What benefit is increased self understanding?
You will find plenty of useless thoughts and habit patterns to change. Being sorry for example, after you have a row with a good friend, is pointless. Awareness before the problem arises is what you need. Your friend’s thoughts and actions will be confined to a fixed pattern that you can soon recognise. Anticipating the repetition, you can focus your attention on the precise phrase or mannerism that triggers your habitual response and then explore what created your sensitivity. Once recognised, you will at least respond in a new way. Developing new behavioral patterns becomes a game, a creative game, which is perhaps all that life is intended to be. A major causal factor in habit formation is stress and this often arises because we equate lack of success in our endeavors with our sense of self-worth. Our abilities are never better or worse than anyone else’s. Like our sense of taste, our abilities are different, that’s all. Using conscious self hypnosis to enhance your awareness and fi
