Self Hypnosis. Valerie Austin

      I interviewed Uri Geller, the incredible fellow who became famous by bending keys and other metal through the power of his mind. I could not have been more impressed with his vast house, his personality and his many photographs of his beautiful family. On the face of it—and I have no reason to believe otherwise—he is living proof of what visualization can do. He told me how he used a television screen in his mind to visualize how he wanted to feel, using his imagination to invent his own movie, showing what he wanted to achieve, his goals, eliminating negative thoughts and spurring a host of other equally positive assignments. He takes the time to make it work.

      Pictures are the language the subconscious understands. If you picture yourself happy, your subconscious will send you happy thoughts. If you picture yourself a failure, your subconscious, thinking that is what you want to be, will send you all the reasons you need to fail so that you can attain what it believes is your goal. In Uri Geller’s early days he performed stage hypnosis and was well aware of the power of the mind. He knew that you control your mind, not the other way round. Unfortunately, most people let their mind control them, looking on helplessly as it takes over. It is very difficult to get the average person to accept the simple fact that he is in charge of his own destiny.