Mental Illness and Negative Self-Hypnosis

Anyone interested in improving their mental health must learn how their ego operates in their mind. The ego is the thinker in the mind. If you ignore the ego, you will only succeed in creating a world of delusions.

Mental illness is a disorder of perception. Perceptions influence our thinking, and our thinking influences our behaviour and actions. When doctors put labels on mental illnesses such as alcoholism, bipolar, ADHD, Anxiety, Neurosis, Depression, Autism, etc, they do so they can treat people according to their behaviour. Most people accept this label as the final diagnosis of their problem and are quite happy to take it. They feel relieved that, at last, doctors have found something wrong with them. In fact, they now use this label as a reason or excuse for their behaviour.

Please note that this diagnosis of your mental illness has not changed anything for you. You are still the same person, thinking in the same way. However, unless you are aware, the clever ego in your mind will exploit the situation to your advantage and lead you along a delusive path.

But are you aware that we live in a hypnotic world? Our thinking process is hypnotic. When we think we are hypnotizing ourselves. We are practising self-hypnosis. It means the ego in our mind is already hypnotized. Most people are not aware that they are already hypnotized. Your negative feelings come from negative self-hypnosis, which results in your present mental illness. So, if people became aware of that, surely would it not be possible for people to learn and start hypnotizing themselves positively?

People need to learn how they can free themselves from negative self-hypnosis. To do that, they must understand how hypnosis works.

Hypnosis is a process where we use (thinking) the conditioned reflex of words in our subconscious mind to make ourselves feel negative or positive. When we say a negative word in our mind, it reflexively produces harmful chemicals in our brains. When we use a positive word, we reflexively produce positive chemicals. The meaning of the word does not matter to the subconscious mind.

For example, saying, "What will happen?" instantly creates tension in your system. It produces anxiety. But if you say, "Everything is fine," you will feel much better even if you did not mean it. It has a calming effect.

Again, you will feel helpless if you say, "I can't help myself, " and keep repeating it. But if you say, "I can", and keep repeating it, it has the opposite effect. That is the hypnotic power of the words on your subconscious mind.

Also, do you know we hypnotized ourselves when you fell in love? One can fall in love with same-sex or opposite-sex if one keeps saying positive things about the other person. One can fall in love many times in one's lifetime. It all depends on how one is stimulating one's subconscious mind.

If you are a smoker wanting to quit smoking, you will make it easier for yourself by repeating this as a mantra: "I hate smoking – dirty, filthy, habit". You do not have to mean or concentrate on what you say, but keep repeating it.

Please remember all mental illnesses have a label attached to them, yet you are still using your normal thinker-thinking mode in your thinking process. Therefore, you are still hypnotizing yourself with or without that label (diagnosis). To acquire self-knowledge, just become aware of how you use this label to go about life in your daily routine.

Therefore, no matter what your mental health diagnosis is, if you replace the negative words in your thinking process with positive words, you will be able to manipulate your subconscious mind in the direction you want to go. Remember, using negative words is a habit and can only take you in a negative direction. That is not being smart. That is why I advise people to acquire self-knowledge and gain insight into their minds. Learn to understand how your mind works.

It is thus essential to become aware of how we constantly hypnotize ourselves and manipulate our subconscious mind when we think. The world is manipulating you. So why can't you do the same and manipulate your subconscious mind positively yourself?

Most people do not understand why they cannot stop thinking. It is because our ego is a product of self-hypnosis. The 17th Century French philosopher Rene Descartes wrote this famous line: "I think, therefore, I am". He did not understand hypnosis, so please allow me to explain what this cryptic sentence means.

Since the ego always wants to be in control, it has to use words to appear in our conscious mind. We use words in our thinking. Without words, we cannot think. So, to stay in the conscious mind, the ego has to keep thinking. It fears it will disappear from the mind and lose control if it stops thinking. Thinking, thus, becomes an obsession for most people.

Acquiring self-knowledge gives you new insight into your mind. Please remember that the thinker-thinking mode is hypnotic. This mode we all usually use hypnotizes us. It can only lead to delusions. A single word, like resurrection or reincarnation, can instantly open up a whole new world for the individual because it holds the imaginative power of the mind.

So, how do we dehypnotize ourselves? When we stop thinking, do you know we switch to the observer-observing mode? It is a passive mode, which the ego does not like because it has to stay in the background. We use it to learn and understand our world and mind. It is the mode we must use to understand our thinking process. It dehypnotizes us because we become aware of what words we are using.

To go into the observer-observing mode is simple. Become aware of the present moment and what you are doing. Take in the picture of everything except the back of you. Now, you are in the observer mode, observing what is happening inside and outside you. It is the only mode one must use for meditation. Any other mode will be self-hypnosis.

Do not reject your thoughts. When you observe your thoughts, stop verbalizing and see what happens. You will find the thought has no substance. It disappears. If you analyze (verbalize), it activates it. Do the same thing with your emotions. Don't verbalize and see what happens. As you acquire self-knowledge, you will realize that your thoughts and emotions have no power over you if you choose not to verbalize. Life thus becomes an eternal meditation. The intelligence in your mind will automatically reset your thinking process from the thinker-thinking mode to the observer-observer observing mode.

I have written this article to help you gain insight into your mind. If it does not make sense to you, then I am afraid you will be stuck with your mental health label. Even if you do not understand what I write, if you replace negative words in your thinking with positive words, you will benefit, and your mental state will improve.