I had always had an interest in hypnotism, but I had never really given it much thought. That was until one day my neighbor Tim was having a garage sale. Being the good neighbor that I am, I went over to see how things were going. We were chatting casually when I noticed one of the books on the table was titled The Art of Hypnosis.
I asked, "Does it work?"
"Does it work? It sure does! Do you remember a few years ago when Tammy started putting on a little weight?" I did remember his wife gaining a few extra pounds a few years back, but she looked great now.
"Yeah, I guess I noticed," I said.
"Well," Tim replied "that's when I got the book. I read through it and then I hypnotized her to exercise every time she got bored."
"No way! For real?" I asked.
"Seriously, that's also why she is such a neat freak around the house. Take it home and see for yourself"
"Ok, I will. Thanks a lot." I was super excited at the possibility of doing the same thing to my wife. I said goodbye and headed home to start reading. After reading the book I was amazed at how simple it sounded, and I couldn't wait to try it out on Danielle, my wife.
Being 33 and having borne three kids has had an effect on Danielle's body. It was not what it used to be when we first met. I know she is capable of losing the weight. It just seemed to be a matter of her not having the time or energy to exercise. Her extra weight was also having a negative effect on her self-image.
If she didn't read so much, and if she used that time to exercise, she could drop the extra weight with ease. So, this was my mission, I would hypnotize her to want to exercise any time she felt like reading.
That night I put my plan into action. When my wife came home I asked her if I could try to hypnotize her just to see if I could.
Danielle replied, "You can try after the kids are in bed."
It was around nine o'clock when we sat down in the living room to begin. I carefully went through the steps outlined in the book. I had her focus on a piece of blue tape I put on the wall. "As you concentrate on the tape on the wall you will feel your eyes getting heavy. You will want to close them, but you won't," I recited. "I am going to count down from five, when I get to zero you will be in a deep trance and open to suggestion"
"Five, four, three, two, one, zero," and with that her head dropped as she slumped in the chair. "Wow it works!" I thought. Now let's just see how well it works.
"Danielle, from now on when you want to read you will be overcome with the desire to exercise. You will not read and you will exercise for at least one hour" I instructed her. "Do you understand?"
"Yes" she replied. I was really excited at this point. I was ready to see if she would really exercise or not. But before I took her out of hypnosis the book had suggested I give her a trigger word to put her back into a trance.