These are the words that are going to elicit the most powerfulresponse from within you when you use them in self-hypnosissessions and when you communicate with yourself at any time.

Have a think about these questions; what words make you feelgood? Which words give you good feelings? Make a list of thewords that appeal to you. You can use a thesaurus to help.

Ask yourself; how would I like to feel? Here are some good wordsyou may like to use in your self-hypnosis or just to frequentthe internal workings of your mind with: Healthy, Peace,Balance, Harmony, Relaxed, Confident, Good, Happy, Powerful,Joyful, Calm, Unison, Assured, Vibrant, Loving, Progressive,Better, Beautiful.

All a bit obvious, I know you get the idea. It is reallyimportant though that you do actually use words that have a goodmeaning to you and make you feel good within your self-hypnosisor just your internal dialogue.

Now, I am going to add a couple of words here for you to thinkabout. Think about the words “more and more” and “increasingly.”These words are going to be important to create growth, powerand fluidity in your mind. Let me explain how.

Consider the sentence “as a result of achieving my ideal weightI am happy.” This is a nice way to remind yourself thatachieving this particular goal (whatever it might be for you)youare happy. Great. However, we can make that more powerful bychanging a rather static “happy” to “more and more happy.” Idon’t know about you, but I would never want to think that Iever reached the pinnacle of happiness and could not go anyfurther.

“Happy” is static. In order to supercharge your programmes andthe way you utilise language in and out of self-hypnosis, youcan mobilise the words and get them moving onwards and upwardsfor you. You can change “Happy” to “Happier and happier” or“more and more happy” or “increasingly happy” or “progressivelymore happy” or “more and more appropriately happy. “ Usewhatever feels right for you, just use other words to developand power it up.

Words to avoid: Some of these words may seem fine and feel fineto use for you. I am just giving you ideas and considerationswhen using these words in and out of self-hypnosis.

When communicating with yourself , my recommendation is that youconsider avoiding the following words and types of words;

Words that elicit bad feelings. Words that are ambiguous. Wordsthat are limiting, restrictive or disempower you. Words that youare uncomfortable with.

When communicating with yourself, ask yourself these questions:Is there another phrase or word that is better? Is there a wordor phrase I find more pleasing? Is there a way in which you canput your energy and power into this suggestion in a better way?

So, firstly, I want to point out some words that can elicit badfeelings: Try, can’t, won’t, don’t, should, shouldn’t, must,mustn’t, jealousy, temper, no, lose, will, sad, difficult, but.I want to point out a couple of these words in particular.

The word “try” sends a shudder down my back. I use this word intherapy often to ensure that people won’t do what I am askingthem, for example I might say “try to resist the urge to relax.”

When you are trying to do something, you are not doing it. Youbuild in failure by using the word try. So just remove it fromyour internal communication.

You will have heard that expression “if at first you don’tsucceed, try and try again.” Yuck. Awful stuff. It really shouldread “if at first you don’t succeed, try and try, and try andtry and try and try and try… etc, etc.” You want to do thethings you want to do, you want to achieve the things you wantto achieve; you don’t want to try and do them or try and achievethem.

The word “Will” is another one to avoid if you can. Will is notactually happening, it is something you will do rather thanactually are doing. It never occurs. You know, you can putalmost any sentence together with the word will in and simplyremove that word to make it more progressive and positive foryour self-hypnosis requirements. Have go at doing that. (Irealise that there is likely to be at least one wiseguy who nowuses the word as in “last will and testament” yes, very clever.I have not heard that one before.) Here are a couple ofexamples; “As a result of stopping smoking I will be healthier.”Now becomes; “As a result of stopping smoking I am healthier.”“I will successfully achieve my goals” is transformed into “Isuccessfully achieve my goals.” Here we have just removed it tomake it more progressive. You see, it is those finerdistinctions that I refer to often that can really make adifference to the way you use language, and you may as wellreally use it more and more powerfully while you are in thestate of self-hypnosis.

Lots of people tell me that they want to “Lose” weight. I alwaystell them that no one loses when they come to see me. Thinkabout what else you lose in life. Generally, it is things thatyou would rather have kept like your keys or your wallet. Yougenerally lose things that you want to find again. Lose has manynegative connotations. Instead of losing weight, reframe it withthe words “achieving and maintaining the size, shape and weightthat pleases me.” This is much more progressive.

Finally for this section, I want to mention the word “But.” Thisword can often be seen to be negating what has come before it; Iwould really like to come out tonight, but I have to wash myhair. Of course I really love you, but I need to pursue mycareer. I had a great time, but that guy sitting next to me wasrude.

This might not always be the case for you; however, it is foryou to be aware of when addressing your own unconscious mind inand out of self-hypnosis.

Secondly, I recommend that you really do avoid using words thatare putdowns. They don’t really have a place in self-hypnosis oryour mind at all. Avoid the following words and words like them:

Untidy, Dirty, Smelly, Ugly, Stupid, Lazy, Hopeless, Disliked,Unkempt, Smelly, Idiot, Embarrass, Ridiculous. I know you knowlots more. I don’t really like even having to write these inthis article. Your internal dialogue and self-hypnosis sessionsare better without these words.

This next set of words is for you to keep aware of and avoid ifyou feel they limit you or your programme in any way. I amreferring to words that are absolutes. These are words that haveno flexibility, that are final. For example: Always, totally,closed, never, finish, impossible, definitely, completely,death, cancelled. You may for example, state in a self-hypnosissession or tell yourself that you never smoke again. Which isfine and good for some people. However, you may have one toomany glasses of sherry at Christmas and have a sneaky puff onyour friend’s cigar. Now this does not make you a regular smokeragain, however, it has negated the sentiments that you toldyourself. It has made yourinternal communication to yourselfless credible to you because you wrote that you would neversmoke again and you just did, albeit only one puff, by writingthat you would never do it, you leave no flexibility and youleave no room for interpretation of particular circumstancesthat may arise.

That may be fine with some, just bear it in mind. I mentionedthe subject earlier within the guidelines for writing programmesand that is the notion of ambiguity. With self-hypnosis and whencommunicating with yourself in your own mind in other ways, itis best to avoid words that are ambiguous. Words such as; Maybe,Desire, Growth, Positive, Negative, Normal, Whole.

You might well use the expression that your desire to stopsmoking is increasing. Again, this sounds fine on the surface.However, do you want your desire to stop smoking to increase oryour actual ability to stop smoking to increase? If you onlyincreased your desire to stop smoking, it might become a veryfrustrating experience. Also, you might want to considerreferring to your personal growth increasing. It could bereferring to something growing on your body somewhere!

Think about the word normal. Who is to say what that is? Do youknow specifically what you mean when you refer to anything asbeing normal? If you are going to use the word normal, I wouldrecommend that you define what that means to you also, bespecific about it or just substitute it for the word usual ifyou can.

Finally, on the topic of words, I would like to point out to youthe use of the “Able.” It is one thing being able to dosomething; it is another to actually do it. If you are going toincrease your ability with something, then also ensure you do it.

I realise that this article has offered up many considerationsso far with self-hypnosis use of language and internal dialogue.These are just that; considerations.

You can allow yourself to find the right solutions and methodsfor you. As you get more and more used to being in self-hypnosisor just communicating with yourself more prgressively anddiscovering the kind of suggestions and words that have the mostpowerful effect for you, then you can fine tune your use of them.

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