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 question I understand you suggest not listening to a CD twice in one day. However, would you see a problem with listening to one and then a different CD? It would be very cool if I could replace an hour or two of TV just before bed with something relaxing, but super productive. If your methodology works for me, I would definitely do two different CD's per night, at least for a while. Also, on your website you suggest a time-line for listening that seems a bit short. Wouldn't one gain more of a benefit the longer and more consistently one listens? Like an "engraining" process? And if so, does that "top" out after a while? answer - growth versus puppetry and the optimal maximum With respect to frequencies and time lines, this is actually fairly flexible. Self help, though, is a form of self-growth. You can optimize your situation for maximum growth but there are limits. The advisory about not listening to more than one CD/tape more than once per day is made because it seems that one is an optimal maximum and is dictated by the type of hypnosis involved in Head-Cleaners hypnosis CDs and tapes. The optimal maximum. As is the case with eating, exercising, spices on food, how much perfume or make-up you put on and six million other things in life, too little is not optimal and too much is too much. Think of spices, perfume, make-up, eating and exercise. Zero gets you nowhere and with more you get more results -- but only up to the point at which you reach the point of optimal maximum. If you increase beyond the optimal maximum, adding more doesn't give you better results, it gives you worse results. If Head-Cleaners hypnosis recordings relied on mindless, authoritative directives (e.g., "you will get up in the morning and have no thought other than to sit down at your computer and get to work" or "you will experience an irresistable compulsion to avoid eating until you lose thirty pounds" or "you will act like a chicken whenever you are doing anything other than working on your project" or "every time you think of having a cigarette you will feel a compulsion to get into a shower and turn on the water"), then repeated listenings might help. But that such authoritative stuff a) can be dangerous (possibly messing up people's minds), b) doesn't work very well, c) is brittle and breakable and falls to pieces accidentally very, very easily, d) fosters dependency rather than independency and e) is just a generally crappy, ethically anemic thing to do. When you are using that type of hypnosis, you are working on being a puppet. BUT, with that kind of hypnosis, repeated listenings, one right after another, could actually increase results. Repeating an order over and over again can possibly increase the likelihood of mindlessly accepting an order. Head-Cleaners hypnosis CDs and hypnosis tapes, however, are much more complex and are not authoritative, dogmatic orders. Head-Cleaners hypnosis CDs/tapes are composed of word weavings that are crafted to hypnotically present logical ideas that are imbedded with Ericksonian indirect, permissive, strategic, cognitive-behavioral suggestions. The suggestions and ideas and the wordings are crafted to promote motivation to change, to offer perspectives that make change possible and to decrease possible barriers to success. Using this type of hypnosis is a powerful process of working on change based on a foundation of health, empowerment and growth -- it is a process of working on being more in control of abilities, attitudes, perspectives, sensitivities, sensibilities and fears. When using Head-Cleaners hypnosis CDs and tapes, though you can listen to a CD or tape in less than an hour and can then go on to do other things, the ideas and effects continue to "digest," "percolate" and encode in the back of your mind for hours and days after that. The process of growth and change using the kind of hypnosis used in Head-Cleaners hypnosis tapes and CDs is in some ways similar to the effects of exercise where muscular development happens in between exercise sessions. Growth spurts and plateaus. Generally, the way growth happens is in spurts with plateaus between. Some people find they get a bit mentally stretched when they listen to more than one hypnosis recording in a day. If you want to try listening to more than one a day, give it a shot but pay attention to whether it seems likely to facilitate or hamper your thinking and growth. This isn't like learning a new language or a new instrument where the more hours you put in the more you get used to thinking using the new words or fingerings. It's more like how your arms and legs grew as a child -- a bunch, then not much, then a bunch, then not much... But how much is a bunch is a very individual experience sort of thing. Many people find that they work on their growth for a time, possibly days, weeks or months, and then they set the practice aside, coasting for a time until stress and distress remind them that they could still grow some more. Then they get back at it. And there is one more level of timing and effort: In addition to all these considerations about giving one's self some time for a listening to a hypnosis recording to "digest" on the scale of the days and hours when working on self-improvement and growth, it turns out that for some individuals with tough, long-standing problems, they will find that they work on their issues using hypnosis and a lot of thought and focus for several days or weeks and then sort of loose their focus on self improvement. They experience a growth spurt and feel pretty good about it and find that they have pretty much reached a plateau. They put away their recordings and forget about using them for weeks or months or even years. Then something comes up and they decide they want to listen to a recording again a few times over a week or two. In these cases it seems that in the same manner that results seemed to increase during brief periods of time between listenings, positive results can also be expected between "episodes" of using hypnosis recordings. The goal of constantly growing. Everyone -- especially in this day and age -- tends to think faster is better and tends to think in terms of hurrying to get to goals so that they can hurry and set themselves some new goals that they can hurry and get to. This is a formula for missing your own life. Set as your goal the achievement of consistent emotional growth. Suggestion: Set as your goal being able to each month feel smarter, happier, more content, more hopeful, more helpful to yourself and more in control of your life and your self than you were the month before. It is silly and wasteful to hurry to goals so you can hurry to goals. Enjoy the journey. Dr. J |
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