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Full hypnosis download Stop daydreaming

I’m a massive day dreamer myself. I like nothing better than to concoct rosy futures for myself so that I can pleasurably enjoy what’s to come even before it actually arrives. Some daydreaming is great. We need to envisage preferred futures so that we can actually formulate practical steps to follow so that they can come about. Daydreaming can also help us understand better. If we are learning history, for example, it’s great to be able to make this learning more ‘real’ for ourselves by being able to daydream ourselves into a sense of the reality of ancient Rome, or being a witness at the Gettysburg Address.

But daydreaming as a replacement for activity can turn your whole life into a cul de sac.

Self help products often encourage you to envisage success, but if you do this on its own without also envisaging and rehearsing the steps you need to take to get that success, you may well fall short of the mark – and feel short changed. I’m not just saying this. It has been backed up by research at the University of California. Students who strongly daydreamed having done well in upcoming exams were found to be less likely to actually do well. There are several possible explanations for this, not least that the sense of accomplishment gained in advance of the actual accomplishment may have unconsciously persuaded those students that there wasn’t so much urgency after all about applying themselves to their revision.

A similar effect has been found in many different contexts, from daydreaming positively about being with your secret crush to losing weight. Positive daydreaming, if over-applied, can lead to less real success rather than more.

The new hypnosisdownloads.com session Stop day dreaming aims to help you use the ‘tool’ of daydreaming in such a way that you control it rather than it controlling you.

Cheers

Mark