Autosuggestion can do the work of an alarm clock, making it possible for you to wake up at will.

As I first heard about this, I found this kind of hard to believe. But I decided to give it a try and guess what? It really worked! My inner alarm clock woke me up.

As I’m a sceptic, I tried to do it once more to ensure that this wasn’t pure coincidence. Guess what happened this time? It worked again! Of course, the method wasn’t working perfectly yet – there was a uncertainty of about 20 minutes – but I was completely new to autosuggestion at that point.

I think you might want to be able to perform the same trick, so I wrote this little article.

Here’s how you do it. Do the following process just before falling asleep:

1. Relaxation: Put yourself to bed. Relax. Feel the tension of your muscles vanish. Observe your breathing or do anything that will help to relax. When you’re completely relaxed, continue with the next step.
   Note: You will probably feel pretty tired at that point. Holding one of your forearms perpendicularly to the mattress is a nice trick to help you to stay awake during the relaxation, because your falling hand would wake you up immediately if you was falling asleep.
2. Visualization:
   • Mentally set your alarm clock to the time you want to wake up at. See yourself setting your mental alarm clock, feel the clock as you set it.
   • Now imagine that you wake up at that desired time. Hear your alarm clock ringing, mentally go through the whole process of waking up. Notice how it feels and see yourself looking at the alarm clock just after waking up, looking at the display of your alarm clock which shows the desired time.
   • Vividly imagine other clocks or watches as well which display the same time. Clocks of all different forms and kinds. Digital ones as well as analog ones, small and big ones in all different colors, all displaying the time you want to wake up at.
   • Then mentally repeat something like this:
     “I will wake up at <your desired time>. I truly believe that I’ll wake up at that time. My subconsciousness will wake me up at <your desired time>. I know it will work.”
3. Repetition: Now repeat the previous step until you finally fall asleep.
   Note: Try to concentrate and don’t fall asleep too soon. After a few repetitions, you can also solely repeat your mental phrases and let aside the imagination. Whatever works for you.

If you did all of the above you should wake up at the desired time.

If you’re not used to autosuggestion, be prepared that you don’t wake up at that precise time though. Half an hour later or earlier on is pretty good for the first try. So set a real alarm clock in addition if there’s any important reason to wake up at that time!

Now it’s up to you whether you give it a try or not. In case you decide to try it out, it would be very kind of you to drop a comment and write about your experience.

It’s as if the placebo made a suggestion like: “I will operate like an ordinary pill. That means you will recover after swallowing me.” And the subconsciousness believes it and causes the body to recover.

But such suggestions don’t even require any pills to be effective. You can make them yourself. Without the need of any hocus-pocus. And that’s what autosuggestion is all about. Making your subconsciousness believe something you want it to believe.

But how to do that in an efficient way?

First you need to notice, that you have to perceive your suggestion in any way. You can do this visually, acoustically or mentally. This leads to a variety of basic techniques you can use. For example, you could write down your suggestions and read them, you could record your suggestions and listen to them or you could just think about them.

It’s not especially important which basic technique you choose to use, if you manage to implement the following points:

• Concentration: Concentration is vital for any progress. If you don’t concentrate while making your autosuggestion, you will slip off into daydreaming and forget about your real intentions. So try to keep focused, direct your attention to the suggestions.
• Variation: Make use of different senses. Hear your suggestion, feel it, see it, smell it. Imagine it with all its details. Let your mind form a clear mental image while perceiving your suggestions.
• Repetition: Repeat your suggestions. Repetition makes
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