Hypnotic Scripts


Secret of Study Habits

Now let us get deeply relaxed. Place yourself in a comfortable position in
your chair, at your desk or table, with a book in front of you. Put your
left hand on your left leg and your right hand in a position of shielding
your eyes from the sun (or light) or in some other comfortable position.
Now that you are comfortable in your chair and have put aside all
distractions and all possible interruption, let your eyes close and while
closed, let them see your favorite things or your favorite TV show, a star
twinkling in the sky, or color changes in your closed eyes or any subject
matter that will hold your entire attention pleasantly. This is most
important. Be sure that you choose something which holds your entire
attention. Now, while you are pleasantly occupied with your subject of
complete concentration, I'm going to continue to talk to you very quietly.
Remember, the secret of study is the acquired ability to focus all your
mental awareness on one job and hold it there until the job is done, plus
the ability to retain, recall and put to use what you have learned
whenever you need it. The total process of effective study is the
foundation of all progress in education. My secret of study is the focal
point of the total process of study. And now to be sure that you do not
forget the other elements of good study habits, I will remind you of them
now. While you are getting deeply relaxed with each breath you take, you
can remind yourself of the points that are covered on the additional study
techniques accompanying this record.


No. 1 You now know what concentration is.


No. 2 You can train yourself in self-concentration.


No. 3 You can learn how to use a distraction eliminator whenever needed.


No. 4 You can prepare for the job of concentration.


No. 5 You can remove all serious and avoidable distractions from the outer
environment.


No. 6 You can remove all serious and avoidable distractions from the inner
environment.


No. 7 You can command your body and mind to focus on the job at hand.


No. 8 You can make full use of motivation; for instance, you can review
every possible motive for doing this work and you can repeat often that
motive which has the best effect in keeping you on this job. You can keep
your mind on your goal. You can work against deadlines and you can feel
good about every improvement in your study habits.


No. 9 You can foster good physical conditions for study.


No. 10 You can tolerate good attitudes and habits that will help you to
study better.


No. 11 You can develop effective methods of reading,


No. 12 You can improve your ability to remember.


No. 13 You can develop effective classroom techniques.


No. 14 You can learn to relax during examinations.


No. 15 You can learn to use the additional help to concentrate.


And now for a little change. You will pretend that you feel yourself going
down in a soft bed or in a soft chair or going down in an elevator or on
an escalator or on a live leaf floating down toward the ground. Now you
pause for a moment to get yourself set in the floating-down device. You
are getting ready. You can get ready. And now you pretend that you are
starting right here at Level A and you can feel much more relaxed as you
go down to Level B with twenty and then deeper and deeper with nineteen
and deeper still with eighteen and still deeper and deeper until seventeen
and deeper and deeper until sixteen and still deeper and deeper until
fifteen and now still deeper and deeper down to fourteen and still deeper
and deeper until thirteen and still deeper and deeper and deeper till
twelve and still deeper and deeper and deeper until eleven and still
deeper and deeper and deeper until ten and still deeper and deeper and
deeper until nine and still deeper and deeper and deeper until eight and
still deeper and deeper and deeper until seven and still deeper and deeper
and deeper until six and still deeper and deeper and deeper until five and
still deeper and deeper and deeper until four and still deeper and deeper
and deeper until three and still deeper and deeper and deeper until two
and still deeper and deeper and deeper until one -- and down way down deep
and deeper and deeper until zero.


Now you are at Level B and you feel much more relaxed than you did and
Level A. And you can begin to feel very much more relaxed as you go down
to Level C at twenty and deeper and deeper until nineteen and deeper and
deeper and deeper until eighteen and still deeper and deeper and deeper
until seventeen and deeper and deeper and deeper until sixteen at Level D
and you are ready for the Secret of Study. With your eyes closed and
slowly inhaling and exhaling, mentally you quietly say to yourself: I am
getting deeper relaxed so that I can concentrate on the job at hand and
become more and more informed and deeply engrossed in it. I can reject and
shut the door on all distractions. I will have complete understanding of
the test questions I am reading, and of the study material I am reciting
because I am concentrating. The material I am working on will, without
effort, make a deep and lasting impression on my subconscious. I can
easily retain everything that I have read or studied. As soon as I feel
the condition of good concentration, I will slowly open my eyes. And --
This is most important -- I will open my eyes very slowly. I, very slowly,
open my eyes right now to the book in front of me and I will start reading
and holding my book the normal way. My point of concentration has now
shifted to my book or to the test questions, and while I am concentrating
on the job at hand, I can continue to be influenced by the quiet words in
the background. I am deeply relaxed and concentrated on my work and I can
become more and more absorbed and deeply engrossed in it. I can reject and
shut the door on all distractions. I will have complete understanding of
the test questions I am reading and the study material I am studying. And
because I am concentrated, the material I am working on will, without
effort, make deep and lasting impressions -- deep and lasting impressions
-- and I am certain that I can easily retain everything that I have read
or studied privately and everything I have read or heard in class. And all
this knowledge will flow freely into my consciousness whenever I need it.
Now I can give a good account of myself in all my tests, examinations and
interviews. And finally, I know this method will help me just as it has
helped thousands of others. I know that I can continue in the concentrated
condition as long as I wish and then whenever I wish to come back to the
unconcentrated condition of daily living, I can just take a deep breath,
tell myself mentally that I can be wide awake and be fully aware of
everything around me. Now I can become wide awake and be fully aware of
everything around me.