A Super Learning Technique

By Chet Day

Here's an interesting and powerful self-hypnosis technique you can use for the most fabulous study or reading sessions you've ever had.

First, sit in your most comfortable chair with the book or material you want to learn in your lap. If you need a light to read with, make sure it's turned on before continuing with this technique.

Wiggle around until you're comfortable and relaxed. Take a long, slow, deep breath and hold it for a second. Exhale gently and visualize your muscles relaxing throughout your body as you slowly release the air.

Repeat this deep breathing until you feel totally relaxed and at peace.

Now, here's the fun part.

Visualize a stairway leading into a basement. It's a long stairway with 103 steps. Visualize yourself walking down each stair. You can mentally count off each step, if you want, though that's not necessary as long as you visually see yourself going down each step.

When you reach the bottom, you find a beautiful wooden door with elaborate carvings etched into it.

You pause at the door for a moment to admire the carvings.

Then you turn your attention to the doorknob, which is made of beautiful brass. It feels cool in your hand as you turn the knob.

You open the door and walk into a beautiful study, a room lined with books, books, and more books. This study is so lined with books, it's utterly sound-proof... a perfect place to read and think deeply.

You close the door. As you do so, a deep and peaceful silence falls over you, an atmosphere utterly conducive to reading and thinking.

In the center of the study, there's a reclining chair. You sit down in the chair, adjust it to your favorite comfortable position, and open an imaginary book that's resting on the mahogany table right next to the recliner.

Now, while still visualizing yourself in your deep basement study, open your eyes and start reading the real book you have in your lap.

When you finish with your work, close your book and close your eyes and repeat the deep breathing exercise.

Now, visualize yourself getting out of the recliner, opening the door, and slowly walking back up the stairs.

Once at the top of the stairs, open your eyes once again, stretch as you take a few deep breaths, and then resume your normal waking consciousness.

Done properly, this technique results in a depth of concentration and degree of retention that you'll find hard to believe, at first.

Keep in mind, too, that you can use variations of this technique for writing and memorizing, as well as reading.