Dreams and Self-Suggestion

Are you familiar with the manga The Fable?
The protagonist has superhuman strength and
takes down enemies one after another, but
before entering combat mode, he always performs a certainritual.

Tapping his forehead with his fingertips.
And for the finishing touch, he makes afunny face with crossed eyes.

But this is actually incredibly logical, and it is
a technique often used by hypnotherapists to
※open the door to an altered state of consciousness.

※An altered state of consciousness is a general term for a state of consciousness different from
the usual me.
It also includes states of consciousness like being in the zone or deep meditation.

And once youenter an altered state of consciousness,
suggestions become easier to take in.

(Giving suggestions to yourself is called”
self-suggestion”.)

Self-suggestion is awidely effective and capable technique.Methods such as visualizing the person you want to become, repeating imagery,

convincing yourself, and chanting are well-known, but
when you use this altered state of consciousness to plant suggestions,

a clear difference in speed and poweris created.

I imagine that the protagonist of The Fable
was drawing out hislatent potentialthrough the self-suggestion
he performed via this ritual.

Tips for entering an altered state of consciousness include

•When you have fully exhaled (mild oxygen deprivation)
• Upon waking up
• Just before falling asleep

and making good use of these moments.

This is what is known as a
state where the lid is slightly open.Regarding this lid,

I also touch upon it in this article.
(This article covers the content regarding what ison the outside of the lid, acting as a weight.
)

The moment the lid opens even a little.
At this time, immediately plant your suggestion.

Anything is fine.

Please feel free to let your imagination run wild ☺️

For example,

“I will become a calm person”

If that is it, then
while you are still half-asleep,
chant it at the moment you have fully exhaled deeply.
(It is fine to do this in your mind)

Put your doubts and questions aside for a moment,
and just for this time,

it will absolutely happen...!try to think itstrongly.

The power of belief is surprisingly strong.
So, you should make use of that power.

However, this is something completely different from making a wish on a shooting star
thing so
avoid expressions like "I hope I can..."
or
"I want to be..." ᯓ☆

And the most important thing is
the unique rules of the subconscious mind,

･ There are no negative words

One more thing!

･ Images are strongly reflected

is the nature of it.

For example,
"I will become a person who does not get angry" is taken as "I will become a person who

gets angry" just by the phrasing, and on top of that, the image of being angry
is also conveyed.

So I want you to remember to use as few negative words as possible,
as well.

The reason why this is important is because it is
easy to forget.

Self-suggestion using dreams

I often do this right before falling asleep, so I say
"From now on, I will get hints for solving problems in my dreams"

Or, if I'm feeling bold,
"The problem will be solved in my dream!"
It's a technique of leaving it to the subconscious.
(Sorry. There is no such technique 🙈)

At first, this didn't work at all.

After all, I couldn't remember them.
Even if I did remember, if I didn't understand the meaning, I would immediately rely on dream interpretation.

But that seemed to become a small hint as well,
and as I kept doing it every day without giving up,
I gradually started to get the hang of it.

Even if it's fragmented, or just an image,
try to humbly accept it as a message from your ※subconscious.

Could this mean this?
Or was it trying to tell me something like this???

It's an association game with everything you can think of.

…And here, I would like to add a little bit about the subconscious.

The "consciousness" we usually use is
"a collective term for the conscious mind and the subconscious mind and

The "subconscious" is something that cannot be controlled.
There is no awareness that it is working.
There is no good or bad.
(Nevertheless, it accounts for 80 to 90 percent of total consciousness.) It is mainly filled with


information based on experience, memories, desires, etc..

On the other hand, conscious mind refers to our everyday consciousness.
This is where reason, logical thinking, and judging whether something is good or bad take place.

This conscious mind plays a role like the left brain, and it also takes on the role of protecting the subconscious (something like the
right brain or the heart). It is considered that there is a clear
boundary between these two areas. And that boundary is the ''lid''


. (More accurately, it is called the critical factor. Some people describe it as a membrane.)

Messages from the subconscious

"dreams" and the like are things that ordinary people cannot control
, right? Unless you are having a lucid dream. Therefore, dreams belong to the realm of the
subconscious.

The subconscious is always trying hard to send messages to the conscious mind through intuition and images.

This is because the language of the subconscious is imagery itself.

Therefore, it can be said that dreams play an important role in the sense that, if you can remember them, they can
cross the boundary or act as a bridge.

By the way, continuing with the topic of dreams, one reason I was able to gradually get the hang of it was that I read through many articles on dream interpretation.

Dream Symbols

For example, I have often had dreams about tsunamis since I was young, and the meaning of this is apparently "anxiety" or "environmental change," and I could certainly relate to that at the time.

Just by looking up dream symbols on Google, you can start to see the laws of image association. As I repeated this, I don't know if my subconscious came to trust this communication through dreams, but the dreams I had became increasingly vivid.

And I remembered them.

Nao-san's "Dream Anchoring" article was also something I came across during this period.

From around this time, I ruminated on my dreams with extreme persistence.

It's a bit scary, but I also started a dream diary.

And recently, I was finally able to reach the point of solving a problem in a dream I had!

My neck has a reverse curve compared to the norm,
and I am constantly suffering from head and neck pain, but
”after having a dream where I was surrounded by several chiropractors and received treatment”
my neck felt refreshed! For some reason, even my head didn't hurt!
This phenomenon actually occurred in reality.

This is a phenomenon that I cannot understand no matter how much I think about it,
and I am sorry that you have read this far,
but honestly, I cannot explain it at all💦

(After all, why would receiving treatment in a dream
have an effect on my physical body in reality???
And what they were massaging and loosening was
not my neck butmy feet😇)


However, on the morning of this day, I was certainly able to wake up feeling as refreshed and clear-headed as if the problem had been solved!

It seems like this will end as a dream story, but in closing,
I would like to convey that self-suggestion isalways in the affirmative,
and is more effective when done while also adding an image of yourself having achieved it.

And please, do not stop at just once,but repeat it many times
tostrengthenthe suggestion.

Self-suggestion can be calleda technique to draw out the potential you possess
while the lid is open,
so there is no harm in learning it😊

If there is anything you do not understand,
please do not hesitate to ask.

May today be a wonderful day for all of you.