Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 3, Issue 11, 1 May 2019 | Page 18

Imagine it at the front of your head and then gently tilt your head back and
feel the picture slipping back through your brain and into the top of the brain
stem.
This moves the picture into an area of the brain called the Reticular Activating
System (RAS).
The RAS is like your autopilot – it gets you what you want in life.
Or at least, it gets you what you TELL it you want.
If you’re sitting around all day planning for disaster then your RAS will start
looking for that.
AND, it’ll find it too.
So, don’t do that!
Plan and prepare for success.  Rehearse it in your mind.  Rehearse it so
frequently that you forget it’s just in your mind.
It’s a core principle of hypnotherapy and you can implement it for yourself just
by putting in the effort.
So, what’s stopping you?

#6 Practice gratitude
Alright, this one might be different than you think…
Gratitude is not just about being thankful for what you have.  It’s not just
focussing on the good and excluding the bad.
It’s not even reminding yourself that you have it so much better than others.
There’s more to gratitude that all that.
Practising gratitude will give you CLOSURE.
Fulfilment.
Being grateful is the act of saying to yourself:
Even though I still want X, Y and Z… I already have A, B and C.  Now it’s time
to focus on what I do have.
It STOPS your mind from racing away trying to solve the problems you have
identified.
It literally IS peace-of-mind.
Here’s an exercise that will not just improve your levels of stress and anxiety
– it will massively IMPROVE YOUR SLEEP too:
Every night, spend 3 minutes writing down 5 things you are grateful for.
5 appreciations.