How Theta State Self-Hypnosis Quiets Racing Thoughts & Lowers Stress

We explore how self-hypnosis quiets racing thoughts, lowers stress, and helps us rewrite old stories by entering the theta state. We share simple mantras, a three-times-daily routine, and a clear way to write your own reprogramming.

• meditation and hypnosis as a continuum shaped by intention
• breaking thought loops and body stress cycles
• relaxation setup and environmental cues for safety
• giving the mind a task to reduce rumination
• seventh path recognitions and personal practice
• self-love as a core limiting belief across issues
• releasing emotions, regression, and reframing early interpretations
• writing specific reprogramming with feelings and outcomes
• “act as if” mental rehearsal to wire new habits
• morning, midday, and bedtime routines to leverage theta
• oneness mantra to condition hypnotic entry
• resources, classes, and binaural beats in the school

Chapters

• 0:00 Morning Banter And Setup
• 0:56 What Self-Hypnosis Really Means
• 2:39 Meditation Vs Hypnosis: The Continuum
• 5:03 Breaking Thought Trains And Body Loops
• 8:55 Relaxation Basics And Environment
• 11:45 Why Give The Mind A Bone
• 15:18 How Self-Hypnosis Leads You Into Theta
• 18:31 First Encounters With Seventh Path
• 22:05 Practice, Recognition Words, And Change
• 26:48 Self-Love As A Core Issue
• 30:16 Building A Lifelong Practice
• 33:12 Morning, Night, And Midday Routines
• 37:10 Releasing, Regression, And Reframing
• 38:22 note

Transcript

SPEAKER_01: 0:09

Good morning everyone. We are on the line.

SPEAKER_02: 0:13

This guy's pink. Which is better. You know, a couple weeks ago it was black outside when we start.

SPEAKER_01: 0:19

That's true. That's pink. Yeah. I was holding off opening this because uh our dog Tyke is chose like right now to eat her breakfast. So she's over there crunching. But anyway, we'll we'll get started nonetheless. So how's everyone doing today? Wonderful. Wonderful. So I think today we're continuing from yesterday.

SPEAKER_03: 0:46

Um now we can drag the topic out, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01: 0:49

Yeah. It was like things come up during the podcast, and every thinking, that'd be a good one for tomorrow. So today we're talking about self-hypnosis. The idea of going into hypnosis yourself. It's pretty self-explanatory. And and and doing hypnosis. Usually that means that it's not a guided journey, right? Because it's weird without a guide, it's kind of hard for the mind to stick to one thing, right? We get pulled off in directions. So usually self-hypnosis is like a mantra or like a set of words that we say to ourselves after we go into like a relaxed state.

SPEAKER_03: 1:34

Yeah, I think you know, we talked about meditation, we talked about uh the very fine line. I mean, I I I don't think there is, I think it's more of a continuum than a distinction between hypnosis and meditation, and that it's separated by intention. And I think that self-hypnosis is done in the same mind state, theta state, as meditation is. When it's deep, when it's meaningful in terms of sort of breaking our connection to our present thought patterns, freeing our mind from habitual thoughts for a period of time. It's uh to me, it's all part of that same good work. So I, you know, for me, it I like to say, I know that other people take a different perspective, but I like to say that any time you spend quieting your mind, trying to sit in silence, is is filled with potential and is healthy. It's good mental health. Just it's so easy to get on a train of thought and have that train charge down the tracks and just keep on going. And in our world today, you know, I I go to bed at night having spent my time watching the news about what's going on in our world. And I wake up in the morning and somehow that train is sitting there waiting for me. I climb aboard, it keeps on going down the same track, and it's just habitual. Yeah, it's the probably the first main most important thing we teach thoughts or habits. So anything that stops that train, anything that gets off that train onto a different train, anything that will cause us to reconsider and observe our thoughts as opposed to be in them and claim them.

SPEAKER_01: 3:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 3:33

Um, that's good news.

SPEAKER_01: 3:35

Yeah. And the train can be can be pretty hard to stop when you're on it and it's chugging along, right? Because it's not only the mind now that's kind of running away, it's the body reacting to the mind. Excuse me. And when the body is in reaction mode, I feel like that's most often the time when it's it's like, oh god, now I'm going down a rabbit hole. Now I'm sort of spiraling. Because of all a lot of us feel, and it's very normal to feel this, we feel like we have no influence over the body, right? How it reacts to things. So yeah, we can get caught up in how the body feels, and uh, and then it's just like a loop, right? Body feels bad, and then you're thinking bad things or you're thinking unhelpful things, at least and then it just keeps going around in circles.

SPEAKER_03: 4:35

A couple of weeks ago we talked about relaxing, right? And how it's it's just a funny thing that people say to each other, relax. And we expect ourselves to do that. And what really happens is often we just get more anxious. So we talked about relaxation and the sympathetic nervous system and some of the simple things you can do with your body to put yourself into a state of relaxation. And that's, you know, go back to that one. That's useful when it comes to things like meditation and self-hypnosis. That's a useful starter, you know, to get yourself into that place and break that chain of thought. We've talked countless times, uh I talked countless times about the dog with a bone, right? That the mind's gonna think like a dog is gonna chew. And if you let a dog just chew, your furniture is gonna be a mess. Yeah, and you won't have any good socks, and your shoes will be constantly being replaced. But if you give the dog a bone, then the dog actually gets something out of their chewing, yeah, accomplishing what they were in nature meant to accomplish. And the good stuff of your life doesn't get ruined. And in the same way, the mind's gonna think habitual thoughts, 90,000 thoughts, 90% of them repetitive, 80% of those negative, right? We know that's gonna happen. So giving the mind something to think. And so to me, that leads us to the idea of self-hypnosis. If self-hypnosis is the process of putting yourself into hypnosis to make use of hypnotic techniques, most self-hypnosis practices begin with some kind of imagination work on your part, which guides you into that theta state, guides you down through that churning mind to a place of relative quiet. It's an internal focus. The external world is being pushed aside for a little while. That's why we tend to find a quiet room. We lower the lights, we try to make sure it's quiet and comfortable and safe so we don't have to worry. We often, you know, we'll tell people I'm going in the other room for a little while, and you know, we ask for for quiet and alone time. This is the the beginning of any kind of self-hypnosis practice. And to me, it's a natural thing for me to use meditation to get myself into a state for self-hypnosis, or I'll use my waking time as a time for self-hypnosis. Self-hypnosis was sort of your first exposure to hypnosis, right?

SPEAKER_01: 7:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 7:27

Let's talk about that.

SPEAKER_01: 7:28

Yeah, so uh years ago I did self-hypnosis with our teacher, Peggy. She taught uh seventh self-hypnosis. I think it was like maybe a three-weekend thing or three-night uh thing. And that was interesting. I mean, uh at the time, I'll say, you know, I wasn't I was like, oh, this is this I'll do it, but I'm not sure what I think of it. But it was it it was helpful. I didn't really get the the I didn't really get the most out of it until I became a hypnotist and I learned self-hypno, learned seven pa again. Again. But you know, years, years had passed, and I think I was in a different mind space.

SPEAKER_03: 8:20

Well, I I was a bit of a hypnosis fanatic then. I was telling everybody about it, but it I was still just just an experiencer of hypnosis, yeah, and had enjoyed the benefits of it and had become a pretty avid self-hypnosis practitioner of that particular type of self-hypnosis.

SPEAKER_00: 8:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 8:40

There isn't there isn't one, and really if you get into it, you you start to make it your own anyway.

SPEAKER_00: 8:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 8:49

But what did you as a can you think back to what it did and didn't mean to you when you learned it the first time?

SPEAKER_01: 8:59

The first time, I don't think I have to be truthful here, like I don't think it meant a lot to me. I guess that's not where my headspace was. But I I found it interesting, but I certainly didn't use it, you know, to learn seventh path. And and again, we're we talk about seventh path a bunch because that's what we're trained in, but we have our own self-hypnosis training and all that. There's there's so many avenues of self-hypnosis, but I didn't uh uh use it back then. I was like 15 years ago. I didn't really uh uh uh use it the way that it's supposed to be used. Yeah, I didn't practice it. You're supposed to practice it and then feel the differences and come back with the differences and talk about it and everything. And so yeah, I wasn't it it didn't mean a lot to me at that time. But again, the second time I did it years later, probably what would that have been like 10 years later or something? It was very meaningful. It it it it it changed it, it was part of changing my life, right? Now I can't say I I sit in chairs and do it now, but I do refer back to it sometimes. I do my own sort of self-hypnosis now, more I am statements and stuff. Yeah, but there I I I've had incredible feelings of relief and life changes using self-hypnosis, using seventh path. So uh and I am statements. I like with seventh path that there's a recognition recognition, you know. Forgive my mind today. I'm I'm I'm sort of I have a sore throat and all this stuff going on. So but yeah, the the recognition I really enjoyed. So recognition in Seventh Path is is the idea of choosing a word that means a lot to you, and then adding it to a mantra, adding it to a sentence that is deep and subconscious, it's geared to changing your subconscious mind at the at the core limiting belief level.

SPEAKER_03: 11:11

Yeah, seventh path is is a lovely thing, and I still teach it and I still use it with clients because it's a nice framework. It's a nice basis because the vast majority of us have issues with a few simple concepts that almost everything that we deal with, from smoking and eating and and anger and phone addiction and just about any kind of you know non-productive, non-useful habit we find ourselves into, thought habits and and limiting beliefs, they all sort of come back to the same issues. You know, I I'm gonna say that I can't think of a single client. I'm trying right now. I can't think of a single client that didn't have self-love as a primary issue, right? That it's almost a piece of everything, right? Every limiting belief is in one way or another a kind of limitation on your self-love and your self-view. And yeah, most self-love problems are about self-view, how you see yourself, even as lovable. So, anyway, I learned self-hypnosis years and years ago when I was still just a guy trying to sort out his mind. I I had done some, as said yesterday, Yoga Nidra, um, you know, body scan work to help me sleep that I got really good at, really simple. I had done some meditation. I was always a sort of a prayerful guy. You know, uh, you know, I had a mother that uh taught prayers, and we had the recitation of prayers every day. In terms of we had a prayer we had to say before we went to school, we had a prayer we had to say whenever we went out on a trip, we had little little prayers. And so I I'm I was raised in a way that pausing and engaging a higher thought was normal. And when I was about 14, 15, I began this exploration of eastern ideas. We call them eastern ideas because we're in the west and they're in the east. And you know, these are ideas of a wide collection of eastern ideas from Chinese and Japanese, from Indian, Hindu. The point is, is that it was a it was a form of mysticism that that I was curious with. So I came to the table to hypnosis, already being a guy who would sit and think, and would sit and try to understand his own mind. And then I learned seventh path self-hypnosis, and I really engaged it. I mean, one of the biggest lessons, I think, about seventh path self-hypnosis that I took away was it really wasn't about seventh path self-hypnosis. It was about a commitment to a practice for yourself, a commitment to a practice of thinking helpful thoughts about self, about the world, about conditions. That's what it really taught me, I think. You know, and I'm I'm already uh an adult working in my life. I'd even stopped being a lawyer at that point. So I'm not I'm not a young guide when I learned this, but it really taught me the significance and value of some kind of practice. And I think I've I've said that enough times in the previous podcast. So in the spirit of a practice, self-hypnosis, and well, I'll say in the spirit of a practice and in the spirit of taking yourself into a theta mind state, self-hypnosis is a fantastic tool because what it does is takes you to a place where your subconscious mind can be open and you can begin the process of releasing and reprogramming, reframing, changing the way you think about things. There's an openness there. And it was just simply a practice that led me there. Now, self-hypnosis in the seventh path tradition is three times a day, as you wake up, as you go to sleep, and then sometime during the day. That's the prescribed practice. And I think it's a good, it's a good framework. Whatever you're going to do, whether it's meditation or it's some kind of mantra or some kind of self-hypnosis, that's a good framework. If you can wake up and go right to it, right? You're doing everything in your power to go from sleep to wakefulness. Remember that that's a process that takes you right through theta. Your mind, you know, you can wake up all of a sudden, that's for sure. You can wake all of a sudden and have to go straight to beta, straight to the conscious mind, straight to problem solving. That that happens. And we're really good at jumping from delta to beta. I mean, that's just an alarm clock for some people. It's just something makes a noise and up you get and away you go, and you're thinking about your day and you're analyzing how to approach it. But you did have to pass through theta and alpha to get there. However, instantaneously. But if you're if well, you know, I learned early on that I can use hypnosis to program myself to wake up at a certain time. But you can wake up and you can engage a mental practice, which is repetition. It's just the repetition of some ideas in your mind before you're fully engaged. And you can really set the stage for a good day or a difficult day using that period of time. And it might only be five minutes. I like a good 20 minutes of lying in the bed in a semi-wakeful state and using this self-hypnosis. But you know, some of us don't have that luxury, or some of us find that uncomfortable, you know, lying in bed. So it's but it's it's an idea that you would engage a thought practice the instant you are aware that you can control your thoughts again. And then when you use it, it's a fantastic way to go to sleep, right? There's a the as Hillary says, recognitions is the name they give to the statements that you use in the seventh path. And to use those, first of all, the mind's been entrained that as it wakes up in the morning, it goes to those things. So the mind naturally goes back into that frequency, that state. The brain goes into that brain state when you start using it at night when you go to bed. And so it's a it's a great way to end the day and allow yourself to fall into sleep. It's that 15 to 20 minute practice that you do in the middle of the day that is the real game changer. Because you really are taking the time to break whatever thought patterns you're in and engage a different thought pattern.

SPEAKER_01: 18:38

Also, would you say you're training the body to sort of take relaxation during the day?

SPEAKER_03: 18:44

Yeah, I mean, it goes hard. It's the whole of the mind-body complex that ends up engaging it when you really engage it. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, it has a it has physical effects, it has mental effects. Yeah, it's a great way to reduce your blood pressure for Pete's sake. Most people will say that, that when they do it, their blood pressure goes down, their pulse goes down, their muscles start to relax a bit. It's amazing the tension we carry through a day. So the self-hypnosis part. The hypnosis part. Is taking yourself into theta and thinking about releasing, reframing, thinking about things differently, and reprogramming. And that's the useful stuff in hypnosis. You know, releasing is probably 90% of our work, would you say?

SPEAKER_01: 19:34

Yeah. I would say so. Yeah. Because we're looking for something that the client wants to release, or maybe they don't even know about it. And then we we get there, it comes up. Because as we as we uh release a lot of different things. It's like they're compacting. It's like they're compacted, right? So things that you didn't even know were down there to release. We're covered by the thing that is most agitating to you. So once we release that, it's like, oh, this other little thing is bubbling to the surface, right? And then we release that. And then, you know, it's like that we say that Tetris game. You're getting rid of the lines, you're removing the blocks. But other other blocks are going to fall and and fill in that space. But it gets lighter and lighter as you go. So yeah, releasing is definitely probably the largest, like you said, the largest part of what we do.

SPEAKER_03: 20:35

Sometimes we release just to get a break. I mean, we release anxiety, we just let it wash away, we let it go. Sometimes that's just to get a break from it. It's just a habitual way of thinking that engages us in a way that causes mental and physical and emotional stress. And sometimes it's just about letting go. Most of the time, there is a reason for it. And the reason is we've had some kind of experience that we've interpreted a particular way, usually negatively, usually negatively about ourselves.

SPEAKER_01: 21:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 21:14

Usually negatively about our situation, our safety, our our lovability, things like that. And most of the time, that comes from very young time in our life. I think it's so important to just remember that children don't know any better. Right? They just don't know any better. They they don't learn to think like adults, which I don't know isn't necessarily a good thing, but they don't learn that till they're well past the age of 10 for most people. And so so many of the things that are causing the negative emotion are from a childish interpretation of an event. Generally, an interpretation that says that there's something wrong with us or that we're in danger.

SPEAKER_01: 22:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 22:06

And that's in hypnosis, that's the world of regression. And we can, when we are in self-hypnosis, focus on releasing emotions. When we're in the hypnotic state, when we have learned about hypnosis and we are in a hypnotic state, we can regress ourselves without the help of anyone. I've done it many times. Some of my past life awarenesses really come from self-hypnosis, taking the time to say, well, where did this come from? And so you can release and you can reframe in self-hypnosis. For many people, the best part of self-hypnosis is the reprogramming.

SPEAKER_01: 22:51

Yeah, the wisdom part. Or we use different things, but I use wisdom a lot. Reprogramming is many things, but it's sort of looking at the situation a little differently.

SPEAKER_03: 23:04

Yeah, I I use that the word reframe, the way you use the word wisdom.

SPEAKER_01: 23:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 23:09

Yeah. It's that discovering what you should have learned. It's the discovering the new way of thinking of this situation.

SPEAKER_01: 23:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 23:19

And nine times out of ten, it's really just telling the the little one there's nothing wrong with you.

SPEAKER_01: 23:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 23:25

This was just a situation where probably parents, teachers, some person of authority acted badly.

SPEAKER_00: 23:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 23:33

And they acted badly, and that doesn't mean anything about you. And that's the value of regression and you know, going back there and taking the wisdom away from it, as you say, reframing the way the little one thinks about it. The reprogramming I'm talking about is uh in seventh path, it's the fifth recognition. But in our system, it's really one of three choices when we we teach, when I teach, when when we address our sort of system of self-hypnosis, the reprogramming is simply being clear about what you want to be doing, and then being clear about what you want to be doing, which might be different from something you're doing, or it might be something you just can't seem to get yourself to because of some kind of limiting belief. The self-hypnosis will reprogram it. And it's really, really simple. And it works the same way in regular hypnosis, where you have a hypnotist, it's the way it works in really good imagination, right? It's about thinking and visualizing or imagining yourself engaged in something that has the result that you really, really want and the emotion that's attached to achieving that result. And so it's about seeing yourself, you know, what's what's a good example? Seeing yourself taking time every week to sit in your pottery studio and imagine yourself completely engaged in the the the wheel and the the clay and the smells and the whole and seeing yourself doing it and then allowing the results to make you feel good, allowing the feeling. You know, it's uh this has been brought to me a few times in the last couple of weeks. A basic idea in hypnosis is act as if it's true. So you put yourself in a mental-emotional state where it's as if you're actually doing the thing and enjoying the thing and getting all the benefits from the thing. And it's really an act of imagination. And that's really the methodology of reprogramming in self-hypnosis. For some people, that's a task. Some of us have been really trained out of our imagination.

SPEAKER_00: 26:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 26:02

I know I have been. And so it's really difficult for me sometimes to really engage that fully, to dive right into that. But that is an example of reprogramming. Here's something I'm allowed to do that I love to do, that I enjoy doing, that I'm I'm gonna give myself permission to do. I'm going to do it more often. I'm going to claim this for me, and I'm going to have these wonderful emotions that reward my action of doing it. And that's sort of the third part of self-hypnosis.

SPEAKER_01: 26:35

We've got a question here. Can we write our own self-hypnosis reprogramming? If so, how can we do this? Are there rules we have to follow?

SPEAKER_03: 26:46

Absolutely, you can do this. Absolutely, you would do this. If you were using seventh path, I would, if I was teaching you seventh path, I would take you through the process of how to write this idea and take you through the process of how to engage that idea in your mind. You don't need me to use your imagination. And so it's really, really simple. You write down what you want to do, you write down how it will make you feel, and you write down what the result will be. Now, here's the magic. It doesn't have to be in that order.

SPEAKER_01: 27:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 27:25

You can write down what you want the result to be, and then what you'll do to get there, and then how good that's going to feel, and specifically what it's going to feel, right? It's not I'm going to feel good. Maybe I'm going to feel accomplished, or maybe I'm going to feel uh free, or maybe I'm going to feel like be specific about what you what feelings you want from it. And it can be as simple as using your imagination in doing this. Yeah, we've talked a lot about the seventh path process. And seventh path is good, but I'm moving away from it to something that that we kind of discovered that came to me in the process of, yeah, in the process of my own discovery, trying to understand, you know, could we could we have something simple similar? Similar and simpler. As an aside, I suppose. The world of hypnosis, the world of everything is really kind of funny today. When you step back and you look at uh human beings, we tend to want to own stuff. We tend to want to own something, we tend to want to build our sense of self by saying, look what I did. And we look to try to sell it and make money from it. And so there are, I could come up with a dozen hypnotists right now off the top of my head that have their own system and they teach their system and they teach their techniques and they teach it in a way that it's in books and it's in manuals and it's in courses, and they claim it for themselves. We joke about, you know, Hillary and I joke every day about trademark copyright, trademark copyright. Whenever we have an idea that we know would probably people would probably pay money for, we go, oh quick, trademark that, copyright them. As if it's like I don't know how you can copyright self-love. I don't know how that's possible, right? And when you take hypnotists who have created their own systems and they're out there selling their system as the way to solve people's problems, and it probably is, it's probably a very good way to solve people's problems, but it's probably much more reflective of what they have found effective with their own repertoire of techniques.

SPEAKER_00: 29:55

Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_03: 29:56

And so they say, Well, I learned this and I used this, and I've got all these success stories, and so I'm gonna put that into a book and I'm gonna set that up as a series of courses, and I'm gonna charge somebody$5,000 to learn it. And that's very common in the world of hypnosis. And I'm not gonna criticize that, I'm just gonna observe it for what it is, right? What it is is people turning what they've learned into a business and sharing it so that they can earn a living or more and be involved in business practice that's earning them a living.

SPEAKER_01: 30:32

Yeah, and it's very normal for a business to try to differentiate their product. You know, this this toothpaste is going to clean your your teeth better than the next toothpaste, right? And so, of course, it's very, it's very normal for them to say this this three-step program is like, you know, the best program. But it it really is, you know, you might take the program and then take another program and go, that one worked for me better. It it really is just sort of a melting pot of uh all kinds of things that you can try.

SPEAKER_03: 31:08

Yeah, as hypnotists, we've learned a lot of things. We've studied from a lot of teachers. And it's really great for me when Hillary goes and says, I want to learn this technique, and then she brings it back, and I steal sort of the fundamental good stuff out of it.

SPEAKER_01: 31:24

And I used I do all the hard work that he says about it as well.

SPEAKER_03: 31:27

But she's the one who sits through the courses. I I'm the one who grabs the material and says, Oh, this is good. Oh, I can use this. And I and I grab because they're they're they're more likely to be phrases or metaphors, right? Like there's countless metaphors, right? You're limited by your imagination.

SPEAKER_01: 31:49

The act of hypnosis is metaphor.

SPEAKER_03: 31:52

Absolutely. Well, it's the way we we think. We think in story, we think in imagination, we think in pictures. It's the way we think, it's what engages our thinking. And we store things as stories, right? That's that's what experiences are. This happened, and this meant that, and uh, then I got all upset, and then that's why I don't do that, because that makes me upset. You know, that kind of thing. Anyway, so Seventh Path is a methodology by the Banyan Institute, Calvin Banyan, fantastic hypnotist, nice man. Met him a couple of times at big conferences. I was taught his systems by our teacher, Peggy, and then having those systems as a basis, you know, I just continued hypnotizing people and learning other things. And then Hillary became hypnotist, and then she started bringing techniques and metaphors, and I thought some of those were fantastic. And so I started adopting some of those. And then I found myself drawing to myself clients that tended to really benefit from taking this self-hypnosis practice and embedding it in their hypnosis, and then sending them off to be able to continue with this self-hypnosis practice on their own to continue sort of the a maintenance program. They had gone through releases and reframes, they had gone through some reprogramming, their life had improved in the direction that they wanted, and then this self-hypnosis practice was useful to them. And then I started to wonder if this was the only way, and I started to explore other practices for myself because I'm still really committed to self-hypnosis. And in that process of finding new practices for myself, I sort of came up with a different system, for lack of a better word. And we have taught that system to our students, and and we'll continue to teach sort of the fundamentals of it, which leads us to back to the really powerful idea of I am.

SPEAKER_01: 34:03

Yeah. Maybe I am is tomorrow. Tomorrow.

SPEAKER_03: 34:06

At the end of our time, yeah, we are so again to trying to be really broad about this and not establish ownership over it. You can take yourself into hypnosis, you can do it with a mantra of some kind. The one in our system that I like to use, because the idea is you start to associate a phrase with the state of hypnosis, and so your mind goes there quickly. So if you were to put on a set of noise-cancelling headphones with some nice theta music in there, which can be found in the preschool. Yeah, yeah, use ours. We bought it from a wonderful musician, and it's ours to use. So you could set yourself up like that, and you could write your own reprogramming, right? I am free to make time every day to write in my journal. And in that process, I will make a higher, I will make connection to my higher self and will feel like I am putting my life into its purpose. And I will have joy knowing I'm on my purpose. And that's really kind of a wordy version, but you could come up with something, I'm sure, much more poetic and much more lovely. And allow yourself to sit there and once you find yourself in that theta state, repeat that that that's a specific example of a reprogramming. Now, to get into hypnosis, the one I recommend you use is I am one with the universe. The universe is one with me.

SPEAKER_01: 35:49

Yeah, that's lovely.

SPEAKER_03: 35:51

You know, it's one of the reframes I teach everybody, and it really makes a difference for most of us in the way we see ourselves. I am an essential part of the universe. The universe would be incomplete without me. I am here, and I am here for a reason. The universe, nature, God, whatever word you want to use, brought me here. I'm here for a purpose, and I'm meant to be here, I'm allowed to be here. The world would be incomplete without me, and so I am here. So, with that kind of vibration in mind, to say, I am one with the universe, the universe is one with me. I am one with nature, nature is one with me. I am one with God, and God is one with me. Whatever word works for you, I'm one with Buddha, and Buddha is one with me. There, whatever encapsulates oneness for you.

SPEAKER_01: 36:47

Question. You mentioned that you were planning to run a self-hypnosis course. Will the dates be posted?

SPEAKER_03: 36:52

The dates will be posted today.

SPEAKER_01: 36:55

Dates will be posted today.

SPEAKER_03: 36:57

If you're in the school, that's where I'll be do I'll be doing it through. But I'll be sending out some emails to people who I've taught it to before because they they can come along for the ride. We you we used to call them refreshers.

SPEAKER_00: 37:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 37:10

So, and we'll we'll be learning seventh path self-hypnosis alongside of some other techniques that that I want to teach. But I have I find myself with 10 seventh path booklets. So I might as well teach 10 people seventh path, because I already bought the booklets.

unknown: 37:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 37:30

And it's a it's a wonderful technique, it's very, very useful. And I'm gonna teach you the techniques that that's evolved into, and you can use either one, and you can use both, and you can use them and whatever else you create, because in the end, self-hypnosis is for you, about you, by you.

SPEAKER_01: 37:49

Beautiful. Unless it's an excellent teacher. All right, thanks for hanging out today, guys. And yeah, check out the the uh we mentioned it in the podcast yesterday, but the theta music, binaural beats music, is in the preschool. So if you go to the classrooms tab, you'll see preschool classroom, and then it's right at the top there, binaural beats. Okay, so check it out. You're very welcome. And we will see you later.