INCREASED SELF ESTEEM

    This is a very powerful indirect induction combined with deepener and suggestions for increased self esteem.  

    Now lie back and make yourself comfortable feet side by side and arms at the side. Look directly up above your head and see if you can find a comfortable spot on the ceiling or on the wall to fix your gaze on. The perfect position for it will be one that it is not quite comfortable for you to look at it. Look directly in the way your eyes most comfortably point when relaxed. Then move your eyes up to a spot on the ceiling perhaps eight or ten inches above that comfortable point. A spot or a pattern on the paper or even a plaster crack will do nicely. Now when you look at it, the position of your head will be relaxed but your eyes will have to make a very slight effort to look up at the spot.

    Lie back completely comfortably and relaxed now. Focus your eyes on the spot you’ve chosen and start to relax very thoroughly, very deeply and very completely. Don’t close your eyes even if you are tempted. Keep them on the spot, absolutely fixed, all of the time. And relax everything else. Slowly and completely.

    Remember that for the next few minutes nothing else matters but you relaxing and listening to my voice. Nothing will disturb you or bother you or even interest you. No outside sounds that arrive will trouble you, of people talking, traffic moving past, nothing. You will not even notice the sensation of clothing on your skin, or of the weight of your body on the chair or bed. Absolutely nothing will disturb you. All these are just outside things, they don’t matter. They don’t affect you, and so you completely ignore them. Remember too that if any sudden problem should arise, anything important that needed your attention, you would be back to normal instantly. The state of hypnosis will be totally gone at once and you will react and respond correctly, and exactly as you normally would.

    So there is nothing to worry about, nothing to bother about, you can just lie back and relax, completely, happily and completely safely.

    All you do is keep your eyes on the spot and gradually, slowly, relax everything. And as you lie there, calm and quiet, you can feel your body living, your heart beating, your lungs breathing, your brain concentrating, your ears listening, everything inside you working, living, but calmly and quietly. Everything very calm and still and relaxed, and very, very safe and secure.

    Now let every part of you go limp and relaxed. Feel every muscle, every single one of them, relaxing, relaxing completely. And as you relax, feel the tension start to leave you. All the tensions of the last few days, and the last few hours, all the troubles and problems, let them recede, let them drift away and not bother you. Feel them drift away, they are starting to already. Feel all the tightness and the tension draining away from you, especially from your face and your neck and shoulders. Let them relax absolutely, the tension draining, draining, draining away.

    Draining down through your body, down your stomach and down your arms and legs, and out and away from you, gone completely, drained right away, and being replaced by calm, gentle, soothing relaxation. Everything relaxed and still, relaxed and still, all except your eyes still fixed on that spot.

    And now you are going to relax even more, as you lie there, calmly, you are going to relax more and more, and more, becoming deeply, deeply relaxed, one part at a time, starting with your toes and feet. First you let all your toes and your feet relax, you concentrate on them quite hard and you feel them and you relax them, drawing all the strength and resistance out of them, letting them become so much more relaxed than you can ever remember before. Now your calf and shin muscles relax. All those leg muscles growing still and relaxed, gently, loosening, relaxing, unwinding, and your thigh muscles, back and front, let them relax too. Feel your legs very very relaxed, very still, lying heavily, motionless on the bed, very heavy, heavy as lead, heavy as lead.

    Now your fingers and hands relax, becoming still and heavy too. And your forearm muscles, feel them relaxing, all relaxing. And your upper arms, they relax too. All the last scraps of tension, leaving them, relaxing away, so that they too, just like as your legs are lying heavy and still, very very heavily now. Heavy as lead, heavy as lead. Arms and legs, relaxed and heavy as lead. Feeling as if they just don’t want too move for a while. They feel good just as they are. Just your eyes, still fixed on the spot, but getting tired too, very tired and heavy.

    Now you relax your tummy muscles. Let them go soft, and loose and comfortable. And your chest muscles relax. Just allow your breathing to take over automatically, as it will, slowly and steadily, shallow, easy, peaceful breathing.

    Now the muscles in your buttocks and the small of your back - let them relax. Feel them going soft, passive, subdued. And your spine muscles, all the way up your spine, relaxing, up between your shoulders, and across your shoulders. All comfortable, tranquil, still and relaxed.

    Now your neck muscles relax, all the way up the back of your neck, especially those muscles that are often so tight and so tense. Now they are not going too be tight any more. They are softening, soothing, calming. You can feel them relaxing, unwinding, relaxing utterly. And your facial muscles relax too. Your face becoming still and comfortable, still and relaxed. Just your eyes left on the spot. Your face relaxing completely, and inside your mouth, even your tongue relaxes.

    Everything about you now, is comfortably relaxed and calm. Everything is still and heavy. You are calm and peaceful. And comfortable, wonderfully and deeply relaxed. Deeply, deeply relaxed. Only your eyes are still on that spot, but feeling so very heavy now. So very heavy, the lids, very, very tired and heavy. Wanting to close, now. Wanting to close. And soon, very soon they will now. But do try to keep them on that spot for just a while longer.

    And as you lie there, so calm and so heavily and so deeply relaxed, you can hear me count, very slowly, from ten to zero, and with every count you will actually feel yourself going even deeper relaxed, deeper and deeper with every count, your eyelids drooping and closing, you going deeper and deeper down, until by the time we get to zero your eyes will have closed and you will have entered a state of gentle hypnotic rest, not sleeping, not waking, but comfortable, calm, hypnotic rest, very peaceful, very relaxed and very very safe and secure. And you will stay in that happy, calm and relaxed state until I tell you it is time to wake up a few minutes from now. Then when I do you will wake up easily and quietly and you will have really, really, thoroughly enjoyed yourself. You will have a lovely calm feeling of comfort and peace. You will feel relaxed and refreshed and very, very pleased and happy, as happy as could be. For the time being though, just relax, very very completely, as I count.

    10. 9. 8. Feel yourself going down and down, deeper and deeper down. 7. 6. 5. Going further and further down, deeper and deeper down. Your eyelids heavy and drooping and closing. They can close any time they want to now. Close any time they want to, and go deeper and deeper relaxed. 4. 3. 2. 1. 0. Go deeply down, deeply, deeply down. Eyes closed. Eyes firmly closed and every part of you wonderfully and deeply and calmly relaxed.

    That’s good. That’s very good (pause for 5 seconds).

    Now as you lie there you are going to hear me count down to zero once more, even more slowly than before. And this time, with every count you’ll feel yourself going deeper and deeper into relaxation, really deeply down, deeper than you’ve ever been before, right down very deeply where it is very calm and very comfortable, and very very safe and secure. Remember that, it is very calm and very comfortable and very, very safe and secure. You are very, very safe and secure. Listen now.

    10. 9 going down and down, deeply down, 8 7 going deeper and deeper, very very deeply now, 6 5 feeling very dreamy and drowsy 4 3 very sleepy and heavy, 2 1 going deeply down now, very deeply down, 0 eyes closed and relaxed, everything about you deeply relaxed, very heavy, very deep, very relaxed, very, very safe and secure. That’s good, that’s very good.

    Now listen to me, listen to my voice. You know that you have begun to learn hypnosis for a good reason. You have all the necessary ability. You have the motivation and the determination. You are going to embark on an extensive and effective self-help program, a self-improvement program. Because you want to be better than you are, you want to realize your potential, a far greater potential than every before. You have the ability. Deep inside you have plenty of ability never even used yet. You are going to learn how to use it, make it work for you, discover its tremendous talents and resources, your talents and resources. And now you have made the decision. You are going to be better, stronger, more confident, more capable, more happy, oh yes, happier by far, far, far happier. Full of pleasure and contentment, and comfort. Full of the happiness that comes from a whole new level of fulfillment.

    All this is going to happen, that is absolutely certain. Its going to happen to you, not by accident and not by magic, but because you have decided it. You have decided it and you will do it, you will make it happen. You and your improvement. Your mind, your will power is harnessed and working, all the time all day, every day, day in, day out. And you will notice it, very soon, today even to begin with, you will feel the changes. Because every day in every way you are going to get better and better, every day, in every way, you, getting better and better and better.

    You can feel your mind expanding, lifting, moving, progressing, taking control, asserting itself. And it will, because you have decided it. You have decided it, and you are you, you are you and you are in charge of you. Only you. And in the whole huge world there is no-one else quite like you. You are the only one. You are an individual. You are in command. Your strength, your control, your will power. And you’ll feel it strengthening every day. Little by little, control becomes easier, easier to exercise command. Your mind moving upward and forward and outward, progressing, advancing, learning, improving, stronger and stronger.

    And every day too, you’ll feel the bad things receding, the things about yourself that bother you, they’ll all diminish. They won’t be so important anymore. They’ll be smaller, less troublesome, they are diminishing because they are becoming more in proportion, you are making them come into proportion. No more doubts about yourself and your abilities. No more doubts, no hesitations, no fears, no anxieties, no problems and troubles nagging you and overwhelming you. You can face problems, improve them, solve them. And you won’t be bothered by unnatural fears and worries, no old anxieties creeping in from the past, troubling you, disturbing you, upsetting you. These things are wrong for you. They have no right to bother you, so they won’t, not anymore. Because you won’t allow it. You won’t allow it. Your decision, your strength, and your will power, will not allow it. You are stronger now and getting stronger still. Your will is getting stronger, strong enough at last. And your will says ‘no’ to worries and unnatural fears and anxieties. Your will says…you will not. You will not permit humiliation and doubts and fears and anxieties. So they all recede, start fading, coming under control, your control.

    And as your will power increases so does your confidence. It grows stronger all the time, stronger by the day, by the hour. No longer feeling hesitation, unsure, small, uncertain. Oh no, that is all gone. Now you are bigger, better, stronger, your will power growing, your mind strengthening, your confidence flowing, feeling good, feeling strong, in control, capable. Everything improving, everything developing, you improving, your mind developing, your will power, your strength, your security, your determination, your courage. Confidence building, will power growing, everything advancing, progressing. Every day in every way getting better and better, you better and better, every day in every way, better and better and better still.

    Now listen to me, now you know the facts about what can happen to you, how you can use your own mind power, your own mind power, to improve yourself and your entire life. Yet there are things holding you back. Secret things, deep inside things, things you hardly recognize perhaps, things you try not to think about maybe, things of which you tell no one. These are weighing you down, restricting you, slowing your progress. It is time to be rid of them, forever. Everyone has these hidden feelings. You have them, they are there, hidden away for years maybe, but they are there. And they don’t need to be there. They have no right to be there. They don’t deserve to be there. You don’t need them, you don’t want them. You won’t have them, how dare they?

    Small doubts, small guilts, small shames over things that happened long ago. Unfair punishments received, insults tolerated, physical abuses accepted. Perhaps many of these tiny past injustices have lingered and accumulated. And together they weight too heavily on you/ They give you doubts. They make you hesitate. They make you feel unsure, uncertain of your abilities, uncertain of your reception.

    These are all bad, false, unfair, unneeded, they are hangers on. They are against you. You wish to be rid of them, free of them. You want them gone. And that is all you need. For you to want them gone, for you decide they shall be gone, is enough. That means you examine them. Select each one; right now in your mind, or later when you are alone. Hold each one up to the light and examine it, strip it of its hidden mystique, its non-existent power. What is it? It is small, it is pathetic, it is trivial, above all it is part of the past. It has no importance anymore, so that is it. Out with it. Discard it, banish it forever. You now see it for what it is, nothing. A something that has troubled you for years. But no more. Now you eject it, now you reject it. Now you see it in proportion. Now you dispose of it, you despise it. You don’t fear it, you don’t even care. You are you. You are in charge, not it. You are done with it. Your mind power triumphs. It is gone, over, done with. You care about it no more.

    And at once you feel better. At once the burden lightens. You have won. A small first round, with lots more too come, but you have won. You can beat every guilt that way, one at a time. You can beat every fear that way, bit by bit. You can do all these things. Ridding yourself of guilt's and shames and anxieties and doubts and fears. They have no part of you now.

    You are a new person, stronger character, determined fiber, filling with courage and determination. Growing better all the time. You are lifting up your head, squaring your shoulders. You are facing facts. You are you. You can look the whole world right in the eye.

    No more hiding. No more doubting. No more retreating or skulking alone. But out now and up and forward. Greeting the day and the world. Greeting everyone with a smile. Knowing there is a place for you right where you choose. You will be better liked, more appreciated. People start too see new things about you, to recognise you for what you are, a good, strong, reliable, honest, fair person.

You know that inside all these things are possible, they can all happen, more than that, they are already all happening. Already you feel stronger. You feel your confidence growing all the time. You ignore set backs, you go right ahead and try again. You keep trying, you push on. You never, never give up, never yield, never doubt.

You are you. You are in charge. Your mind power knows it; your growing confidence knows it. You are getting bigger, better, stronger, more sure, more fulfilled, more successful, more happy, more confident all the time. You are making progress. You are getting better. You, you you, say it over again, you you you. You are you, you are you. Relax and remember that. Relax and remember that, relax, relax deeply now, very deeply, relax, very deeply, and remember, relax and remember.

Remember too that everything good that happens to you, happens not as a result of someone else, or something else. Not even this lesson does that, it all happens because of you. Because your new found strength, your new confidence, works for you. You are making it happen.

Everything happens because you decided it, you willed it. In yourself feeling good and content and happy. Feeling fit and strong and healthy and well. Feeling your body teeming with life and zest and energy, ready to move, ready to go, tuning up, feeling good, really good. Feeling happy, feeling joy and satisfaction, feeling exhilaration, feeling light and buoyant, full of pleasure and happiness. Your mind happy and contented, your body strong and vigorous, feeling altogether fit and strong and healthy and well, and oh so wonderfully good and happy.

    And every day when you practise you’ll go to your quiet place and relax. You’ll look at your chosen spot and let your mind and body go calm and still. You’ll relax your entire body, bit by bit, as you just did, until everything feels limp and heavy. Then slowly but surely you’ll count yourself down into relaxation, deep, gentle, hypnotic rest and relaxation.

    Then when you are in that comfortable and safe and secure state, you will remind yourself of these things, several times over.

    You can do it, you are doing it, your mind power is in control because you are you, you are you and you are in charge of you. The bad things are diminishing and leaving you, no more worries now, no fears, no doubts, no anxieties, no fretting and worrying.

    And you yourself are getting better, progressing in every way and every day. Your personality advancing, your confidence growing, your will power expanding, everything improving and getting better and better, feeling fit and strong and healthy and well and safe and certain and confident and contented and happier, happier all the time.

    And when you’ve relaxed and reminded yourself deep deep down of the things you are going to remember, then it will be time to wake up and resume your usual life style in its new improved way, just as you’re going too do now, in the next few moments.

    I’m going to count from one to ten and as I do you’ll feel yourself getting lighter and lighter, coming back up from the deep relaxed state of mind, right up to the surface, until at number ten you’ll be eyes open and wide awake, very fresh and alert, and very happy, and those good feelings will stay with you and next time you do it it will be easier still.

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