Everything you have ever seen, heard, read, or experienced has
been recorded in your subconscious mind. It can be removed only
through such physical means as brain injury or stroke--and even
this can be corrected through techniques based on the findings
of Dr. Deepak Chopra that we are constantly rebuilding
our own bodies, our own brains. Any other kind of "forgetting"
is merely the burying of information on some level of mind not
reachable in an ordinary conscious state. Hypnotic memory enhancement
enables you to get into direct contact with your subconscious
memory source. Through hypnosis you can program your subconscious
computer to automatically make such information available at conscious
need: names, faces, history lessons, teacher's lectures or yesterday's
market quotes will appear clearly and accurately whenever you
feel the need. Have you ever felt the frustration of trying to
recall something you really needed and could almost get at? These
techniques can almost completely eliminate that problem.
Automatic information Recall
Create a bridge between your conscious and subconscious minds--one
that you can see or feel depending on whether you are more visual
or more kinesthetic. Visual is the easiest way to
go on this, so try it first in any case. When you go over
the bridge into your subconscious mind, you'll find index cards
with information on them like those in a library. These contain
the ESSENCE of everything you've ever seen, read, heard or experienced.
Other images are a computer with screen and key board or one that
will give auditory answers. Depending on your age, whether
you grew up with computers or are not quite at ease with them,
you will choose an appropriate mental analogue. With the
information cards, you can install an automatic information retrieval
system through which the correct card pops up; slides over the
bridge and into consciousness each time you need to know something.
The computer has its own built- in system for retrieving information.
Use whatever you are used to or imagine would be ideal for you.
suggestions for air (automatic information recall)
- I hear the question and the answer comes
- I read the question and the answer comes
- I need to know and I do know
- I see the face and I know the name. I hear the name and can
see the face
Now imagine yourself taking a test. "I am reading
the question and writing the correct answer, reading the question
and writing the correct answer." Give yourself this
suggestion smoothly, letting the words flow together to suggest
that these two processes of reading the question and writing the
correct answer have become so closely connected that they are
one process, one smooth motion. When you get to the end of the
test, see an 'A' or 90% grade on the page.
PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY
It is possible to develop a photographic memory -- for pictures,
places you have been and/or the printed word. Imagine being
able to mentally photograph a Cliff's Notes type outline of the
important points of a class lecture, sales presentation or other
speech...anything you need to be more successful at work or hobbies.
Exact quotes and formulas can be recalled with equal ease--especially
important in acting and science. Visualize a room you are familiar
with, one you are less familiar with, and one you have seen only
once. Imagine each of these as completely detailed as you can.
This begins the development of a photographic memory by starting
with something you already know how to do before moving into something
you haven't done yet. It is important here to stress the progressive
ease with which you can do these visualizations, based on having
PRACTICED THE TECHNIQUE rather than on how many times you have
seen the object you are visualizing. The ultimate goal is
for you to have exact recall of a printed page or a book you have
only briefly glanced at. This is classic photographic memory.
Go into your subconscious mind. See the camera. Describe
to yourself how the camera works. You push a button and take a
clear, accurate picture -- immediately.
Now, open your eyes (going deeper as you do so) and take a picture
of an object, then something printed. It is a clear accurate picture.
As soon as you've taken that picture you close your eyes and describe
the object or read the printed words from the picture you have
just taken. You are not reading until you close your eyes,
until then you are merely taking a picture.
The purpose of the camera analogy is to encourage you to think
of this technique differently from memorization. Memorization
requires repetitive reading of the material one wishes to memorize.
The technique you are learning requires only the time a camera
takes to shoot a picture. The camera must be a Polaroid
or digital because not only is the picture to be taken fast, but
it "develops" and is available almost immediately as
well. Be sure to take the photographs in small enough bites
so that you will have some progressive improvement. If you are
getting the technique rapidly, increase the size of those bites
to provide some challenge here as well. Checking yourself
by reading the material backward is an excellent challenge as
well as a way to be sure that you are photographing the words
rather than memorizing them. One good exercise is reading
backward and forward from a printed page out loud. When
you are actually LOOKING at the page reading backward is about
as smooth as reading forward. Trying to read backward from
memory is always slow and halting if you can do it at all. If
you do a slow halting read, review the camera analogy. Remember
that the camera does not analyze or memorize--it just takes a
picture.
Always be sure to end on a positive note with yourself, doing
something you originally weren't able to so you will have a feeling
of accomplishment.
PRACTICE 30 to 60 minutes daily by photographing
printed material, closing your eyes and reading it into a tape
recorder, then checking the recording against the printed word.
It DOES require practice.
HYPNOTIC SOUND RECORDING
The ability to record and accurately play back in your mind anything
from a lecture to a symphony can be acquired through hypnotic
techniques. You can start with recalling conversations you’ve
had recently, playing them back without any “he said, she
said”s to make it more like a tape recording. The
rest of the procedure is similar to photographic memory except
that you listen to someone reading something or a recording
such as the children’s See and Say books which have
printed material with matching recorded stories. “Play
it back” (verbally) using the recorder in your mind.
Have a clear visualization of that instrument including both its
recording and play back modes. Use tape or digital whichever you
are most comfortable and familiar with.
USE YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND LIKE A COMPUTER
Mental data correlation--the ability to USE the information you
gather and are trained to remember is also an integral part of
hypnotic memory enhancement.
Overcome Test-Taking Panic
If you have difficulty passing tests or exams it could be that
you simply forget the material. However, if you remember the material
when doing homework or practice quizzes on your own at the end
of a chapter, but not when it comes to the real thing, you may
have test-taking panic. If you keep failing the Bar or a Real
Estate Licensing Exam, though you do perfectly on class tests
almost duplicating these important exams, you may have attached
a special stress reaction to the particular situation of taking
THAT exam which has been made even worse in cases where there
are multiple failures on the same exam. You must release test-taking
panic before memory techniques can do you much good. Hypnotic
age regression can allow you to rewrite your life script so it
is as though you have always taken tests easily and calmly.
Whether you want to remember your keys, the names and faces of
the people you meet, what you saw on your last vacation, or the
complete writings of Shakespeare hypnosis can help.
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PRACTICE the techniques in this article 30 minutes
daily. Also helpful is listening to the Success Center CD Memory
Excellence as you go to sleep at night. Do the exercises in my
book Memory and Mental Excellence (both available at www.acesuccess.com).
It DOES require practice.
For more information on hypnotic memory enhancement, visit our
website
store or call (800) GOAL NOW (462-5669).
Terry Brussel-Gibbons, PhD, is a certified Clinical Hypnotherapist
with over 35 years experience. She is the Director of Success
Center in Encino, California. She is also a success coach,
keynote speaker, hypnotherapist trainer and author.
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