3. Suggestion Application in self-hypnosis

3. Suggestion Application in self-hypnosis
Once you have reached the end of your deepening
procedure you are ready to apply suggestions. What you
have done during the relaxation and deepening procedures
is increase your suggestibility. That is, you have opened
up your subconscious mind at least a little bit to receive
your suggestions. This works because of the particular,
and peculiar, characteristics of the subconscious part of
your mind.
The most common and easiest way to apply
suggestions is to have them worked out ahead of time,
properly prepared and worded, and memorized. It should
not be too difficult to remember them because they should
be rather short and you are the one who composed them.
If you have them ready and remembered, you can simply
think your way through them at this point.
Dialogue, or more properly monologue, is also okay.
You just talk ("think" to keep your effort to a minimum) to
yourself about what it is you want to do, be, become,
whatever.
Don't say "you." You are thinking to yourself, so use
the first person personal pronoun "I." Some suggestions
can be succinctly stated in a somewhat more formal sort of
way, like, "I am eating less and becoming more slender
every day."
Elaborated suggestions are generally wordier and more
of an ad lib: "Food is becoming less important to me every
day and I am filling my time with more important and
meaningful pursuits than eating. It is getting easier and
easier to pass up desserts and other fattening foods . . ."
and so on.