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HOW TO CONTROL THOUGHT: SPOTLIGHT AND SELF-HYPNOSIS
How do we make use of this spotlight to control our thoughts. Our mind has an anxious area as well as a relaxing area. If we focus on the anxious area, we feel anxious, but if we actively focus on the relaxing area, we feel relaxed. When you feel anxious, do nothing about it, just direct the spotlight back to the relaxing area. Present repeatedly to yourself relaxing ideas, and ignore the anxious feelings. We cannot focus our single spotlight on relaxing and anxious ideas at the same time. In other words, we cannot feel relaxed and anxious at the same time. Remember, thought control is an active exercise; you have to put that spotlight repeatedly on the relaxing ideas. Do not reject anxious ideas, as the mere thought of rejection means focusing on them. Ignore them and they will disappear spontaneously.
In highway hypnosis, your focus is on the highway. Even if you take your eyes off the highway for a moment, you have to focus your attention back on the highway repeatedly. This is like darkening the theatre and the stage, so that the surrounding activities are ignored and the spotlight is focused on the highway alone. The shift from the awake state to the THS is quite natural for many people, but not for those who suffer from chronic insomnia. During the THS, the stage is dim and the spotlight is on some non-threatening and non-anxious part of the mind. Arousal messages are no longer sent to the sleep centre. The sleep centre takes over, and we drift into sleep.
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