorder Technique 134
Useful Unused Time 135

10. Operation "No Jitters"

A Useless Waste Maker 136

Reasons For the Jitters 138
Exercise Number 27: Operation "No Jitters" 139

11. Mental Imagery: The Tool of

Photographic Memory

Parting of the Roads 142

Pictorial Thinking 143
Free Cartoons 144
The Steps to a Photographic Memory 145
Training for Group B: The Nonvisualizers 146
Acquiring Mental Visualization 148
Exercise Number 28: Let Me See Something 149
Afterimage 150
Exercise Number 29:
Developing Mental Visualization 151
For Groups A and B 151
ExerciseNumber 30: Training for a
Photographic Memory 154
Helpful Advice 155

12. Studying ON THE Triple

Time Distortion in the Waking Life 157

Time Distortion Under Hypnosis 159
Exercise Number 31: An Experiment in
Distorted Time 160
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Blueprint 160
The Value of Time Distortion 162
Purpose of This Chapter 163
Exercise Number 32: Training in Time
Distortion 164
Procedure 164
Keeping Tabs 164
Allotted Tasks 165
Time Distortion Suggested 165
Allotted Clock-Time Suggestion 167
Increasing Time-Distortion Ratio 168
Exercise Number 33: More Training in Time
Distortion 168
Sequence of Allotted Tasks 168
Repetition of Given Task in Allotted
Clock Time 169
Alotted Apparent Time 169
Direct Suggestions for Increasing Ratio 170
Applications 170
 INTRODUCTION

This book contains some of the most efficient

methods ever published for acquiring self-
hypnosis. The instructions are clear, simple,
easy to follow, and ideally graduated. They are
grounded on conditioned reflexes solidty anchored
in every human being.
It is especially rich in methods of giving oneself
posthypnotic suggestions that "work.'* Some of
them are "classics" for the practicing professional
hypnotist. They are presented as "proofs-to-
myself of "now-being-in-hypnosis." At the same
'

time, they constitute a step-by-step training

toward the use of self-hypnosis time self- —
hypnosis, deepening techniques, hand levitation,
anesthesia, time distortion, multiple ways of
—
developing a creative visualization are just a
few of them.
I especially liked the three special methods of

—
•^eliminating the negative" the "cloud and the
sun," the "burning of the leaves," and the "duck"
exercises, called the three basic desensitization
techniques.
In the third part, the author discusses the
mind power learning methods. Supercharging
your willpower, concentration strengthening,
memory activation (to the point of a photographic
XV
xvi POWER HYPNOSIS
memory). Increased speed of reading, maximized
retention and recall "on the spur of the need of
the moment" are powerfully treated for application
to yourself.
Most important In my view are the techniques
of creativity in the financial, academic, or artistic
field, which the author gives freely to the reader
of the book. You will learn how a script writer
can actually "prelive" in his mind the next
production, audio and video, and then simply
"put it down on paper." This technique alone is
worth many hundred times the price of the
book. The net result is that it constitutes a rich
mine of information, and "bread and butter
information" for the practicing hypnotist.

Gil Boyne, Hypnotherapist

Executive Director,
American Council of Hypnotist Examiners
Glendale, CA 91204
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HOW TO GET THE BEST RESULTS

FROM THIS BOOK

Read the whole book once. Then, start

with Part Two: "Acquiring Self-Hypnosis."
Stick to it until you get passing grades as
you go along.
In developing self-hypnotic techniques
to be used as a student (Part Three),
stick to a given goal until you obtain
satisfactory results, then move on to
another goal.
PART ONE

Getting Acquainted with Hypnosis

 CHAPTER
''

Self-Hypnosis: A Tool for Success,

A Key to Genius

A Natural Gift that Can Be Acquired

students and scholars of the coming genera-

tions may well regard genius with a little less
admiration and awe than did their predecessors.
In fact, they will likely be using for them-
selves the "secret technique that explains it all."
Self-hypnosis, as it can now be inferred from
the life history of numerous geniuses of the
past, may have been the sporadic, spontane-
ous, and unexplained phenomenon behind the
superior creative abilities of exceptional human
beings.
As one pores over the biographies and inci-
dental personal confidences of The Greats, one
is constantly made conscious of a common de-
nominator of their lives.
Multiple references are made to a special state
of consciousness variously referred to as "trance,**
"waking dream,*' "ecstasy," "supra-normal feel-
ings," and so on.
The great poet Tennyson states that when-
4 POWER HYPNOSIS
ever he would, in the quiet of the woods, repeat
his own name to himself, over and over again,
he would suddenly feel transported into a new
state of consciousness in which colors were more
vivid and sounds more ethereal, a state in which
words came to him, and not only words but
phrases and sentences and verses, and that he
thereafter had only to copy them onto paper.
At the University of Strasbourg, some of the
more notable adherents to the classes in hyp-
nosis were Goethe, Mettemich, and Chopin,
which demonstrates their interest in the sub-
ject, if not their desire to explain to themselves
some of the phenomena they were observing in
their own psyches.
Some have pretended that Mozart composed
the whole of Cost Jan Tutte under the so-called
spell of hypnosis. It is common knowledge that
Mozart would often go for a ride in a coach and,
while thus relaxing, hear melodies and orches-
trations which he then merely had to write
down. Such a spontaneous auditory hallucina-
tion can most easily be achieved in a subject
trained in self-hypnosis.
According to Kroger (in Clinical and Experi-
mental Hypnosis), Rachmaninoff, "who had |
been unproductive for several years, reportedly
composed one of his famous concertos following
posthypnotic suggestion.*'

A Tool for Success

Self-hypnosis may
also have been the secret i

behind a few enormous financial successes. And

again it may be inferred to have been the "Aa-
 Self Hypnosis: A Tool for Success 5
ron's rod" that tapped the fount of creativity
used by a great many inventors.
George Washington Carver, "the man who
talked with the flowers," specifically says (in
Glenn Clark's book bearing the aforementioned
title): "All my hfe, I have risen regularly at four
o'clock and have gone into the woods and talked
with God. There He gives me my orders for the
day . .
."

In the same book, Glenn Clark relates: "Mr.

Edison (Thomas) believes that his inventions
come through him from the infinite forces in
—
the universe ^and never so well as when he is
relaxed."
Heniy Ford went into "the solitude of his
meditating room" to solve problems and pre-
pare his plans of operation.
In the fourteenth chapter of his book Think
and Grow Rich (titled "The Sixth Sense"), Na-
poleon Hill talks about his daily hallucinatory
"meeting" with nine great men ^Emerson, Paine, —
Edison, Darwin, Lincoln, Burbank, Napoleon,
—
Ford, and Carnegie ^his "invisible counselors."
During these meetings, "just before I go to
sleep," he acted as chairman for the Executive
Board of Himself, which decided upon the ac-
tion to be undertaken for the realization of his
life program. Not wanting to label the experi-
ence as self-hypnosis, he takes pains to explain
that, "lest I be misunderstood, I wish to state
most emphatically that I still regard my cabinet
meetings as being purely Imaginaiy . while . .

. . they have led me into glorious paths of

.

adventure encouraged creative endeavor."

. . .

Solitude, meditation, relaxation, talking with

God or imaginaiy counselors, how closely—except
—
in name this resembles hypnosis!
One could thus multiply "ad indefinltum" the
6 POWER HYPNOSIS
examples taken from history and demonstrate
—
that numerous great figures artists, writers,
painters (refer to the creation of the paintings
of the Sistine Chapel as portrayed in the film
The Agony and the Ecstasy), and inventors
have used the "natural gift" of self-hypnosis for
the purpose of elevating themselves above the
standard levels of achievement.
Yet, the student of these coming years will be
able to acquire the same technique by volun-
tary training.
Of course, it may become a problem to be
considered a genius in times when everybody
knows how to become a genius.
But what happens in the meantime?
Self-hypnosis will graducdly become a choice
technique for "getting the edge on competition,"
on the individual or the collective level.
Some students, some business persons, some
of the people engaged in the creative arts and/or
professions will have heard about the technique,
trained themselves in it, and used it to their
own advantage, while the rest of the crowd will
keep wondering "how in tarnation" they are
doing it.

Of course, before the "Age of Genius" arrives,

medical hypnosis will have found a greater num-
ber of uses but, at the same time, numerous
new applications will also have been devised in
the field of nonmedical hypnosis.
In other words, hypnosis will soon be used
just as much for "normal" people as it will be
used for "abnormal" conditions.
Self-h)rpnosis, as a matter of fact, is today a
much used tool for treinsforming a normal per-
son into an "above-normal" one.
It is being used as a technique for self-
betterment not only for special groups, but for
 Self Hytoosis: A Tcx)l for Success 7
the general public, or at least those members of
the general public who have become aware of
its existence and its possibilities.
Self-hypnosis is already becoming more com-
monly used by students and people engaged in
—
creative careers artistic or professional.

Self-Hypnosis for Students

Concentration

It is a well-known fact that self-hypnosis can

be used advantageously by students for the
purpose of increasing the efficiency of their
memories. Through self-hypnosis, and the post-
hypnotic suggestions it permits, students can
enhance their attention at the moment of in-
—
take of information and knowledge in class or
during study; concentration can be sharpened
(freedom from interferences and/or mind wan-
dering) while studying, and self-h5rpnosis can
also facilitate the recaS of the desired informa-
tion as needed.
Moreover, through appropriate posthypnotic
suggestions, it is possible to improve the inte-
gration of the material absorbed into the gen-
eral pool of knowledge alreacfy possessed, together
with projecting it into its natural conclusions,
thus somehow linking the past and the future
through the present.

Studying on the Double

What is much less known about the applica-
tion of self-hypnosis to the tasks of the student
is the fact that he or she can apply an acceler-
8 POWER HYPNOSIS
ated method of stud5ring which can easily cut
—
by one half—and even two-thirds ^the time nec-
essary for the absorption of a given amount of
knowledge or double the amount of material
absorbed in a given time.
The instrument used for the previously men-
tioned purpose is time distortion; the author
has trained some musicians in a similar "men-
tal" method of practicing their instruments.
Such mental practicing consisted in their imag-
ining themselves doing "one hour" of subjective
time practicing during five minutes of actual
clock time.
That mental practicing had the same auto-
mating effect upon their fingers as if they had
actually been spending one hour in playing their
instrument manually.

* Photographic Memoiy
Another fact, even less well known, is that by
systematic training in mental visualization, a
—
student can actuSly ^at the moment of an
—
exam ^"copy" the answers unto his paper, word
for word, as he "sees" them on the mental screen
of his or her brain.
As a matter of fact, self-hypnotic training can
be effectively used to create the so-called photo-
graphic type of memory.

Sleep Learning

A student who wants to use self-hypnosis "to

the hilt" can still augment his or her efficiency as
a "learning computer" by using sleeping hours,
without the generally vaunted aid of a tape re-
corder. Posthypnotic su^estions can be used to
 Self Hypnosis: A Tool for Success 9
have the mind take over the "milling'' of a given
material before the inception of natural sleep.

Self-Hypnosis for the Layperson

Self-Motivation

Of course, students can also avail themselves

of those advantages of self-hypnosis that are at
the disposal of aU other users of self-hypnosis.
The first and most important of these "general"
advantages of self-hypnosis is self-motivation.

Success Motivation

Through self-hypnosis this can be much more

than a periodic "bootstrap operation." Not onfy can
it project on the screen of the mind the enjoyment

of a goal that acts as a self-chosen compulsion

promoting the ideal daily behavior, but it can
also serve to project the gradual step toward
achieving such a goal. Self-motivation, by the
daily "contemplation" of the objective, can act
as the most powerful motivator toward a given
achievement, making all deterrents inoperative
and side interests unimportant in comparison
with the pleasure of the contemplated final restdt.
Self-hypnosis can also be used to detect the
subconscious obstacles to success and to over-
come them.

Elimination of Pati^e

Another "automatic" fringe benefit of self-

hypnosis, when properly applied and practiced.
10 POWER HYPNOSIS
Is the elimination of fatigue. This goal is at-
tained through the self-recharging that is auto-
matically resdized by a period of self-hypnotic
relaxation and by the systematic elimination of
the energy wasters of negative emotions, atti-
tudes, moods, and environmental factors.
Adequate training in self-hypnosis can be used
spontaneously and automatically to change any
such negative factors through automatic con-
trol of emotions.

Self-Hypnosis as a Fount of Creativity

Numerous and quite interesting considera-

tions could here be offered to explain why self-
hypnosis can be and is a boon to human
creativity.
However, it is evidently more interesting for
readers to learn how it can help them by giving
definite examples of its uses by other people.
As to the actual procedures, they are quite
simple. Users of self-hypnosis have learned how
to initiate hypnosis for themselves, for any pre-
determined length of time measured in seconds,
minutes, or hours, at their own volition. And
subjects have been trained to do it anytime,
anywhere.
They have also created for themselves, through
the assistance of their instructor in self-hypnosis,
some mental tools that are required for imagi-
nation to function creatively. They have been
trained in the use of those tools and have be-
come proficient in their manipulation.
As a matter of course, during their training,
they have been rehearsing them by practicing
some creative exercises. It tiien remains for them
 Self Hypnosis: A Tool fxdr Success 1

to perfect through constant use a technique

that has been given them during their training.
In other words, their training has been done
in two phases: They have learned to produce
hypnosis for themselves and then they have
learnedhow to use it.

HjTpnosis Is Simply a Condition

it can never be emphasized enough

In fact,
that, both in medical and in nonmedical hyp-
nosis, the real work begins only after the so-
called hypnotic sleep has been induced. Too
much stress has been placed on the assump-
tion that hypnosis per se is a tool of self-
Improvement or hereto-improvement.
To repeat: It is only cffter hypnosis has been
Induced that the real work begins. And therein
lies the difference between a hypnotist and a
hypnologist, the first being someone trained in
"putting people to sleep" and the other having
the knowledge of what to do with it once he or
she has produced it.
As will be further elaborated in the next chap-
ter, hypnosis is a condition, a mental state in
which the conscious mind is bypassed in order
to inject blueprints into the subconscious mind.
It is a condition —
in fact, one of the conditions
and the fastest means of:

1. Injecting suggestions into the sub-

conscious mind.
2. Enhancing the natural capacities of
the mind.

Self-hypnosisis a tool and the possession of

it does not produce success any more than the
12 POWER HYPNOSIS
mere possession of a scalpel makes one a
surgeon.

Self-Hypnosis

with this instrument at their disposal, let us

see how some professionals would proceed to
use it.

Let it be stated here, once and for all, that

the following applications have actually been
taught to some people in the professions or
occupations indicated.
An architect puts himself "to sleep" for five
minutes, after telling his subconscious mind to
produce for him, for example, "twelve different
treatments of the facade" of a given building
which he has to submit to a customer.
After the predetermined time has elapsed (the
period of time could just as easily be three or
two minutes), he "wakes up"; he has "seen" the
twelve different designs of the facade and can
now proceed to sketch them on paper.
If none of those sketches pleases him, he can
repeat the procedure to get "another dozen
sketches," just as easily and quickly as he got
the first.
Had he approached the problem in the "nor-
mal" manner, he would still have found the
twenty-four different frontages of the building,
but it would have taken him the "normal" time
not three or five minutes, but three or five days,
weeks, or months, according to his normal de-
gree of creativity.
A lawyer, using the same self-h5^nosis tech-
nique, instantly recalls to memory the source
and numbers of some precedents which she
 Self Hypnosis: A Tcx)l for Success 13

knows she has read somewhere, and which she

now needs to quote In a given case she has
before the court.
A lawyer trained in self-hypnosis (one who is
repute^y the greatest criminal lawyer in the
country) uses a similar technique for finding:

1. How he will present his case in the

first place.
2. Which angle is most likely to influ-
ence the type of jury he has to deal
with.
3. Which witness has told him some-
thing differently from which witness
at two different points in a long trial.
4. Which witness has subtly contradic-
ted himself in the course of the trial.

One of the best known criminal lawyers of

the United States is reported to be a regular
user of self-hypnosis.
A scriptwriter, working on a radio or televi-
sion series, puts himself "to sleep" after asking
his subconscious mind to produce for him the
next episode in his serial production.
During the course of his "sleep" he sees and
hears, being produced on the screen of his own
mind, the action of his characters just as he
would if he were then witnessing a preview of
the episode, which in fact he is.
After "coming out of it," all he has to do is to
write it down, just as he heard and saw it. Here
again, if more verisimilitude or more "life" is
required in the episode than has been supplied
in the first "preview," all he has to do is to ask
for another one.
We know these things may sound fantastic
and they are, but they represent actual applica-
14 POWER HYPNOSIS
tions of self-hypnosis to creativity as the author
has witnessed them. They are true to facts.
The French writer Honors de Balzac illus-
trates, in his two books Seraphita and Louis
Lambert, similar instances of "trance inspira-
tions." Gustave Flaubert and Emile Zola also re-
late equivalent procedures in their own creativity.
The technique illustrated here for a script-
writer could evidently be adapted by a novelist,
a poet, a fiction or nonfiction writer. This tech-
nique is tantamount to a special form of "auto-
matic writing," but it differs from it in the
measure that the process is here controlled and
consciously provoked.
A painter, wishing to illustrate a given theme,
or symbolize a given emotion or idea, can use
the same hypnotic ^e of "inspiration" which
has already been described.
In his "mind's eye," he would then, in vivid
colors, see two, three, or more realizations of
the proposed production. Once more, let us re-
call the similar methods described in the film
The Agony and the Ecstasy, by which Michel-
angelo "imagined" the subject matter illustrat-
ing the ceilings of the Sistine Che^el.
A musician, using the very same technique,
can get his subconscious mind to produce a
new melody, a different arrangement of a given
theme, or a full-length concerto or s5rmphony.
With his "mind's ear," he can hear the mu-
sic, in the selfsame fashion that melodies "just
came by themselves" to Mozart as he rode in
his coach.
The musician could also use the novel tech-
nique of having his subconscious mind "trans-
late into sound" for him the sight of different
sceneries, as well as the feeling of different
emotions.
 Self Hypnosis: A Tool for Success 15

A dilettante could use the same techniques

forhaving his subconscious mind translate into
images the impressions he gets from the hear-
ing of a piece of music.
A research scientist, still using the same and
similar techniques, can accelerate the creative
process in herself and use it to find new tech-
niques, new applications of her science, new
laws and new theories in pure science.
In this case, the procedure used by the sub-
conscious mind may be the sudden juxtaposi-
tion of two ideas which hitherto had never
been associated before; it may be the spontane-
ous detection of a hidden thread in a series of
facts already observed by her and leading to the
unsuspecjted discovery of a new theory; it can
be the sudden realization of an analogy between
parallel situations in two wholly different disci-
plines; it can be the instantaneous explosion of
a long-awaited solution to a problem; it can
be the hypnotic dissolution of inhibitions of
thought which thus far had prevented her from
accepting a novel conclusion.
These were the methods naturally and spon-
taneously used in the invention of the Fuchsian
series by Poincare, the discovery of cyclic chem-
istry by Kekule, and the discovery of some of
the elements of the atomic bomb by Walter Rus-
sel, long before it became a reality.
Much has yet to be investigated and re-
searched about the true process of discovery
and creativity; the systematic study of creativ-
ity through hypnotic "concentration" might very
well become a whole field in itself.
It has already been demonstrated by the stud-
ies of Dr. Rhine (on the phenomena of telepa-
thy, at Duke) that hypnosis has been used for
creating the proper receptive frame of mind and
16 POWER HYPNOSIS
for eliminating "human and environmental'
interferences.

Self-Hypnosis for Businesspersons

To all and sundry, self-hypnosis offers pri-

marily and automatically an ideal mode of re-
laxation and, when properly applied, constitutes
the real secret of how never to be tired.
To businesspersons self-hypnosis provides that
same automatic source of relaxation and recu-
peration, plus many other benefits, few of which
are presently known to them.
The problem of finding new products, or new
applications or outlets for existing products
currently studied in group brainstorming can —
be much better exploited through self-hypnosis;
self-hypnosis is a one-person brainstorm, offer-
ing the advantage that it can be applied to the
very person or persons best qualified for pro-
ducing the desired results, instead of counting
on the spontaneous production of many minds
rendered free of inhibitions through the very
permissive atmosphere of the brainstorming ses-
sion itself.
What is vastly more important,self-hypnosis
can be used by a businessperson to project a
personal plan covering the six or twelve coming
months, in terms of so much increase in re-
turns, or decrease in expenditures.
To the manager, it can also permit a program
to evolve of hitherto unused fields for profit in
allied or parallel lines of endeavor.
For instance, a businessperson can ask of
his or her subconscious mind: "How can I in-
crease my returns by 50 percent this year?"
 Self Hypnosis: A Tool for Success 17

and get answers that might otherwise have taken

months to leam.
For salespersons, self-hypnosis is above all a
tool for success, giving them the motivation
necessary to reach a given goal. After all, suc-
cess is simply a goal, a plan for attaining it and
the time and determination needed to reach it,
which erodes our perseverance span.
Experience teaches us that it is not so much
the goal or the plan that is lacking, but the
sometimes long, drawn-out period of persever-
ance, and the amount of enthusiasm necessary
to execute the plan and realize the objectives-
Motivation to success is far from being the
sole use of self-hypnosis for salespersons, and
those we know do find for it a vastly greater
array of applications,
Once trained in mental visualization, they
use it for perfecting—by hallucinated "dummy
—
practice'* ^their prospecting methods, their tech-
niques of handling objections, or their presen-
tation.
Special training in the control of emotions
and attitudes can instantly bring them back to
that acme of enthusiasm and "go-get-it which ''

salespeople term "being in top form.**

"Top form" is that earnestness and drive by
which you can "sell refrigerators to the Eski-
mos,** and be so convinced of the worth of the
services you are rendering the prospect by sell-
ing him that you "feel sorry for the prospect if
he does not buy.**
Success motivation is one of the elements of
personality on wtiich self-hypnosis can be most
efficiently used.
To people engaged in creative activities, to
students desirous of surpassing themselves, and
to the average person, self-hypnosis presents
18 POWER HYPNOSIS
the real key to success we have read about in
hundreds of books on self-help.
It does seem as if, after all is said and done,
the true secret more or less diluted in the nu-
merous volumes extolling the "power within,"
the "inner power," the "power of the mind," the
"magic of believing," and all the other tech-
niques, methods, disciplines and/or systems for
success is truly self-hypnosis under a disguise.
 CHAPTER 2
'-

Objective: Discovering Your Own

Electronic Brain

A Blinding Truth

The Eyes Have Never Seen Anything

No matter how surprising such a statement
may seem at first "sight,"it is nevertheless en-
tirely true and can be understood quite easily.
Each individual is provided with five well-
known energy trgmsformers, which have been
called the sense organs, or "windows looking
unto the world."
The eye is one of your openings on the world,
and the genereil belief that the eyes do see is
simply due to the complacent habit of taking
things for granted.
The eye is nothing but a living camera. It is
equipped with a self-adjusting mechanism that
automatically focuses it on an object placed in
front of it. It is also naturally conditioned to
deal with the Intensity of the light impinging
on it by varying the opening of its front aper-
ture, called the pupil.

19
20 POWER HYPNOSIS
If you place an object facing a pinhole punched
in the side of any closed box, the image of that
object (in reverse; upside down and right to
left) will form itself on the inner wall of this
"camera obscura." Such is the principle of the
photographic camera.
Similarly, you place an object in front of
if
your eye, the image of that object will form
itself on the inner wedl located at the back of
the eye, which is called the retina. In the cam-
era, the retina is replaced by an acetate film
coated with a thin emulsion of silver chloride
in gelatin. Rays of light radiating from the ob-
ject decompose the silver chloride in various
degrees on the area where the image is to ap-
pear, proportionately to the intensity of the light
reflected onto each point of impact.
The image on a negative is originalty a pattern
— —
a reticule of variously deep chemical changes
and is nothing else until it is fixed by the disso-
lution of the unaffected silver chloride.
In the eye, the photographic plate, the retina,
is variously affected in its different points (pro-
portionately to the amount of light impinging
upon a given point). The image is a reticule of
chemical changes in the cells of the retina (rods
and cones), and is nothing else until it is fixed
by another operation.
That other operation is the transformation of
"chemical" reticule into an electrical one, which
is transferred onto the back (occipital part) of
the brain.
And, at that moment, you see. Your brain sees.
It is thus true that the eyes do not see, that
they have never seen and will never see an)^ing.
It must therefore be admitted as a possibility
that the brain can see without the cooperation
of the eyes because it always does the seeing
in the first place.
 Discovering Your Own Electronic Brain 21
The Ears Have Never Heard Anything
The ear is another one of those energy trans-
formers that supphes the brain with the final
transformation product of an outside stimulus
called sound.
It does not hear; it transforms a given fre-
quency range of vibrations into electrical im-
pulses in the same way a microphone does it,
and then feeds the electrical signals to the brain,
to an area located on the temporal lobes.
It is therefore equally true that the ear does
not hear, that it has never heard anything and
never will hear an3rthing.
Incidentally, it is a much more frequent oc-
currence than is generally imagined that people
"hear things" without any "explainable" source
of sound to account for the experience. Of
course, they very seldom mention the fact, lest
they be considered slightly deranged.

Paradoxes Galore
By following a similar reasoning, it can thus
be concluded that:
The eye has never seen anything.
The ear has never heard anything.
The nose has never smelled any odor.
The taste buds have never tasted an}^thing.
The hand, or the skin, have never touch^
anything.

The Brain Does It All

As a matter of truth, one must recognize the

total dominance of the brain as the real subject
of all sensory perceptions.
22 POWER HYPNOSIS
The brain does the seeing.
The brain does the hearing.
The brain does the smelling.
The brain does the tasting.
The brain does the touching.
Not only does the brain dominate all senso-
rial functions, but it also dominates the hu-
man functions of feeling (through the thalamus,
science says today), and thinking, and acting.
Everyone is now aware that the brain con-
trols all the vital functions, such as the beating
of the heart, the growth of hsiir and all the
tissues, the digestion of food, assimilation and
elimination, and so on.

CoroUaiy

However, the important conclusion to draw

—
here is that: Once a given sensation an audi-
ogram, a videogram, or any other type of senso-
—
greim ^hcis been registered or, better still, printed
in the brain, the brain no longer needs the
offices of the sense in order to reproduce the
corresponding sensogram.
Everyone knows, if only through the evidence
of dreams, that one can, without the use of
one's eyes, see anything that has already been
seen. One can thus hear anything that has
already been heard or, generally speaking, feel
any sensation that has already been sensed,
without the presence of the appropriate outside
stimulus.
This is what Yoga calls the separation of the
senses and their objects.
 Discovering Your Own Electronic Brain 23

The Wilder Penfleld Experiments

In the course of his research on cancer of the

brain. Wilder Penfleld, the universally known
brain specialist, had to deal with one of the
S3miptoms of cancer of the brain, a frequently
recurring dream that the patient had long be-
fore the detection of the brain tumor.
Pursuing his mental deductions. Doctor Penfield
performed a trepanation on a patient, probing
which involved the exposed brain with a fine
electrical needle. After exploring different areas
on the cortex, he finally discovered a point
which, when electrically stimulated, provoked
— —
in the fully waking state rf the subject ^the
sought after recurrent dream.
He then theorized that the spot that responded
to electrical stimulation by provoking the dream
must be the one affected by the cancerous
growth. He then burned out the suspect micro-
scopic area and stopped the cancerous growth.
During his explorations of the brain, how-
ever, when he touched other spots on the brain,
the patient would suddenfy "see himself," at
age six or eight, attending class, and see his
classmates and his teacher as if he had actually
been attending the class.
This inevitably leads to the conclusion that
sensory perceptions are somehow spatially lo-
cated in the brain and can be restimulated un-
der the proper stimulus, in this case an electrical
needle.
These experiments have become one of the
outstanding proofs of the well-known observa-
tion that nothing is ever forgotten of what one
has ever lived, that it is somehow printed in
24 POWER HYPNOSIS
the brsdn and that it can somehow be re-evoked
under certain stimuli.
The perceptions of the senses are somehow
written in the brain; they have become senso-
grams at the very instant they were experienced
and, in that very instant, they have become a
^e of printed circuit.
Further, the whole experiential content of any
event one ever lives at any moment is printed
in the brain: perceptions, ideations, emotions,
actions and all, in the form of what may be
called "viveograms."

Printed Circuits Are Constellations

The component parts of those events are

printed in different parts of the brain, in the
maimer of electrical constellations or arboriza-
tions, whose components are distributed here
and there in the brain, but which can be rein-
tegrated under the proper stimuli.

How Ton Perceive an Orange

Let us now suppose that you are examining
an orange for the first time in your life. The
mere act of taking the orange in your hands
excites a quantity of minute sense terminals
residing just below your skin; some of them are
sensitive to touch, others to pressure, others to
temperature, and so on.
The electrical signals emitted by those nerves
are sent first to your spinal column and from
—
there to your brain in fact to an area border-
ing the lateral bulk of the brain. Others will be
 Discovering Your Own Electronic Brain 25
distributed to different areas to register the di-
mensions, the shape of the orange, the texture
of its rind, and such.
Coming from your eyes, nerve impulses will
somehow "organize*' different cells of your brain
to register the color and other visual aspects of
the orange, such as the appearance of the ob-
long vesicles that you will find when you have
peeled it.
Other cells, in other areas of the brain, will
register the taste of the orange and, in still other
areas of your brain, groups of cells will organize
themselves to register the circumstances of the
event, such as the temperature of the room, the
sunshine coming through the windows onto
the orange, and so on.
And all these details are registered in diverse
parts of the brain. Thus far, consideration has
been given only to the circuits printed on the
cortex, the outer zone of your brain.
But that is far from being the whole picture.
In another part of the brain, the thalamus is
at the same time registering the emotions that
accompany the perception of that orange.
And so, for the simple perception of an or-
ange, a vast electrical network of cerebral cells
is appropriately eiffected to register the event.
Later on, or at that moment, you will associ-
ate the word orange to that object you now
have in your hands. Later, perhaps, the equiva-
lent words in Spanish or Italian or German will
again be associated with this entire printed
circuit.
And the constellation will continue to grow
as you add to your knowledge of oranges; and
the entire arborization will later be reactivated
by the stimulus of any facsimile of it that will
suffice to excite it, oftentimes a single compo-
26 POWER HYPNOSIS
nent of the whole constellation, such as the
name.

The Role of the Conscious Mind

And what is your conscious mind doing all

that time?
It observes, one at a time, the different senso-
rial impressions that are fed into your subcon-
—
scious mind ^the physical seat of which is
the whole nervous system and principally the
brain.
It is a witness to the process, just like the
operator of an electronic brain who looks at the
dials and takes the readings.
It is not the agent that distributes the nu-
merous components of the perception in vari-
ous parts of the brain. Generally, it does not
even suspect their existence.
During that time, the subconscious mind has
picked up a whole gamut of additional informa-
tion that your conscious mind has not noticed,
such as the shape, color, and pattern of the
drapes in the room, the pieces of ftimiture about
you, and a quantity of such details.
And later, under hypnosis, you could be made
to resee the whole thing, one detail at a time,
because hypnosis is one of the states of mind
in which tJie conscious mind can become a
witness taking inventory of what is in the sub-
conscious mind.
As you are reading these lines, your conscious
mind may now "fish back" in your subconscious
mind the facts that the orange is something
reddish-yeUow, sweet, pulpy, and so on.
 Discovering Your Own Electronic Brain 27

Circuit Resonance

And so, for each perception, for ^ach sensa-

tion,and each event that happens or has hap-
pened in your life, an entire constellation of
neutral patterns is printed in your brain, a
constellation that never seems to erase itself, as
shown by the experiments of Wilder Penfield
and the various demonstrations of hypnosis.
Such a constellation is subject to the stimulus-
response mechanism. It may be restimulated
— —
by any element of itself or ^better yet ^by any
reasonable approximation or facsimile of itself.
Henceforth, when someone begins to talk to
you of "a reddish-yellow fruit, round, with a
slightly pitted rind, sweet to the taste ..," you
.

will be thinking of an orange.

Similarly, if I now begin to describe to you
"a furry quadruped, with a short bushy tail,
and long ears, famous for its craving for car-
rots . .," you have already thought of a rabbit.
.

Everything happens as though there were in

the brain some associative area, the function of
which is to provoke, through an instantaneous
tj^e of electrical resonance, the restimulation
of all electrical constellations that possess a given
common element, when that element acts as a
stimulus.
And that common element may be sensorial,
ideational, emotional, or motor.
Thus, if I mention the word yellow, you can
instantly retrace the following constellations:
Butter
Orange
Sun
Gold
28 POWER HYPNOSIS
Aunt Alice's dress
and so on

Your "VIveotapes"

For every event in our life, a whole galaxy of

constellations is formed to register the senso-
rial circumstances. The physiological conditions
of the moment, the feelings, the surroundings,
and the time involved, all are somehow regis-
tered in the brain, subconsciously.
Making them much more complete than the
videotape, the subconscious mind constantly
works at registering the viveotape of our life.
And that viveotape can be replayed in sequence
for any "length" of it.
Or a single stimulus can provoke the instan-
taneous pickup of bits, however widely distrib-
uted on tiie tape, which contains that stimulus
as a common element.
This is truly a universe in which the "bat of
an eye makes the stars twinkle."
A hypnoticsuggestion is a "custom-printed"
part of our viveotape made up of desirable
"resonators."
Any word, any sentence or gesture, any stim-
ulus can thus be likened to a "fishing hook"
lowered into the subconscious mind. Any stim-
ulus is a resonating vibrator that activates,
somehow, and to a certain degree, the synchro-
meshed responses in all the constellations ever
registered in the subconscious mind.
 Discovering Your Own Electronic Brain 29

More Corollaries

Thinking

What isgenerally called thinking is merely a

continuous unwinding of the myriad of images
thus stored in the brain in the form of elec-
tronic constellations, each word or each idea or
emotion bringing on the next, under the laws
of association of ideas.
Such is the basis of Freud's "free associa-
tion," or "daydreaming aloud," or "thinking
aloud."

Memoiy
That which is called memory is the resonance
of the accumulated and related printed circuits
under the stimulus of a question coming from
the outside or from oneself.
The more vividly the connected printed cir-
cuits have been impressed in the neural loci,
the richer the constellations that contain the
basis of information searched, the easier and
the more rapid is the recall.

Imagination

Imagination is the faculty of rearranging into

a new image any number of parts of previously
acquired constellations.
It functions under the computerlike laws of
resonance of the different constellations under
the probing of a given "theme."
30 POWER HYPNOSIS
Conditioned Reflexes

It can readily be seen that, in the case of the

perception of an orange, the condition of the
integration of the different elements of an or-
ange into a constellation is merely the proxim-
ity in space of those elements.
In case of conditioned reflexes, it is the prox-
imity in time that becomes the condition for
constellating two different bits of experience, to
use the computer language.
Thanks to the work of Ivan Pavlov, we have a
better understanding of the immense role played
by conditioned reflexes in daily life, in our
methods of thinking* in learning, and in our
stimulus-response mechanism.
It is because of his research on conditioned
reflexes that we can now better understand the
secrets of human learning and of hypnotism.

Hypnotism
Everyone knows the story of Pavlov and his
dogs. Every time he would take food to a dog, a
bell would be rung, and the secretion of saliva
provoked by the meat stimulus would be mea-
sured.
After a few hundred repetitions with the meat,
the sole sound of the bell would provoke the
same amount of salivation.
It was then deduced after experiments were
done on a sufficiently large number of subjects,
that:
When two or more stimuli happen together,
one of which naturally produces a physio-
logical effect, and the other is merely asso-
 Discovering Your Own Electronic Brain 31

elated in time with it, it happens that, after

a certain number of repetitions, the neutral
stimulus produces the same effect as the
stimulus, which is casually related with the
said effect,
Everjrthing happens as if:
Simultaneity equals causality for the brain.
Such a result is not logical, but it is true to
fact.
It is unbelievable, but it istrue.
It is absurd, but it is quite easily demon-
strable.
In the same fashion, a woman "insulted'' by
an overstimulated lover, in a garden full of
roses—^with or without the benefit of moonlight
—^wiU later develop an allergy to roses.

Learning

It isthrough a similar process of conditioned

reflex that you believe that a piece of furniture
that has four legs and a top on which you can
either write, eat, or lean is a table.
But try and make a German, or a French
person, or a Spaniard, or an Italian believe that
such a piece of furniture is a "table" and listen
to his or her vehement protestations.
To them, that is not a table, but ein Tisch,
une table, una mesa, or una tavola, resp)ectivety.
They merely have been conditioned differently
than you have; associated the object with a
different sound, a different bell.
32 POWER HYPNOSIS
Hypnotism Defined

Hypnotism Is the quickest method known by

which an operator does somehow:

1. Bypass the conscious mind.

2. Restimulate a facsimile of natural
sleep.
3. a. exploit the printed circuits of the
subconscious mind or
b. print new desirable circuits or
erase old, undesirable ones through
suggestion or reflex conditioning, or
c. accelerate or ameliorate the natu-
ral mental processes.

In other words, hypnotism is a choice tech-

nique for exploiting the subconscious, by by-
passing the conscious mind.
In hetero-hypnosis, the operator is another
human.
In self-hypnosis, the operator is your own
conscious mind.

Trademarks of the Conscious and

Subconscious Minds

The subconscious mind works automatically;

totally lacks the capacity of evaluation; has no
awareness of its own processes; c£innot per-
form any criticism or examination of what goes
into it; it is the full storehouse, at one and the
same time, of all previous acquisitions; and
never sleeps.
 Discovering Your Own Electronic Brain 33
The conscious mind has the power of choice;
—
has awareness of what goes on one thing at a
—
time in the subconscious mind or the envi-
—
ronment; can evaluate ^by referral to the inner
computer of the subconscious mind; has the
faculty of criticizing before it accepts; can
hold only one idea at a time in its focus; has
the power of will; and can go to sleep or be
awake.
Let us remember: It is not the subconscious
mind that goes to sleep: it cannot do it while
you are alive.

Dangers of Hypnosis

Because it is only one of the methods of ex-

ploiting the powers of the subconscious mind,
h5rpnosis is no more dangerous than any of the
other methods and techniques of doing it.
It all depends on the operator.

Various Methcxls of Bypassing the

Conscious Mind

In the definition of hypnosis, we have stated

— —
that it is one and the quickest ^method known
to bypass the conscious mind. It is far from
being the only one or the most subtle method.
Hypnosis offers this advantage over the other
methods: You can recognize it readily by the
fact that its setting, by definition, comprises
the facsimile of natural sleep.
Other techniques exist for bypassing the con-
scious mind and exploiting the subconscious
34 POWER HYPNOSIS
—
mind for the advantage of the operator much
more than the advsintage of the subject.
Some of the more obvious ones could thus be
stated:
HABITS—They are automatic.
INDOCTRINATION—Think of Hitler.
REPETITION—The "most eloquent fig-
ure of speech," said Napoleon: the fa-
vorite method of "big" advertising.
MONOIDEISM—-A technique used in
quite a few mental disciplines.
In the definition of hypnosis that we have
proposed, note the word somehow. ("Somehow
bypass the conscious mind.")
The somehows are indeed quite numerous. A
short list would compromise the following:
Conditioned reflexes
Trickery
Drugs
Rhythm, such as dance
Fear
Faith
Authority
Prestige
Relaxation
Natural sleep
Persuasion
Intense emotions, such as anger
Hyperventilation
H)rpoventilation
Asceticism
Concentration
and others

The Method of This Book

In order to educate you in the proficient use
of self-hypnosis, we will be using, as methods
 Discovering Your Own Electronic Brain 35
of b)rpassing the conscious mind in order to
exploit the potentialities of your subconscious
mind, the following artifices:
Monoideism
Conditioned reflexes
Repetition

Self-Hypnosis: A Two-Phase Process

Phase 1 . You will learn how to—and you will

produce hypnosis in yourself, for a predeter-
mined number of minutes, anjrtime, anywhere,
at will.

Phase2. You will be tutored in exploiting your

own subconscious mind, by using such tech-
niques as will best suit your custom-made
needs as a student.

The general approach to those two phases

can be seen by consulting the Contents.
PART TWO

Acquiring Self-Hypnosis
 CHAPTER 3

Objective: Acquiring Self-Hypnosis

A Bird's-eye View of the Chapter

This chapter is intended to help you acquire

four conditioned reflexes.
Those four conditioned reflexes will produce
for you:

1 Instantaneous relaxation of the arms.

2. Instantaneous relaxation of the legs.
3. Instantaneous and automatic closure
of the eyes.
4. Instantaneous integration of the
three previous exercises into one sin-
gle formula. This formula will there-
after be your key for self-hypnosis.

Note: At different intervals, you will be

cautioned not to pass on to the next exer-
cise before you have completed and au-
tomatized the previous conditioned reflex.

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Therefore, no more time will be spent on the
precautionary notice except to e}q)l£dn here, once
and for all, that the gradual acquisition of self-
hypnosis is much easier and faster if you follow
the practice of acquiring each of the four au-
tomatisms explained and described in this chap-
ter, one at a ttme —
^that is, successively.

Dehypnotizing Yourself on Hypnosis

Hypnotists constantly hear a subject contend

that he or she "was not under hypnosis be-
cause ..."
To eliminate at the outset some of those some-
times irritating "becauses," let us answer some
of the questions that should be answered in
order to clarify the experience. Let us now dis-
cuss the most usual questions in the order of
priority by frequency:

Will I Lose Consciousness?

No matter how deep you go under hypnosis,

you will never lose consciousness. People who
have ever "awakened" during the night to go to
the bathroom and claimed the next morning
that they "did not remember doing it" have (a)
passed from sleep into hypnosis and (b) had
themselves a slight case of amnesia without
ever taking notice of it.
The experience of "waking up" in the morn-
ing, knowing that you were dreaming, turning
over in your bed and going back to sleep is
another instance of "natural" hypnosis.
Daydreaming could be a fair analogy to hyp-
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nosis. Hypnosis Is actually a facsimile of a nat-

ural sleep "in which you could witness your
own sleep"; subjects have even been known to
remark that "I heard myself snoring."
So, do not expect to lose consciousness, to go
"out of this world," or to experience some ex-
traordinary bit of sensorial or emotional, bi-
zarre condition.
When the stage hypnotist suggests to his sub-
ject of the moment that "he is out in the Trop-
ics, that it is 100 degrees and ," the subject,
. . .

who everyone believes to be "asleep," begins to

perspire and proceeds to take off his coat. He
must have "heard" the suggestion and, there-
fore, was not asleep. He was hypnotized, but
not asleep.
We repeat: Hypnosis is a state of conscious-
ness in which the conscious mind is somehow
b3T)assed and which elicits a facsimile of natu-
ral sleep, but the conscious mind still remains
as a witness to the whole affair.
So, do not expect to be asleep, when and as
you go under hypnosis. Expect to be in a state
of total relaxation, reproducing most of the outer
aspects of natural sleep; you will not be asleep.

How Do I Know I Will Awaken?

Contrary to the first group of people, who
insist upon
losing consciousness, this brand of
questioner wants to be reassured that he or
she will "come out of it." Not only are these
people afraid that they will "go out of this
world," they even fear that they may never come
back to it.
As all the textbooks on hypnosis will tell you,
in hetero-hypnosis, if the operator should hap-
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pen to drop dead, while he has a subject "un-
der," because the "rapport" is broken two things
may happen:
1. The subject will wake up by himself
or
2. The hypnotic "sleep" will be changed
into a state of natural sleep, which
would then last, according to the
sleep needs of the subject, anywhere
from five minutes to a few hours.

Moreover, the exercises you will be practicing

In the following pages will permit you to frac-
tionate the effects. The exercises in this chap-
ter will only produce a light hypnoidal state,
and you will, before you reach the fifth exer-
cise, have become conditioned to bringing your-
self out of whatever hypnosis you may attain,
at your own discretion.
Finally, if you should still be fearful of not
waking up, just set an alarm clock to five min-
utes after the beginning of your exercises, and
that will be that.

Why Did My Mind Keep Wandering?

If ever hypnotists are called upon to make a
list of their pet peeves, this would certainly
come as the third item in the series of com-
plednts they would express on their subjects.
In hypnosis, your mind most likely will be
wandering because it is natural for the mind to
wander, such wandering being merely the sub-
vocal association of ideas, which is commonly
called thinking.
We will be using a certain manner of "playing
broken record," which will reduce your mind
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wandering to a minimum, but do not expect
that your mind will be so "glued" to the idea
—
you are holding on to through your "pla3^ng
—
broken record" that it won't wander at all.
So, if you find that your mind does wander
during your exercises, just let it wander.

Maybe I Was Trying Tira Hard?

The answer to that question has already been
given a couple thousand years ago: '*Who,
amongst you, can increase his stature one inch
by his will?"
No amount of willing, of trying, of striving, of
helping yourself toward obtaining the goal of
each exercise will ever help you one iota.
In fact, the more you try, the less you will
succeed.
One should be cautioned about trying to "con-
centrate." Concentration has, alas, been mis-
leadingly associated with the cramped tension
of Rodin's The Thinker. The type of concentra-
tion you will be called upon to do will be a
passive concentration.
The only "trying" that is expected of you is to
try and keep your exercises regular.
If you want to demonstrate to yourself the
futility of trying to will an effect, if you want to
settle the question for yourself once and for all,
the following "pencil experiment" will do it for
you.
Hold a pencil between your right thumb and
index finger. Hold the pencil tight, and now
repeat to yourself, mentally: "I want to drop
this pencil."
You could repeat that affirmation till dooms-
day and still be unable to drop that pencil. In
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order to drop It, you must first change your
thought to "I am dropping this pencil."

Is It Dangerous?
Hypnosis, being a facsimile of natural sleep,
is no more dangerous than natural sleep, or
daydreaming. Let us recall once more that a
violent burst of emotion, such as anger, makes
you just as susceptible to suggestion as hypno-
sis. Spontaneous productions or projections
would no more be provoked by hypnosis than
they are by other events in the user's daily life.

How Do I Know I Can Do It Myself?

You can settle this question by a very simple
experiment you can make now.
Stand up by a wall, at an approximate dis-
tance of ten inches, with your back to the wall,
heels together on the floor, eyes closed.
Now, repeat silently: "I am falling to the wall,"
like a broken record; if you hold that thought
in your mind, by merety repeating it like a bro-
ken record, you will fall to the wall and con-
vince yourself of the power of Monoideism.
You will have demonstrated for yourself the
so-called power of the mind. You will know that
"any thought that you hold in your mind (or
that somebody else hammers into it) long enough
will express itself in your body, if it concerns
your bocfy, or becomes truth to you."
If you repeat the preceeding sentence, in the
manner indicated, and you do not fall to the
wall, you are still responding to another thought
that you had in your mind before the exercise
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or that your own subconscious mind is machine-
gunning at the same time as you repeat it.
However, if you let go of the Johny-contrary
in you, you will fall to the wall, and that is
inevitable.
Acquiring self-hypnosis is merely a sequence
of such resonances of the printed circuits in
your electronic brain and, having exploited one
set, you know you can control the others.

Playing Broken Record

One of the formulas for bypassing the con-

scious mind in order to exploit the subcon-
scious mind, and producing a facsimile of
natural sleep (hypnotizing), is a reduction of
the afferent stimuli.
Because each object that your eyes focus upon
initiates a train of thoughts, it is immediately
evident that you must do those exercises with
your eyes closed.
Once more, for the identical reason of reduc-
ing the stimulation by the environment, the
sentences that you will use will be repeated
mentally.
Of course, you may be unable to prevent the
movements of your lips as you repeat those
sentences mentally, mechanically, like a broken
record. Subvocalization should not bother you
in the least. It should not even be considered as
an obstacle.
Obviously, what we mean by "playing broken
record" is repeating something in the fashion
of a broken record, over and over again, just
like a broken record in which the needle con-
stantly returns to the previous groove.
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For instance, the first sentence of your first
exercise is "My right arm is heavy." After as-
suming your preferred position, and closing your
eyes, you will repeat mentally the sentence:
"My right arm is heavy" in a continuous, me-
chanical, machinelike fashion, just as a broken
record would do.
Each sentence composing that exercise Num-
ber 1 will be repeated approximately ten times.
You should not be concerned about the num-
ber of times that you have repeated each sen-
tence and whether it was eight, nine, ten, or
eleven.
If you find yourself preoccupied with this de-
tail, use the following strategy.
One—^My right arm is heavy.
—
Two ^My right arm is heavy.
Three—^My right arm is heavy, and so on,
up to ten, after which you continue to
the next sentence, proceeding in the
same fashion.

How to Terminate Each Exercise

Each exercise in this chapter (and in several

of the chapters that foUow) will automatically
be terminated, and without exception, by re-
peating three times the sentence: "Everjrtiiing
is normal."
such termination of one exercise,
After each
you should get up, stretch, and walk around
for about one minute. Then you are ready to
repeat the exercise.
This method of terminating each exercise has
these aims:
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1. Eliminate the residual effects of the
previous one.
2. Assure yourself that when you repeat
the exercise, you are not benefiting
at the start from the momentum of
the preceding exercise.

Body Postures

Two positions are herein described and illus-

trated for the daily practicing of your exercises.
They are the body positions from which you
will get the best resiilts because they reduce to
a minimum the level of afferent stimuli.
Those exercises should preferably be practiced
in a quiet room, under a subdued light, in order
to minimize the possibilities of disturbances.
All tight pieces of clothing, all hindrances to
the free relaxation of the body (glasses, belt,
wristwatch, etc.) should be loosened
girdle, tie,
or put aside.
Whether you prefer a horizontal or a seated
position, some optimal conditions are desirable,
even if you should not make a ritual of it.

Lying on a Couch

The student will soon notice whether the lying

position (couch or bed) is preferable for him or
her. If the prone position is chosen, lie on your
back, with the legs slightly parted and relaxed,
so that the feet frequently form an open V; a
light support under the back of the knees, such
as folded bedclothes or a cushion, will help ob-
tain the maximal relaxation of the legs.
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Heels should not touch. You can discover the
most comfortable positions of the head and the
shoulders by tr3^ng various methods of sup-
porting them.
The arms are stretched out alongside the body,
loose and relaxed. The fingers are slightly pcirted
and preferably should not touch the body.

Sitting Down
The exercises could just as easily be done in a
sitting position, on the sole condition of noting
certain physiological and anatomical factors.
Choose a chair with a reclining back or a
straight-back chair, according to your personal
preference.
The back of the reclining chair should be
high enough to support the head as it rests
comfortably on it. The hands and the fingers
should be placed on the arms of the chair; or
better yet, hung loosely from the sides of the
chair.
The legs should be approximately parallel while
the thighs make a slight angle.
The ordinary sitting chair is often the type of
seat used because it permits one to practice at
any time of the day and in any place.
The feet will be placed squarely on the floor,
the hcinds and arms resting on the lap, the
edge of the seat must not apply undue pressure
on the thighs or back of the knees.
Use the position in which you would take a
nap.
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The Price Must Be Right

This book will permit you to acquire self-

hypnosis and all its ensuing benefits if you
follow the recommendations given.
There is no amount of reading and re-reading
you may do that will dispense you in any fash-
ion from actually doing the prescribed exercises
— and passing them.
In order to acquire anjrthing, and especially a
new psychological facility, the right price must
be paid.
The price in this case is the conscientious
and regular practicing of the exercises. In order
to dispose of the natural inertia, it might be a
good idea to read the first chapter over and
over again, but it is useless to think of passing
on to Chapter 4 without first passing this third
chapter.
Another method of overcoming inertia is to
put aside each day a regular time in which to
do these exercises. If you spend two sessions
—
per day two sessions of fifteen minutes each
—on the exercises of this chapter, as indicated,
and under normal conditions, you should at-
tain a reasonable degree of self-hypnosis within
ten to fifteen days.
Some of you may even be able to pass this
chapter and get the desired effects within one
week.
The speed depends upon your own individu-
ality, but the results can be attained by
all with
time and practice.
You will find a ton of motivation in the fol-
lowing consideration:
If you have to spend thirty hours of your
time, in all. to securing the advantages offered
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by Chapters 3, 4, and 5 of this book, it is
equivalent to gaining five hundred free hours
during your college years.
And the advantages of self-hypnosis can be
yours for a lifetime.

Exercise Number 1

Aim
Immediate relaxation of arms and neighbor-
ing muscles by using five repetitions of one
sentence; that sentence is: "Both my arms aire
heavy as lead."

Method
Mechanical repetition of five different senten-
ces, ten — —
times each ^with eyes closed ^and of
one terminal sentence, three times; that sen-
tence is: "Everything is normal."

Automatic Effects

A gradual acceleration, facilitation, and en-

hancing of the effects so that the total effect
can be obtained by the single repetition of one
sentence, five times; that sentence is: "Both my
arms are heavy as lead,'' followed by the same
terminal sentence given previously.
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Printed circiiits used

1. Heaviness of the arms, experienced

thousands of times in natural sleep,
after a hard day's work or a long,
tiresome drive at the wheel of your
car.
2. Imagining your muscles as employ-
ees going on a strike, as loose and
limp as wet rags.

Techniques Used for Bypassing the

Conscious Mind

1. Conditioned reflex.
2. Memory bank of the subconscious
mind.
3. Repetition.
4. Motivation through desire of goals.

The Broken Record

The five sentences used in succession are:

1. My right arm is heavy.

2. My right arm Is very heavy.
3. My left arm is heavy.
4. My left arm is very heavy.
5. Both my arms are heavy as lead.

While the subject repeats these sentences, he

passively keeps thinking about his arm, from
the tips of the fingers to the very shoulder.
He imagines those muscles to be his employ-
ees, which can only do one of two things: either
be taut and tense or working, or loose and
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limp, and not working, going on a strike, as if
they got the zero message from headquarters, as
wet pieces of string, as elastics he has let go of.
Such imagining has to be done in a passive,
relaxed manner.

Procedure
1. Set yourself in the body position of
your choice.
2. Close your eyes.
3. Mentally repeat each sentence ten
times.
4. Get up, stretch yourself, walk around,
and do it once more in the same
fashion and then, once more.

Series of Three Per Session

Exercise Number 1 lasts approximately three

minutes. Do it three times per session. Each
repetition of the exercise is separated by ap-
proximately one minute.

Total Duration:

Eleven minutes and that session is over.

Ideally, you should do three sessions per day.

Important Notice
Do not divert your attention by trying to be at
the same time the actor and the audience, by
trjring to notice the effects during your exer-
cises. You will have ample time to recapitulate
the events after your session is over.
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Passing Grades

When you can feel the total and immediate

relaxation and heaviness of the arms by merely
repeating, as indicated in "Aim," five times,
the single sentence: "Both my arms are heavy as
lead" and then terminating the effect by the three-
time repetition of the sentence "Everything is
normal," you may pass on to the next exercise,
to exercise number two.

Exercise Number 2

Aim
Immediate relaxation of legs and neighboring
muscles by using five repetitions of one sen-
tence; that sentence is: "Both my legs are heavy
as lead."
The method, the automatic effects, the printed
circuits used, the procedure, the series of three
exercises per session, the Important Notice al-
ready mentioned are the same as those in the
Exercise Number 1.
The technique and the broken record method
are also the same. The five sentences are even
the same except in each sentence:
The word arm has been replaced by the word
leg.
The imagined pictures should be the same,
and the following sentences are reiterated for
the purpose of reinforcement.
They are:

1. My right leg is heavy.

2. My right leg is very heavy.
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3. My left leg is heavy.
4. My left leg is very heavy.
5. Both my legs are heavy as lead.

As in the previous exercise, begin by sitting

in the accustomed position, closing your eyes,
and repeating each sentence ten times (don't
wony about the number of times), and termi-
nate the exercise by using the same sentence
three times (Ever3rthing is normal).
The exercise is again practiced in ten to fifteen-
minute sessions permitting three repetitions of
the exercise. As in the previous case, don't
bother to observe the effects during the exer-
cises, and the same processes of acceleration
and facilitation will be observed until you can
pass the test.

, Passing Exercise Number Two

You can consider yourself as having obtained
passing ^ades when you can feel the total and
immediate relaxation and heaviness of the two
legs by merely repeating, as indicated in "Aim"
for this exercise, five times, the single sentence:
"Both my legs are heavy as lead," and then
terminating the effect by repeating three times
the sentence "Everything is norm^."

Exercise Number 3

Aim
Immediate and automatic closure of the eyes
by using the given series of five sentences, saying
each sentence once.
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Acquiring Self-Hypnosis 55
Method
Mechanical repetition of five sentences, ten
times each, the eyes being open at the start,
and one terminal sentence, three times; that
sentence is: "Eveiything is normal/'

Automatic Effects
The same gradual acceleration of the process
as in the previous exercises, so that the total
effect can be obtained by the repetition of each
sentence once.

Printed Circuits Used

Imagine two tiny but strong magnets glued

to the lower and upper lids of each eye and of
opposite poles, pulling one another.

The Broken Record

The five sentences used in succession, and
each being repeated ten times are:

1. My eyelids are heavy.

2. My eyelids are very heavy.
3. My eyelids are heavy as lead.
4. My eyes are closing.
5. My eyes are closed tight.

Procedure
1 Set yourself in your customaiy position.
2. Mentally repeat each sentence ten
times, as you keep "imagining" the
magnets at work.
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3. Close your eyes (if you have ima-
gined the magnets they cannot fail
to close).
4. Repeat the terminal sentence three
times.
5. Get up, stretch, walk around, and
repeat to a total of three exercises.

Passing Grades

When your eyes close automatically as you

mentally say each sentence, once to yourself,
you have passed this exercise £ind you may go
on to the next one.

Exercise Number 4

Aim
Light hypnosis at the count of twenty.

Printed Circuits Used

1. Previous exercises.
2. Association (natural) of eye closure
with sleep, thereby initiating facsim-
ile of it.

3. Conditioned reflex produced by this

exercise.

Sentences Used

For this last exercise of this chapter, the stu-

dent will count each sentence as he repeats it.
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The student, having assumed the customaiy
posture, will mentally repeat:
—
One ^Both my arms are heavy as lead.
—
Two ^Both my arms are heavy as lead.
—
Three ^Both my arms are heavy as lead.
—
Four Both my arms are heavy as lead.
—
Five ^Both my arms are heavy as lead.
The counts from six to ten will be followed by
the sentence: Both my legs are heavy as lead.
The counts from eleven to fifteen will be fol-
lowed by the sentences already used when pass-
ing the previous exercises, and the counts
sixteen to twenty will be followed by the sentence:
Heavier with each breath, which he will men-
tally repeat as the condensation of the longer
sentence: "My whole body is heavier with each
breath." The terminal sentence, as in all previ-
ous exercises, will again be: "Everything is nor-
mal," repeated three times.

Procedure
It will be sufficient to practice this exercise
twice per session.
The use of an al2irm clock could, in certain
cases, be useful to condition yourself from drift-
ing into natural sleep.
The alarm clock should be set for five min-
utes, so as to condition the subconscious mind
to the time lapse of five minutes for future uses.

Passing Grades
The student may consider that he has passed
this exercisewhen he can get the same effects
by the mere counting from one to twenty and
then, go on to the next chapter.
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General Considerations

As any one of the exercises given in this chap-

ter is practiced by the student, he or she will
notice a gradual and steady process of accelera-
tion, facilitation, and intensification of the ef-
fects described by the sentences used. The
printing and reprinting of the neural patterns
increases the "conductivity" of the neural paths
concerned, which is another way of sa)ring that
practice makes perfect.

Marginal Effects

There sometimes occurs, and there may oc-

cur in your case, during the practice of those
exercises, some more or less well-defined "fringe
effects."
They may be benefits in that they are pleas-
ant and they may be deficits because they are
slightly annoying. Those side effects could be
sensations of cold, warmth, or itchiness, or au-
tomatic motions of the extremities (fingers, for
instance).
Some people may have a slight feeling of light-
ness or dizziness or a slight numbness of one
hand, and so on.
As long as those effects are not unpleasant,
they might as well be ignored because they will
gradually disappear. As you know now, they are
due to physiological association with some ele-
ment of the situation.
If, in some extraordinary case, such sensa-
tions should become too disagreeable, consult
a certified hypnotist/hypnotherapist. (See page
171.)
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CHAPTER

Objective: Deepening and

Timing Hypnosis

This chapter has two objectives, both of which

will be pursued simultaneously: the deepening
of the state of slight hypnosis obtained through
the previous chapter and the timing of the hyp-
notic "sleep."
The deepening of the hypnotic state will be
effectuated by the use of mental imagery.
The timing will be done by using an alarm
clock to "prime*' the inner clock, the mecha-
nism that evaluates time, the subconscious
mind.
The two phases of this chapter will therefore
overlap and the student, should, quite easily,
distinguish the alternation of the two objectives
as we proceed.

Posthypnotic Suggestions

This chapter introduces the method by which

allposthypnotic suggestions are to be given to
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the subconscious mind; and that method is to
make —
the image ^the blueprint of the suggestion
— ^before one goes under hypnosis.

The Sttbconscioiis Mind

The subconscious mind can be compared to
a vast electronic brain or computer. It has been
stated that the subconscious mind is the most
elaborate, the most perfect, and the most com-
plicated electronic brain that has ever exited.
There is not enough money or enough knowl-
edge to make an electronic calculator tiiat could
compare with the subconscious mind. In fact,
no one has been able to determine what it can-
not do.
It has cured people of diseases cataloged as
incurable by medicine, in shrines throughout
the world such as Lourdes, Guadeloupe, Ste.
Anne de Beaupre, and elsewhere.
It has already been documented In the literature
on the subject of the subconscious mind that:

1. It has been known to extract the

square or cubic root of any number at
the mere suggestion of the problem.
2. It has been known to multiply a six-
figure by a ten-figure number in-
stantaneously.
3. Some individuals are able to tell,
without any kind of "thinking," the
day of the week of any date in history.
4. Edgar Cayce could, without ever
having seen the subject, determine
which organ or function in his or
her body was "out of kilter" and also
prescribe, from a number of the ther-
 Deepening and Timing Hypnosis 61
apeutic disciplines, which medicine,
treatment, or adjustment would ef-
fectuate the cure.

And so on.
We know that the subconscious mind is the
reservoir of all perceptions ever amassed up to
this day in your life, and that includes all the
lectures you have ever attended, all the classes
you ever took and all the reading you ever did
in your life.
You could spend an entire lifetime investigat-
ing the potentialities of your subconscious mind
and still not exhaust them. This presentation of
a few of the known facts about the subconscious
mind has been brief, so that you may realize that
such applications as you will be working on
represent only a small fraction of its possibilities.
Similarly, the doubts will be eradicated from
your conscious mind about your capability of
performing these exercises.

Phase One: Training in

Deepening Hypnosis

Procedure
Clock-timed hypnosis (for five minutes) plus
visual imagery
Each exercise will be numbered and no stan-
dards of visualization should be deemed essential.

Imagery to Be Used
In Exercise Number 5: staircase, escalator,
and elevator.
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In Exercise Number 6: a pendulum.
In Exercise Number 7: a hammock.
In Exercise Number 8: slides.
In Exercise Number 9: preferred image.

Note: In all the exercises of this chapter,

no effort should be made to mentally "see"
the images suggested.

Exercise Number 5

You are to put yourself to "sleep" for five

minutes.
Before you put yourself to sleep, you make
the blueprint that you are going to imagine
during those five minutes, without tr5ring, striv-
ing, willing, or forcing the effect, as follows:
You are walking down a very long staircase,
with heavily carpeted steps so as to absorb the
sounds. Each step bears the inscription sleep.
On the walls of that staircase at certain inter-
vals you see signs sa5ring sleep, or maybe an
arrow, pointing toward the bottom of the stairs,
saying, deep sleep, indicating that, as you are
walking down that staircase, you are walking
into relaxation, into heaviness, into weU-being,
and toward that identical feeling you might have
felt, if you could have, during that night when
you slept soundest and deepest, awakened "with-
out waking up," just to witness your own sleep.
At some point on that staircase, you covdd
imagine that you are approaching a landing
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where there is an escalator, just as in large
department stores, each step bearing the in-
You then imagine yourself going
scription SLEEP.
down, down, deeper and deeper into that which
has been called hypnotic sleep, but is merely a
facsimile of natural sleep, reproducing the outer
aspects of natural sleep but in which you al-
ways remain aware of the outside world, even if
it does seem remote and uninteresting. When
you get off the escalator, you imagine that you
use the staircase again, or that you are now on
a landing, in front of open doors of an elevator,
and then you yourself press the button that
sends the elevator down, at your own good speed,
down, down, deeper and deeper and deeper into
hypnosis. And, when the elevator stops, you
use the staircase or the escalator or the eleva-
tor, until the five minutes have elapsed or the
alarm clock rings the five minutes, or you think
to yourself: "Ever3rthing is normal,'' or, count to
yourself, mentally, downward, from 20 to zero.
And this exercise is terminated.

Exercise Number 6

You are to put yourself under, by counting

from 1 to 20, for five minutes.
Before you put yourself to sleep, you make
the blueprint that you are going to imagine,
during those five minutes, without trying, striv-
ing, willing, or forcing the effect, the following:
You are observing a pendulum, beating to
and fro, the pendulum beat to the right
meaning deep and the pendulum beat to
the left meaning sleep.
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The pendulum could be a simple bob
hanging from a string, or it could be the
pendulum of a clock, or it could be the
pendulum of a metronome. It could be a
Foucault pendulum.
You may vary the speed of the pendulum,
making it slower and making it faster, so
as to choose that rhythm the subconscious
mind prefers; and being the speed the sub-
conscious mind prefers, it will be most
effective.
You will keep on imagining that pendu-
lum for the duration of the five minutes,
timing yourself with an alarm clock or
depending on your inner clock if it has
already been adequately trained in that
respect.

Note: Do not worry at this point whether

you can "see" with your mind's eye the
images suggested. Some of you will not,
at this stage of your training; but the mere
imagining, whether the mental images
be hazy, cloudy, grossly delineated, or
totally nonexistent, will produce the in-
tended effect, which is to deepen the
hypnosis.

Later on, exercises will be specifically designed

to cultivate the inner vision.
 Deepening and Timing Hypnosis 65

Exercise Number 7

You are to put yourself under for five minutes,

with the usual key of counting from 1 to 20.
Before putting yourself to sleep, make the
blueprint that you are going to imagine, during
those five minutes and without trying, striving,
willing to forcing the effect, the following:
You are now tying in a hammock, out in the
country somewhere or in your own back-
yard. There is beautiful sunshine, the tem-
perature is ideal, and the hammock is
stretched between two trees. The branches
of the trees protect you from the direct rays
of the sun, but permit you to see and watch
fleecy white clouds slowly drifting by in the
blue sky, just drifting away and taking with
them all cares, all worries, all tensions, men-
tal or muscular, and maybe sometimes form-
ing themselves into the semblance of the
word sleep and then drifting away, only to
be replaced by new downy white clouds.
It feels so good to be, in imagination, in
that hammock that you feel yourself drift-
ing into sleep (facsimile of natural sleep)
and you can almost feel the sway of the
hammock and that sway of the hammock
makes you sleep even deeper until the five
minutes has elapsed.

Exercise Number 8

You are to put yourself to sleep for five min-

utes, observing the conditions already given be-
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fore the "blueprints" of Exercises 6 cind 7, and
you imagine the following:
You are now pla3ang that game which we all
played when we were young, the game of
going down slides.
The slides all terminate onto a mat that
says sleep, and there are long slides, short
slides, slow slides £ind swift slides, straight
slides and some that have a slight curve to
them, and you never have to take a ladder
to the next slide because there is always
one ready to receive you when you have left
the previous one, until the five minutes have
been timed off by your alarm clock.

Exercise Number 9

You are to put yourself to sleep for five min-

utes, observing the conditions already outlined,
and imagine the following:
You are standing in front of a blackboard; on
the blackboard, you draw a circle and, over
the circle, in block letters, the word sleep.
In the circle you draw a letter A, filling
most of the circle, and then you erase the
letter A, taking care not to touch the circle.
Then, you draw the letter B inside the cir-
cle, you erase it in its turn, again taking
care not to erase the circle, and then you
pass on to letter C, and then letter D and,
in the same fashion, all the way down to
letter Z and back to A, until the five min-
utes have been timed by the alarm clock.
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Exercise Number 10

Once you have done each of the exercises of

this chapter in its turn, you will naturally have
found one of those exercises that appeals most
—
to you ^that is, to your subconscious mind.
Exercise Number 10 consists in visualizing,
for five minutes, that one image chosen among
the previous ones of this chapter that the sub-
conscious mind prefers, as determined by your
conscious evaluation.
Exercise Number 10 then consists in visual-
izing the "preferred image" for five minutes,
still timing yourself with the alarm clock.
And the practicing of Exercise 10 terminates
the first phase of this chapter.

Phase Two: Building an Inner Clock to

Time Your Hypnosis

Each of the following exercises in this chap-

ter has the objective of training the inner sense
of time to the point where, after a predeter-
mined number of minutes, your eyes just pop
open, or you get the urge to open them-
That objective is obtained by a series of exer-
cises using the preferred image and the alarm
clock to condition the time sense of your sub-
conscious mind.
Remembering that the machine that makes
time for you is the subconscious mind and,
recalling the principles of reflex conditioning,
you will readily appreciate the way the goal is
attained.
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The following exercises can therefore be ex-
plained quite succinctly.

Exercise Number 1

Five minutes of preferred image, timed with

alarm clock.
and then.
Four minutes of preferred image, timed with
alarm clock.
and then.
Three minutes of preferred image, timed with
alarm clock,
and then,
Two minutes of preferred image, timed with
cdarm clock,
and then.
One minute of preferred image, timed by alarm
clock.
Quite obviously, this exercise will last approxi-
mately fifteen minutes

Exercise Number 12

Exercise Number 12 is the same as Exercise

Number 11.
—
But ^without the alarm clock.

Note: No undue concern should be pro-

voked by the inability to subconsciously
time your sleep "to the second," as long
 Deepening and Timing Hypnosis 69
as you do get the relaxation, the heavi-
ness of the limbs, and the feeling of its
^'deepening"" under the stimulus of visual
imagery.

You may have to use your alarm clock for a

while, but rest assured that, eventually, you
will be able to dispense with it.
At the beginning, your timing may be slightly
off,but that will also adjust itself as you pro-
ceed.

Exercise Number 13: Deepening and

Accelerating the Hypnosis

This exercise consists of putting yourself un-

der for various lengths of time, measured in
minutes or seconds. Always think to yourself
before you count to twenty: "Now, I will sleep
forX minutes,** and then count from 1 to 20.
While you practice this exercise, you will be
using the following suggestion: each time faster
and deeper.
Meaning, of course, that every time you put
yourself to sleep, your eyes close faster and you
go deeper asleep. Now, that suggestion each
time faster and deeper.
Either you will be writing it on a blackboard,
in your imagination,
or it will be written on a blackboard,
or the writing of it will be done on a piece
of paper.
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or it will be in the form of a neon sign,
flashing on and off or "stajring put,"
or it will be written in the sky by an
airplane,
or it will repeat itself mentally like a bro-
ken record,
or you may even hear it being repeated to
you,
or it may be projected in £iny other fash-
ion that your subconscious mind or
your conscious mind prefers.
This exercise will be practiced for various pe-
riods of time, measured in minutes or seconds,
as you already know how to do.
The importance of practicing the self-induction
for 10, 15, or 20 seconds will come to be appre-
ciated later in the course of the book.
 CHAPTER 5

Objective: Entertaining Yourseif

and ^Troofing" the Pudding

Aim of This Chapter

The aim of this chapter is multifold- The ex-

perience gained in teaching self-hypnosis over
the last two decades has taught us that no
amount of advice that the time spent in "prov-
ing to myself that I really go under" might bet-
ter be used for further training in the techniques
of self-hypnosis is persuasive. Students still want
to secure "the proof."
So. the first aim of this chapter is to quench
that inevitable thirst.
However, the tests provided here will also serve
to train the student in the control of the sub-
conscious processes of his or her mind. After
all, self-hypnosis is simply the art of training
the subconscious in the consciously provoked
elicitation of its potentialities.
Moreover, the exercises suggested will, by their
very entertaining nature, both eliminate some
of tiie hard-work aspects of this practical course
and foster the motivation to keep on practicing.
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Exercise Number 14

Note: We will begin with in-hypnosis

suggestions, that is, suggestions that will
be carried out by the subconscious mind
during the hypnotic period.

At this point, the degree of success in those

tests will vary both in speed and in complete-
ness with each subject.
Keep in mind that the effects will be subject
to the same laws of facilitation and acceleration
frequently mentioned so far.
Serious students should be content with one
of the present tests and pass on to the real prac-
tice of developing such subconscious skills as
are valuable in stu(fying; those are found in the
following chapters.
The in-hypnosis suggestion will be:
The levitation of one arm, that arm being
the most muscularly developed arm the —
right arm for right-handed people and the
left one for the left-handed student.

Procedure

You will:

1. First make the blueprint of what

you want to happen during the
hypnosis,
2. Then, go to sleep for five minutes,
3. Let the subconscious (George) do the
job.
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Blneprint

As you go to sleep, you will imagine that there

is a fairly large baUoon tied to your right wrist.
The balloon is filled with helium gas and there-
fore provides a strong antigravity, upward-
pulling force- You will first feel a lessening of
the pressure of your right hand on whatever
support it is then leaning upon (your lap, your
thi^, or the arm of the chair or the couch),
then, a sensation of floating in your whole right
hand, the sensation your right hand would have
tf it were immersed in a liquid where it loses
the equivalent in weight of the liquid displaced,
and your fingers will soon begin to move to and
fro as if floating in the liquid.
That sensation of floating will then change
Itself into a sensation of weightlessness, and
the entire hand and the right forearm will be-
gin to rise, higher and higher, as the balloon
tugs and pulls on it.
The arm will bend at the elbow and the whole
forearm will become vertical.
Then, you imagine another balloon tied to
your right wrist and making the entire forearm
and the arm weightless, from the tips of the
fingers to the shoulder.
Your entire right arm will become increas-
ingly more vertical, until the five minutes have
elapsed.
Please concentrate on imagining the balloons
and do not focus on your arm.
After the exercise is over, you will have ample
time to recall whether the arm went up and,
how high. One sure thing: If you keep imagin-
ing the balloon, that arm will go up.
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Exercise Number 15:

Procedure

This is another in-hypnosis suggestion, so

the procedure will be the same as in the previ-
ous exercise. The blueprint to be made before
you put yourself to sleep will differ.
The in-hypnosis suggestion will be:
Glove anesthesia of one hand (either hand)
Time of hypnosis: preferably about 10 to
15 minutes

Blueprint to Submit to Subconscious

Before Going Under

You imagine that, while you are under hyp-

and a nurse are going to "work"
nosis, a doctor
on your hand by Injecting it, from the wrist
down to the tips of the fingers, with an anes-
thetic such as novocaine or spra)ring it with a
volatile (cold-producing by rapid evaporation)
liquid, such as carbon tetrachloride, keeping
the hand immersed in salt ice water, which is
much colder than standard ice water. Imagine
that you feel the sensation of cold from the ice,
or the displacement of the tissues by the In-
jected anesthetic, the thickening of the skin as
it becomes like a "leather glove" under the numb-
ing effects of the chemicals "used" by the doc-
tor and/or the nurse. You may imagine that the
doctor is explaining how the anesthesia is being
produced and perchance "hear" some of his
words. You are mentally telling them which por-
tions of your hand should be worked upon "some
more" and urging them to do an even "better
 Entertaining Yourself 75
job/ You could even imagine that the doctor is tell-
ing you the effect "is going to last a couple of min-
utes after you are aw^e," or until you think, in the
waking state, three times "Everything is normal.'*

Note: This last suggestion should pref-

erably be left to a second or a third repeti-
tion of the exercise, when the effects have
already proven satisfactory. Or you may
simply make the image that the effect
will terminate at the end of the self-
hypnotic period.

Exercise Number 16

Procedure
Here is another in-hypnosis exercise that should
be done for five minutes, or even three minutes.
The suggestion will be:
My hands are warm.

Blueprint to Submit to the Subconscious

Before Going Under

During the hypnosis period, you will imagine

that you are holding your hands in front of the
flames of an open hearth, in an oven, under the
rays of a sunlamp, or immersed in hot water,
or alternately in amy one of circumstances, or
that your hands are subjected to any other form
or sources of heat that you may imagine, and
this for the full duration of the hypnotic period.
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Exercise Number 17

Blueprint Optional

This will consist of one of the following sug-

gestions, which you can regard as a small reper-
toire of training and entertaining exercises.
In each case, you imagine that during the
hypnosis you will feel yourself in such circum-
stances as would produce the effect desired tf
they actually happened, which is simply a way
of using your own printed circuits.
The suggestion could be one of the following:
1. My Feet Are Warm

Proposed image: your feet, nicely covered with

woolen socks, are extended in front of a nice
cozy fireplace, or resting on the open flap of
the camp's pot belly stove.

2. My Feet Are Cold

Icewater pail, block of ice, ice bag, walking in

snow, feet in the refrigerator, time when your
feet really did freeze up on you, and so on.

3. My Hands Are Cold

Clearing windshield of snow, ice cubes, ice wa-

ter pail, making snowballs with bare hand,
and so on.
4. My Solar Plexus is Warm

Identify the spot at the fork of your lower ribs;

use solar lamp, hot water bag or bottle, hot
towel, and so on.
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Entertaining Yourself 77
5. I Smell Roses —or other flower
You are walking in a garden of roses,, stopping
here and there to smell a particularly pleas-
ant specimen. You pick up a rose and take it
to your nose, inhaling the sweet odor, slow
and deep.

6. Playing Fantasia

If you can —
'Visualize easily** already ^that is,
—
see things in your mind's eye have your sub-
conscious "translate into images'* for you a
certain piece of music that plays while you go
under. If you only "visualize" hazily thus far,
the constant use of this exercise will enhance
—
quite rapidly the clarity of your inner vision.
If you cannot as yet see things with your eyes
"closed,** you should devote more time, later,
to the exercises of Chapter 9. If you are musi-
cally inclined, you could produce the reverse
type of Fantasia for yourself. That is, have
your subconscious mind translate into sounds,
melodies and arrangements some well-liked
painting or scene. You could thus give your-
self a sample of the method of inspiration
used by Mozart, as related in Chapter 1.

Note: You do not have to do more than

any one of the exercises of this chapter
before you pass on to the next. Exercises
14 or 15 should be sufficient the rest can
be considered optionals for future enter-
tainment
 —

CHAPTER 6

Time-Delayed Reactions

Training Yourself In Posthypnotic

Suggestions

Definition

A posthypnotic su^estion is a suggestion that

isgiven to the subconscious mind during hyp-
nosis that is to be carried out by the subconscious
— automatically after the hypnotic period is
over.

One Motivation Source

Automaticity is the trademark of the subcon-
scious mind; the posthypnotic suggestion will
be carried on whetiier the conscious mind likes
it or not.
This one way of actuating the precept of
is
wisdom that says, "God grant me that I do the
things I have to do, as I have to do, when I have
to do them and whether I like to do them or not!"

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 Time-Delayed Reactions 79
The enforced accomplishment of a task un-
der your own duress can evidently become a
technique of self-motivation. It can be rather
effective, but not quite as pleasant as the one
that will be given in Chapter 8.
However, if this method appeals to your own
psychological makeup, by all means use it.

Varieties of Posthypnotic Suggestions

Posthypnotic suggestions can be:

1. Keyed or unkeyed
2. Time-limited or continuous.

Keyed Suggestions
A posthypnotic suggestion is keyed when the
performance suggested under hypnosis is to be
—
carried out at a given signal ^word, phrase,
sentence, gesture, given place or hour of the
day, and so on.
Examples of keyed suggestions are:
"Whenever you pick up a cigarette from
your pack, you will .
.**
.

"Whenever I say 'Sleep now,' you will in-

stantly go back into a deep hypnotic
sleep .
/'.

Limited Duration Suggestions

Frequently it is necessary or desirable to at-
tach a time limit to the effects of a posthypnotic
suggestion. This does not mean that if the
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operator "forgets" to provide a cancellation time
for the suggestion, it will carry on "indefinitely."
Any posthypnotic suggestion is a form of con-
ditioned reflex in which the need for repetition
is reduced to a minimum, and one utterance is
sometimes sufficient; still, it does not entirely
escape the law of "a given number of times."
The repetition of a hypnotic suggestion acts as
a reinforcement; it produces the facilitation,
the acceleration and amelioration of the perfor-
mance, as already explained.
However, a posthypnotic suggestion that has
no termination time included can, in certain
cases, be quite anno3ring to the subject and
even quite unethical.
Instances of time-limited posthypnotic sug-
gestions are:
"That pain in your gums will go away
now, at the coimt of three, and disappear
until Monday morning, at 10 o'clock,
when you enter your dentist's office."
"When you wake up, you will see the whole
of this room as having a rosy color . . .

until I say the word 'enough' ..."

A nonkeyed and non time-limited sugges-
tion would be framed as follows: "In
the future and beginning now, you will
notice that you care less and less for
."
the small irritations of life, such as .
.

For training in self-hypnosis, the student will

have little need for the concepts just given, but
the details provided here may not be entirely
useless.
 Time-Delayed Reactions 81

First, the Suggestion

You already know that a suggestion is the

writing of a printed circuit in the electronic
brain of the subject.
Everyone acquainted with hypnosis quite read-
ily understands the phenomenon of posthypnotic
suggestions as they are given in hetero-hypnosis,
where the "blueprint" is drafted by the "opera-
tor** for the subject.
Everyone understands that the operator can
talk to the subject. But how can one talk to
oneself when one is under hypnosis?
The answer is: "Don't talk to yourself while
you are under hj^nosis." In order to do so, you
would have to play the dual roles of audience
and actor. You would have to disrupt the rela-
tive positions of the subconscious and the con-
scious minds in hypnosis where, as Salter says,
**.
. .the subconscious mind comes to the fore
with the expectation of being directed by the
conscious mind of the operator ..."
Do not talk to yourself while you are under
hypnosis; just imagine, just madte the images
of what you want your subconscious mind to
do and make these images before you put your-
self under.
The image, the blueprint, is therefore made
before going into hypnosis.
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Four Techniques of Self-PHS
(Posthypnotic Suggestion)

We will, in this chapter, elaborate four tech-

niques for giving yourself posthypnotic sugges-
tions.
We will describe each of these methods, then
give instances of the application of each of them
and, finally, apply each one of them to a spe-
cific academic problem, to the old bugaboo most
commonly known as "My worst subject." The
four methods are:

1. The mental pre-blueprint

2. The folded paper technique
3. The L-K-U-technique.
4. The tape recorder technique

PHS Technique Number One

Mental Blueprint Before Hypnosis

Let use suppose now that we want to trans-

form into a posthypnotic suggestion the In-
hypnosis suggestion that has been numbered
Exercise Number 17, Option 5, "I smell the
odor of roses."
In order to illustrate the technique of "mental
blueprint before hypnosis," we will describe how
to do it:
 Time-Delayed Reactions 83

Exercise Number 18

You will put yourself "to sleep** for five minutes.

You will, in your mind's eye (and nose), dur-
ing those minutes, imagine yourself, in all
five
kinds of circumstances, and without the real
stimulus of a rose, smelling the odor of roses
whenever you say to yourself, in the waking
state, the following trigger sentence:
"Let me smell a rose," the order being given
to the subconscious mind. Remember: The
brain has always done the smelling job,
whenever there was one to perform.
After the five minutes have elapsed^ after you
have thus imagined yourself smelling the odor of
roses whenever you say to yourself the sentence-
signal: "in all kinds of circumstances," on the
bus (where it might become expedient), on the
street, in your room, in the classroom, in the
gym, while taking a shower, and so on, you can
then test the PHS by actually using the key
sentence to provoke the effect, automatically.
If the effect is not entirely to your liking, not
"natural" or vivid enough, you can then do one
of three things:

1. You can repeat the exercise, or

2. You can repeat Exercise Number 17,
Option 5, and then test anew, or
3. You can "talk to George."

Talking to George

Talking to George is an interesting procedure

that does serve to improve the responses of the
subconscious mind to a given suggestion. It
consists in letting George have it, in giving him
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a real pep talk, the "sergeant" type of talk, some-
thing like:
"Now, look here, George, when I tell you to let
me smell the odor of roses, I mean that you
r-e-a-1-l-y make me smell the odor of roses,
you know what I mean, George? Now, let's
do this over again, George, but, this time,
give me the real McCoy, do you hear me,
George?"
And, for all you know, George might very well
answer you by doing the thing better the next
time, as it has been experienced over £ind over
again by a competent hypnotist.

Other Applications of This Technique

This same technique of giving yourself post-

hypnotic suggestions by the use of a previous
blueprinting of the image, that image being the
use of a posthypnotic key at will, in multiple
circumstances, could now be applied to such
suggestions as:

1 Whenever I think or say the sentence:

"Balloon on my right wrist," I want
that right hand to go up, as in Ex-
ercise 14, or
2. Whenever I say the phrase: "Right
hand numb," I want that hand to be
numb, or
3. Whenever I say or think the sentence:
"My feet are cold," and so on.

It will be appreciated that such a tech-

readily
nique, applied to a gradually increasing numb-
ness in the pelvic area, forms the basis of
training for painless childbirth.
 Time-Delayed Reactions 85

PHS: Technique Number Two.

The Folded-Paper Technique

In this technique of giving yourself posthyp-

notic suggestions, the image is made before
you put yourself under hypnosis, as in all other
cases where self-hypnosis is used.
In the "folded-paper technique," you write
down the suggestion you want to give yourself,
edit it in order to make it just as succinct as
possible, fold the paper on which it has been
edited, and hold that paper in your hand dur-
ing the hypnotic period.
The folded paper acts as a trigger for the
suggestion to be printed on the subconscious
mind.
Suppose now you want to give yourself the
suggestion expounded earlier: smelling a rose
on cue.
You write down on a piece of paper the fol-
lowing suggestions:

1. Whenever I say or think to myself,

anywhere, anytime, "Now let me

smell the odor of roses," I do smell it
just as if there were a rose under my
nose.
2. You fold the paper neatly, hold it in
one of your hands, and put yourself to
sleep for a given number of minutes.
3. After the hypnotic period, and later
at different moments, "in all kinds
of circumstances," you use the key
sentence and test George's obedi-
ence. Of course, you retain the Scune
privilege of "talking to George" that
you had in the previous instance and
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that you have for future needs.
all
Do not underestimate the value of
"bawling out George"; it can work
wonders.

PHS Technique Number Three:

The L-K-U Technique

The L-K-U technique of giving yourself post-

hypnotic suggestions is, to our minds, the most
efficient technique you can use.
It comprises three phases, as follows:

1. You live it under hypnosis.

2. You key it under hypnosis.
3. You test it in the waking state, and
you then act according to the results,
as indicated previously.

The most efficient application of the tech-

nique is to over and over again vmtil the
use it
desired effect obtained, if necessary working
is
at it all day long and proving to yourself the
statement of Emerson:
"A man is what he thinks about ... all day
long."
Suppose now we use this PHS Technique
Number Three to produce an effect that may
not be as useful in these times of abundance as
it would have been to students of a previous
generation: smelling the odor of steak at will.

Phase I. You live itunder hypnosis. You put

yourself to sleep for five minutes after having
made for yourself the following blueprint to
 Time-Delayed Reactions 87
"live*' while under. You imagine the last time
you received your monthly allowance through
the mail, and gave yourself the full treatment
at Joe's Cosmic Steak House, and then some.
You really want to smell that steak again as
you relive the event and not only that one,
but also the steak you had another time at
Al's Rib Joint, and the time when and . . .

the steak Ma used to serve and, in the same

fashion, all the time when you smelled that
appetizing, enchanting, palate-tingling aroma
— in other words using all the printed cir-
cuits you may have in your mind about the
odor of steak.
You really want your
to sense that smell in
mind's nostrils, because your nose never
smelled it anyway. It was your brain: see Chap-
ter 1.
Once you are satisfied that you have recap-
tured that divine scent, pass on to Phase 2.

Phase 2. You key it under hypnosis. Once

more, you put yourself to sleep for five min-
utes and you want to see yourself—-an image
that you make before you go under in Si —
kinds of circumstances, even two days before
your next allowance is due to arrive, using
the key sentence: "Now, let me smell the odor
of steak."

Phase You use it in the waking state. You

3:
test here and there, now and then, and.
it
according to the results, you (a) repeat the
whole schedule or (b) you talk to George.
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PHS Technique Number Four: Tackling
Your "Worst Subject"

The tape may be called the lazy man's hypno-

The method consists merely of dictating
tist.
the desired suggestion onto a magnetic tape
and then listening to the suggestion while you
are under hypnosis. It is not as efficient as
Technique Number Three, but it can be useful
in cases where visualization is poor.
If you were to go to a consulting hypnotist,
with the express purpose of improving your
"worst subject," he or she would first hypnotize
you, and then, after making sure you respond
to posthypnotic suggestions, the hypnotist would
then tackle the problem of improving your worst
subject by giving you a suggestion such as
follows:

The I^notist*8 Su^estion

Now, we want to give the subconscious mind
a very interesting suggestion regarding your
worst subject which is X.
Every science, every subject was once your
worst subject, because at one time or another
in your life, you did not know a single thing
about it.
Then, you were introduced to the subject,
and because of the way the teacher presented it
to you, or maybe because of the very personal-
ity^ of the teacher, you became interested in it

and you found out that the subject was inter-

esting to you and that interest, by itself, helped
you acquire a measure of ability in that sub-
ject. Now regarding this subject X, it could be
 Time-Delayed ^actions 89
that the dishke and the you have for
distaste
It is somehow associated with something or
someone.
It could be that the first teacher who intro-
duced you to the subject lacked the proper
pedagogical experience or maybe the proper
knowledge of the subject. It could be that
his or her personality was antagonistic or
unpleasant.
It could be that your negative attitude to the
subject X stems from hesirsay, from attitudes of
your family, from grade school days, or from
other students.
It could be the failure of your first attempt
was due to your lack of interest in the subject
or to veirious other circumstances. No matter
what associations may influence your present
negative attitude toward the subject, is that a
reason for accepting their influence in your pres-
ent life?
Now, it becomes easy for you to think: **If I
could develop some interest in subject X, that
would certainly improve it." There is one fasci-
nating source of interest in this subject for
you: It is part of the whole picture of your scho-
lastic (or academic) success and, as such, you
are really interested in it. And that importance
and interest of the subject now become stronger
than any negative association that may tie in
with it. After all, you know some people who
excel in the subject, so that there must be some-
thing to it.
I want to find out, you might say to yourself,

and I here and now resolve to find out what it

is that interests them in subject X. Naturally,
as you become more interested in subject X,
you will find all sorts of occasions to improve
90 POWER HYPNOSIS
your expertise in Maybe you will question
it.

some fellow students,maybe it would be wise

to spend X minutes on it alone, daily.
You could use all or some of the idle mo-
ments of the day to do some mental rehearsing
of the subject, you could recapitulate what you
already know about the subject so as to launch
you into a new beginning.
Maybe you could buy summaries, outlines,
and booklets on it, and, of course, use them.
As you gradually become more interested in
subject X, you naturally find that it becomes
easier for you. As it becomes easier, you like it
better and it becomes even easier.
Now you see yourself getting better grades in
it. You can see yourself pa3ring more attention

in class and getting more out of the classes.

As a matter of fact, you now see yourself
more interested in subject X, you see yourself
getting better grades in it.
And, at the count of three, you will see your-
self, in your mind's eye, doing just that and, by
the end of one month, jumping two notches
higher in this very subject XC

Now, let us take it from the mouth of the

hypnotist and apply his or her suggestion to
the four techniques of giving the same sugges-
tion to yourself through self-hypnosis.
 Time-Delayed Reactions 91

Exercise Number 19A: Ameliorating Your

Worst Subject Using PHS Technique
Number One:

You put yourself to sleep for five minutes and

during those five minutes you want to imagine
the following: You see yourself refusing to ac-
cept your previous conditionings to the fact
that X is your worst subject.
You imagine how different things would have
been had you not been conditioned negatively
toward subject X.
You imagine yourself interested in the sub-
ject because it is part of the total picture of
your academic success.
You imagine yourself being (not becoming)
more interested in the subject and taking all
opportunities to expose yourself to it.
You imagine yourself requesting the help of
some fellow students, every day, at an appointed
hour and for so many minutes.
You see yourself getting better grades in it
every week and jumping two notches in your
grades on a certain date (e.g., one month from
date of first exercise) with that date remaining
the same throughout your hypnotic campaign
toward improving subject X.
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Exercise Number 19B: Ameliorating Your
Worst Subject Using PHS Technique
Number Two

You begin by editing the suggestion of the

hypothetical hypnotist given on page 88 in the
following manner, and you write it down on a
piece of paper, which you can fold neatly to
hold in your hand:
You are now dumping all negative condition-
ings regarding subject X.
You are interested in subject X because it is
part of the whole picture of your academic
success.
Therefore, X becomes easier as you take im-
mediate steps to improve in it.
Every day, no matter what time you go to
bed, you spend one hour working on subject X,
reviewing, practicing, and questioning yourself
on it.
You use all possible aids to improve X and,
on such a date (put in date), you will be two
grades better in subject X.

Exercise Number 19C: Ameliorating Your

Worst Subject Using PHS Technique
Number Three

Phase One: You live it under hypnosis, for five

minutes as in Technique One, on page 91.

Phase Two: Under hypnosis, and for five min-

utes, you see yourself, every night before you
 Time-Delayed Reactions 93
go to sleep, working one hour on subject X
and being unable to go to sleep until you
have done so.

Phase Three: If you find you can go to sleep

without stud5ring subject X for one hour, use
alternatives already given on page 88.

Exercise Number 19D: Ameliorating Your

Worst Subject Using PHS Technique
Number Four:

In applying this technique to the problem of

your worst subject, the solution is rather sim-
ple. You simply dictate the suggestion the hyp-
notist would have used in such a case with an
actual student and then listen to it while you
are under hypnosis, by the very simple expedi-
ent of having a long enough lead on your tape
to give you the time to take your usual posture
and put yourself to sleep,

Some Additional Testing

In order to satisfy yourself that you do pos-

sess self-hypnosis, you may use one of the fol-
lowing posthypnotic suggestions:

1. When I wake up, I will feel an urge

to pickup such and such a book.
2. When I wake up, I will feel an urge
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to take such and such a walk (not
habitual).

In the preceding chapter, we gave a list of

in-hypnosis suggestions in which all the effects
were sensorial. That was done to avoid the fre-
quent objection: "I wonder whether I was not
doing it all on my own accord."
So far in this chapter, except for the sugges-
we have
tions regarding your "worst subject,"
done the same because you cannot produce "on
your own accord" the proposed sensorial re-
sponses.
Those last two exercises will then be less sub-
ject to the usual doubts about the validity of
the effects.
 PART THREE:

Self-Hypnosis
Utilizing
as a Student*

If you have now sat down to the task of acquiring

self-hypnosis, do not practice the exercises of this
third section unless you have passed the second
part of this book.
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CHAPTER 7 :

Improving Your Concentration,

Your Menfiory, and Your
Learning Tools

The Tools of the Student

Beyond the financial means to take college

courses and the motivation to succeed, some of
the essential tools of the student are:
Concentration during lectures and at stucfy
time
Some memory training
Rapid reading
The art of learning
Though rapid reading and the art of learning
are beyond the scope of this book, some meth-
ods of improving them through the aid of self-
hypnosis will be given in this chapter.

Memory

Memory is the faculty of recall of a previously

printed bit or sequence of information. It is the
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expression of an already impressed amount of
data in the memory bank of your electronic
brain, called the subconscious mind.
As has already been seen, the conscious mind
is merely the operator that reads the dials, once
the internal computer has scanned for the de-
sired material.
If someone asks you your home address,
for
that information immediatety springs to your con-
scious mind, but your conscious mind was not
aware of that information until the question acted
as a stimulus for the subconscious mind to start
scanning, in the vast warehouse of its imprinted
information, that tiny bit of information.
In a flash, the computer projected the data
onto the screen of your conscious mind, which
immediately read tiie dials and became aware:
"My home address is such-and-such."

Three Phases
Memory is a three-phase phenomenon and
those three phases are:

1. The printing of a "viveogram."

2. The storage or retention of the infor-
mation.
3. The recall.

Printing

Obviously, the most important part of the

process is the printing itself, and that printing,
in turn, depends upon the following factors:

1. Your interest in the material to be

retained.
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2. Your will to retain it.

3. The vividness or originality of the

printing.
4. The lack of interference (concentra-
tion) at the moment of printing.
5. The richness of the mental associa-
tions between the impressed mate-
rial and the materials already printed
in the machine.
6. The number of repetitions of the
printing.

In the measure that one or some of the pre-

viously mentioned factors are increased, in the
very same measure the other factors may be
decreased,
The object of the ideal method of study is to
do away, as much as possible, with factor num-
ber 6, repetition.

Retention

The storage of the material learned is auto-

matic; that is, it never erases itself from the
subconscious mind, as has alreacfy been dem-
onstrated by the Penfield experiments.
Nevertheless it can be enhanced by the orga-
nization of the material absorbed into a larger
whole and the lack of interference to retention.
It is a basic tenet of psychology that the sub-
conscious will repress events, bits of events, or
any one or series of "engrams** to ensure a bet-
ter equilibrium of the whole personality.
Such a subconscious "refusal to print or
store information" may quite naturally be
present in the psychological makeup of any given
student.
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Recall

Evidently the most practical aspect of mem-

ory, recall is directly proportional to the amount
of "wanting" to remember a given bit of infor-
mation and inversely proportional to the lack of
interference at the moment where the bit of
information is needed.
Such interferences as anxiety, nervousness,
old patterns of "failure wishing," and the gen-
erally expected attack of the jitters at examina-
tion time are commonly associated with lack of
concentration.
Concentration can be defined as the freedom
from interferences at the moment of execution of
a given task.
considered as the capacity of so absorb-
It is
ing oneself into a given occupation that the
mind and the senses are closed to any other
object of attention.
Everyone has had those moments of concen-
tration, at the movies, while reading a captivat-
ing novel and identifying with the hero or
heroine, while watching TV, reading, working.
Everyone knows the classical instance of the
college professor working out a problem while
mentally he or she steps in the mud or the rain
puddle.
It should not, however, be mistaken for day-
dreaming, when the conscious mind is simply
glued to the unrolling of the inner film of asso-
ciated ideas, whichoften called thinking.
is
Concentration is the act of converging some-
thing toward a center, such as the light rays
under the covering power of a lens. Mental con-
centration is also the act of returning to a cen-
ter of interest.
It is surprising that so many people com-
 Improving Your Concentration 101

plain about their lack of concentration during

study and yet never point to the lack of concen-
tration in their own daily lives.
Quite evidently, concentration, or returning
to a given center of interest, clearly applies to
the habit (or the lack of it) of focusing one's life
efforts and one's interests toward a given goal
or set of goals.
Because concentration is so important to
memory, the two are generally tied in together
Into a single suggestion.
However, because in our belief, either can be
developed separately (but necessarity profiting
the other), we will give separate techniques of
developing concentration and memoiy through
self-h5rpnosis.

Exercise Number 20: Intensifying Your

Concentration

We will begin by giving the suggestion as a

consulting hjrpnotist would give it to a subject:
We have all seen instances of people being so
absorbed by whatever they were doing, whether
it is working, reading, or studying, that noth-
ing, absolutely nothing seemed to disturb them.
We have all seen people so focused on the tasks
at hand that nothing seemed able to call their
attention beyond what they were doing. We have
all seen cases of people so engrossed in what
they were doing that they did not hear the door-
bell or the ring of the telephone.
We have all seen cases of people so concen-
trated on what they were doing that neither
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voices nor noises nor movements of people
around them could attract their mind—so con-
centrated, as a matter of fact, that people had
to nudge them a few times before succeeding in
contacting them.
You may even remember such a moment of
totalabsorption in what you were doing that
no one and nothing for a time could bring you
out of it.

Now, beginning today, whenever and wher-

ever you say to yourself aloud, or think to your-
self: "Now, concentration until such and such a
time ..," you will immediately become so en-
.

grossed, so focused, and so interested in what

you are doing, whether it be reading, stucfying,
or attending a class, that your mind will then
be closed to anything else.
Whenever and wherever you say those words
to yourself, orally or mentally, you become so
concentrated that no interferences from the out-
side, such as voices or noises of movements in
your visual range can disturb you and no inter-
ferences from the inside, such as itches or
twitches of the body, no thoughts or feelings
will disturb you.
And you as soon as you use
will find that,
those words: "Now, concentration until such
and such a time ..," everything prints itself
.

more vividly and more deeply on your subcon-

scious mind.
You will find that whatever you know about
the subject flows freely to your conscious mind
and that the information is thus much better
integrated with what you previously knew about
it. Better still, you will find yourself so integrat-

ing the information absorbed that you will quite

often surprise yourself by projecting what you
are then learning into its natural and logical
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Improving Your Concentration 103

conclusions and foresee some of the things you
willbe learning later on the same subject.
You will find that your newfound concentra-
you a feeling of active participation
tion gives
and thorough assimilation of the knowledge
absorbed.
Of course, this new intense concentration
makes for a better printing of the material on
your subconscious mind and you will find that,
whenever some piece of information could be
useful to you at that moment, it will spring to
your mind like water gushes out of a source,
whether you need that information for discuss-
ing a subject, mentally brushing up on it, or
giving a lecture or writing an examination.
And the hypnotist would now add:
Now, at the count of three, you will see your-
self, over and over again, and in all kinds
of circumstances, using that key for better
concentration.
At the count of three, you will see yourself
using the key sentence: "Now, concentration
until such and such a time ...,*' and as soon
as you say those words to yourself, you will see
yourself so engrossed, so focused, so interested,
so concentrated that your mind and your senses
are closed, but totally closed, to whatever goes
on around you and to any other thought or
feeling but the matter at hand.
And you will see yourself doing just that, be-
ginning today, for the coming week or fort-
night, just so long, as a matter of fact, as it
would take in actual life to make it a habit—
habit for the conscious mind to use the key
and a habit for the subconscious mind to pro-
duce the effect.
Now, you begin to see yourself using your
104 POWER HYPNOSIS
new key for total concentration: One, two,
three . . .

Choose Tour Technique

The student have readily perceived that

will
the full text just given could be used for tape
method of PHS.
Also, it is seen just as readily that the part
beginning with "Now, you will see yourself ..."
(on page 103), is equivalent to the first tech-
nique of PHS, the pre-blueprinting method.
To use the L-K-U technique of PHS, the stu-
dent would proceed as follows:

1. See himself or herself so absorbed,

when stud5ring, listening toa class
or lecture, observing for the purpose
of learning, that nothing else inter-
feres, thus better assimilating every-
thing he or she absorbs, having all
useful material at hand whenever
discussing, talking about or writing
on whatever has been previously
studied.
2. He or she would then see himself or
herself using the key signal "Now,
concentration until . .," over and
.

over again, projecting the use of such

a key into the future.
3. Use the key in actual life and ac-
cording to the results, start over
again from step 1.

If the student prefers the folded-paper tech-

nique, he or she would start by editing the long
 Improving Your Concentration 105
formula unto a piece of paper and then proceed
with the previously described method (Chapter
6).

Note: Evidently, tf the student has not

yet acquired the use of vivid mental im-
agery, he or she should be content with
imagining the actions and attitudes de-
scribed, or use a PHS technique that does
not require mental visualization.

Improving Your Memory

Mnemonic Methods

All mnemonic methods make use of two prop-

erties of the human mind: the laws of associa-
tion of ideas or sound and the structuring needs
of the mind.
Numerous books have been written on the
subject of acquiring a "memory like that of an
elephant/' Whatever the retentive capacity of
the well-known pachyderm, we will here give a
general synopsis of the methods extant in those
diverse courses and systems,
We will now briefly elaborate on the preced-
ing material so that students may become in-
terested in reading a good book (just as good
as any "correspondence course") on the sub-
ject.
106 POWER HYPNOSIS
1. Homophony
fLink <

2. Associative chains
<

Association 3. Number codes

of ideas Hook I 4. Mental hooks
5. Numbered mental
cardex

6. Wholing images
Structuring
7. Mental architecturing

Homophony
This is most valuable in the study of lan-
guages and a few examples will be given as
applied to the acquisition of a vocabulary in a
given language.
The Spanish word for "to yawn" is bostezar.
If you think of a mouth that busts, could it not
easily remind you that "yawning" is host . . .

ezar?
"Road" iscarretera in Spanish. What about
associating the homophonic link: "Roads are
made for carr . iages"?
. .

"Iron," in French, is/er. Of course, you know

that iron is a fair ly useful metal, and by
. . .

making the homophonic link, you can easily

remember the word.
A "mirror," in Italian is uno specchio. An
easy homophonic link would be: "a mirror is a
device in which you can see "spec tres." . . .

Thus, a daily diet of so many words, listed at

—
each end of a given line ^with the appropriate
homophonic links in between can, in a very
brief period of time, give you a vocabulary of
 Improving Your Concentration 107
1,000 words, one thousand being merely 50
times 20.
Here is a brief example of such a list:
Blue—blue eyes can be a "soul inspiring**
—Azul
Walk—walk in, come in, cam in—Caminar
—
Date (of day) to find it —fetch a calendar
—Fecha
Puns, quasi-alliterations, roundabout phrases,
allcan be helpful to the student who wants to
associate a word in his or her own Igmguage to
another word in a given idiom.

The Nnmber Code

Because of its extensive applications and mer-
its,however, we will stop for a moment on the
familiar (to the students of mnemonics) tech-
nique of the number code.
It consists in translating the entire alphabet
into mmibers, so that numbers (such as for
dates and quantities) can be translated into
sentences or logical links with the material to
be retained.
Without entering into any justification for the
code itself, we will content ourselves with giv-
ing the code that is used in all systems and
dates back several hundred years.
The code is easy to memorize and will repay a
thousandfold such time as you may have to
spend on learning it by rote.

T or D are 1
N is 2
M is 3
R is 4
L is 5
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J, Sh, Ch are 6
K, hard G, Q are 7
Ph, F. or V are 8
P or B are 9
Z or S are

Conventions—Vowels have no numerical value,

double consonants count as a single consonant.
It can readily be seen that, according to our
code, one can easily retain the fact tiiat the
cranium contains 26 bones, "because" it is the
niche, n representing 2 and the ch in the same
word "meaning" 6.
All dates of history can also be remembered
by making up a sentence, the first syllable of
each word giving a digit in the full date, or by a
single word that somehow recalls the event. Of
course, the full sentence is the more flexible
method.
For instance, 1513 is the date when Balboa
discovered the Pacific Ocean by crossing the
isthmus of Panama and established the fact
that the West Indies were not the East Indies
but merely an obstacle on the road to them.
Rather then memorize the arid number 1513
as being the date of the event, one could form a
sentence logically linking the date with the event.
For instance, "The long trip meant something:
The Indies were not the Indies."

Wholing Images

One last element of mnemonics that will be

discussed briefly because it is presented in most
books or systems of memory training is the
wholing image.
 Improving Your Concentration 109
It can best be described by giving an example.
Suppose you have to correlate the events,
which, in 1789, catalyzed the French Revolu-
tion. The sequence of events, in that fateful
year, is:
The meeting of the Estates-General, the third
estate transforming the meeting into a National
Assembly, suspended for three days, when the
members of the Commons pronounce the oath
of the Tennis Court; the storming of the Bas-
tille, the abolition of the privileges and the re-
turn of the king.
The events are solidly related by an unusual
drawing in which, in the background, two gen-
erals, representing the Estates, are pla5ring hand-
ball,and the generals in the foreground are
taking **pastilles'' (homophony) from a bowl
next to a sign saying "National Assembly**; at
the foot of the sign is the heap of scrapped
privileges, the king, Louis XVI, trudging back
home.
All such techniques can of course be used
concomitantty. For example, words taken from
a mental catalog could have been introduced
into the preceding image to represent the ac-
tual dates of the events tied in by the "wholing
image.**
The mental catalog is a series of one hundred
noun-images, generally made up through the
use of the number code. The mental catalog is
then committed to memory and can be used for
all the multiple uses of memorizing events,
names, dates, and so on.
Whatever your decision about using or not
using the existing systems of mnemonics, mem-
ory can be increased independently of them by
suggestion.
 :

1 10 POWER HYPNOSIS
Exercise Number 21
Improving Your Memory

As we have done for the exercise on amelio-

rating concentration, we will start here by giv-
ing the suggestion as a practicing hypnotist
would phrase it to a client.
It is assumed at this stage that the student is
sufficiently well versed in the application of the
four methods of practicing posthypnotic sug-
gestions as to be able to deduce the way in
which the hypnotist's verbatim suggestions can
be used for each separate method.
Therefore, the other three methods of PHS
will only be briefly commented on.
Here is then the full suggestion for upgrad-
ing your memory:
"You now have a greatly Improved memory,
for many reasons."
"You au*e more interested in retaining every-
thing."
"You are more interested in remembering what
you study and you are more interested in re-
membering events and people, because it all
makes for a more interesting life."
"In fact, you are so Interested in remember-
ing that you regularly practice this suggestion
for a better memory and the exercise for inten-
sifying your concentration."
"All obstacles that so far may have influenced
your memory are now fading away, whatever
they may be. No more are you affected by asso-
ciating such and such a subject with the per-
sonality of the professor teaching it, or the sup-
posed dryness of the subject. All subconscious
wishes to spite someone or punish yourself.
 Improving Your Concentration 111

all negative conditionings are just melting

away."
"You know that everything you read, hear, or
study is printed in your subconscious mind,
that nothing is ever erased from the inner mem-
ory bank."
"Eveiything you learn is now better printed
because you organize it better in your mind,
because you associate better what you learn
with what you already know."
"You use natural and artificial associations,
such as memory techniques, and your interest
and your concentration at the moment are the
absorption of knowledge, which makes for a
much more vivid impression of the material."
"You enjoy regular and periodical reviews and
recapitulations of the material you have to learn.
You regularly practice "shadow questioning,"
which is comparable to shadow boxing: you
regularly and mentally question yourself, dur-
ing your free moments, by putting such ques-
tions to yourself as an examining professor
would do."
"Whenever you need any bit of information,
whether for discussing a subject, reviewing it,
or giving a lecture on it, or writing on it, it
springs naturally to your mind, just like water
gushes from the source."
"No more fretting or fuming when you are
trying to recall something; you merely think to
yourself: 'Now, let me remember such-and-such
a thing,* and it is there and then springs to
your mind."
"Whenever and wherever you have use for a
given bit of knowledge, the very need for that
material makes you calm and easy."
"Whether it be in the classroom, in the lee-
 2

11 POWER HYPNOSIS
ture hall, or sitting for an examination, we re-
peat, the mere need for the bit of information
or knowledge makes you feel at ease, calm, and
self-possessed, because you know you now have
a better memory."
"And when you count to three, you will see
yourself, for the rest of this period of hypnotic
sleep, in all kinds of circumstances, either stu<fy-
ing, reviewing, or sitting for any subject, you
will be more interested, use better concentra-
tion, better associations, and feel calm and self-
possessed whenever and wherever you need to
recall something."
"One, Two, Three ..."

Rapid Reading

Reading

Reading is the active process of closing the

communication gap between a supposedly wor-
thy author and a supposedly interested inter-
locutor.
It aims at the transfer of ideas, facts, feel-
ings, not of words.
the process of connecting the mind of
It is
the author and the mind of the reader. It is
i
carried on through the eyes of the reader but
not by his or her eyes.
Reading should be the grasping of facts, ideas,
data, or feelings but not of words.
Reading, unlike listening, need not be a slow-
motion process. In listening, the time element
necessary for sirticulating words is inherently
 Improving Your Concentration 113
inevitable. Ideas have to be reconstructed as
they emerge from their sound shells.
Not necessarily so in reading, where the pris-
tine, unfettered transmission of thought can
compete with the telegraphic celerity of an In-
dian saying: "Me scalp you/'
There are only a few individuals who have the
ability to instantaneously extract ideas from the
core of words in which they were imbedded.
Today, this process is at the beck and call of
almost everyone; it is called rapid reading.

Definition

Rapid reading is just that process of reading

for ideas and not for words-
It is the most active and can be the most
exhilarating method of digesting that more or
less considerable unit of knowledge, informa-
tion, or entertainment that has been called a
book, an article, and so on.
Clearly then, rapid reading could best be de-
scribed as reading for ideas. Its most succinct
formula would therefore be to detect the flow of
thoughts.
From that single necessity of its definition, all
the procedures for rapid reading can be deduced.
Grammatically speaking, ideas are expressed
by paragraphs, a paragraph being the fully
clothed expression of an idea which can, how-
ever, be expressed in the Indian's telegraphic
style. To do any form of rapid reading, one
must get used to looking for those words that
are the skeletal members of the paragraph.
Those are called key words.
Key words are "idea flow directing'' or "idea
skeleton-forming" words; that is, they may be
1 14 POWER HYPNOSIS
directing the traffic, or they may be the very
vehicles (parts of ideas) in transit.

Reading Signposts
Some "traffic-directing" words indicate that
there are no turns, no bends, no obstacles in
the flow of thought.
They include such words as:
And
More
Moreover
More than that
Furthermore
Also
Likewise
Some traffic-directing words are turnabout
words. They indicate that the flow of thought is
changing. They include such words as:
But
Yet
Nevertheless
Although
Despite
In spite of
On the contrary
However
Notwithstanding
Rather
Still
Quite often, they indicate that an author is
dismissing what he or she has explained before
as unworthy of £in)rthing but rejection.
Some traffic words are the concluding, final-
izing, or summarizing words:
Thus
So
And so
 Improving Your Concentration 115
Therefore
Consequently
Accordingly
In conclusion
As a result
Finally
Concluding
In short
Among the idea-forming words, nouns—names,
dates, numbers —and verbs are the most im-
portant.

The Role of the Eyes

As a natural consequence of the intention of

— —
rapid reading ^reading for ideas the eye must
break its habit of reading word for word.
This involves reforming two of the main teach-
ings of reading: increasing the eye span and
conditioning a new habit of eye rh3^m.
The eye span is increased by the use of such
tools as the tachistoscope, and the eye rhythm
Is obtained gradually by practicing, for a while,
nothing but the rapid scanning of a column of
text by doing two fixations per line.
Even without any machine, a determined stu-
dent will develop the knack of going down a
newspaper column (now less than two inches)
first with two fixations per line and eventually
with one fixation per line.
He will thus have trained his eyes in absorb-
ing the number of words contained on the aver-
age by a column of newspaper text.
By coupling this practice with that of exclud-
ing one or two "flow-directing words" each and
every time they are met with in a text, as fast
as possible and then faster again, the average
116 POWER HYPNOSIS
student should be able to double his or her
reading speed within six weeks.
Once adept at these two exercises, the stu-
dent need only add constant practice: continu-
ous and active restructuring of the author's
"idea flow" as he or she reads.
In other words, as the student reads, there is
constantly in his or her mind the preoccupa-
tion: "What is the author sa5ring? How does he
make his point? How does this paragraph or
those last two or three paragraphs fit in with
the development of his ideas?"
Obviously, such thoughts are not expressed
in words in the reader's mind, but they are
constantly present in his mind as he reads.
The more and ever-present focusing of the
mind on the task of extracting the flow of ideas
from a given text will automatically result in a
much more rapid reading technique.
Thus, even without any formal training in
rapid reading, an effective posthypnotic sug-
gestion can be made for improving your read-
ing skill and speed.
And such is the aim of the following exercise.

ExerciseNumber 22: Increasing Your

Reading Speed and Efficiency

As has already been said, we will merely give

the suggestion as it would be given by a hypno-
tist upon request, and the student is expected
to adapt this verbatim text to his or her own
method of PHS.
We all know that the natural tendenqr of the
mind is to grasp ideas as a whole.
 Improving Your Concentration 117
"Now, rapid reading Is that very method of
reading that consists of reading for ideas, and
not having the mind slowed down by the un-
necessary words that make up sentences.
"Therefore, the mere fact of wanting to read
faster will prompt you to overlook the unneces-
sary trimmings and unravel the Ideas contained
in the written text.
"As a matter of fact, trainees in rapid read-
ing are taught to will and wish and try to read
faster.
"As of now, you read faster and yet you grasp
more of what you read because you want to
read faster and you read for ideas.
"You have the knack of extracting ideas
from the mass of words in which they are
imbedded.
"As you read, you are more active than ever,
constantly pressing yourself to follow the thread
of thought that the writer is unwinding.
"Key words, traffic-directing words, and the
idea-forming words, just spring to your eyes as
you read.
"Dates, names, numbers interest you more
than ever and your eyes are constantly on the
lookout for them.
"Every day you train your eyes in reading a
newspaper column in one or two fixations, and
your eye span and speed thus become greater
every day.
"Whenever you read anything, it Is now a
habitual practice for you to review an arti-
cle and a chapter or part of a chapter im-
mediately after you have finished reading
it.

"And, as you read faster, you also read with

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more pleasure because you grasp and retain
more, as you now read for ideas and for data,
according to the nature of the text.
"And now, at the count of three ..."
 CHAPTER 8

Self-Motivation:
The Bootstrap Operation

The Eternal Trinity of Success

Ifmagicians could grant wishes, and if you

happened to meet one at a party, you could do
no better than to ask for the fulfillment of three
wishes:

1. A worthy goal.
2. The removal of the obstacles to that
goal.
3. A powerful and relentless impetus
tow£ird that goal.

Of course, each and every student already

has the first element of the eternal trinity of
— —
success a goal and that goal is academic suc-
cess, whether it be expressed as a diploma or
simply "passing grades."
Every hypnotist or psychologist who has ever
worked with students knows that the most com-
mon complaints are: lack of concentration, in-
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120 POWER HYPNOSIS
adequate memory, and procrastination, lack of
discipline and method-in-studying.
These considerations leave us with two of the
elements of academic success to treat: (1) the
obstacles and (2) the regularity of motivation to
action toward success.
These two problems will constitute the object
of this chapter.

Your Number One and Number Two

Private Enemies

The need to do away with procrastination or

"Operation taking the lead out" singles out the
student's Private Enemy Number One.
Lack of working discipline is another one,
and we would seem to have named them all by
adding the traditional "slump," that well-known
symptom of "the wish to fail" that everyone
complains of at times.
However, those obstacles are different facets
of one and the same thing: subconscious ob-
stacles to success. One may wish to fail aca-
demically for a full variety of unconscious
—
reasons to spite someone, most often the par-
ents who are occasionally consciously accused
of imposing their own aims in life upon their
offspring; a hidden guilt complex, a "depen-
dency complex" or even unadulterated laziness,
whetiier inherited or acquired.
The student's Private Enemy Number Two is
academically termed "lack of motivation."
We will now proceed to give a formula of post-
 Self-Motivation 121

h3^notic suggestion for each of those private

enemies of the student.

Conscious and Subconscious Obstacles

to Success

The exercise we are about to formulate is

borrowed from psychoanal)^ical and hypnoan-
alytical techniques called desensitizatton.
For the average person, it can have just as
much value as months of psychoanalysis.
It is equally applicable to the removal of the
obstacles to your academic success and to a
severe case of "the slumps/' as well as to a
fortuitous state of despondency.
It is called the "cloud and sun exercise.** It
consists in visualizing a cloud that s5niibolizes
the obstacles of the moment or the habitual
obstacles to free and functional living.
Over and above the cloud, one imagines and —
—
preferably visualizes a sun dim and hazy at
first, but slowly and gradually gaining in strength
—and that sun symbolizes the will to live, the
desire to have a free and happy life.
We repeat: The cloud and sun exercise is tre-
mendously fertile in applications, and the fact
that it is specifically designed to eliminate the
obstacles to academic success should not pre-
vent the student from using it in all cases where
a temporary "obstacle to living free" is present.
122 POWER HYPNOSIS
Exercise Number 23: The Cloud and
Sun Exercise

As we already began to do in the last chapter,

we will only give the verbatim suggestion a hyp-
notist would deliver for the purpose at hand,
and students will then apply the given text to
the specific method of giving themselves post-
hypnotic suggestions they prefer.
The hypnotist would say something such as:
"Now, at the count of three, I want you to imag-
ine a cloud, a cloud hovering over and about
you, and when you do imagine that cloud in
such a fashion that you could almost swear you
can see it with your mind's eye, I want you to
move the little finger of the right hand.
"One, Two, Three . . .

"Good! (when the little finger or any other

pre-chosen finger moves).
"Now I want you to think of that cloud as
representing all the obstacles to your own suc-
cess in life or in college.
"I want you to think of that cloud as symbol-
izing all the negative thoughts, all the negative
attitudes, and all the negative conditionings of
your life.

"I want you to imagine that this cloud repre-

sents all the frustrations, all the rebuttals, all
the previous ideas of failure or shortcomings,
all the negative assertions from other people
that may yet influence you.
"I want you to think of that cloud and feel
that it represents all the subconscious reasons
you may harbor for spiting someone in your
life, whether it is your parents or some profes-
sor; I want you to think and feel about that
 Self-Motivation 123

cloud as if it represents any of your subcon-

scious reasons for failing or punishing your-
self. That cloud also symbolizes all past negative
habits of procrastination or laziness.
"Now, over and beyond that cloud, if you will
notice carefully, there is a sun, a sun that may
be hazy and dim for a while, but you can feel it
is there.
"Now, that sun represents your will to live,
your desire to lead a freer, richer, and more
abundant and successful life.
"Now, that sun is there, or else you would not
be doing this exercise now. And as you, as a
witness to this process, side with that sun,
you will presently see sunshine through that
cloud, first pushing a shaft of light here and
there and gradually making that cloud lift and
evaporate.
"Now that sun begins to work on that cloud
and, as it does so, you get the feeling of good
riddance, as if a load were taken off your
shoulders.
"Now, as you watch that cloud and the sun
working to make it lift and evaporate, you feel
that you are free of the obstacles that thus far
have prevented you from enjoying academic suc-
cess and a free and happy life.
"Now, during the rest of this period of hyp-
notic sleep, that sun will so radiate its rays on
the cloud that you will finally see it completely
dispel that cloud, like the mist of the morning
under the rays of the rising sun.
"You will finally see that sun burst through
after having dispelled the cloud and you will
then feel as if you were basking in the light of
that sun.
"You will feel the rays of that sun so vividfy
 —
124 POWER HYPNOSIS
impinging upon the skin of your body that you
C£inalmost feel the pricking of those rays. And
those rays will bear names; some will be marked
'Success,' others 'Enthusiasm,' others 'Self-
confidence,' others 'Assurance,' others 'Concen-
—
tration,' others 'Powerful memory* still other
rays will bear the names of all the qualities you
want in your own life.
"And you will feel yourself so impregnated, so
soaked with those rays that you will ^ow that,
upon waking up, you will be radiating those
rays in your turn. And you will be able to do
this exercise, wherever and \dienever you so
desire, for any given number of minutes or sec-
onds, by merely thinking to yourself;
"Now, I do the Sun Exercise for so many
will
minutes," and then counting from one to twenty.
"And you will find that, each and every time,
the cloud is thinner and smaller, till finally it is
only the light fog of the negative feelings of the
day.
"And this process will go on till the end of
this timed exercise, when you will wake up feel-
ing well and refreshed and fully charged with
the success qualities of that sun."
The preceding exercise has been used over
the years by the author and it can definitively
be asserted, through experience, that it works
splendidly. Make your profit of it by using it
abundantly.
 Self-Motivation 125
Exercise Number 24: The Burning
of the Leaves

Another exercise for "eliminating the nega-

Ive" is one that we will call the "burning of the
leaves/*
It can be of the same value as the previous
one, which has been named the "cloud and sun
exercise," and it is given here as a matter of
possible preference by the student.
Needless to say Exercise Number 24 is an
alternative to Exercise Number 23, and the two
need not be used by students for the purpose of
eliminating what we have termed £ind discussed
as "the obstacles to success."
Once more, we only give the verbatim sugges-
tion the hypnotist would use, and the student
is expected to apply the contents of the sugges-
tion to the specific posthypnotic suggestion tech-
nique he or she prefers.
The hypnotist would then say:
"I want you to imagine yourself, at the count
of three, in a garden, a garden that might sym-
bolize the "garden of your life," and when you
do imagine yourself in that garden, I want you
to let me know by moving the thumb of your
right (orleft) hand.
"One, Two, Three . . .

"Good (when he sees the specified finger

moving).
"Now, this is the garden of your life, and, if
you look carefully around, you will notice here
and there dried leaves which lie about that
garden.
"Now, those dried and undesirable leaves S3nii-
bolize allthe frustrations, all the humiliations,
all the negative happenings of your life, all the
126 POWER HYPNOSIS
negative conditionings such as feelings of infe-
riority, feelings of inadequacy, all refusals, all
rebuttals, all negative statements about your-
self that anyone might have made at any time
in your life.
"I want you now to use a rake, which is there
somewhere in the garden, and collect all those
leaves into a heap and set fire to them. You
could put names on some of those leaves; some
of them might represent disagreeable events in
your life, some of them might represent sub-
conscious wishes for failure; some of them might
represent opinions or dislikes for some profes-
sor or other authority figure in your life.
"Some of those leaves might represent past
negative conditionings, procrastination, laziness;
some of them might represent any spite you
might hold against anyone, whoever they may
be. Whatever those leaves might symbolize, they
have to be burned out of your life, out of the
garden of your life, and, as you set fire to them,
I want you to enjoy their deliberate destruction.

I want you to feel the feeling of liberation and

riddance as you stamp them underfoot and as

you see them turned into ashes or fly away
under the wind.
"And I want you to go around that garden of
your life, pick up all those leaves, and bum
them in that bonfire.
"And you take a real pleasure in gathering
the very last of those leaves and setting fire to
the lot.
"And, when the time is over, you will wake
up, feeling fine and refreshed and as if a load
has been taken off your shoulders."
 Self-Motivation 127

Exercise Number 25: Making

Self-Discipline Pleasurable

Once more, we simply give the verbatim sug-

gestion a hypnotist would use for such a pur-
pose and leave It to the student to apply It to
the specific posthypnotic technique of his or
her choice:

You have now eliminated the obstacles to your

own success, so that you can feel free to build
anew and facilitate your own life as a student.
You now take pleasure In doing your hyp-
notic exercises for concentration, memory, and
rapid reading.
It Is now a pleasure for you to take the steps
useful toward your academic success.
The things you have to do for succeeding In
your studies, you now undertake with pleasure,
even If some people should call It discipline and
shun It or deride It.

You set aside, dallyand weekly, periods of

time for studying and applying the self-hypnotic
tools you have acquired.
You now have and enjoy the habit of review-
ing your material so that you assimilate it with
ease and efficiency.
Weekly periods of reviewing are now habitual
with you and monthly periods or recapitulation
are so natural to you that you could not care
less for anything else until those are done.
All subjects interest you because they are all
part of your academic success.
By disciplining yourself and alloting time for
every task, you find you have more time for
extracurricular or social activities. You con-
128 POWER HYPNOSIS
stantfy feel the urge to assimilate your daify
quota of subject matter and you enjoy this as
an insurance policy of success.
Now, at the count of Three, and until the
time for this hypnotic period is over, I want you
to see yourself doing your hypnotic exercises
regularly, according to a schedule, daily assimi-
lating your quota of subject matter for the day,
weekly reviewing and monthly recapitulating
your subjects and enjo5ring it all.
One, Two, Three . . .

Willpower Versus Goal Power

It is a moot question whether there exists

such an entity as that called willpower.
It has even been argued pro and con whether
there exists that which has been called free
choice. It has been held that, even in that pri-
mordially important question, free choice is
nothing but ttie result of the greater attraction
of one out of many alternatives.
In either case, it is a well-known psychologi-
cal fact that, because humans are goal-seeking
animals, a sufficiently attractive goal will sup-
ply the necessary motivation to attain it where
willpower by itself is subject to all the vagaries
of its own want of deflniteness.
It seems, in fact, that willpower is a by-product
of goal power and that it springs from the pres-
sure of the goal in the same fashion as the
pressure in your tap springs from the pressure
of the head of water in your local reservoir or
the applied pressure of the pumps that distrib-
ute the water to consumers.
 Self-Motivation 129
The following exercise has proven most use-
ful as the solution to the oft-expressed need of
"taking the lead out."
Two alternate suggestions are here given, so
that one or the other might serve the student,
according to whether or not he or she can
'Msualize.'*
That is, the alternate exercises, Numbers 25A
and 25B may be used, the latter by those stu-
dents who cannot as yet **see things'' with their
eyes closed and the former by those who do
have that capacity.
Such a procedure has been adopted because
some readers may or may not proceed beyond
this chapter; mental visualization seems an in-
superable obstacle to some, and others may not
have the resolve to spend the time and effort
involved in acquiring it.

Exercise Number 25A: Taking the

Lead Out

For the Visualizers

At the count of Three, I want you to see some-

thing very interesting.
At the count of Three, you will see two films
of yourself in five years from now.
You may see those two films side by side, or
you may see them one after the other, but you
will see two films of yourself five years from
now (or at the end of your academic studies)
according to whether you use or do not use the
tools that have been given to you thus far.
130 POWER HYPNOSIS
You have been given tools for increasing yoiir
concentration, your memory, and your learning
abilities.
You have been given tools whereby you can
adhere to a working discipline in your life as a
student.
At the count of Three, I want you to see a film
that shows you what success you have attained
if you use those tools and have used more than
the traditional ten percent of your capabilities.
On the other film, you will see yourself and the
success you obtain if you do not use the tools
that have been provided for you.
One, Two, Three . . .

Exercise Number 25B:

Taking the Lead Out

For the Nonvisualizers

You know that, according to William James,

the average person does not use more than 10
percent of his or her capabilities.
Now, you have been given tools that permit
you to escape the law of average and get a few
points better than the normal 10 percent.
You have been given tools whereby you can
increase your concentration and your memory;
you have been given tools that will facilitate for
you the task of learning and achieving success.
Now, at the count of Three, I want you to
imagine how much you can benefit, over the
years and at graduation time, from using those
tools you have been equipped with.
At the count of Three, I want you to imagine
 Self-Motivation 131

all the time and effort you can save for yourself
and the improvement you can make in your
life, both academically and otherwise, by using
those tools.
At the count of Three, and for the duration of
this exercise, I want you to imagine how much
easier and better your life can be if you use
those tools regularly. As of now, I want you to
decide that you are using them, regularly and
beginning now.
One, Two, Three . . .
 CHAPTER 9

Sleep Learning Without iVIacliines

Free Night Shift

It issurprising that the use of self-hypnosis

for putting "George" to work during the hours
of natural sleep is not more widespread.
For years, hypnoemalysis has been used for
suggesting to patients that "sometime during
the next few days, you will have a dream that
will bear on this problem, and we will then
work together on interpreting that dream."
Of course, this is tantamount to saying that
nonmedical hypnosis has a long way to go.
Yet, that capacity for using natural sleep has
been sporadicsdly utilized by eirtists, mathema-
ticians, and creative people at large.
Here is a tremendously valuable tool of self-
hypnosis that you can create for yourself.
Sleep learning can be done through the use
of such devices as the "Dormiphone" and all
other similar machines that use a timing mech-
anism, which starts and stops a tape during
the hour following the inception and the hour
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 Sleep Learning Without Machines 133
preceding the termination of natural sleep. A
period of training may be necessary to over-
come the so-called barrier.
For the student or scholar wishing to put
"George" to work during his or her natural sleep
hours, there may be a few days, or even weeks,
without any results.
By repetition of the suggestion, however, the
barrier will be overcome and results will be
seen.
They may be, at first, mere fragments of the
sleeping time actually "devoted" by the subcon-
scious mind to the task assigned to it by the
presleep suggestion.
With the proper persistence, nevertheless, the
time will come when the sleeper can count on a
full-night benefit of "inner rumbling" of the
thinking machine.
Ideally, the period of natural sleep should be
used to review the material you have been ex-
posed to during the period of the same day, so
that the "nocturnal reviewing" processes the
—
material absorbed—but not yet digested during
the day.
Because of the special aspect of this sugges-
tion, we would advise the student to use either
the "tape," the "folded-paper," or the "pre-blue-
printing" techniques of posthypnotic sugges-
tions as they are given here.
To make things easier for the user, we will
give in detail each of these three applicable
suggestions.
134 POWER HYPNOSIS
Exercise Number 26A: Sleep Learning
Without Machines

Pre-Blueprinting PHS Technique

This suggestion should be self-administered
at the moment before going to sleep for the
night.
Now, I am going to sleep, hypnotically, at the I
count of one to twenly and my hypnotic sleep
will, within two minutes, transform itself into
natural sleep.
I will sleep until such-and-such an hour to-

morrow morning. During my natural sleep, my

subconscious mind will work at reviewing the
classes of this day (or such-and-such material).
The folded-paper technique of PHS could use
the same text.

Exercise Number 26: Sleep Learning

Without Machines

The Tape Recorder Technique

This is the way the consulting hypnotist might
phrase the appropriate suggestion:
Now, whenever you go to sleep at night, you
say to yourself, "During this coming night, my
mind will be working on such-and-such mate-
rial .."; you then count to twenty and you will
.

automatically go into h5T)notic sleep and, within

the next two minutes, your hypnotic sleep will
transform itself into natural sleep. Then, with-
 Sleep Learning Without Machines 135

out disturbing the recuperative value of your

natural sleep, your subconscious mind will re-
view the material you have given it to work on,
just as if you actually did the mental work in
the waking state, and you will wake up in the
morning feeling refreshed as usual and recu-
perated, but you will actually have the benefit
of your mind's doing a full and free night shift
of working on that material.
Now, I repeat that suggestion (start from be-
ginning, once).

Useful Unused Time

That third of your life that is devoted to sleep
could just as easily be used to reinforce any
positive suggestion you are working on at the
time.
Such a suggestion could be one concerning
concentration, memory, discipline, and so on.
Of course, this chapter is obviously devoted
to those students and scholars who want to use
self-hypnosis "to the limit," but it is neverthe-
less included here because even if only one or
two students, out of the many who use this
book, have the natural talent for self-hypnosis,
who can tell how far he or she may go?
This is one instance where, truly, the sky is
the limit.
 — CHAPTER — 10

Operation "No Jitters'

A Useless Waste Maker

Many more exams and recitations have been

failuresbecause of a simple case of the jitters
than because of actual ignorance of the subject
matter.
That well-known phenomenon, akin to stage
fright —
^with its accompanying sjntnptoms of wob-
bling knees, parched throat, sweaty palms and
—
other s5nmptoms of mental dissociations ^has
many facets. It covers the whole gamut from
the blank memory to the blank expression of
the face.
Some of its victims would be unable to ex-
press the reasons for the tremors that take pos-
session of their bodies and minds when it does
"take hold of them."
To some, it seems that the examining board
has somehow fished out of the blue questions
that were never discussed during the academic
year; to others, it is merely a vague sensation of
void in the upper region of the body, commonly
136
 Operation "No Jitters" 137
called the head, and to still others it is simply
an impression of "nervousness/' "not being
wholly there," or general uneasiness.
To some of the victims, it is simply the well-
deserved realization that the beginning and the
end of the academic year have quite suddenly
joined one another, and that nothing much
—
has been accomplished ^by them in between —
the two.
To most of them however, the pangs of con-
science are entirely out of order, because they
have dutifully used the time during the interim
period.
To these latter students especially, self-hypnosis
can be very helpful in eliminating those obsta-
cles crucial to the free expression of their knowl-
edge and their worth.
Self-hypnosis is not a miraculous lifesaver.
Time wasters should not think that a last-ditch
hypnotic miracle will save them from the im-
pending disaster.
Hypnotic or self-hypnotic training or sugges-
tion under the pressure of a deadline, in the
vast majority of cases, cannot and should not
be considered for two reasons.
First, because the training itself should not
be done or undertaken "in extremis"; training
in hypnosis or self-h5^nosis should first be done
in a neutral setting, merely and exclusively for
the purpose of acquiring self-hypnosis.
Second, and more important for the matter
at hand, posthypnotic suggestions obey an as
yet unestablished pattern of efficiency.
Posthypnotic suggestions, whether self- or
hetero-administered, can and do take effect ac-
cording to one of the following patterns:
A daily slight improvement.
Nothing at all for a few days and then.
138 POWER HYPNOSIS
sudden dramatic effects, with another
period of stagnation.
Slight periodical (not daily) improvement
with increasing frequency.
Initial period of long stagnation and then
setting in of one of the previously men-
tioned patterns.
Generally, the first pattern of "daily slight
Improvement" is the rule, the daily improvement
varying from 1, 2, or 3 percent, or even 5 percent.
The strategy therefore Is to be prepared, £ind
preparedness should be the password of all stu-
dents. After all, if a person ceinnot be prepared
as a student, how can he or she expect to be
prepared as a professional?

Reasons for the Jitters

All of the previously mentioned obstacles to

—
success ^wish to fail, spite, preconditionings,
—
and so on C£in be invoked as subconscious
factors of the jitters that assail students in the
exam room.
However, those factors should have been elim-
—
inated by now ^regularly and systematicalty—by
the "cloud and sun" or the "burning of the
leaves" exercises.
Nevertheless, there are perfectly natural ex-
planations for that severe type of stage fright
that confronts the examinee to a written or oral
examination.
The solemnity of the setting, the Importance
of the occasion to the subject's future, the thou-
sand £uid one preconditionings from he£u*say,
and the reciprocal suggestions of the tense faces
of the unprepared candidates, all are some of
the normal causes of the jitters.
 Operation "No Jitters" 139
The keynote of the suggestions aimed at dis-
pelling the feelings of anxiety, nervousness, in-
adequacy, or despondency (which all partly
describe the phenomenon) should be relaxation,
self-confidence, and self-possession.
Two suggestions will be given here to condi-
tion yourself to passing an exam—written or
—
oral or to presenting a recitation with calm,
self-assurance, relaxed mind and body and, con-
sequently, efficiency.

Exercise Number 27: Operation

"No Jitters"

Now, we want to suggest to the subconscious

mind something very interesting regarding your
new behavior during any exam session, and
any instance when you have to recall and ex-
press your knowledge of subject matters. In the
future, and beginning now, whenever you say
to yourself: "Now, relaxation until such 2ind
such a time . ./' you will feel an extraordinary
.

sense of calm, confidence, and self-possession.

Your mind will be at ease, will function with
clarity and poise, and you will feel more calm
and cool, as a matter of fact, than in any other
circumstances of life. This calm self-confidence
and relaxation will be due to mainy supporting
feelings-
It will be supported by the knowledge that
you have studied, reviewed, and recapitulated
your material.
It will be partly a consequence of the knowl-
edge that whatever you have read, studied, or
observed is never erased from your memory bank
140 POWER HYPNOSIS
and even without any effort other than
that,
that of having attended the necessary classes,
almost anyone should be able to remember at
least 50 percent of them.
That calm and relaxed feeling will also be
partly due to the confidence that you have men-
tally rehearsed the material by doing some men-
tal shadow questioning on the subject matter
you are being tested on.
That same calm relaxed attitude will also in-
stantly come to you when you have to do some
recitation or pass any oral examinations. Now,
at the count of Three, I want you to see your-
self, over and over again, under all kinds of
circumstances where you previously would have
felt nervous, enjoying feelings of alert relaxation,
calm and clear poise of mind and bocfy, as soon
as you think to yourself: "Now, relaxation till
such-and-such a time ..."
And during the X minutes that this exercise
will require, I want you to see yourself calm and
relaxed and alert and poised and as soon as you
use the key for producing those feelings over —
and over again, for just as long as it would take
for the subconscious to produce them automati-
cally upon the elicitation of the signal and for
the conscious mind to use them automatically
wherever and whenever the circumstances de-
mand it.

One, Two, Three . . .

Note: By
using the L-K-U or the tape
PHS techniques, the student will so con-
dition himself or herself to the instanta-
neous and automatic production of the
desired feelings, well before examination
 Operation "No Jitters'' 141

time, as to feel absolutely secure about

their mechanical reiteration by the sub-
conscious mind, when needed.

As the alert relaxation conditioning is grad-

ually learned and tested before its direct needs
are met, the student can work leisurely at mak-
ing it just as complete as he or she wishes it to
be in actual life.
Of course, such an exercise can be extended
to undoing any reluctance or antipathy to pub-
lic speech, again by being tested under gradually
increased difficulties and reinforced appropri-
ately,according to the evidence of the acquired
results.
 CHAPTER 11

Mental Imagery: The Tool of

Photographic Memory

Parting of the Roads

This chapter may quite reasonably mark the

parting of the roads for two groups of readers.
—
Those who have not yet developed in the course
—
of their training in self-hypnosis ^the art of
mental visualization, although capable of re-
ceiving the full benefits of self-hypnosis in the
previously provided techniques, may want to
stop here.
This and the following chapters are devoted
to higher aspects of self-hypnosis: Their use |

can "magnify" a person by developing the es-

sential tool of mental imagery.
Those who stop here will probably do so not
because of an Inherent incapacity to attain men- |
tal visualization, but because of the common
belief that it is difficult to acquire it.
It is hoped, in all cases, that the student will
go on with the perusal of this chapter, if for no
other purpose than to find what he or she is
missing by not "really going through with it."
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 Mental Imagery 143
But, we repeat, if you are to **drop out*' now,
by means read these last two chapters in
all
order to get at least an idea of the possibilities
offered.
We continue on to the matter at hand—^training
in mental imagery.

Pictorial Thinking

The fact that one picture is worth ten thou-

sand words has been appreciated for thousands
of years, long before man could write or even
speak.
The first thinking of man was done in mental
pictures, just as his first writing was done in
pictorial designs on the caves of Altamira or
elsewhere.
Mental imagining, the making of mental pic-
tures of the outside world, has therefore been a
phylogenetic property of man throughout the
ages; even the Greek word for idea was initially
the word for image.
Thinking in images, seeing things with your
eyes closed, is therefore one of the most natural
and the most inevitable inheritances of your
very nature.
In order to lose that natural faculty to see
things with your eyes closed it takes, just as in
South Pacific, a lot of contrary conditioning:
you must be taught, you must be very carefully
taught.
That natural attribute explains the instinc-
tive imagery and poetry of all primitive lan-
guages, as is the case with the American Indians.
Speaking and writing have been the first two
 144 POWER HYPNOSIS
of the "extensions of man" so successfully elab-
orated upon by McLuhan, but, like all other
extensions of man, they have partially ampu-
tated him of the faculty extended, namely the
natural process of thinking in images.
Nevertheless, the faculty still survives and is
only gradually lost after birth.

Free Cartoons

Take any child between the ages of six and

eleven or even twelve, tell him or her to close
his or her eyes because you will "place your
thumb on a magical spot between the eyes and
then count to seven . . and, at the count of
.

"
seven, they will see a very funny cartoon."
I
Then, place your thumb on the bridge of the
child's nose, dutifully count to seven, and watch
for the wide, amused grin of the child.
It will happen 99 percent of the time, once
you have established your "magical powers" with
the child.
Although the figures we will now give are not
supported by statistics, but merely the experi-
ence of the author, they can readily be con-
firmed by your own experience and a few days
of inquiry in your surroundings.
Approximately 90 percent of all children un-
der thirteen, 50 percent of women of all ages
and 25 percent of men of all ages can "close
their eyes and see a given object."
As the process of thinking in symbols (words
and numbers, spoken or written) becomes more
and more a part of our mental processes, the
natural faculty of mental imagery gradually
wanes and, in some cases, disappears.
The object of this chapter is to train you.
 Mental Imagery 145
through self-hypnosis, to recapture that natu-
and then use it for learning the special-
ral gift
ized techniques of self-hj^nosis it permits:
Training in acquiring a photographic
memory.
Time distortion for studying in acceler-
ated time.
Making your professors work overtime by
the use of mental hallucination and time
distortions.
Those techniques are the tools that will allow
you to cut in half the time necessary to absorb
a given amount of information or subject matter
or double the amount absorbed in the same time.
And that factor, that constamt of multiplica-
tion of your efficiency at absorbing amounts of
learning, can probably be increased to three.
For those who intended to drop out at the
last chapter, such a consideration may likely be
reason enough to reconsider.

The Steps to a Photographic Memory

Photographic memory comes naturally to a

few privileged people. I recall the case of a pro-
fessional who deplored, at age 72, the fact that
"I now have to read a page of Greek twice before
I can remember it by heart.''

Such a person might be surprised to learn

that not everyone possesses such a natural gift,
so strong is the disposition in people to take
their own case as the universal rule.
Similarly, people who do have the faculty of
mental imagining may find it hard to believe
that some people do not possess it; and to such
146 POWER HYPNOSIS
as do not possess the capacity to make mental
images of whatever they see eiround them, it
may sound unbelievable to hear that they, as
weU as everybody else, can acquire the power.
To some, it is merely a case of reawakening a
natural process of the mind; to others, it may
prove rather difficult to learn. But they may be
assured that they do have it as a natural and
innate capacity and they will develop it if they
stick with it long and hgird enough.
Of course, motivation toward ^e acquisition
of the faculty can be enhanced by using all
previous tools of self-hypnosis that do not re-
quire it.
The necessary steps to a photographic mem-
ory are:

1. Mental visualization
2. Proper training and
3. Practice

According to whether you do or do not pos-

sess the ability to do some mental imagining
"seeing things with your eyes closed, just as
vividly as if you were seeing them on a kind of
mental screen, instead ofjust imagining them"
you will follow the instructions given for Group
AorB.
Those who possess the faculty of making clear
mental images of things we will call Group A:
those who do not possess it we will call Group B.

Training for Group B: The Nonvisualizers

After you have successfully terminated the

exercises given in this and the following sec-
 Mental Imagery 147
tion of this chapter, you will be ready to join
the students of Group A.
The biggest hurdle the nonvisualizer will have
to surmount is the "barrier of disbelief."
No matter how easily the similarity can be
grasped between "mental imagery" and the
nightly process of dreaming, there still persists
the vague notion that, somehow, there is some
difference between the two.
The hardest obstacle will have been cleaired
when you can be sure that you have "seen some-
thing" with your eyes closed, no matter what
that "something" may be.
Even if that "something" is just a hazy, mud-
—
dled mass of dark and darker shades or some
—
nebulous black and gray color ^as soon as you
can discern some pattern of organization, you
will then and there know that "I can do it, too."
Of course, as you reach this chapter, it is
assumed that you have, as indicated, passed
the tests of each previous chapter. In other
words, it is assumed that:

1. You possess self-hj^nosis.

2. You can "go under" for a specified
number of minutes.
3. You have tested your hypnotic state
by some simple posthypnotic sugges-
tion, even nothing else but
if it Is
the compulsion to pick up a book or
shouting "Hallelujah" once you have
come out of the hypnotic state.
4. You have already practiced posthyp-
notic suggestions (such as those con-
cerning concentration, memory, or
reviewing after reading) and experi-
enced the effects thereof in the wadd-
ing state.
148 POWER HYPNOSIS
Only if you have accomplished those prelimi-
naiy tests of self-hypnosis should you have come
thus far anyway.
If not, what are you doing here?
Assuming you have fulfilled the required con-
ditions as outlined, let us now proceed with the
techniques that will save you time in acquiring
Mental Visualizatton.

Acquiring Mental Visualization

The that of being already

first requisite, after
adept in self-hypnosis, will be to learn a new
type of timed hypnosis.
The exercises that will train you in acquiring
the art of seeing things or objects mentally, as
if they were projected onto a mental internal
screen, should be timed as follows:
"Until I have seen such-and-such a thing or
until five minutes are elapsed, whichever hap-
pens first."
Once the "thing" that is the object of the
exercise has been "seen," the exercise, for all
intents and purposes, is over and should be
terminated.
So, the exercises aiming at acquiring mental
imagery should be programmed as follows:
You blueprint the exercise before you do it.
The blueprint says: "Now I will sleep for so
many minutes or until I have seen such-and-
such a thing, whichever happens first.
Now, the thing I want to visualize is .
.".

And then, you use your self-hypnotic key, natu-

rally consisting of counting from one to twenty.
The something to be seen could be some-
thing or some color, something or some con-
crete object, in general, without specification.
 Mental Imagery 149
The first exercise is outlined here so that
everything will be perfectly clear in the mind of
the student.

Exercise Number 28: Let Me See

Something

Now, I go to sleep for five minutes, or

will
imtil I have seen something.
Whichever happens first. I will then wake up
feeling fine and refreshed. Now, that something
may be a concrete object, it may be some color,
even if only an undefined splotch of color. One,
Two, Three . . .

Note: This is a turning point in your

hypnotic training because you are a
nonvisualizer.

It may happen quite naturally that you will

"see" nothing for quite a few sessions of five
minutes and that you will then, suddenly, see a
fleeting image of "something" projecting itself
onto the screen of your mind.
Sooner or later, some image is going to form
itself on that screen and then, the hurdle is
gone: You will know that you can do it, like
everybody else.
Some have found it more profitable to use
sessions of fifteen minutes or thirty minutes at
the start.
Some have found it expedient to "talk to
George."
150 POWER HYPNOSIS
Some have decided that regular, impatience-
free sessions of five minutes at a time, in series
of three, have given them the impression that
they were gradually "imagining" things better
and more clearly.
If color should come first, you may play at
having that color move or form a given or un-
specified shape, but do not for a moment be-
lieve that there should be an5rthing compulsory
or sacred about color.
The object is to achieve the mental visualiza-
tion of some "object," some concrete object, such
as a chair, a telegraph post, or a pencil.
Color is totally unimportant; it is suggested
simply because some psychologist and physiol-
ogists have found some reason for believing
that colors should be easier to produce as men-
tal images.

Afterimage

You may find some facilitation of your task in

using the afterimage, which is the image that
remains in the eye for a fraction of a second
after you have looked at a given object for a few
seconds.
In order to render this afterimage more effi-
cient, you may fix your gaze on a given object
for as long as two, three, or even five or ten
minutes and then close your eyes.
Quite evidently, as soon as you close your
eyes, it becomes rather easy to visualize men-
tally the same object that you have been fixat-
ing for such a long time.
This technique is in fact given to people un-
dertaking some Yoga practices and can be used
quite advantageously for training yourself in
mental visualization.
 Mental Imagery 151
If "your case" is rather difficult, a few days or
weeks of such training in afterimage evocation
will be very helpful.
The practice consists simply of training your-
self, in all possible moments of leisure, at fixat-
ing objects in your immediate surroundings and
then closing your eyes and "trying" to "re-see"
them mentally.
Inevitably, you will find that, every day, in
some mysterious way, you are getting better
and better at doing just that thing.
Once you have succeeded at seeing some con-
crete object, no matter what that object may
— —
be chair, baseball bat, or angel you there and
then belong to Group A. You can now continue
with the exercise of the next paragraph.
And you will never regret whatever time and
effort you may have spent on the subject.

Exercise Number 29:

Developing Mental Visualization

For Groups A and B

This is a whole series of exercises aimed at
developing the clarity, immediacy, and "staying-
put" quality of the mental images.
It is a series of **five minutes or until objec-
tive attained exercises/* in which the blueprint
contains the mental stipulation that the sub-
ject will "come back to normal" as soon as the
five minutes have elapsed or the "thing to be
visualized" has actually been seen on the inner
screen of the mind.
Quite obviously, when the exercise aims at
152 POWER HYPNOSIS
holding a given image, the alternative termina-
tions will not apply and the exercise should be
carried on for the predetermined number of
—
minutes ^namely, two, three, four, or five min-
utes.
Here is the list of exercises that should be
practiced in the order given, with the appropri-
ate blueprint self-administered before the self-
hypnotic key is used.
Each objective additional^ should constitute
the objective of one and only one exercise:
Let me see a series of concrete objects.
Let me see such-and-such a concrete
object.
Let me see some abstract object.
An abstract object evidently will not be an
abstract object, which, by definition, does not
exist in the realm of physical things, such as
Beauty, Strength, Health, Peace, War, Friend-
ship, Love, Calm and so on.
For the needs of these exercises, an abstract
object wiU be some concrete image, an arche-
^rpe or a conventional or personal substitute
for the abstract concept demanded. For exam-
ple. Peace may be seen as the universally known
dove, or some peacefiil scenery already stocked
in the memory bank of the subject or made
afresh by the imagination at the time of the
exercise.
Let me see such-and-such an abstract
object.
Chosen from the preceding list or under the
"inspiration" of the moment, that inspiration
natural^ translating a natural and subconscious
preference for the image chosen at the time:
Let me see a blackboard.
Let me see a television set.
Let me see some "neutral person.**
 Mental Imagery 153
Some person with whom you have no
negative or especially positive relation,
such as your mail carrier or your UPS
or paper delivery person.
Let me see some person.
Neutral or not, that is, and this may be
your mother-in-law, your professor, your
friend (of either sex), your football coach
and so on
Let me see such-and-such a person.
Let me see letter A, or R, or some other
letter.
That letter could be standing in thin air
or written on a blackboard, and you
may then pass on to the whole alpha-
bet, one letter per exercise or the whole
sequence of the alphabet, from A to Z,
or from A to Z and then back again to
A in one exercise.
Let me see some two-letter word.
Let me see some three-letter word.
Let me see some four-letter word.
Let me see such-and-such a word.
Let me see a stage, curtains drawn or
closed.

Note: Do not let yourself become *'stuck**

on such-and-such an image, which some-
how seems to be difficult to imagine; pass
on to some other exercise and forget that
obstinate image. You are merely training
yourself in mental imagery and you do
not have time to analyze the possible
subconcious blocks or resistances to such-
and-such an image.

J
154 POWER HYPNOSIS
Exercise Number 30: Training for a
Photographic Memory

This again is given, and for obvious reasons,

as a series of mental self-hypnotic exercises.
Take a newspaper, scan it for the headlines
for a few minutes, and then do the following
exercises:
Let me
see the first two words of that
same headline.
Let me see the whole headline.
Let me see some iUustration I have seen
in that paper.
If necessary look again at that picture and
then do the exercise once more.
Take a book, look at the title page, and then
do the exercise:
Let me see the title page of that book.
Now, read a full paragraph, two or three times,
from that book gmd do the following exercise:
Let me see the first half of the first line of
that paragraph.
Let me see the whole of the first line of
that paragraph.
Or, after looking at it for a few seconds.
Let me see such-and-such a chart from
that book, then.
Let me see the whole of such and such a
paragraph.
And then:
After you mastered one whole paragraph,
you can pass on to two paragraphs.
Daily mental practice on the headlines, on
charts, and pictures from books and/or papers
will sharpen your mental eyes.
 Mental Imagery 155

Note: The purpose of a photographic

memory is not, in the context of this book,
that of becoming able to "'read a page of
text once and then know it by heart, " no
matter how dramatic and showy thejeat
might seem; it is instead the faculty of
mentally photocopying important elements
of written irformation that one may need
to use at any given moment

As a matter of fact, with the proper training,

a student can rather easily, at exam time, copy
from the book a certain text with impunity,
because the copying is done in the mind.
A rather interesting method of training your
mental imagery can be used to perfect the abil-
ity while entertaining yourself. It consists of
undergoing hypnosis for a given number of min-
utes while a piece of music is played and after
having ordered the subconscious mind to "trans-
late" ttie given piece of music into images and
thus producing your own Disney-like Fantasia.
Obviously, no amount of skill in photographic
memory will replace the understanding of your
subject matter.
One can appreciate, however, how valuable it
can be to the student of law or airchitecture and
so on.

Helpful Advice

It is obvious that the acquisition and perfect-

ing of a photographic memory are serious mat-
ters. Once in possession of such a faculty, the
156 POWER HYPNOSIS
user will find innumerable advantages for it
and would certainly not exchange it for "a pot
of lentils."
Because this is a very serious objective it may
be worthwhile to note that a basic list of the
essentials is as follows:

1. A program of training.
2. A most systematic and constant use
of the tool.

A constant facilitation of the processes of vi-

sualization and continuous improvement of im-
age recall will result from the endeavor, as well
as the persistent flow of "discoveries" about its
possible applications.
Because of the time and energy involved, it
may be wise to acquire immediately "some" mea-
sure of photographic memory and pass on to
the uses of self-hypnosis given in the next chap-
ter, making a reasonable facsimile of a true
photographic memory a long-range goal.
 — CHAPTER — 12

Studying on the Triple

Time Distortion in the Waking Life

Subjective time, the time that seems neces-

sary for a given fraction of life (event or epi-
sode) to take place, is an elastic quantity that
can be compressed or expanded, generally un-
der uncontrollable factors.
Numerous expressions of the common usage
illustrate our perception of that "experiential
time*' being different from the usual clock time:
"How time flies in good company*'; "Happy days
are short days"; "It seemed like a lifetime" are
all common wordings of the fact that we sense
time to be different subjectively from what it is
objectively.
Let us suppose that two observers, at the
same time but in two different halls, each at-
tend a fifteen-minute session conducted by two
different speakers. One lecture concerns the ex-
trapolation of metaphysics from anthropologi-
cal data, the other is a "comedy show" given by
a well-known entertainer.
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158 POWER HYPNOSIS
Let us suppose that neither observer took
note of the clock time spent by each lecturer.
Then, let us ask each one of those observers
the question: "How long did it last?"
Of course, in each case, the answer to this
first question would be something like: "I don't
know; I didn't take note of the time."
Now, let us ask each subject the following
question: "How long did it seem to last?"
— —
Naturally ^as you have already anticipated ^the
subjects will answer differently.
The one who has attended the conference on
metaphysics, unless he is a real enthusiast of
the subject matter, will answer: "It seemed to
me to last about twenty-five minutes," whereas
the person who attended the come(fy show will
answer: "Well, I wish it had been longer; in
fact, it seemed to last about ten minutes."
Such is our subjective time, which we have
already called "experiential time"; it is a per-
sonally estimated duration that varies accord-
ing to the circumstances under which the given
experience has been lived; it is a seeming
duration.
There are therefore both a "real" or clock time
and an "apparent" time.
Under excessive fatigue or the stunning in-
fluence of a highly captivating event (airplane
catastrophe, automobile accident, the shock of
a loved one's death, etc.), objective time sud-
denly takes a turn for the worse or at least for
the different; it seems to "stand still" (as in
ecstasy) or it seems to "go like a flash."
One subject has related how, while on the
last stretch of a long automobfle journey, after
having driven for eight hours and feeling "some"
fatigue, he suddenly had a strange feeling of
 Studying on the Triple 159
"slow motion'' as he was driving at the approxi-
mate speed of seventy-five miles an hour.
It seemed to him that "that was no speed at
all," that the motion of his car seemed so slow
that he felt he could take time to look around at
leisure and he thought he could have ridden at
twice the speed without feeling it. He even re-
membered saying to himself; "Man, if this is
speed, give me more of it, and lots more."
Time distortion in the waking state, although
certainly not under ordinary circumstances, is
said to attain extraordinary proportions in the
case of the drowning person who sees his en-
tire life unwind in a flash in his mind.

Time Distortion Under Hypnosis

Time distortion is a natural concomitant of

hypnosis. After a one-hour session, during which
a person "slept" most of the time, the subject to
whom you ask the question, "How long do you
think you were asleep,'* is likely to make a ten-
tative answer such as: "About twenty minutes?"
In most hypnotic situations, time (i.e., expe-
riential time) is compressed, like hay in a bale:
the time it seems to "live" a certain halluci-
nated or mentally relived sequence of past life
is longer than the clock time it took to see it
under hypnosis.
It is quite aptly compared with the experi-
ence of dreams, in which things that would
take hours or even days to live can be "relived"
within a few seconds or minutes.
Cases are not rare in which a subject has
"seen," during the clock time of ten seconds.
160 POWER HYPNOSIS
the whole of a long film such as Gone With the
Wind.
In hypnotic and self-hypnotic-training, how-
ever, thepurpose is to control time distortion
and produce it at will instead of waiting for its
spontaneous happening under unforeseen and
unforeseeable factors.
Before going any further in this chapter, to
let you know what time distortion is sind thus
be more skilled in grasping its concomitants,
which are described later, it has seemed best to
propose the following exercise.

Exercise Number 31 An Experiment

: in
Distorted Time

You are by now sufficiently trained in self-

hypnosis to perform quite successfully the fol-
lowing experiment in time distortion. Because
of your acquired skiU in self-posthypnotic sug-
gestions we will merety give the blueprint to be
used.
Now the object of this hypnotic period is the
"reliving" of some episode of frequent occurrence
in your daily life. Quite naturally, the specific
sequence of events given may not be directly
applicable to your own life, and you should al-
ter the text to fit your own circumstances.

Blueprint

Now I want to sleep until the reliving of this

sequence of happenings is over, starting at the
last count of one to twenty.
 Studying on the Triple 161
Now, let me relive my dally walk from the
classroom, through the campus grounds and
back to the classroom, after having browsed
in the bookstore, as I do in fact every day.
When the whole walk to and fro is over, let
me wake up. (Note the time on your watch.)
One, Two, Three . . .

After waking up, note the time and establish

the following mathematical ratio: the time it
seemed to take (which is the same time it actu-
ally takes you to do that walk daily) divided by
the clock or watch reading:

^^^^g^g^ = Distortion Rauo

This experiment will have acquainted you with
the following data about time distortion:
You have no impression of rushing or being
rushed. In fact, you do have all the time in
—
the world, like you would have and feel to
—
have if you did the thing in "real life"* once
more.
You wake up to find that the clock time
has been inferior to the factually "required
clock time** to perform the same series of
actions.
The "usually required clock time'' is the
time you seem to have at your disposal; it is
experiential time, alias subjective time, alias
apparent time.

Note: In cases like the preceding one in

which the prehypnottc suggestion is to
perform an allotted task, there is no direct
suggestion for time distortion; the experi-
ment therefore gives you a direct exam-
ple of time distortion as a concomitant to
162 POWER HYPNOSIS
hypnosis. And you can readily perceive
the notion of time distortion ratio as being
the mathematical ratio. In this case:

Actual and usual time off allotted task

time to relive under hypnosis

In the same fashion, one could relive a class

session, once, by using a fraction of the time it
actually took to attend the class.
It can then quite naturally be inferred that,
by using a "repeated allotted task" formula, one
can "reattend" a given class a number of times
during a short period of clock time, which is
the title of this chapter.
Studying on the triple means that a time
distortion ratio of three-to-one has been achieved.
In this chapter we will equip you with a ten-
to-one time-distortion ratio.

The Value of Time Distortion

The important fact about this method of prac-

ticing time distortion is that such mental re-
viewing, whether applied to an artistic or athletic
performance, or to a learning session, has al-
most the same effect as the actual repeated
performance in fact and in regular clock time.
Musicians, using such a method by "practic-
ing" on their instrument during such halluci-
natory time-distorted hypnotic sessions, have
acquired the corresponding and factual facilita-
tion of the hallucinated performance.
 Studying on the Triple 163
Difficult passages have become "easy as pie/*
long pieces have been learned by heart, and the
performances of them rendered automatic through
automatic muscle memory, the naturalness, ex-
pressivity, and artistic level of renditions have
been Increased, and so on.
Physiologists have demonstrated that minia-
turized but real nerve Impulses do In fact reach
the appropriate muscles during the hypnotic
session and the repeated reactivation of the
neural paths has been responsible for the re-
sults obtained by musicians, performing artists,
and even athletes.
Instead of the usual pep talk before a football
game, some athletes have used a short session
of "mentally seeing themselves functioning ide-
ally during the game,** and experience has proven
that the results thus obtained surpassed those
of a control group of athletes using the stan-
dard impetus of a good pep talk from the
coach.

Purpose of This Chapter

It becomes quite evident that the use of

time distortion can be an Invaluable tool for a
student.
The purpose of this chapter is twofold:

1. Training you in hypnotic time dis-

tortion.
2. Equipping you with some of its ap-
plied techniques for the art of learning.
164 POWER HYPNOSIS
Exercise Number 32: Training in
Time Distortion

Because numerous cases have been witnessed

in which a "naturad" increase in the ratio of
time distortion has occurred by the mere fact of
repeating the exercises, without any specific
efforts toward acceleration, it is suggested that
the following list of exercises be practiced.
They all consist is reliving once a well-known
task.
They all follow the "allotted-task" formula al-
ready used in the previous exercise of this chap-
ter; in other words, the exercise is over when
the hallucinated task is over in the mental
machine.

Procedure

In each case, the blueprint is:

Now, let me sleep until I have relived,
Once, the following task, namely . . .

Note time and use self-hypnotic key:

One . . .

Keeping Tabs
In each case, take note of the time distortion
obtained for future reference.
Use a pad and keep it handy for each
session. Inscribe the date, the nature
of the task, the time it would take to
actually do the task, and the clock time
necessary to relive the hypnotic exercise.
Be sure to enter the ratio of time distortion.
 Studying on the Triple 165
AUotted Tasks

Some regular car ride,

A familiar walk in town.
The events of the previous day.
A recently attended class.
A well-liked play.
A well-known film.
A recent sports event one has attended.
Having done the previous exercises once, one
could do the whole list over again once, but we
suggest the following:
Do the whole list over again, but relive each
item three times in succession instead of
just once —^and keep tabs.
Having acquainted yourself with time distor-
tion by these exercises and having already es-
tablished some distortion ratio, you may use
the following exercise, which is an example of
the suggestion a hypnotist would use for train-
ing a subject in the art.
You may or may not do this exercise, which
is presented to give you some additional infor-
mation on the phenomenon.

Time Distortion Suggested

Now, presently, I am going to count to three

and when I have finished 1±ie count, you will
begin to see yourself counting pennies. At the
count of three, you will be in a hall where you
will find a large table, with the sides bordered
by a ledge and, in the center of that table, a
huge heap of pennies.
You will be at the spot at the table and you
166 POWER HYPNOSIS
will begin to count the pennies, in lots of fifty,
then roll the stack into the paper holder, neatly
stacking the ends, and put the rolled lot of
pennies aside. Then, you will count another
fifty, roll it up, and stack it with the previous
bundle.
You will /eel that you are thus counting pen-
nies and stacking them up in bundles for a full
hour.
You won't feel rushed in any fashion and you
will have all the time necessary to do the job
neatly and accurately.
When the time seems to have lasted one full
hour, you will wake up, feeling fine and re-
freshed, and you wHl remember ever3rthing very
clearly.
One, Two, Three . . .

This suggestion has been couched as an

"allotted-time" exercise; that is, the subject has
been given "one full hour of apparent time" to
do a given task.
When he does "wake up," the operator will
note the time elapsed since he counted to three,
which was the starting signal, and establish
therefrom the ratio of time distortion obtained.
Another type of exercise is the one in which
the subject is given or gives himself a certain
quantity of clock time in which to do a number
of tasks of known required factual time or in
which to repeat a certain task a given number
of times.
 Studying on the Triple 167

Allotted Clock-Time Suggestion

In this formula, the hypnotist would word

his or her suggestion along these lines.
Now, we all know that there are two kinds of
time; there is the actual, factual time which is
measured by the displacement of the hands of
the clock, and there is also the apparent sub-
jective time, which is the seeming duration of
the events or series of events we live.
In a dream, for instance, one can live within
a matter of seconds or minutes things that
would take hours or even days to live. Now,
when I count to three, you will sleep for five
minutes pf clock time, you will sleep for five
minutes by my watch, but it will seem to last
much longer than five minutes; in fact, it will
seem to last much morean hour or so.
like
During that apparent hour, you will be count-
ing apples (text analogous to preceding sug-
gestion).
You won't feel rushed in any fashion, and so
on.
One, Two, Three . . .

This method has the advantage that one can

suggest afterward that "this time, the apparent
time will seem yet longer, even though you will
only sleep Jive minutes of actual time by my
watch the time distortion will be greater
. . .

. .," because the concept of time distortion is

.

now clear in the trainee's mind.

168 POWER HYPNOSIS
Increasing Tinfie-Distortion Ratio

The requirement for increasing the ratio

first
of time distortion Is practice. It can also be
enhanced by direct suggestion.
We will therefore includea second series of
suggested exercises for training yourself in time
distortion and then provide a direct suggestion
for increasing the distortion ratio.

Exercise Number 33: More Training in

Time Distortion

Sequence of Allotted Tasks

This is an "until over" suggestion.

Instead of doing one task three times, as in
the previous series of exercises, one does a se-
quence of two or three different tasks, starting
at the count of three and the hypnosis ending
"when the tasks are over."
Because the student is alreacfy familiar with
this type of exercise, we wiU suggest only a few
sequences of "tasks" to be performed under
hypnosis.
Having a good meal, having a haircut and
visitinga friend.
Attending a sporting event, taking a walk
in town, and making a stop at the coffee
shop.
Attending a class, studying for twenty
minutes and going to a restaurant for a
soda.
 Studying on the Triple 169
Repetition of Given Task in Allotted
Clocic Time
This is enjoying much apparent time in five
minutes of clock time.
Therefore, the exercises in this series consist
in putting yourself to sleep and pre-blueprinting
the task to be performed during those five min-
utes, without being rushed in amy fashion, as
many repetitions of a given task, thereby "forc-
ing*' the subconscious mind to perform a given
ratio of time distortion.
Here are a few possibilities.
I will relive four times X pleasant mo-
ment of my life.
I will see three times that last class in

psychology.
Let me do an hour's worth of practicing
dunk shots.
Let me recap five times such-and-such a
chapter of my book on history.

Allotted Apparent Time

Where an activity is continuous, one may use
the "allotted apparent time" formula, in which
the suggestion is that "you will be doing such-
and-such a thing, for a time which will seem
like an hour or thirty minutes or two hours,
beginning with the starting signal One, Two,
Three . .and you will wake up when it seems
.

to have lasted an hour, and so on."

170 POWER HYPNOSIS
Direct Suggestions for Increasing Ratio

Again, we onty give the formulation the hyp-

notist would use In actual practice, and from
which the student will derive the application to
his or her own preferred method of PHS.
Now, whenever you practice time distortion,
you will find the ratio of apparent time to clock
time is each time increasing and you are get-
ting each time nearer and nearer to the ten-to-
one ratio, which you may have set as a target.
Each time, the imaging is clegirer and more
"real" and whenever you apply it to stud)ring,
you get the same benefit as you would if you
actusdly studied or reviewed your material just
as long in reality as the time appears to be
under hypnosis.

Applications

The student has had in this chapter ample

occasion to consider the possible applications
of time distortion to his or her studies.
Reviewing a class Just as soon as possible
after it has been attended, under hypnosis and
in distorted time, will become an invaluable
asset.
Reviewing the classes of the day at the end of
the day while using a time distortion ratio of
ten-to-one can save precious time and offer
possibilities for stucfy, which would be impossi-
ble to obtain from the scant twenty-four hours
of clock time one has been allotted for each day.
Reviewing (reading over and over under hyp-
nosis) a chapter of a textbook is eminently
adapted to time distortion.
 Studying on the Triple 171
And, in order to prime your creativity into
finding your own applications, may we suggest:
Having your professor work overtime for
you by having him or her repeat three,
four, six, or ten times a lecture (not
necessarily given in real life) on an am-
biguous point, on a whole chapter, on
the questions that might appear on
exams, and so on.
Improving some artistic skill, such as vi-
olin or piano or painting.
Improving your putting or driving by
doing tJhe ideal thing under time dis-
tortion.
Improving your skill as an actor, as a
speaker, as a singer.
Perfecting your memorization of a piece
of music, and so on.
You now have the tool.
Use it regularly and find new uses for it.

For referral to certified hypnotists/hypnothera-

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Hypnotist's Examining Council

1922 Westwood Boulevard, Dept. P
Los Angeles, CA 90025

For catalog of hypnosis motivation and pro-

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