Self-Hypnosis to Clear Out Your Unwanted Mind Viruses

Near where I live there are one or two ‘retirement homes’ — that is, facilities and homes near the seaside that cater for the needs of the elderly.

Two Little Old Ladies Engage Adam in some Urban Philosophy

This week, I got talking to a couple of wily characters that were sat outside the front of a retirement home that they reside in, they were enjoying the spring sunshine. As I walked past following my run, they said openly to me that they thought it was great to see me running past each day. They were both smiling and saying that it made them feel healthy. A conversation naturally ensued.

One thing they mentioned (among the many topics covered in our brief chat) and both got animated about was the rise in crime in the UK. They said they were never going to London again following the recent spate of much publicised murders among the young community of London. I do not read a daily paper or watch the news — the way I figure, the important stuff finds it way to you anyway. However, even I have spotted the coverage that these teenage murders have received.

A number of years ago, I read the brilliant best selling book by Richard Brodie called ‘Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme’. I thought I would offer an updated version of one way he illustrated a mind virus.

According to official Metropolitan Police crime statistics, 17 murders were recorded throughout London and all its boroughs in January this year. The average is around 20. These are terrible and sad occurrences.

According to the 2001 census here in the UK, London has approximately 7,172,036 people living in it and it’s boroughs.

Therefore, 0.0000023% of the population were murdered in January. I agree that is too many. That is not my point here today.

If 500 people lived happily on an island, getting on with their lives, and one of them was killed by a shark every 30 years whilst fishing, that is still less than the 1 in 421,884 chance of them being murdered in London. Of course, our islanders are upset by this occurrence, however, it is rare and isolated occurrence and does not affect their way of life except to be more careful when fishing.

Now, imagine there were 14,344 of these islands that were then subsequently hooked up with Island TV. The Island TV news has to make their show worth tuning into and newsworthy — so they show these deaths occurring across the thousands of islands.  Suddenly, the island people believe there is an epidemic of shark murder occurring — some stay in their homes, some stay away from the water, some take the law into their own hands and buy new harpoons — they are infected with a mind virus. The virus is particularly effective because it has an element of danger and appeals to people’s survival instincts.

A meme is a thought, belief or attitude in your mind that can spread from other people’s minds. Many evolution theorists believe in the theory of the survival of the fittest and this is often believed to be true about memes — that the strongest and most powerful survive. Thought processes that we pay particular attention to are those related to food, danger and sex, as per our evolution through prehistoric times.

Anyway, memes often enter our minds without our permission, they become part of our mental programming and influence our lives without us even knowing and I speak about this a great deal in my work.

Now, just about every week I spread a mind virus, a meme, or two with my ezine — things like: You can achieve your dreams, your mind is amazingly powerful, and many more besides.

What mind viruses catch on in your experience of life? Do you switch the radio on first thing in the morning and have that programme you for the day ahead? Is your sense of humour manufactured by radio or TV personalities? Do you allow gossip with friends to influence what you think and how you think it?

Do you allow media news coverage to stop you going into London ever again like those two lovely old ladies I stopped to speak to?

If you are going to watch the news, be subjected to advertising messages, have in depth discussions with people, then I recommend that firstly, you begin to choose what you allow ‘on board’ in your mind and protect yourself from being influenced by mind viruses that can enhance negativity or have you sat in front of the TV in fear! Maybe you’ve been infected with one of those ‘get rich quick’ mind viruses that plague the internet, or that you can lose pounds of weight with one miracle pill. These are exaggerated ideas I am using to make my point.

How to Clear Out Unwanted Mind Viruses

It is worthwhile thinking about how you can regularly disinfect your mind from the viruses that it takes on board on a regular basis — we are barraged by varying influences all the time. Today’s technique can be used to just clear out any negativity if you prefer to use it that way too. Here is a simple way to do that:

Step One:

Get yourself nice and relaxed and comfortable. Ideally, where you are not going to be disturbed. Focus on your breathing, engage in the moment and begin to allow your awareness to go inside your mind — easier if you close your eyes and tune in to yourself. You can of course use any meditative or relaxation technique you know, though I recommend you read my book, ‘The Secrets of Self-Hypnosis’, and take yourself into a deeply receptive state of mind.

Step Two:

Having spent adequate time getting comfortable, deeply relaxed and tuned into your own mind and how you are in this moment, use your imagination and imagine travelling through the corridors of your mind. Do this in whatever way seems right to you.

Then simply find yourself arriving at a room within the depths of your mind. Find yourself within in a wonderfully comfortable, warm and very pleasant room. Connect with this room, allow yourself to feel welcome, right at home here in this room.

Imagine that room is of an average size, round and it has a domed ceiling. Maybe you can imagine that it is a similar shape to how an igloo might be inside. Having really tuned in to this room, tell yourself that this grey-walled room is actually your own unconscious mind. Really believe that you are at the very centre of you. Believe that this is the core of your being.

Step Three:

Look all around and look closer at the walls of your unconscious. You notice that all over the walls of this room, seemingly stuck to the walls are little bits of what appear to be paper! Some of them are the colour red; and some are the colour white.

Inside your mind move closer to the wall, and sense how the red bits make you feel.

You can sense that stored on the red bits of what appear to be paper, are all the unwanted mind viruses you have picked up throughout your life. There are also the negative thought processes and uncomfortable emotional occurrences and unwanted feelings from all your past.

Whatever the negative mind viruses are, you do not have to know. Just imagine that all the negative, depressing, inhibiting, defeating, thought processes and feelings from your past are stored in this room of your unconscious mind, upon these little red bits of what appear to be paper.

Step Four:

Then comes the fun bit! Start to pull these red bits of what appear to be paper down from the walls.

You can be creative and pull them down any way you wish, then scrunch them up, crumple them in your hands until your hands are full, and then take them over to where a hole about 20 centimetres in diameter has opened in the centre of the floor, and empty your hands into that hole and watch those mind viruses and unwanted thought processes dissipate into nothingness.

Imagine that you feel healthier, happier and lighter for being in charge of your own mind — and choosing what goes on in your own mind. You have a mind of your own, don’t you? Isn’t it nice to know that you are showing yourself that?

You can sense that, with a few trips back and forth, gathering down handfuls, carrying them and emptying them into the hole, you can clear out all of the negative and unwanted mind viruses from your unconscious mind. If any are very sticky, just breathe, imagine them releasing their grip on the wall, almost like when a leaf falls from a tree when it is no longer needed.

Step Five:

Now lets replace that space that we made with some wonderful thoughts and feeling while we are here, shall we?

Imagine that the white bits of paper — that is, the good, positive, energizing, helpful thought processes and feelings are expanding. Any helpful, useful and empowering mind viruses that benefit you and your life are growing to fill all the space that has been created on the walls of your unconscious. Really get a sense of them growing and expanding all over the walls.

Imagine that they fill the walls and ceiling with beautiful, wonderful, positive, white. Imagine a resurgence of positive energy and well-being within yourself.

Then close the hole in the floor, and spend some time ensuring that the entire atmosphere of the room is white. Imagine it to be an enlightening, encouraging, supportive, beautiful, energizing white. With every breath that you breathe for a while just imagine that you are inhaling inhale the positivity, the strength, the self belief, the love, the freedom of being in control of your own mind that is within this atmosphere! Feel and imagine the atmosphere permeating every cell and every atom of your being. Really invest some time to do this and make it as wonderful and freeing as you possibly can.

Tell yourself that from this moment forward, moment by moment, every day and night, night and day, you choose the thoughts and emotional responses of your unconscious mind and you are not affected by every influence that comes your way in life.

Maybe even add that you are attractive to ideas, thoughts and feelings that are genuinely for your higher good.

Step Six:

Relax, breathe deeply and again tune in to your body, wiggles your fingers and toes then open your eyes.

Now really trust, imagine and feel that you have cleared your mind of unwanted programming and remind yourself that you are going to continue to be aware of how you allow things to affect you as you go about your life now.

We are all affected by so many things. As I have said, you have a mind of your own, how about you decide to let go of what is just populist mentality or what the masses think thanks to popular media representations or gossip and allow yourself to truly empty that stuff out of your head, think critically and beneficially for you and notice how good it makes you feel to do so.