If someone says that we are inferior, or that we are wrong in some fundamental way, we tend to take that as a judgment of ourselves. Most of time, however, it is more of a judgment of person who is telling us these things.

If you were to translate every negative word against you into a statement against person speaking, then you will eliminate a great deal of emotional discomfort and stress that comes from that.

With everything that is said to you, you have a choice whether there is any merit to statement or not. If there is merit, and there is an opportunity to improve yourself in a way that you wish to improve, then by all means use information to make a positive change. And if there is no merit to what is said, then release it as words of a misguided individual.

So, stress from discomfort can be mostly eliminated by simply not resisting uncomfortable situation, but rather accepting it for what it is. If you watch animals such as cats or dogs, you'll see that they really don't care what kind of surface they lie upon, they can sleep practically anywhere. That's because they do not resist surface.

As Bruce Lee once said, "Be like water, my friend. Water molds itself to any environment in which it finds itself." This is one of primary secrets to eliminating stress.

The other major cause of stress is thinking that you're not capable of handling a required situation. If this is indeed case, then you are in trouble. But rarely is this true case. Rather, it is much more likely that you can indeed handle situation and you just don't realize it.

There are two components to this scenario that can eliminate much of your stress. Either you are misjudging situation and you are indeed capable of handling it, or you are not really required to handle situation as you think you must.

Since we cannot change our capabilities in present time, but only by working on those capabilities over time, whether we can or cannot handle situation in front of us is immaterial. All we can do is give it our best and hope that it will work out.

And if we do give it our best, then we will succeed much more often than if we only give it a portion of our abilities.

Giving each situation that presents itself our best will usually result in our abilities getting stronger and our capabilities growing larger in scope.

In every system of working with higher functions of mind, it is stressed that power lies within unconscious regions, that part of mind generally labeled subconscious. In every workable system, there is a whole training process where subconscious mind is 'programmed' with symbols for communication with conscious mind, or with symbols for what it is being requested to do.

And this is where hypnosis fits perfectly! Hypnosis is a phenomenon where conscious mind is quieted to a state of nonresistance. During this state, subconscious mind is easier to work with, to get information from and to create new programming. Using hypnosis, a patient can generate his/her own painkillers for painless surgery or dentistry. Using hypnosis, millions have been able to break their addiction to tobacco, alcohol, overeating, laziness, phobias, and a host of other maladies.

And hypnosis was techniques which gave Edgar Cayce his ability to diagnose and prescribe treatments for thousands of suffers (and every one accurately!).

The evidence which points to possibility of using hypnosis for developing and training mind for any and all of mind's natural abilities is overwhelming! And I'm definitely not only person to notice this. Books can be found everywhere showing how to use hypnosis for all of these purposes.

But is hypnosis enough? Does hypnosis have all power necessary to develop mind to it's highest potential? I don't think so. If hypnosis could be used to accomplish everything we needed to accomplish, then why would we have a conscious mind at all? The process of hypnosis specifically eliminates conscious mind from equation, working with subconscious mind exclusively.

We have two (or more) phases of mind for a reason. Any system that does not address two modes of mind in it's development process can not be a complete system. Use this criteria to judge any system of development you consider pursuing.