The Pixar movie Cars opens with a scene where the main character says to himself:
Lightening McQueen: Speed! I am Speed! 42 losers and one winner!
Although a children’s movie, the lessons in this film are timeless and pertinent. What’s actually happening in this scene? It’s called auto-suggestion.
Pre-race warmup, psyching yourself up whatever you want to call it, it’s all the same thing. It also does the same thing: it focuses the mind and body on what’s about to happen or what you’re about to do.
Lightening McQueen: Faster than fast! I eat losers for breakfast!
Your hypnotist should work with you to create a routine for auto-suggestion. This routine will support the work you do in hypnosis. We’ve seen great results when we help our clients re-wire their associations to specific events on a subconscious level. First, we use hypnosis and then we repeat that with conscious routines and behaviors.
Hypnosis is always best supported with routines that complement the desired outcome. Auto-suggestion is the act of providing suggestions to oneself. Together, these routine components result in much greater progress for the client.
They are exercises in lighting up your neural pathways on the outcome you want. The more you light up the neural pathways the stronger they become.
So, Lightening McQueen shows us how easy it is to strengthen changes to your neural-pathways with simple, concise, and outcome-directed language.
You will be surprised at how quickly we notice negative language and how destructive to our desired outcomes it becomes.
Top Tip: Most folks don’t use auto-suggestion because they believe that it doesn’t make logical sense or they don’t have time.
Tony Robbins has a great quote:
You can’t influence someone when you’re judging them.
Influencing yourself is the same.
You can’t direct your own focus when you are analyzing, labeling, and evaluating the simple act and content of an auto-suggestion.
It takes 5 minutes during the day and five minutes before bed. Any more than that is gravy in your life.
Surely you have 5 minutes?
Focus on the following factors:
1.) Simple message (e.g. I am Speed!)
2.) In present tense (e.g. I AM powerful, capable, deserving, etc.)
3.) Use the action word to match the desired outcome (e.g. stressed out I AM CALM. Scared?… I AM POWERFUL.
Combine the change in perspective from hypnosis with targeted and supportive auto-suggestions.
You’ll find yourself unstoppable