Get yourself in a good, comfortable, attentive, seated posture. Ideally with the crown of head pointed toward the ceiling, your feet flat on the floor and your hands by your sides or on your lap not touching each other. Before starting, have a good think as to what
you believe to be a colour that represents balance. That is, if you were emotionally balanced, what colour would you be - and is it different from a colour that is imbalanced, for example. Keep that in mind for use later in this session.
Then follow these simple steps:
Step One
Induce hypnosis. You can do so by any means you desire or know of. You can use the process in my self-hypnosis book, use the free audio at this website to practice or have a look at the following articles as and when you need them; they are basic processes to help you establish the hypnotic mindset:
Heavy Arm Self-Hypnosis Induction Method
Using Eye Fixation for Self-Hypnosis
The Chiasson Self-Hypnosis Method
Hand to Face Self-Hypnosis Induction
Using Magnetic Hands for Self-Hypnosis
The Coin Drop Self-Hypnosis Induction
Once you have induced hypnosis, move on to step two
Step Two:
Just tune into your
breathing. Do not interfere with it, just let the body do the breathing and watch it happening Just observe your breath. Tell yourself that with each breath you exhale you are more deeply hypnotised.
Enjoy breathing, become really aware of it, and when you feel you have deepened your hypnosis experience enough, move on to the next step.
Step Three:
Imagine watching the air coming into your mouth, observe the air and imagine it coming into your mouth and moving through your system.
You might imagine it has qualities you can observe; light, colour, sound, a sensation. Just watch it coming in through your mouth, follow each breath moving through your throat, into your windpipe, and then branching out into the two smaller air tubes, the
bronchi, going in the direction of the left and right lung via a network of thousands of smaller airways called bronchioles. The air then reaches the alveoli in the lungs.
Continue to follow and imagine that journey of the air, tell yourself that as you imagine it, you are deeper hypnotised, more focused and more responsive, then move on to the next step.
Step Four:
As the air arrives at the alveoli, notice that the oxygen sticks to it and is removed from the air. The oxygen then moves into the blood vessels and the blood.
However, pause here a moment and imagine the process working even more effectively and efficiently. Start to imagine that you are extracting more and more oxygen from each breath of air until you are
efficiently and effectively absorbing and extracting ALL the oxygen possible from each breath of air you breathe in
Watch as more and more oxygen increasingly is absorbed into your system in a healthy, beneficial way.
Step Five:
Now imagine that the increased oxygen travelling
through the capillaries and into the red blood cells is being moved more effectively. It is being moved in a comfortable and efficient manner. Not necessarily being distributed quicker. Your red blood cells are brimming over with oxygen that enrich the body, arrive at the organs and muscles to fuel them with more natural ease, thus making it easier and easier to use more effort in a more effective fashion.
Step Six:
As this is happening, and your body has an abundance of oxygen, as it is becoming more effective at using it, so it transports away the carbon dioxide effectively. It seems that as the muscles expend energy and omit the waste product of carbon dioxide, the red blood cells are also capable of removing more of it with each exhalation. Your system cleans itself, renews more easily.
Step Seven:
Practice this entire process, this journey. All the time imagining the process being done in a more emphatic, efficient, effective fashion. More oxygen being extracted, being delivered with more effectiveness and the carbon dioxide being removed better. Spend some time practicing and imagining this process. All the time telling yourself you are more deeply hypnotised as
you imagine.
Use a positive cognition or affirmation here, for example:
"I am more oxygen efficient"
"I have better endurance"
"I am functioning more effectively"
Step Eight:
Now imagine being out on
your run, or other endurance training activity. As you imagine it, see yourself breathing in a way that is making it seem like you require less effort to maintain the same speed as usual. See your body being oxygen efficient, see yourself seeming to be more energetic, and enjoy being energised.
Just imagine being healthy as a result. Now importantly, tell yourself that when you use that cognition during your run, your body is more and more oxygen efficient.
Your blood oxygenates more effectively and your performance benefits as a result.
Step Nine:
Exit hypnosis. If you use my own protocol, count yourself up and out from one through to five. Otherwise, open your eyes, wiggle your toes and get oriented to the place you are in.
You now practice that process
once or ideally twice daily for 4-6 weeks. After the first couple of weeks, start employing the process when you are out on your runs. Believe in what you are doing. Believe in the effect and you'll increase the results you are getting.
There you have it Enjoy that. More will be coming tomorrow on my blog, do look out for that. Remember that you can keep totally up to date with all blog entries if you have the Adam Eason Hypnosis app which can be downloaded
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