Get out of your bed

This step is not covered by alarm clock. That is why people set up alarm and still cannot get up.

When the alarm sounds in the morning, they tell themselves, "It feels so good now in bed. I am enjoying sleep. The work can be slightly delayed. I can do it later. Let me enjoy the sleep for some more time. It will not matter." With such thoughts, they do not get up even after the alarm sounds.

Use Self-Hypnosis Before Sleep

Just as you fall asleep at night, put yourself in a state of self-hypnosis and give suggestions like these:

• At 5 in the morning, I will become aware that it is time to wake up and I will wake up.

• I will wake up at 5.

• I will wake up easily at 5.

• As soon as I become aware that it is morning, I will get up from the bed.

• As I get up from the bed, I will feel refreshed and energized, and ready to study or work.

• I always get up on time as per my plan.

Use Suggestion After You Become Aware It is Time to Wake Up

Just as you become aware that it is time to get up in the morning, give yourself suggestions like

these:

• I am so happy to get up early and do good work.

• I have had good sleep. Now I must get up.

• Let me get up quickly without delay.

• Let me get up, stretch myself, and brush my teeth.

• As I get up from the bed, I will feel refreshed and energized, and ready to study or work.

Begin This Good Habit Today

Please note that it will be helpful if you wake up at the same time everyday.

If you are not already in the habit of getting up at the same time daily, you can begin today.

How to Get into the "State" for Success and Begin Work

Do you remember a time in your life when you were very confident? A time when you were sure of success. It could be a game, small competition, discussion with friends or anything else that you liked.

Now remember a time in your life when you were not at all confident. A time when you were afraid of failing and you did not succeed.

These two situations represent different moods, confidence, happiness or other emotions. This is a state of mind or in short we can call it a "state".

What was the difference between the two states?

Can you change your state at will? The answer is

"Yes. You can." I am going to tell you how.

Physiology

When someone is happy or sad, it shows on the face. It shows in the posture or the way the person

stands or sits. It shows in the tone of the voice or the way he speaks. People have always known that if you change emotions, your facial expression and your physiology will change.

New research has shown that the opposite is also true. That is if you change your facial expressions or if you change your physiology, then your emotions change. In fact, changing your physiology is the easiest and most powerful method of changing your emotions.

What do we mean by physiology? It means your facial expressions, how you sit or stand, how you talk, how your body shows your state of mind, how you react or respond to someone, etc.

Physiology means anything related to your body.

Now think of a time in your life you felt totally self-confident. A time when you were sure that whatever you were doing was correct. It could be a sport, a competition, an exam or a discussion. Re-experience that event as if it were happening just now. Now notice your physiology. This is your

physiology for confidence. So whenever you want to be confident, change your physiology to this one.

Ask the right questions

Your brain is more powerful and more amazing than the most powerful computer on the earth.

Your brain is so tremendously powerful that it finds answers to any questions that you ask. If you ask, "Why do I not succeed? Why can I not remember? Why is my memory bad? Or why do people make fun of me? Why do others not like me? Why do I not have any friends?" Your brain will give answers that will justify or give reasons for why you are what you are.

On the other hand if you ask questions like "Why am I so lucky? Why does my family like me? Or, what can I do to achieve success this time? What can I do to achieve big success and make big money?" Again your mind will give you answers.

These answers are far superior and useful than the

previous answers to negative questions.

Here are some sample questions to ask in the morning before you get out of the bed. Write down additional questions for yourself. Experience the answers to these questions totally in your mind and in your body.

• What am I most happy about in my life now?

• What am I most proud about in my life now?

• What am I determined to do in my life now?

• What is my greatest achievement so far?

Here are some questions to ask before you fall asleep in night:

• What have I learned today?

• How has today added to my life?

• Any of the morning questions.

Focus on success

What you focus on also affects your state. If you think about success and how you will celebrate it and how happy you will be, this focus on success will put you in a state that will help you achieve success.

But if you think that you may fail and that will be a waste of all the money you have spent on tuition and what people will say and you plan about what to do after this failure, this focus on failure will put you in a state that will make it difficult to succeed.

So, focus on the results you want.

Do This to Quickly Get Ready to Study or Work Even If You are not in a Mood

Whenever you feel that you are not in a good mood and it doesn't feel good to study or work, then what you do is exhale deeply.

Feel that with each exhalation, you are throwing the bad mood outside. Within 5 minutes, you will be ready to study or work in a good mood.

How to Develop High Physical Energy

Necessary for Hard Work and Big Success

If you want to develop high physical energy that is necessary for doing hard work for big success in life, then you must do certain things every day on a consistent basis:

• Do Exercise Regularly

• Sleep Well Everyday

• Eat Good Food

• Take Vitamins & Mineral Supplements

• Eliminate Energy-Draining, Negative Thoughts

You can find more details about some of these in my other book Raj Bapna's Mind Power Study Techniques. That book tells students how to use more mind power (read faster, remember, sleep better, interviews, relaxation, concentration, etc.) for success in exams and competitions.

Chapter 7.

Advanced Methods

Before You Begin Self-Hypnosis

Before you begin self-hypnosis, and any time in the future when you decide to do self-hypnosis, give your unconscious an instruction about how long to keep you there and when to arouse you.

You might say to yourself before you begin "I would like you, my unconscious, to arouse me in fifteen minutes, allowing me to feel refreshed and renewed by this experience." Your body has an internal time clock. If you measure the time it takes a person to come back out of hypnosis, it's usually within a quarter minute of the time they had specified. The worst that would ever happen, even if you forgot that instruction, is that you might go into a nice deep physiological sleep and wake refreshed several hours later.

How to Utilize Hypnosis for Your Self-Improvement

As you practice self-hypnosis, you will develop confidence about being able to get in and out of self-hypnosis trance/state. You will also notice that the procedure is beginning to simplify.

Instead of deliberately going through the whole sequence step-by-step, when you sit down to do self-hypnosis, you will begin to go into a trance immediately. At that point self-hypnosis becomes available to you as a really nice tool for your self-improvement.

To use self-hypnosis for your own development, give your unconscious an entire set of instructions before going into a trance. First, decide what you would like to change. Ask your unconscious to review with sounds, images, and feelings, those occasions when you did something particularly creatively and effectively. Ask that when your unconscious has finished making this review, it

take from the review those elements of your performance that are distinctive, and to have them naturally and spontaneously begin to occur more frequently in your everyday behavior in appropriate contexts.

Suppose you are about to make a sales presentation in a corporation, and you want to make the very best presentation you can. Before you drop into the trance, at the time you state how long you want to stay down, you might say "When I get into a deep trance this time, I would like you, my unconscious mind, to review with images and sounds and feelings the five times when I have been most dynamic, effective, and creative in making sales presentations.”

Suppose you are about to go for an interview for a dream job, and you want to make it the best you can. Before you drop into the trance, at the time you state how long you want to stay down, you might say "When I get into a deep trance this time, I would like you, my unconscious mind, to review

with images and sounds and feelings the five times when I have been most dynamic, effective, and creative in job interviews.”

What if You Want to Do Something that You Have Never Done Before?

If you don't know that you've ever succeeded with a particular behavior, then use this method: Think of someone else who does this behavior very well.

Pick yourself a really elegant model - somebody whom you really respect and admire-who does this behavior particularly elegantly and effectively.

Then use a variation of the same instructions. Ask your unconscious mind to review all the internal stored images, sounds and feelings of this person doing that particular behavior. Do this in three phases. In the first review, you just see and hear what is going on. Watch and listen to that person do what you want to learn to do. In the second phase you ask your unconscious mind to substitute your image and your voice for the other person's.

So the second time you run the movie, you will see yourself doing the things that you just observed and listened to the other person doing. In the third phase you step into the movie and experience it from the inside, feeling yourself do the behavior, as well as seeing and hearing from that new point of view.

After you have finished this third step you ask your unconscious to have this behavior naturally and spontaneously begin to occur more frequently in your behavior in the appropriate contexts. This works very, very well as a self-programming device.

I suggest that you start with small behaviors. For example, "I want to learn to smile when I want to get a certain response." Then later take bigger and bigger chunks of behavior.

An Advanced Method of Self-Hypnosis

Richard Bandler and John Grinder developed this method.

Step 1: Sit down or lie down in a comfortable way and find something that's easy to look at.

Step 2: Fix your gaze on that, and then I say three sentences to myself about what you see. "I see the light falling on the door; I see the movement of the curtain; I see the fan moving."

Step 3: Make three statements about what you hear. "I hear the sound of the fan. I hear the sound of paper being moving. I hear the sound of songs on the radio or TV."

Step 4: Make three statements about what you feel. "I can feel where my hands tough the chair (or bed). I can feel my breath. I can feel where my legs touch the bed."

Step 5: Maintain the same position and the same direction of gaze, make two statements for each about what you see, hear, and feel.

Like for most people, it is likely that your eyes start to get drowsy. If your eyes get drowsy, you just allow them to close and continue this exercise, but just substitute what you see in your imagination rather than in the room.

Step 6: Maintain the same position and the same direction of gaze, make one statements for each about what you see, hear, and feel.

Step 7: Feel which hand and arm feels lighter.

Then give suggestions to yourself by saying that the hand that feels lighter will continue to feel lighter, and will begin to float up with honest unconscious movements, feeling attracted towards my face, so that when it makes contact with your face, you will enter into a deep state of self-hypnosis.

You may be curious as to what is the purpose of having your hand touch your face. The exact task that you pick to do is arbitrary. Most people report that their hand and arm did lift, and when it touched their face they felt a sudden, radical

change, and that they had amnesia after that point.

For the first half-dozen times as you learn to do self-hypnosis, let your goals be just relaxing and refreshing and renewing yourself. Wait until you have full confidence about your ability to get in and out; in other words wait until you know that you can get yourself into a deep trance and that your unconscious will arouse you after the appropriate length of time.

How to Create Your Own Self-Hypnosis Cassette

There are three essential steps to create your own self-hypnosis cassette.

For maximum benefit, you MUST follow the instructions. Do not try to change and do not try to improve any part of the process till you are an expert in hypnosis.

Step 1: Create Relaxing Suggestions or