Do you feel like you could do more with your life?
So it’s time to think a little.
To sit with a pen in hand, writing down everything you should do with your life. Career, relationships, money, hobbies – think and write down clear goals that you must accomplish before you die.
then again…
Maybe that’s a horrible, demoralizing plan that sets you up for failure.
In the best case:
You feel inspired for a few days. Maybe even a few months. So his plans seem like nothing more than hard work and superficial rewards.
Even if you achieve your goals, you feel empty afterwards. So either you set new goals that will disappoint you… or you settle.
You might even start to think that you are incapable of being happy. After all, look at your life. You worked hard, you checked all the boxes… only to feel empty and dissatisfied.
Trust me, you are capable of happiness.
You just made a simple and understandable mistake at the beginning of all this:
He tried to think his way to the answer.
There is a common fact about the brain that you can only have five to nine things on your consciousness at a time.
Maybe you agree with that, maybe you think that’s conservative. So let me be generous and say, for argument’s sake, you can have 30 things on your conscience at once.
Even with this boost to your abilities…
… do you really think you can predict the future with so few variables?
Even a simple binary decision, like whether job A or job B will make me happy, has thousands of factors.
Your conscious mind can’t hold on to all of that. It’s great for a lot of things, but not for driving something with so many moving parts.
The answer?
Forget about involving your conscience. You can’t make the decision here, not with any real hope of success.
You have to make the decision without thinking about it, not consciously, anyway.
Because your unconscious can handle the variables. It processes billions of chunks of data all the time, even when you sleep. It is what directs your attention to loud noises, regulates your body, and directs your emotions.
It’s not magic. If you expect it to know the best option for sure, or to predict, say, the lottery numbers, then you’re out of luck.
But it is the best tool you have for making complex and difficult decisions.
On the other hand… if it’s unconscious, how do you access it? Surely by definition you can’t…
Not so, my clever friend.
That’s what hypnosis is all about.
Your unconscious has many answers and wants to share them. But there is a divide between your conscious and your unconscious, the same divide that prevents you from controlling your own heartbeat or being overwhelmed by every sensation in your body.
Hypnosis closes this gap.
Over time, you may learn to consciously slow your heart down. However, that’s way more advanced than you need for this.
In a hypnotic trance, explore how you should really spend your time.
With practice (or even without it), the answers will come, so clear and obvious you can’t deny them.