visualizationIn getting suggestions to the subconscious, it has been observed that picture images are more effective than the phrases that are implanted.

For example, it isn’t sufficient to say, “I will be confident.” The words must be augmented by a picture of yourself as the confident individual you desire to be. If you state, “I can’t visualize myself as a self-confident person because I have never been that way,” you can borrow those personality traits that you wish for yourself.

Imagine yourself empowered with the characteristics of some self-confident individual that you know. The qualities that you look for may even be borrowed from a famous person. If this isn’t feasible, make up a personality which is a composite of all the things you want to be.

Envision yourself walking,talking and carrying on activities. Keep strengthening this image with the mental suggestions that are needed. It won’t be long before these mental pictures give rise to the self-assured feelings that you seek. As you continue implanting these pictures, they will become a normal part of your conscious personality.

One of the issues with practicing this technique of visualization with self hypnosis is that many people think it’s too easy. Self help should be hard and complicated in order for them to work. That’s really not the case at all.

The other problem is that people expect something to happen overnight. When it doesn’t, they quit and say the technique didn’t work. You must be consistent with it over a long-enough period of time before anticipating results. The special athletes of the world weren’t overnight achievers. They spent many endless hours practicing. Self hypnosis and visualization is like that also, although it won’t take years before you see results.

Self-hypnosis will ultimately work because you are always conditioning your subconscious to respond in a positive, constructive manner. The plan must, of necessity, become automatic in nature.

When it does,you will abruptly feel yourself feeling the way you wanted to and executing the things that you set out to do with the assistance of self-hypnosis. That is when you will know that visualization and self hypnosis works.