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S-R arcs can be conditioned by implicit kinesthetic movements. Try this: Close your eyes and then open and close your hand. What you feel is the movements of the muscles, tendons, and joints of your hand. This "muscle sense" is known as kinesthesis. It is through this sense that you know the position of your arms and legs without looking at them. Your muscle movements are of two kinds: (1) Explicit and (2) Implicit. Your explicit movements can be seen; your implicit muscular movements cannot be seen. However, the implicit movements create a stimulus. The stimulus, in turn, brings about a S-R arc inside you. You can easily experience the effect of your implicit muscular movements. Go where you will not be disturbed. Sit down and relax. Now close your eyes and for five minutes concentrate all your inner implicit muscle movements on the activity of writing a letter to a certain friend. Without moving, feel yourself writing the letter. Do this for five minutes. Now -- do you feel inclined to write a letter? As a matter of fact, you may actually write it. These implicit kinesthetic movements are important stimuli. They condition S-R arcs just as do visual images and verbal suggestions. The more of these mechanisms you can use at one time the more quickly and strongly will your desired responses become conditioned. Select any act you wish to perform. Visualize everything you should see when you perform the act correctly. Learn to say the words to yourself that describe the perfect performance of the act. Learn to feel your muscles, on the implicit level, perform the act correctly. Then while you are comfortable seated, or lying down, and without appearing to move a muscle, put the three activities together. Carry out all at the same time. We always act, feel and perform in accordance with what we imagine to be true about ourselves and our environment. We act and feel not the way things really are, but according to the image our mind holds of what they are like. We have certain mental images of ourselves, the world and people around us. We behave as though these images were true, reality, rather than the things they represent. It does not matter if these ideas and images are self-induced or come from the external world, the mental image we hold of ourselves becomes the blueprint, and our nervous system uses every means to carry out the picture. In short, we will "act like" the sort of person we conceive ourselves to be. Not only this, but we literally cannot act otherwise, in spite of all our conscious efforts or "will power." The man who conceives himself to be a "failure type person" will find some way to fail, in spite of all his good intentions. Even if opportunity is literally dumped in his lap he will not see it. The person who sees himself to be a victim injustice, one "who was meant to suffer" will invariably find circumstances to verify his opinions. Many people suffer from chronic anxiety, which is simply a subconscious mental expectancy that something terrible is going to happen to them. On the other hand, we all know people who seem to have the "magic touch." Life seems to shower them with blessings for no apparent reason. We call them "lucky." What seems to be luck is in reality, POSITIVE MENTAL EXPECTANCY, a strong belief that they deserve to be successful. Our physical health is largely dependent upon our mental expectancy. Physicians recognize that if a patient expects to remain sick, lame, paralyzed or helpless, the expected condition tends to be realized. Self-hypnosis and autosuggestion can become the tools with which to remove negative attitudes and replace them with positive expectancy. Once an idea has been accepted, it tends to remain. The longer it is held, the more it tends to become a fixed habit of thinking. This is how habits are formed, both good and bad. First there is the thought and then the action. We have habits of thinking as well as habits of action, but the thought or idea always comes first. Therefore, if we wish to change our actions we must begin by changing our thoughts. We accept as true certain facts. For example, we accept as true that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. We accept this even though the day may be cloudy and we cannot see the sun. This is an instance of a correct fact conception that governs our actions under normal conditions. However, we have many thought habits that are not correct and are fixed in the mind. Some people believe that at critical times they must have a drink of whisky or a tranquilizer to steady their nerves so that they can perform effectively. This is not correct, but the idea is there, and is a fixed habit of thought. We need to alter ideas or use them. No matter how fixed the ideas may be or how long they have remained, they can be changed with self-hypnosis and autosuggestion. There is an abundance of experimental evidence demonstrating that thinking is accomplished by muscular contractions. These are so slight that they can only be detected by sensitive electronic instruments. It has been demonstrated (Totten, 1935) that a person thinking of a geometric design will move his eyes to correspond with the outline of it. Of all the indications of emotion, the most easily measured are the visceral changes that take place throughout the body. The external responses to anger may be consciously controlled by an individual; his visceral responses however are not subject to voluntary control. If you could look directly into his blood stream you would find an excessive amount of adrenaline present. His liver would have released stored sugar into the blood. |
| The instructions presented are from the personal collections and writing library of Mr. Robert E. Cutter, who died December 13, 2001, while in the process of completing the transfer of his work to the internet. These are offered as educational instruction only. The purpose of this instruction is the effective learning and use of hypnotic techniques for vocational or avocational self-improvement. This instruction is not offered as a substitute for, nor as a supplement to, any form of therapy concerned with physical, mental, nervous or emotional illness. Robert E. Cutter served as web consultant for American Psychotherapy and Medical Hypnosis Association for three years. His hypnosis education came through the training he provided at a school he owned in the 1950's in Los Angeles, California, along with his wife who preceded him in death in 1980. Robert Cutter was not a psychologist and did not practice psychotherapy, but his interest in hypnosis motivated him to provide free resources materials for others who wanted to learn to use the power of their minds to improve well being and health-related issues. |
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