This is both a self hypnosis exercise and equally a way to evolve how you perceive your worlds.
There is one very important sentiment I want to briefly explore before offering you a self-hypnosis exercise.
Firstly a quote
“Perception is Projection, what we see is the state of our mind projected outwards”
Once there was a wise woman. A seer if you like. A wondering man came to her village and asked “I am looking for a new village to live in and I want to know what this village is like”
The seer replied “What was you last village like?”
The wondering man replied “Oh it was awful, full of thieves, robbers and adulterers. The most frightful sort of people you can imagine.”
The seer replied “My friend this village is much like you last one full of the most frightful people you can imagine.”
The wondering man left and went on to look for another village.
A day or two later another wondering man came to the village and asked the seer “I am looking for a new village to live in and I want to know what this village is like.”
The seer replied “What was you last village like?”
The wondering man replied “Oh it was wonderful, full of friendly and helpful loving people to say the least.”
The seer replied “My friend this village is much like you last one full of the most loving people you can imagine.”
The wondering man decided to stay and made a home for himself.
Another way of saying this is what the mind expects tends to be found. Hypnosis is a way of purposefully altering our own perceptions in powerful ways.
Here is the exercise. This comes from one of Carlos Castaneda books describing his relationship with his mentor Don Juan. Its about purposefully altering perceptions, this is just one way hypnosis, an altered state of perception can be attained.
This exercise takes 15 minutes to do it properly. Practice once per day for just one week.
- Find a bush or shrub that you can see, that is both in shade and in the light.
- Concentrate your visual attention on just one specific spot that is in the shade. Focus on it entirely.
- For the next 15 minutes focus just on that one spot in the shade – until you begin to see a bush that is entirely made out of shadow. Notice that the shadow is at least 50% of the bush.
You need to do this in the form of an exercise. A ‘theoretical’ knowledge of this is not enough.
If you want to learn to alter your perceptions and reality – DO THE EXERCISE!
When you do this you will experience massive changes in your perception. This exercise is actually doing a huge amount of things – you will only notice what these are by doing the exercises …
