Jay Shaw teaches a self-hypnosis technique for sleep: listen within 90 minutes of bedtime, practice for 21 days, and use intentional thoughts to reprogram how you see yourself. The method works for quitting smoking, building confidence, or changing any habit.
I want to go to sleep. I want to purposely select my feelings as I go to sleep. So I want you to put thought into that right now. What thoughts would you like to go to sleep entertaining tonight? You ain't got to tell us. I want you to answer that question for yourself. What thoughts would you like to go to sleep entertaining tonight? What feelings would you like to feel as you drift off to sleep tonight? People who have worked with me like privately in one-on-one sessions, it's a pretty good— it's a pretty good chance that I sent you home with a recording. Listen to this tonight as you go to sleep. I want you to listen to this within 90 minutes of going to bed, because I understand if I get you to listen to it within 90 minutes of going to bed, it's going to alter your conception of self and you're going to carry this conception with you into sleep. Whenever I work with people to quit smoking, I send them home with a recording. I want you to listen to this for the next 21 days within 90 minutes of your bedtime. Now you're going to sleep with this conception of being a nonsmoker. You want to be more confident? Start falling asleep with the conception of confidence. You want to be a better entrepreneur? You want to be a better mother? You want to be a better father? You want to be a better spouse? You want to be a better teacher? You want to be a better anything? I want you to start feeling that as you drift off to sleep. What you're going to be doing is practicing self-hypnosis at its highest level. You're going to be practicing self-hypnosis at its highest level. If you've been to any of my zones where we really get into this stuff and we got the diagrams and everything, we talking about how you got the conscious mind, the critical mind, and the critical mind is half conscious, half subconscious. And the critical mind controls what can enter those associations in the subconscious. When you go to sleep, you don't have a critical mind. It's wide open. There's an exchange between the subconscious and the conscious. You can vent out— you can dream out thoughts that no longer serve you. You can release the old conception of yourself as you sleep.
