Full hypnosis download Be More Centered

Sounds wonderful, doesn’t it? Who wouldn’t want to be ‘centred’?

‘Being centred’ is a term often used in martial arts such as aikido and according to sports psychologist Robert Nideffer is an important element of going into ‘flow’. But what does it actually mean?

The phrase implies ‘keeping your head’ and is often synonymous with ‘being grounded’ – another physical term often used in Eastern martial arts referring to keeping your feet on the ground and, in fact, using the ground itself during martial activity. In eastern meditative systems, people are often taught to focus on the area of the body below the navel. In Japanese Zen philosophy this concept is known as Hara, which literally means ‘belly’, and focussing on this area is said to produce certain effects in the mind such as stillness and objective perception.

So if we talk about ‘feeling centred’ in a day-to-day sense it really means feeling unswayed by events, not getting sucked into unhelpful emotionality in situations and having a strong sense of who we are regardless of the company we keep.

I can’t help but be reminded of Rudyard Kipling’s deservedly famous poem “IF”

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream – and not make dreams your master;
If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
‘ Or walk with Kings – nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And – which is more – you’ll be a Man, my son!

And, of course, a Woman too! You have to remember that Kipling wrote this poem in rather less equality sensitive times.

The latest hypnosisdownloads.com session “Be more centred” is about developing that part of you that can stand aside from the “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” and maintain who you are, regardless.

All my best

Mark

Full hypnosis download Personal change

How many times do you hear others (and yourself!) complain about situations without actually taking decisive steps to change things?

We might moan about someone’s behaviour but never confront them with it, or complain endlessly about a job but never pursue a new one, or even try to change things in the current occupation. Some people like complaining, of course, but if we really are dissatisfied yet don’t make any changes then it might well be fear holding us back.

Being stuck in a rut, resenting your everyday life, being annoyed at people, or feeling that ‘something is wrong’, without taking any steps to change things is objectively no different from being totally satisfied with the way things are. One thing’s for sure, they’ll stay the way they are if you don’t do something!

Being part of the solution means having the courage to act. It’s all too easy to whinge about “life today” and what’s wrong with everything.

We all need to proactively take the reins of life sometimes rather than just sit passively wishing things were different. This new download Personal change uses hypnosis to instil the patterns of assertive action and confidence to actually do something about the things in your life you’re not happy with. You could end up taking your life in a whole new direction.

All the best

Mark

Full hypnosis download Short man complex

Being short if you are a man is not easy in our society. Taller men both tend to earn more (1) and attract more women. (2)

Size is so often equated with status. The ‘more is better’ philosophy seems to rule. But this is not just a ‘philosophy’ but also an instinctive response. When animals are attracting a mate, or seeking to intimidate a rival, they’ll often puff themselves up to appear bigger. So size matters, but in the human world we have physical height and size but also metaphorical stature.

We talk about people having a ‘big personality’, or being ‘larger than life’, of having ‘huge confidence’, or ‘lofty ideas’, of being ‘high up’ in an organisation, or of ‘moving upwards’ in their career. ‘Stature’ can be achieved if you are five foot nothing. Which gives the modern short man considerable advantage over his prehistoric diminutive ancestor, for whom physical size was, to all intents and purposes, the only thing that mattered.

The new hypnosisdownloads.com session short man complex was created to help men who feel short (and men of average or even above average height can feel short) as well as men of genuinely below average height forget height, find it less of an ‘issue’ and develop their other stature/status enhancing qualities, such as self confidence and social skill. When it doesn’t matter for you, it matters much less for others.

All the best

Mark

Notes

(1) According to a study from the University of Sydney and the Australian National University, Canberra in 2009 which compared the pay grades of 20,000 Australians and their respective heights. The correlation of height equalling more pay was much stronger in men than in women.

(2) Pawlowski, B.; Dunbar, R.I.; Lipowicz, A. (2000) Evolutionary fitness: tall men have more reproductive success. Nature, 13 January 2000, n. 403 (6766):156