MEDIA RESOURCES ∼ SAMPLE INTERVIEW QUESTIONS ∼
Q: What is an Inner Guide?
A: It’s a part of the mind that consists of three things: a mental pathway containing the feeling of comfort, a sense of its own identity, and the wish to help one achieve emotional comfort.
Q: How does it do that?
A: The Inner Guide is able to search your memory for the early origins of problems, find solutions for them, and bring those solutions into conscious awareness. Because it feels only comfort, it has no “mental static” to interfere with its access to your entire memory.
Q: Does everyone have an Inner Guide?
A: Everyone has the potential to develop one, but an Inner Guide comes into existence only when a person understands what it consists of and wishes for it. Due to the way our minds work, if we wish for something within the mind, it comes into existence.
Q: Lots of people meditate and do self-hypnosis, and some of them seem to develop inner figures that give them good advice. Are these “inner guides?”
A: No. Many people have developed all sorts of inner figures that provide things that they want. These figures may provide wise answers to questions, or feelings of inner peace. But people can only develop the Inner Guide that I describe if they understand what it is, wish for it, and do self-hypnosis regularly.
Q: Why do you need self-hypnosis to make this happen?
A: During self-hypnosis the Inner Guide becomes dominant in the mind. This allows it to do its work: to solve problems, end discomforts, and increase your creative powers.
Q: What can the Inner Guide do that’s different from other inner figures?
A: It knows all the sources of our discomforts, and it’s aware of discomforts we don’t even realize we have that contribute to our stress level. It doesn’t wait for us to ask questions. It has its own agenda for ending all our anxieties and it works actively to do that. It also has access to all of our subliminal perceptions, and it can use this information to protect us from danger and to monitor our health. It might answer questions at times but most of its work is done silently. My book, Emotional Comfort, describes the theory that explains how this works.
Q: Who can do self-hypnosis?
A: Virtually everyone. Emotional Comfort describes a very simple method for entering the self-hypnotic state. I’ve taught it to my patients and to many other people, and they have all learned it easily.
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