Self-hypnosis can help!

I am learning about self-hypnosis at the moment as part of my fascination with how the power of language affects our behaviour. I have discovered one of the most hypnotic language patterns involves pivot words, sometimes called pattern interrupts.
Pattern interrupts have the purpose of leading someone, anyone, yourself, to somewhere more useful, creating new neural pathways, possibly by confusing or derailing a train of thought you did think you believed, but when you look in more detail, you realise you can change how you think after all.

 

By interrupting a pattern of thought with something different to the predictable outcome, you can jog your subconscious into changing behaviour.
So if you can begin to learn to change your patterns of thought so that you deliberately introduce the unexpected, then it becomes easier to stay on track with your new intentions.
Patterns of words are of course a natural part of language and how we express a thought or feeling can change at the drop of a hat – or should I say at the drop of an expected sentence structure – one which is attractive to you at a subconscious level.

 

Any spoken or written sentences, as you hear or read them, are being processed to make sense at the same time, and our impressions formed even before the sentences have finished. What for example do you see in your mind as you read this sentence to yourself or someone else:

Walking down a road or a pathway, you may see a flower or a tree, which grows from a seed and evolves a life as you walk by…

 

Suggestion in the way you speak to yourself or others is a collection of experiences that can form our impressions. Language generates experiences that are then imbibed by the nervous system and to a large part create our subjective and individual version of reality.

 

So how to use the power of suggestive language to ensure we continue to stay sober, perhaps (or for any other use you choose)?
Here’s a pattern you may choose to use when a craving or self-destructive intention comes along…
Choose a sentences starting and ending in a noun. For example:

 

People do go out at night sober…

 

Then choose to take the last noun and continue the story, as it were:

 

…Sober makes for a great night’s entertainment…

Then continue the pattern, taking the last noun of each sentence to start the next, for example:

 

..Entertainment involves friends and conversation…

 

And so on, so you are effectively leading your subconscious through a series of positive thoughts which are embedded as ‘the truth’. Each of the nouns at the start and end of each sentence are the pivots which lead your brain to an expectation of certain outcomes.

 

As you read the sentence(s) you create in your subconscious a ‘script’ for yourself or others, and you can now believe something in a different way … Making this self-hypnosis technique work for you is all about experiencing something novel, new, weird, and unexpected. Remember the brain LIKES unexpected, weird, and different and is likely to remember it all the more this way.

 
You can then use this technique of pivot words at the start and end of your sentences to offer very helpful and well-meaning suggestions again and again, in all areas of your life…you might consider trying this method of language patterns on others too…it’s about communicating positive intentions. Write your positive intentions down and say them out loud, perhaps record them on your phone…