Time for a Change and
The Power of Intention
Every once in a while I get emails with someone asking me "how much time will it take" to create such and such a change with hypnosis. While the time it takes any specific person to create a desired change will depend on that person's beliefs, worldview, desires, motivations, expectations, previous experiences, individual abilities, and techniques used - here are some general guidelines.
When you desire to create a change in an area where you already possess an ability (consciously or subconsciously) relevant to creating that specific change, you may have the change even instantly, because these types of changes are based predominantly on your individual desire and motivation.
If you were able to do something, even once, before, you already possess a belief system that will support such a change. You know that at least at some point in your life you were able to have that desired experience, or that an experience that is currently presenting a problem, was not a problem at some other time.
You can draw on your past experience, when the problem didn't exist, and bring your resources from the past into your present experience to eliminate the problem. An example of this may be if you suffer from insomnia or stress or even dealing with some forms of addictions. Since you didn't always have such a problem, and since you have lived your life successfully without these problems at some point in your life - if you really want to, you can have these changes instantly.
Sometimes we tend to generalize the problem and think about it as all-pervading, even though there may be times, even in the present, when the problem exists, and there may be times when the same problem doesn't exist. Some examples of these types of situations may be relationship challenges or dealing with pain. In these situations, you can shift your focus from the challenging times, to problem-free times and thereby reinforce them.
You may have had spontaneous experiences where even in the midst of pain you were mentally distracted by some pleasant experience and immersed in it completely forgot about the pain. By pleasantly distracting yourself intentionally, you can eliminate pain - instantly.
And the same is true of relationship problems. There may be times when some behavior another person exhibits may bother you very much. And then, you may recall a time when the same behavior in another person didn't have that much importance and you were much more tolerant of another person's imperfections. Whether you simply felt so good about yourself and about your life, or you spontaneously focused more on what you liked and appreciated in another, or simply realized that no one is perfect, you were in a more forgiving state of mind. By re-creating the same state of mind intentionally, you can enjoy your relationships more on a consistent basis.
In all the above cases, you can intend to have the desired change, you can decide that you are going to have it and you can have it more or less instantly. It gets a little bit different when you're working on changes that require skills you have yet to develop. By rehearsing them in your mind, while you are in a state of hypnosis, as if you already had those changes now, you can accelerate your progress. By working with Time-Lines and other techniques from Neuro-Linguistic Programming, you can greatly accelerate such changes - but they will still take time, dedication and some effort to develop.
If you have never played a piano and desire to become a famous virtuoso, it's highly unlikely you'll just listen to a hypnosis recording or have a hypnosis session, and wake up in the morning with the change you had in mind. You will have to invest years of practice - practicing for many, many hours a day - yet with a help of hypnosis and time-line techniques you can develop your expertise much faster.
If you desire to create changes in your body and you've never consciously even attempted to produce such changes with your mind intentionally before, then it will take time to condition your subconscious with this new ability. And it is an ability, a skill, that takes time to master just like any other skill.
Once you have developed the required skills, once you have trained your mind to create desired changes instantly, all that you will need is a mere intent, and you will have a change. There was a time when you didn't know how to walk and it took a lot of effort learning how to balance yourself and to get your body to respond the way you wanted it, but once you have mastered the art of walking, all it took to get anywhere walking was an intent and your body would respond.
The same power of intent works when you are using your mind power to produce effects with "remote" hypnosis. Even though there may be no tangible feedback here, you can "feel" the intent as the movement of energy.
When you intend a change, the following process occurs (though it may happen so fast that you're not aware of it): an idea, the thought activates your emotions; emotions move the energy; and the energy expresses through whatever physical means of expression are associated with your intent.
If you were laying on a bed, relaxed, and you intended to get up - the thought and the feeling of how would it be to get up would occur first (desire to get up or feeling that you have to), followed by the movement of energy of your body, (or if you like - the time it takes for the intention from your mind to be communicated through your neurology to your body) which would then pull your physical body out of bed. This movement of energy, just before your body responds by actually getting out of bed - is how intent feels.
When you are working on creating a change in your body, before the actual change occurs, the intent, the movement of energy manifests first - then the change becomes reflected in the physical body.
When using "remote" hypnosis, it is your intent that directs the energy to produce the effects you are after. As you use hypnosis, as you use your mind to create desired changes intentionally, you are conditioning your subconscious mind and you are creating a neurological "pathway" that the idea you intended to manifest will take and travel enabling you to produce instant changes.
All the magic and instant changes you are able to produce are based on some skills and abilities you have developed previously. There is no unexplainable, mystical magic in hypnosis - all the magic comes from the mind-power you care to develop.
Just because it may take you more time to develop certain abilities doesn't mean that they are impossible for you to develop. It only means that you need to be more patient and to keep on using your mind-power intentionally as often as you can, in every area of your life. The more you practice, the more proficient you become and the faster results will you be able to produce.
Saying that you "tried" something once, or even for two months or six months and didn't get desired results, so you got discouraged and concluded it doesn't work - only says that you didn't care about that change enough to persist until you got the change you desired - or, that you didn't use self-hypnosis correctly. If you really want the change, and are willing to invest all the energy and effort it takes to get it - you can have the change.
If you are attempting to create results in an area that requires more skill working with mind power than you currently possess, you should back-track and start from the beginning - training your mind step-by-step. You can click here for some helpful mind-training exercises.
In A Course in Miracles it says "infinite patience brings instant results". The reason for this is - when you let go of tensions, impatience and anxiety you allow all the energy necessary to produce the desired change to flow freely through you. You are in a relaxed state and in a state of allowing. When you demand that the change occurs by a certain time in a certain way, you tense and block the flow of energy, creating an inner obstacle for such a change to occur - and it will take more time to get the change you are after.
Hypnotists, hypnosis recordings and various techniques and technologies are there simply to help you harness and utilize your own mind-power more effectively. In order to get the most out of these tools, you still have to three essentials - desire to have a change, belief that such change is possible for you to accomplish, and motivation that will keep you wholeheartedly committed to the realization of your outcome and carry you through any obstacles until you reach your goal. You also need to entertain a sense of expectation and weed out all doubts, impatience and anxiety.
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