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"If you want to take a leap into your dream life and take control of yourself, this book is a must-read. You will no longer have to give up a second of your life." - Roberto Shinyashiki You went through several books before finding this one. You looked at the cover, the title caught your eye, you started reading the first sentence and decided to continue. I ask you, however: was it you who made the decision for each of those steps? You might believe so, but the truth is that everything happened so fast that your decisions had already been made before you could think about them, taken by a deeper part of your mind: your subconscious, responsible for everything you are and do. On which other paths is your mind taking you without your consent? In his first book, Michael Arruda, president of OMNI Brazil, will show you how to get control of your mind, and, consequently, your personal and professional lives. With this goal, he will present you the process that allows you to access your subconscious, identify the causes for pain and insecurities, and solve them quickly and effectively: hypnotherapy. On this journey through your mind, you will learn: - How the three parts of your mind work and what mechanisms lead to your decisions, from the simplest ones to those that can radically transform your life.; - Why you are the way you are—and what is the root of your biggest problems and challenges.; - How to stop self-sabotaging with habits, attitudes, and beliefs that only lead you away from your goals.; - How to become the captain of your life and never again feel like a hostage to destiny.
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DEAR READER,
This book is impacting millions of lives and can also impact yours. For that, read it carefully and do all the proposed exercises.
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MICHAEL ARRUDA
UNLOCK THEPOWER OFYOUR
MIND
PROGRAM YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND TO FREE ITSELF FROM PAIN AND INSECURITIES AND TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE
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Unlock the power of your mind : program your subconscious to free yourself from pain and insecurities and transform your life / Michael Arruda. -São Paulo : Editora Gente, 2018.
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DEDICATION
I dedicate this book to all the people who want to be happier in life.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I believe that each person who passes through our lives leaves a mark. And so it was with me. I am grateful to many people who have passed through my life and have left their mark, a learning that helps me to be who I am today.
Some remain close friends, others change paths and drift further apart. Some stay longer, helping me to achieve greater things, others sometimes just for a day. What matters is that each one played their role, and for this I want to express my gratitude.
First of all I would like to thank my parents, who unfortunately are no longer here to read these words. I am here now thanks to them, they are the origin of my values and of my inspiration.
To my dear siblings, Edmar, Brenda and Bryan, who have always supported me in every way and believed in me.
To my beloved wife and partner, Rafaela, who has always been by my side, lifting me up when I needed it most. Without her, I would certainly be far from being the best person I can be.
To my partner, Pedro, and all my staff and business partners, who are my backbone to make the projects possible. Without them, I don’t know when this book would have come out.
To Jerry, my first and eternal mentor in hypnotherapy, who, besides all his teachings, motivated me by telling me that I would go further than I imagined. To Hansruedi, who trusted me and gave me the opportunity to start this movement in Brazil.
To OMNI Brazil’s instructors, who help us in spreading this message directly.
And a special thanks to my instructor and friend, Michał Cieślakowski, who helped me a lot in discovering this knowledge.
To all our hypnotherapists, who were once students, and who have encouraged me to share all this knowledge.
Among them, I want to give special thanks to those who believed, helped me, and continue to help in the propagation of this message. Heroes who don’t wear costumes: Bruno Prado, Caio Irie, Carolina Salgado, Edson Brandão, Eloisa Vasconcellos, Eustáquio Cadeira, Felipe Pereira, Gabriel de Oliveira, Geraldo Foscaches, Hélio Machado, Ik Joo, Katherine Meireles, Leandro Flores, Letícia Christianini, Lucy Mari Tabuti, Márcio Ogata, Raqueline Moreira, Samuel Kiss e Tárcio Brito.
I am also grateful to Pedro Olivel for having believed in me and having encouraged my mind at the beginning of my endeavors. To Fagner Borges and Conrado Adolpho, partners who have become friends and mentors of how to share my message.
To the whole team at Editora Gente, especially Rosely Boschini, who was the first to get involved and believe in the potential of the message of this book, and also Carol, Dany, Arthur and Ricardo, who were the ones I had the opportunity to have more contact with and realize the affection and dedication they had to help me spread my words.
Unfortunately, it is impossible to list here the names of all the people who have contributed in some way to me. I am grateful to each one of them, for the support or learning they have left in my life. And, if you are one of them, you know how you helped me, for which I am grateful.
Finally, and as important as all, I thank you, the reader, for your confidence in choosing this book. May it be the beginning of a much better life.
To all of you, my eternal gratitude.
SUMMARY
PREFACE
The rush of daily life and the lack of time have consumed people’s souls. There are so many decisions to make and things to do that anxiety, insecurity and indecision take over the routine.
Faced with this, it feel as if a gulf is created between the life you have and the life you dream of having.
Why is it so hard to make the changes you want? Because all these anxieties make you feel paralyzed by fear.
Fear of the unknown, fear of choice, fear of what might happen if you make the wrong decision. These are the fears that prevent so many people from getting out of toxic relationships, into jobs without purpose, and above all, prevent them from pursuing their dreams.
And the result: people start looking for people to blame for everything that doesn’t happen as they would like it to. It’s the boss’s fault, the family that doesn’t understand, bad luck... And the saddest thing that happens to those who find themselves in this cycle of suffering is that the pain in their soul becomes physical pain, and from then on they start a journey to find doctors and medication that can make these deep wounds stop hurting. Maybe you are living this at this very moment and you are asking yourself now: but how do we get rid of so many fears? How do we heal the wound of the soul? How do we find the courage within ourselves to go after a lost love, after the dream job, to rebuild the broken relationships, to search for true happiness?
I want to tell you a popular story in Zen Buddhist philosophy that talks about where our fear lives:
A long time ago, there was a couple completely in love. They got married and life could not have been happier. The young people then made a promise: if one of them died before the other, the one who remained would never marry again.
A few years later, his wife passed away, still very young. The young man lived his grief until he met another woman with whom he fell madly in love and decided to start a new life.
Every night, however, when he was in bed with his new wife, the spirit of his ex-wife appeared to the boy and judged and threatened him for breaking his promise.
Not knowing how to free himself from this persecution, the young boy went to find a master and ask for his advice.
- Are you sure it is the spirit of your ex-wife that appears to you every night? - asked the master.
- Yes, and she knows everything I’ve done, what I’ve eaten, how my new relationship is going... I don’t know what to do. - Answered the desperate young man.
After reflecting for a while, the master answered him:
–The next night, you will get a bucket full of grains of beans place them beside your bed. When the spirit appears, without looking, you take a portion of beans in your hand and close it. Then challenge: Spirit, if you are really who you say you are, tell me how many beans I have in my hand.
The young man returned home and when night fell, he did as the master had instructed him. The moment the spirit appeared and the young man asked him the question, the spirit disappeared.
The spirit disappeared because it was a creation of the young man’s mind, which felt guilty about living a new love story. Just like any fear you may be feeling right now, the spirit haunting the young man in the story I told you was just an illusion of your mind. The way your mind has found to project what is stored inside you.
This illusion becomes a terrifying story that the mind creates and paralyzes us in such a way that we feel helpless and weak to change our reality. All built in our subconscious, a deeper part of our mind and responsible for most of our attitudes.
How can you access it? Michael Arruda will tell you everything in this book about how to gain this mastery of the mind.
His method is hypnotherapy. The result: learn to reprogram your mind, get rid of the chains that are holding you back, and stop self-sabotaging your own happiness.
Michael has been passionate about the power of the mind since he was a teenager, and in 2016 he became the president of OMNI, one of the most renowned hypnosis institutes in Brazil.
You will discover how effective and powerful hypnotherapy is, and you will be able to use it every day of your life. So if you want to take the leap into the life of your dreams, unlock your plans, and finally take control of yourself and your results, this book is a must-read. You will no longer have to surrender a single second of your life.
Be assured: it all starts inside you and what I wish the most is that you learn to armor your mind, stop putting off the changes you want to make in order to be truly happy and never put off making your dreams come true.
Immerse yourself with your soul in this experience.
Big Hug,
ROBERTO SHINYASHIKIPsychiatrist and speaker,author of bestsellers such as Trouble,Yahoo!, Success is Being Happy and MadAbout Living
INTRODUCTION:FREE YOUR MIND
She was an obese woman who could not lose weight at all. She always attributed this difficulty to a supposedly slow metabolism. This, of course, not to mention the lack of time to exercise and take care of her diet.
The real reason for the problem, however, was quite another. As a child, whenever her mother was absent because she was going to college, she would hear from her father that she had to eat a lot “so that Mommy would be happy”, and if she didn’t, Mommy would be sad.
As a teenager, in the middle of a diet to try to eliminate two kilos, her mother had an accident. That was when a new fattening process began. The subconscious mind understood that this was the best way to avoid any maternal sadness. And so she didn’t stop eating compulsively; no matter what methods she tried, she couldn’t change her behavior and consequently didn’t make any progress in her goals. She was being dominated by the compulsion created by her own mind.
Everything changed when she understood all these mental processes, these triggers that trapped her in a unhealthy pattern, through hypnosis therapy.
And if hypnosis somehow frightens you, know that there is nothing to fear. Quite the contrary. This is the way to understand the mind. And for those who decide to access the deepest part of themselves, of their own brain, the so-called subconscious mind, the reward is control over their lives, the solution to many problems, even serious issues such as depression, panic disorder, phobias, and compulsions. A path made from hypnotherapy.
It is a powerful process in the sense of reprogramming the mind. But please, forget those stereotypes from the movies and TV, with hypnosis performed on a stage, in order to impress. The hypnosis treated here is a technique applied by specialized professionals, who have been prepared for such, able to help people in a precise and safe way.
In the competitive, fast-paced, stressful world we live in, there is no time to look at oneself, to take care of one’s own issues. This is when many people have personal, professional, or even health problems. Without space in the agenda to take care of ourselves, or to seek long-lasting therapies that last for years, many people resort to palliatives such as medication, a type of solution that does not provide a complete solution to the problem, but only creates an escape valve that masks the real problem.
In this scenario, knowing your mind’s potential, and unlocking it, is a quick and at the same time far-reaching solution, opening the space to be presented with the key to changing what bothers you. Free, the mind is able to clarify everything that afflicts those who need help. And the professional qualified to guide you in this process is a hypnotherapist. The transformation is achieved most of the time in one to three working sessions. Yes, you did not read that wrong!
There is no magic, and I will prove it to you: have you ever noticed that many of your attitudes are very similar to the way your father and mother act? Or that you repeatedly act and think the same way, even in different situations? An example: we are considered optimistic or pessimistic, and this does not vary from situation to situation, it is a standard of our behavior.
This is all part of an existing programming inside of us, which was created from birth. It doesn’t matter what we know - or think we know. It is this internalized information that guides our whole life. The girl who ate to please her mother had never realized the origin of her compulsion, and could never have imagined how strong the program, which she could no longer remember, had been installed on her by her father. But, by accessing her own mind in a profound way, she was able look for the root of the problem and change that harmful programming, transforming her eating habits and, consequently, her life.
Examples abound. Another person who found within himself the answers was a young man who was so shy that he could not talk to strangers. No matter what the environment, he blocked, shut himself off, avoided contact. Guided through the process of mental discovery, he fixated on a family scene in which an uncle embarrassed him while he was talking to a cousin, a child like him at the time. This relative started saying that the boy would marry his playmate, a kind of joke that gained chorus with other family members. This was enough for him to shut himself off from all conversations throughout his life. Today, after the work he has done, he no longer has problems communicating.
Another remarkable case that I have been able to follow in my work in the field was that of a young woman with suicidal tendencies who could not get rid of the urge to end herself. After resorting to psychology and psychiatry, she sought hypnosis as a last resort. In her first and only session, she learned that she had been sexually abused at the age of six. The pain was so strong that it became the desire to take her own life. It was an unresolved trauma that only got relief when she allowed herself to listen to her subconscious mind and unblock whatever was necessary.
It is for these reasons and others that it is important to ask ourselves whether most problems are not in our mind. When we discover this, we gain the potential to transform any aspect of our life. All that remains is to know how, and that is the purpose of this book.
Hypnotherapy is the path that teaches us to understand how we can take control of our mind and, consequently, guide our way to the achievements we have so long desired.
It can be seen as a quick and effective way to resolve recurring issues. Something that comes to reframe conflicts, to show the way, to set free. A work that shows where the problems come from. Nobody is to blame for being lazy or for not being able to lose weight, there is always some deeper issue involved. There is a mark in the subconscious, a register that defines this behavior, for most of the time because it believes that this is the answer to defend it from some risk.
This is what happens to those women who say they are a “jerk magnet” for men, always with the famous complaint: “I can’t find a good partner! But are they so unfortunate that, among thousands of singles, they can’t find a good one? Or is it that in their distant memories there is the day when she was only three years old and her mother complained to her sister: “Men are all the same, it is better to be alone! In this way, these women are simply being driven by that part of their mind that they cannot control.
Those people who sabotage themselves at work, doing something to harm themselves in the face of the possibility of getting a promotion, are most probably following the same line. They must have heard from their parents that money is dirty or that work is a source of suffering, a sacrifice. That’s why they don’t allow themselves to make it.
There is no escape: everything is part of a mental programming that you don’t control - yet. And hypnotherapy acts directly to rectify the direction of this center that dictates our attitudes towards life, because it actually enters the subconscious mind, whose mission is to protect us, to enforce the programming we have so well kept.
We all have a history, we are made of hidden memories that guide our lives even if we don’t realize it ourselves. We have been programmed to be what we are, and this includes both positive and negative traits. What would you like to change in your life? Habits, beliefs, health, or even your bank account? Whatever the case, don’t doubt it: this trip to the subconscious will certainly help you. Don’t think that controlling your life is much different from that. What I offer in the following pages is the conquest of power over your mind.
But for this journey to bring about the desired transformation, you need to make a decision. To start and to go all the way. During our journey I will shift paradigms, propose reflections, and teach you how to take control of your own life. After that, there is no turning back, you will have no more excuses to continue the way you are.
If this is what you really want, then start by making a commitment to persist until the end. After all, how many times have you started something and not finished it, letting your mind control you once again? You are making a commitment to yourself, and I trust you. And it will bring you great reward!
CHAPTER 1WE ARE LIVING LIKE PRISONERS
This statement may seem harsh at first, but you will understand what I mean. How many times have you felt as if the control of your life was not in your hands? You try to do everything you can, but it seems like you run out of strength before you get there. Or even worse, you manage to do everything, with the best of intentions, but the result doesn’t turn out as you expected.
Then you become dissatisfied. You can’t live the relationship you’ve always dreamed of. You don’t earn as much as you would like. You don’t feel good about yourself. And yet, many times, factors arise to limit you further, such as insecurity, anxiety, stress, fear, and even depression.
All this leaves you discouraged, unwilling to wake up and go out for another day of work, another challenge, without the guts to fight and pursue that which would truly fulfill you.
Most of the time we are dissatisfied with the situation at work, in relationships, in health, in life as a whole. Then we start comparing ourselves with other people, and often the neighbor’s grass seems to be greener. Until thoughts of revolt arise, wondering when this will come to an end.
Usually, when we were younger, we had many goals, desires, and ambitions, but as time went by, we seemed to find bars that limit us from being who we want or even living happily as we wish.
But if we know that these bars don’t exist out there, nobody forbids us to seek what we want, where are they? Inside ourselves, in our mind. They watch us and tell us what is allowed and what is not. What we may feel or not feel. What we experience or do not experience. Our mind becomes the voice of our anguish.
THIS IS WHERE WE LONG FOR MAGIC SOLUTIONS
Nobody likes to suffer, and we want to make the suffering go away as quickly as possible. But if we don’t know how to change ourselves, how can we stop suffering? That’s when we desperately look for magic solutions outside ourselves, and most of the time we put the problem in something that we simply try to get out of our life.
If we are dissatisfied with our relationship, we complain about our partner to the point of wanting to change them. If there are problems with the children, since we can’t change them, we want to force them to be the way we decided. The solution is always to change the person or replace them, and in the professional sphere it is no different. In fact, it seems that the problem is even bigger. A survey conducted by the International Stress Management do Brasil (Isma-BR) with people aged from 25 to 60 years old showed that 76% of those interviewed feel unhappy with their professional life.1
Is the problem the boss who doesn’t value you? The pressure they put on you? The rules that are too strict? That co-worker who doesn’t like you? The salary that could be higher?
And then thoughts arise looking for reasons and justifications. Life would be much better if my boss left, if the rules of the company changed, and especially if my salary was worth it. But since it is not possible to change all this, these elements keep pressing us from all sides, until we really lose control of our own emotions and, as a consequence, our health.
Still according to Isma-BR, the so-called burnout syndrome, formerly called “fatigue” - or devastating level of stress, that those who feel it find themselves with no way out, on the verge of exploding - affects 30% of Brazilian workers. It is worth remembering that this syndrome causes physical and mental exhaustion, bringing with it serious problems in coexistence and relationships at work and at home.
If the professional plan is not going well, the personal life will hardly be satisfactory.
Then we begin to feel the problem in ourselves, through symptoms such as anxiety, fear, and even depression. The sad thing is that these evils are becoming more and more “popular”.
ILLS OF THE CENTURY
The rate of people with depression increased 18.4% between 2005 and 2015, reaching 322 million men and women worldwide. In Brazil, the estimate is that 11.5 million people suffer from the disease. Our country, by the way, is the one with the highest incidence of depression in Latin America, and the second considering the Americas, second only to the United States. The data comes from the World Health Organization.2
When it comes to anxiety, Brazil is a world record holder. A crowd of 18.6 million people suffer from it.3
Unfortunately, the end of this line of emotional pain is suicide, with more than 800,000 deaths per year worldwide, according to WHO data from 2014, and the second leading cause of death among young people aged 15 to 29. Brazil records an average of thirty suicides a day.4
And since we believe that all this came from the outside, again we look for external solutions, this time in the form of pills. It is as if it were possible to push our dilemmas under the rug and hide behind medicines that only treat the symptoms, not the real causes of our emotional pain. And to make matters worse, we unfortunately live in the midst of an industry that increasingly wants us to remain anesthetized — or imprisoned — with regard to our problems. And this is proven with numbers.
