When you hear a suggestion with your conscious mind, you must, and you really do have no choice, make one of four decisions about that suggestion. Which decision you make determines whether that suggestion is allowed to enter your subconscious mind or whether it is rejected. If it is allowed to enter, you will have the change that you are here to achieve, if it is rejected, there will be no change.
What are those four decisions or choices? Well, the first one could be, when you hear the suggestion, you think or say to yourself something like this, "I like that suggestion, boy, I know that one is going to work!" Now, that mental attitude at the conscious level allows that suggestion to go into your computer, the subconscious mind, and change begins.
Unfortunately, you have three other choices. The next choice could be, well, forget actually hating a suggestion, or feeling it is something against your morals or beliefs, but perhaps that suggestion is just a tiny, little bit uncomfortable to you. Like that pair of shoes you wanted to buy that time, but you knew if you did, you would end up a cripple in about three months, because they just didn't fit right. Well, if that suggestion sounds just the tiniest bit uncomfortable to you for any reason, it is automatically blocked with the conscious mind and it is not allowed to enter the computer—and there is no change.
The next choice could be that you are neutral about the suggestion, you don't care if you get it or you don't care if you don't get it. It is kind of a meaningless suggestion to you. The conscious mind automatically blocks that suggestion and it cannot get into your computer.
The last choice you have is probably the choice which causes more people to fail with hypnosis, if they do fail. It goes something like this. When you hear the suggestion, you say to yourself, "Oh, I like that suggestion, boy, I hope it works!" The word hope is the twin sister of the word try and try means automatic failure. If you look back on your life being honest with yourself, anytime you tried to do something, you failed. "Okay, mom, I'll try." "Okay, dad, I'll try." Try means failure. If you look back at your life, anytime you have said to yourself, "I'm going to do it," and there was no question about it, you did it, and you probably did it very well.
"Hope" is the twin sister of "try". You could hope for the cows to come home, that doesn't mean they are going to come home. So, if you say "hope" or "try", that suggestion is blocked by the conscious mind, it is not allowed to enter the computer and there is no change.
A little thought. If you eliminate the words "hope" and "try" from your personal and professional vocabulary from this moment on, within a week you are going to feel better than you have felt in a long time. The only time a suggestion is allowed to go into your computer is if you take the mental attitude when you hear that suggestion, "I like that suggestion, I know it's going to work." And that is how easy it is!
