Continuation…
Dr. Shanker Adawal
Practice of Self-help
suggestion
Part
1
Since Self-help suggestion
is an appeal to the subconscious, now we shall see how we can approach it for
successful practice of self suggestion. When our conscious mind is busy in our
everyday affairs this subconscious is suppressed down in us. It creeps out when
our conscious thinking is stopped. Yogis accomplish this by concentration
requiring rigid and patient practice. But for ordinary purpose there are some
states when our conscious thinking is stopped by itself. Most significations of
these states are natural sleep. During sleep our mind is completely at rest.
And when the conscious mind is thus rendered passive, the subconscious creeps
out. In the uncontrolled condition it produces all sorts of fantastic dreams,
but when it is controlled it can serve very useful purposes. It is a well known
fact that some great authors and poets have produced excellent work during
their sleep. That the subconscious is awake during our sleep is clear from the
fact that some people can wake up from their sleep at the desired hour. This is
because of their subconscious is alert during sleep and informs them when the
desired hour arrives.
This state of sleep is
most favourable for self help suggestion. Hypnosis also resembles this state
and we have seen how accurately the subject would carry out our self
suggestions given in this state.
But since we cannot make
self suggestions to ourselves when we are fast asleep our next best alternative
remains the condition when we are half asleep. This is the condition
immediately before going to sleep and immediately after waking up. This state
of partial sleep can also be induced voluntarily by laying down in a chair or
bed and while relaxing our body and mind. For a typical instance of self
suggestion let us quote a great French author who is an authority on this
subject. He tells us how to make suggestions for the cure of stage fright.
`Let us suppose’ he
writes, `that on some approaching day you have to sing at a private party or on
a public platform. You have a good voice and you are quite familiar with what
you have to sing; you know that the audience will be friendly and that success
awaits you.
But you are
panic-stricken; you feel certain that when the time comes you will be seized
with stage fright, you are sure that you will be terrified by all the eyes that
will be concentrated on you when you appear on the platform; you will become
uneasy, will sing wrong notes and will finally break down.
This is an involuntary
self suggestion which has taken possession of your mind. You can combat it by voluntary
self help suggestion.
Isolate yourself in a room
where no one will come to disturb you. To make assurance doubly sure; lock the
room from inside. Settle yourself in an armchair; lie down, if you prefer it,
on a sofa or on your bed. Close your eyes; and if you are afraid of being
disturbed by those noises outside the room, plug the ears with cotton wool.
Continue…
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