iLAB - play with your personal reality: Recent Episodes
Anthony Jacquin
Pro-tips, practical techniques and audio experiences that show you how to engage, explore, and experiment with your personal reality.
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The suggestion is euphoriaI just kicked off The Dave Elman Legacy Global Convention with a two hour exploration of his work and it's influence on me. I finished with an exclusive.
Ricardo Manzo and I collaborated under the name of "Cohort 1" to create a dance tune, whose lyrics are made up entirely of Dave Elman quotes, straight out of his book Findings in Hypnosis.
Been a tough one keeping this under wraps, but it's out now.
Turn it on, turn it up, and let it take you there.
*This song was produced using mobile phones only.
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The Six Words of Tilopa
If they are good enough to bring you to buddhahood, they are certainly good enough to eliminate unnecessary agitation.
And so much more.A one thousand year old teaching, as relevant today as it was then.
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Thanks to all of you that shared your goal with me. The range of things shared was so touching, and included personal, physical and business goals.
This session is dedicated to helping you achieve what you want to achieve. It provides a framework for organising and gathering your resources, so that you can begin making moves toward the outcome that you want.
Let us know what your next action will be below.
I know you can do this. It’s a decision. I am with you on this.
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Hypnosis isn’t relaxation. Self-hypnosis doesn’t require you to be relaxed.
Yet, both can be used to achieve deep levels of relaxation.
In this audio you will be guided through a classic deep relaxation exercise, into your very own basement-of-relaxation. Then you will be given a key, that will enable you to return to that place any time that you wish.
Are you curious to find out how deep you can go?
I am. So please let us know, how it was for you, with a comment below?
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Deep sleep.
Deep sleep is a joy.
It is one we all enjoy.
Yet, how do we know this? How do we know with such certainty that we enjoy deep sleep?
This is one of life’s great mysteries.
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Morning will come. It has no choice.
And we begin waking up; but before anything is voiced.
An opportunity presents itself. A magical moment.
In that transition from sleeping to waking.
Before the body wakes up fully. Before thinking has fully engaged.
In this gap, this moment of silence, with nothing to do, nothing to avoid or achieve.
In this space, between two states, you are naturally attuned to a stillness, without effort.
The perfume of deep sleep pervades this peaceful experience.
If we remain tuned into this stillness, a timeless moment is revealed.
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SET-OFF.
Now that you have a basic self-hypnosis flow it is time to build this into your life. Consider the 3 R’s.Readiness. Repetition. Refinement.
Just like every other skill you set out to learn, there will be some immediate benefits, and other long-term gains that require you to work toward them.Keep your practice aligned with your legacy, and bring a refreshed attitude to your practice sessions every time.
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SURFACE.
You can choose to engage in self-hypnosis any time and anywhere. You can disengage from that process any time too.
However you can ratify the work that you have done and encourage it’s automatic expression by emerging from the process with just as much intention as you when you initiated it.
For years, knocking at a door. Finally, it opens. I have been knocking from the inside.
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SUGGEST.
Time to consider post-hypnotic suggestions. They have three parts:
The post-hypnotic suggestion.
The post-hypnotic trigger.
The post-hypnotic act.
What will you trigger in yourself?
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SUGGEST.
In this lesson you will learn to create a line of communication with yourself.Imagine your creative resource is listening, waiting for your next instruction, waiting for your next suggestion. What will you ask it to do?
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SUGGEST.
In this lesson we begin to change our experience using imagined outcomes.If you go out into a fantasy and look back to now, what is the first step you notice that you are willing to commit to?
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SUGGEST.
In this lesson we begin to change our experience using observation and words.If your world is made of words, what are the words you will say to yourself to change your world.
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SUGGEST.
This is the fifth step in this seven-step self-hypnosis program.
Once you have learnt to stop (see Step 1), sit (see Step 2), sense (see Step 3) and set your trajectory (see Step 4) it is time to suggest. There are many ways to do this.
We begin with a reminder to self-remember.
By making a distinction between yourself and any given experience, you are in a better position to make changes.
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SET.
This is the fourth step in this seven-step self-hypnosis program.
Once you have learnt to stop (see Step 1), sit (see Step 2), and sense (see Step 3) it is time to set your trajectory. This audio will help with that.
It utilises legacy statements to ensure you are on the right path, before you begin giving yourselves specific suggestions related to your self-hypnosis goals.By using your legacy as a personal integrity filter, it becomes clearer exactly what is required for you to have the life that you want.
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SENSE.
This is the third step in this seven-step self-hypnosis program.
Once you have learnt to stop (see Step 1), and sit (see Step 2), it is worthwhile paying attention to the sensory components of your experience. This audio will help with that.
It makes it easier to disentangle these building blocks of experience, so that you might better be able to change them and create new experiences.By learning to allow your attention to reach toward and return from your sensory experiences, you will be better equipped to communicate with yourself.
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SIT.
This is the second step in this seven-step self-hypnosis program.
Once you have learnt to stop (see Step 1), it is useful to familiarise yourself with the hypnotic experience. This audio will help with that.
This will help you to relax into the experience, and learn to sit with whatever it is that you are experiencing at that time.By learning to sit with yourself in this way, you will better be able to sense what that experience is made up of, so that you may make changes to it, or disentangle yourself from it entirely.
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STOP.
This is the first step in this seven-step self-hypnosis program.
It is adapted from a classic mindfulness mini-practice, developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn.
It is perfectly suited to initiating your self-hypnosis practice.
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Our capacity to pay attention is finite, and often becomes depleted.
In this exercise you will learn one simple way to stop this from happening, and another to restore your cognitive reserve.
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The ability to focus is a valuable skill in life, and is called upon in many of the exercises in iLAB.
Yet, with so many things competing for our attention, it can be challenging at times to maintain focus.
There are several ways to enhance our capacity to focus, and the first step is to become aware of the different kinds of focus.
Let us know what you are keen to focus on?
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iLAB - Do you often find your mind is racing?
Would you like to be able to achieve mental relaxation any time and anywhere?
This 25 minute audio will guide you into a state of complete mental relaxation, and give you a trigger to return to that state whenever you wish.
The benefits of relaxation physically, mentally and therapeutically are well documented.
It’s time to return to the natural state of a living being. Where the body and mind are free of tension and anxiety.
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iLAB - Do you experience chronic pain?If you were free of your chronic physical or emotional pain would that be detrimental to you in any way?If the answer is no, and you want to be free, then listen to this audio. It will guide you through The Arrow Technique which reliably reduces or eliminates useless and unnecessary pain. (1)Chronic pain, whether physical or emotional, remains a significant burden for both individuals and society.Standard medical treatment for chronic pain is often inadequate, and it is common for frustrated patients to seek costly treatments from multiple health care professionals, often without significant relief.Growing awareness of the limitations of currently available pain treatments make the use of suggestion-based techniques and self-hypnosis an attractive component of pain treatment.Obviously we all know what pain is. However if we are to help ourselves to alleviate it, it is useful if we can first define or describe pain. This allows us to examine what makes it up and target our intervention accordingly. The clinical psychologist and renowned expert in chronic pain Dr. Bruce Eimer defines it this way.Pain is a subjective experience, that normally feels unpleasant, like something in the body has been, or is being damaged or destroyed; that feels like a threat to or interference with one’s ongoing functionality and health; and that is associated with negative emotions, such as fear, anxiety, anger or depression. (2)This definition acknowledges that pain contains several elements1. Bodily sensation, with qualities like those experienced during or after tissue-damagingstimulation.
- An experienced threat or interference with functionality associated with this sensation.3. An emotional feeling of unpleasantness or other negative emotions.In other words, pain has a sensory / physical component and an affective / emotional component.They are often intertwined within the experience of pain.One of the keys to relieving pain is to disentangle these two components:the sensory / physical from the affective / emotional.Pain may be mandatory, but suffering, or some portion of it, is it seems optional.Without the emotional element reduced, what is left of the sensation simply does not hurt as muchPain is neither all in ones head, nor all in ones body. The important thing to understand is that our experience of pain has a large subjective component to it, and it is this which you are able to learn to modify.The next important step is to understand the difference between acute pain and chronic pain.Acute PainThis is pain that is of recent origin. The immediate pain when you stub your toe or burn yourself is acute. The new pain from a recent injury is acute. With appropriate care and treatment acute pain is supposed to subside. Acute pain keeps us from destroying ourselves. It is 'useful' pain.When pain lasts beyond that time, beyond it's usefulness, it is considered to be chronic pain.Chronic PainThis is persistent pain that has outlived it’s usefulness. It has lasted past the point of needing to alerted to a danger, threat or injury needing to be tended to, corrected or escaped. It is pain that has not responded to appropriate medical care. It is unrelenting and unremitting.
It is useless and unnecessary pain.
Listen to the audio and let us know how your experience changes?(1) The Arrow Technique was created by Freddy Jacquin and can be learnt at www.jacquinhypnosisacademy.com(2) Eimer. Bruce. Hypnotize Yourself Out of Pain Now! 2008. Crown.
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iLAB - The thing that seems to be missing from most books on self-development, self-exploration or self-hypnosis is any discussion about the self. The one we are actually doing this for.Here is a simple exercise that will encourage you to self-remember every day.Let us know what happens when you STOP…
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