Your beliefs are like hypnotic focuses.
You reinforce them constantly through the normal inner talking in which you all indulge.
This INNER COMMUNICATION acts like the constant repetition of a hypnotist.
The belief in personal worth draws about it the belief in the personal value of others, for they show their best faces to our fortunate friend.
The belief in his own comeliness is so important that others will react to him in the same fashion.
An individual can have great native beauty, for example, but this beauty is not apparent to others or to the individual.
The person does not believe that he or she possesses it and mars the actual physical features so that the comeliness becomes literally invisible.
The Nature of the Personal Reality (NOPR) Sess.659
Seth Session
Seth speaks of natural hypnosis.
Natural hypnosis is the acquiescence of the unconscious to conscious belief. In periods of concentrated focus, with all distractions cut out, the desired ideas are then implanted (in formal hypnosis). The same processes occur in normal life, however. Areas of primary concentration then regulate your experience both biologically and mentally and generate similar conditions.
Let us give a simple example, using a positive belief instilled in childhood. An individual is told that he is comely, well-proportioned, and possesses a likable personality. The idea takes hold. The person acts in line with this belief in all ways; but also a variety of subsidiary beliefs grow up about the main one.
The belief in personal worth draws about it the belief in the personal value of others, for they show their best faces to our fortunate friend. His life constantly reinforces this concept, and while he is peripherally aware that some people are “nicer” than others, his main intimate experience allows him to see the best in others and in himself. This becomes one of the strong frameworks through which he views existence.
Data or stimuli that does not agree is a side issue, not personally applicable but present, he realizes, as fact for others. He will not need to prove himself, so it will be easier for him to accept contemporaries with fairness.
There may be areas in which he realizes he is not adequate, yet because of his belief in his basic worth he will be able to accept these lacks as a part of himself without feeling threatened by them. He will be able to try to improve his condition without knocking himself down at the same time.
Now: In those terms he may or may not be as attractive, feature by feature, as some other individuals who believe, in fact, that they are unattractive. The belief in his own comeliness is so important that others will react to him in the same fashion. An individual can have great native beauty, for example, but this beauty is not apparent to others or to the individual. The person does not believe that he or she possesses it and mars the actual physical features so that the comeliness becomes literally invisible.
Your beliefs, then, are like hypnotic focuses. You reinforce them constantly through the normal inner talking in which you all indulge.
This inner communication acts like the constant repetition of a hypnotist. In this case, however, you are your own hypnotist. Few people will have simply one main area of concentration. Usually several are involved. But, these represent the ways in which you are using your energy. The individual who takes it for granted that he is worthwhile does not need to belabor the point. His ensuing experiences come naturally to him.
In many areas of your own life, those in which you are satisfied, you need make no effort. Your conscious thoughts and concentrations bring about results with which you are pleased. It is only in those compartments of your life that confound you that you suddenly begin to wonder what is happening. But, here also, natural hypnosis is at work just as easily and naturally. And, your conscious ideas are automatically coming to physical fruition. So it is in these areas that you must realize that you are the hypnotist.
Now: The unconscious accepts those orders given to it by the conscious mind.
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