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WHAT YOU THINK OF YOU

Simply take a couple of full clear breaths while allowing your mind to focus
on each item below. Trust your first-level thought. Your answers are
between you and you, and need only be true for you here and now. Be

honest. It’s important to be settled down and relaxed to give this activity
your best shot. Remember what you’ve learned about choice, and if you’re
not enthusiastic about responding to these items now, don’t. When you’re
ready, get some paper and something to write with and dive into the
experience.

I am incredibly _______________________________.

I am a lousy _________________________________.

I am ______________________________ intelligent.

I have a knack for _____________________________.

I am extremely good at ________________________.

I am a(n) _____________________________ athlete.

Most folks who really know me think that I am

___________________________________________.

I will never learn to ___________________________.

I am a run-of-the-mill _________________________.

Stick with what comes up first. Don’t argue with it, just note it and jot it
down. Every answer you are jotting down is an idea. That is all—an idea, a
concept, a belief, an image, an intangible bit of hullabaloo. But it’s an
intangible bit of hullabaloo that is powerfully hypnotic, and if it’s left to lie
unnoticed in your unconscious, it will permeate your experience and dictate
your future. The hypnotic images in your mind predispose your reactions to

your experiences in life. Self-hypnosis is as constant and perpetual a
process for human beings as is breathing. So if your desire is to become an