CHAPTER TEN
OPEN THE DOOR TO
YOUR CREATIVE STATE
(Week One)
At an early point in my professional career, I learned about and
eventually taught hypnosis and self-hypnosis. One of the techniques that
hypnosis experts use to get individuals into a so-called trance is called
induction. Simply put, we teach people how to change their brain waves.
All someone has to do in order to be hypnotized or to hypnotize him- or
herself is to move down from high- or mid-range Beta waves into a more
relaxed Alpha or Theta state. Thus, meditation and self-hypnosis are
similar.
I could have included induction with the preparatory information in the
last chapter, because induction prepares you to enter a coherent brain-wave
state that is conducive to meditation. By mastering induction, you will build
a solid foundation for the meditative practices you will learn in upcoming
steps. However, unlike those arrangements that you will make before you
begin each day’s meditation, such as turning off your phone and putting
your dog or cat in another room, induction is a step you will include during
the session—in fact, it must be the first step you master, and it will lead off
every session.
Just to head off any confusion, after opening each meditative session with
induction, you will not be in what the entertainment industry misleadingly
depicts as a hypnotic trance. You will be perfectly primed and able to
complete all steps in the process that follows over the next three chapters.
STEP 1: INDUCTION
Induction: Open the Door to Your Creative State