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Self-Hypnosis,
Auto-Suggestion, and Controlling Your Body Q: What about self -hypnosis? RK: That is really a contradiction in terms because you are
hypnotized already. As I mentioned before, that is precisely the same
mechanism by which you as an Ego control your own body and brain. Well, to
control your brain, of course, your body has to go along with whatever the
brain is commanding it to do. For instance, there is a tool or a ball lying
over there on the table and you would like to examine it more closely. Your
brain commands your body to move you over there so you can pick it up and
look at it. You don’t even have to be physically
coincident in space with your mind: your mind and body can be separated. You
as an Ego could be over in that corner while your body is sitting here, and from over there you command your body to take a
look at what that object is over on the other side. It is really
not necessary that you somehow be inside of your head or something of
that sort. Q: Well, it is for most people? RK: Well, because of the way you operate, you want to look at it with
your physical eyes and pick it up with your body. You always visualize
yourself as being inside of your head because that’s
where your receptors are for delivering information to your brain. But, you as an Ego have to go through the process on the
physical plane of picking all that up from the physical body and physical
brain. All of us tend to look at things as if you were inside your head; you being you as an Egoic entity. Q: Maybe the self-hypnosis is misdirected. What I am thinking of
is— RK: Auto-suggestion is the proper term for
that. Q: Where you hurt and you do not want to feel the hurt, you can
suggest that it won’t hurt? RK: Yes, that is possible. Q: That is auto-suggestion? RK: Correct. Q: So that, if you would like to examine something on the other
side of the room or the other side of the community, you can, by suggestion,
do it without walking over that way, that is auto-suggestion also? RK: No. That is just a normal process by which everybody functions all the
time. You can either be in the same proximity as
your physical body or not; you still get all the information on the brain you
put into your brain memory. You put it in your computer, your memory banks,
and you can review it at any time. Q: So how would you do this consciously? RK: You are doing it consciously all the time, except that you are
not aware of the mechanism. Q: How can you make yourself aware of the mechanism to do it and
be aware of it at the time? That is what I think of as self-hypnosis. RK: I prefer the word autosuggestion. (11-1981) |
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