Discover how to use hypnosis principles and social media intentionally to achieve your personal development goals. Learn practical steps for curating your digital environment and reprogramming your mindset. This guide provides actionable strategies to leverage technology for positive behavior change.

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DeepSeek Summary: Leveraging Hypnosis Principles and Social Media for Personal Development

Key Concepts:

1. Hypnosis and Behavior Change:

• Repetition & Association: Core principles where repeated actions (like physical exercise) and positive associations (emotions, environments) reinforce desired behaviors.
• Self-Hypnosis: A structured process involving induction (relaxation), suggestions (goal-oriented affirmations), and anchors (triggers to recall positive states).

2. Social Media Algorithms as Reprogramming Tools:

• Interest Graph: Algorithms curate content based on user engagement (time spent, interactions). Intentionally consuming/sharing goal-aligned content (e.g., fitness, wellness) trains the algorithm to prioritize similar material.
• Curating Content: Save or engage with posts supporting your goals (e.g., healthy recipes, workout tips) to shape your feed. Avoid “rabbit holes” of distracting content.

Practical Steps for Integration:

3. Curate Your Digital Environment:

• Follow/Engage: Follow accounts aligned with your goals (fitness coaches, nutritionists). Like, comment, and share their content.
• Use Playlists/Saved Content: Create collections of motivational videos, articles, or posts. Review them daily to reinforce focus.

4. Apply Hypnosis Techniques:

• Daily Visualization: Spend 5–10 minutes imagining yourself achieving your goals (e.g., feeling energetic, completing a workout). Pair this with positive emotions (pride, joy).
• Anchors: Create physical triggers (e.g., touching a wristband) to recall these positive states during challenges (e.g., resisting unhealthy food).

5. Leverage Social Media Activity:

• Post Intentional Content: Share your goals or affirmations (e.g., “Day by day, I choose nourishing foods”). This signals the algorithm to prioritize related content.
• Limit Distractions: Use app timers or hide irrelevant content to avoid derailing your focus.

6. Emotional Association:

• Link Actions to Feelings: When practicing healthy habits, consciously associate them with positive emotions (e.g., satisfaction after a workout). This strengthens neural pathways for sustained behavior.

Demystifying Hypnosis (PITC H Framework):

• Programming/Influencing: Daily habits and external inputs (social media, education) shape mindset.
• Training/Conditioning: Consistent practice and environmental cues (e.g., a home gym) reinforce behaviors.
• Hypnosis: A formalized method of self-directed reprogramming through focused attention and suggestion.

Conclusion:
By intentionally curating digital inputs and applying hypnosis principles (repetition, emotional association), individuals can harness technology to support goals like fitness, wellness, and longevity. The synergy between mindful content consumption and self-hypnosis techniques creates a powerful feedback loop for sustained behavior change.

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Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (00:03)

Reprogramming repri reprogramming for your help or wellness or fitness, healthy aging longevity athleticism, sometimes we it’s Paula, and we have to find our way back and it’s actually quite simple, hello, difficult if it were easy, everyone would get it done. But I’m going to get right to it without the Billy dallying, as it said, and so there it is, one of the things that I’ve noticed a clinical hypnotist. I would agree from the hypnosis motivation institute in Tarzana, California, you can look them up.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (01:03)

hypnosis.edu today? How do we have their professional? Clinical hypnotherapy program, but they also have an associate’s degree and mind-body wellness.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (01:15)

They are recognized by the Department of Education. All that stuff that people think is important, they’ve been around for about 50 years now and I graduated over 20 years ago in 2000 And 5, well, I got my Diploma in 2006. So let’s just say it’s about 19 years and from that, I created dipno Athletics, I was already a fitness trainer.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (01:45)

And then I got the degree in clinical hypnosis, and I put the 2 together, I got hit the last elevenths, so that’s where a lot of this comes from seeing the similarities between Physical training and mental programming. And so nowadays, with the technology that we have. I saw some interesting similarities between the algorithms, online, specifically social media, I’ve changed to the point where they are able to be hacked, we’re reprogrammed in the same way.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (02:27)

Be clinical hypnotists work with our clients for them to go from where they are 0 to, where they want to be. Hero, is a really fascinating and exciting part about this and really what it has to do are with the 2 laws of hypnosis, which are repetition and association I’m starting. With the physical Analogy of this repetition is just like how you would do at a gym, right?

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (03:01)

If you’re going to do push-ups. If you can, you’ll do more than one just using that is an example or a body weight squat, oh you’ll do, let’s say, 10 push-ups, that means 10 repetitions, and because push-ups are designed to strengthen your Just then your triceps, basically, although there’s a whole Groupon on there, the the shoulders and everything like that, the associated muscle are the triceps in the chest and the associated result right of doing repetitions, are those muscles in that position that push-up push-ups.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (03:43)

Or you’ll have either stronger, bigger or endurant muscles so on and so forth, right. So repetition and association everything you repeatedly do as an associated at result and is also associated something that happens concurrently, but whether it be a noise, a cent, a sound, another person, there’s something always associated with everything that you do. Do you like for example, you associate every night you repeat the act of going to sleep in your bed.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (04:19)

So you associate your bed with sleep, right and the way that what’s really fascinating and exciting. For someone like me is that I encourage people to use this practice and not deal with like fitness trainers or The hypnotist critical hypnotist, anymore, people have been thinking of working with somebody like that, and those are the things that I do and I’m saying, Hey you don’t have to, because now technology, it’s set up in a way I’ll do it for you, you see. The social media companies thought they were slick, right?

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (04:59)

And they thought that they could trap you and capture you, which they do. I’m keeping you stuck um, there particular channels. What now has happened, and you know you might have heard people complaining about all my friends and my family don’t patronize my business.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (05:16)

They don’t like, or comment on or share my stuff on social media. And there’s a very specific reason for that Because social media has been shifting to what’s known as an interest graph, right? It used to be that you would see content from people that you’re following or who you’re friends with or otherwise connected with on social media, however, that changed and the algorithms have changed to follow your interests and is called.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (05:45)

An interest graph. So that’s why you’ll go on there. And if you start looking at stuff like I’ll use my my interests, for example, so I look at things that have to do with martial arts and music and metaphysics and marketing all those m’s, right?

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (06:02)

And because of that every time I log on, I get martial arts and music and metaphysics and marketing. It shows up my feet continually and every once in a while, something will try to sneak in like, for example, if I’m watching pay music video from one of my the artists that I like. In a heavy metal band and I happens to be a cat.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (06:23)

In the video and the cat, it’s prominent in the video and they might even talk about the cat in the song and what might happen is I might get crept into my feed might be videos about cats and you know that’s fun because now those cat videos and stuff like that are are funny, and they’re entertaining. Right. But because I don’t want to spend my time laughing at cat videos.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (06:46)

Because for some reason for me, I’m one of these people that gets excitement and finds fun in things that and people would normally consider to be productivity, or you know, uh, personal development and human excellence and all that stuff, which is why my interests lie? In, you know, metaphysics marketing, martial arts and music? And these are all things that I practice and so the hack to this is that, and because that’s the way it works and I’ll explain this very quickly.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (07:19)

It’s simply the the artificial intelligence that is now running these social media algorithms It simply programmed to monitor how much time you are spending on a particular type of content, and then it calculates. Oh, this person has spent over a minute watching this video about martial art, so they must be interested in martial arts and so that’s the interest graph. So they’ll send you more stuff about martial arts.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (07:53)

It’s music more stuff about music. And the longer the time you spend on a certain type of content, the more the artificial intelligence algorithm calculates that that’s what you are interested in and that’s what programs the interest grap, and if you haven’t already noticed therein lies the rug, there’s the hack of how you can reprogram that. To your best interests to help you, to consistently achieve the results that you desire to help you go to, as I said, hero from 0, so you can go from 0 to hero with this right.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (08:28)

Because I look at it If you look at it from this perspective, all of those hundreds of billions of dollars being spent on AI, and it is really nothing more than a glorified. Hi-tech play Content playlist creation system, except you don’t directly program your playlist like you would select different songs.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (08:49)

Can you put them on the playlist? Because the same songs don’t always come back on repeat, right, it’s the same type of content that gets put on your An interest graph playlist. And so if you haven’t noticed already, what I’m getting at is that what you do is you very intentionally and very deliberately curate the type of content.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (09:12)

In fact, you are watching you find yourselves going down rabbit holes on stuff that’s not going to be in your best interest that does not support your health wellness, fitness longevity, healthy aging goals and so on. And so forth, and you swipe away from that and you select the things that will One way you can do that is by creating AA playlist or tab, or you know various different social media has things where you can save items. Is he just consistently saved those things and then you go into your save diabetes.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (09:40)

And you start watching and looking at those if you are one of these people that you know you find yourself on social media a lot, then you do that, you curate the content that you want to look at and you start there and the stuff that is going to be in your best interest and then. You can out into the live feeds, and you’ll notice that it will start to feed you the things based on what you’ve curated your playlist to be, and you can continue to do that, and will continue to feed you those things on your playlist.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (10:10)

No, this is how the interest graph works this. Is how as a clinical hypotist? We work with clients, so let me in.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (10:21)

I explain to you that process so somebody comes in and they have a bad habit that they don’t engage in any more, which might be, you know, overindulging in sweets? So they come to me and they say, okay, I’m over indulging in sweets, so we have a conversation. And I do some onboarding, I interview them, I talk to them, and then Restart the hypnosi session.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (10:45)

I do a little bit about I test so something that we call like an arm raising put on limitation, which is both I hypnotic, tested a suggestibility test as well as an induction, then we might do something like the Nancy technique or progressive relaxation where maybe from head. To toe will start to relax their body or from deep I throw it ahead whichever they’re most comfortable with that. We find.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (11:12)

After the interview, then from there, we start giving them some deepening techniques, no 543210. When I snap my fingers with your permission and your permission. Only you go quickly calmly and deeply and your physical body will relax.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (11:31)

Then we start with the suggestions, how about making better decisions about what they’re eating, for example, like when you decide that you’re gonna reach for that cookie. Instead, remember that you have another option that you can eat an apple or a banana or drink some water? Or what have you right?

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (11:51)

And then we might do some more deepening technique for my. We might install some anchors which will then act as as post hypnotic suggestions that they can trigger later by touching the ear touching their nose or saying a word to themselves or out loud to bring back the suggestions and the imagery that we may have practiced during the session. And then we rearrouse, we reawaken, the person 012345 eyes open wide awake.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (12:20)

And so that’s the session, and then after the session, I give them a recording so they can revisit the session on their own. This is the repetition part that I talked about earlier of so the 2 laws of hypnosis, which all hypnosis is self hypnosis, so as the laws of self agnosis, repetition and association, and then But maybe give them, I talk something to read about these different healthy habits, something short I again more repetition to reinforce the suggestions and then give them some different rituals and teach them how to use their their triggers are their anchors so they can recall and use it as a postic suggestion to bring back.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (12:57)

The associations with with practicing those better habits right? And then, by the time they’ve done all that it might be time for the the next session, either a couple days later or the next week, can we do it again? And so you see, basically, it’s like a playlist that I’ve given them did they put that on repeat over and over again to reinforce the positive healthy suggestions?

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (13:21)

Until they see me again, if ever and that’s the same thing that happens with playlists that are created, go to the social media algorithm, which is now a run on what can be called an interest graft. And you can look that up intro. Tograph, hi, I’ve also I pushed a lot of stuff on that.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (13:46)

And now here’s the the final part of that, which is really, really exciting, because not for a creator like me, what’s really exciting and and it’s also something that you can practice yourself to I found also that not only does the interest graph, artificial intelligence run algorithms respond to what you are consuming. Online, but get this, it also responds to what you publish. So if you share something about healthy aging wellness, longevity, athletic longevity, fitness, all that stuff like that, you share those things on your timeline, or your feed, or whatever or send it to your friends, the algorithm, the artificial intelligence picks that up.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (14:35)

And sends you more stuff like that, which you are sharing? And it also doesn’t even more creator of that content. So if you write a small blurb about something about healthy aging wellness or fitness, have you put that on your feed and more of that is gonna come to you one way that I found, you can do this really simply to keep it short.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (14:59)

Has I been a practitioner of they find art of writing haiku for a very, very long time. I have AA book that it was only an offline publication was self-published called Serena wears black, which is a high crew publication. I distributed, it’s a few 1000 copies back in 2005 and then in 2020.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (15:20)

Another one that went live online called for free. As a matter of fact, I call hypnotic wax. But what I found is that you can right short little 3 line oh, they don’t even have to be high cool, but you can fashion it like that right?

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (15:37)

3 lines 3 short lines about something that is going to support, that’s supportive and motivating to you inspiration to you about your healthy aging wellness fitness. Athletic longevity, all of that stuff, you just post, that has little notes to yourself, you know, like how Emil qe, the physician? I used to say things like day-by-day and every way I’m getting better and better.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (16:01)

And so if you post things similar like that that are really short, like note it to yourself. That are aiming towards your goals, you’re not only going to reprogram the algorithms to follow and give you more things that are in support of your healthy aging wellness, fitness Athletic longevity goals, but it also begin to reinforce reprogramming yourself so that you can achieve the goals that you desire. Is that is the reprogramming?

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (16:35)

And a lot of people, you know, as a clinical hypsy, a lot of people have a lot of misconceptions about what hypnosis is. And I’ll offer this perspective is that what I found over a long time, because I mean, I look at this connection, that’s been made, and this is exactly it. If you paid attention to what I said about the process of the thanking a client in through a hypnotherapy session.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (17:01)

And all of the follow-up that goes, do that til, the time they come back, you’ll see that it’s exactly the thing that’s happening with these. Social media algorithms, and it’s simply a repetition and association. It’s repetition of certain material and it’s associating it with different feelings like, for example, you see a person exercising and you may associate it with.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (17:22)

Oh, they look good and they look happy and that makes me feel good and feel happy and when you associate those good feelings with those types of exercises and information. You’re more likely to do it. And that’s the basis of hypnosis and repetition and association, and let’s a demystify it a little bit, you can understand hypnosis, this way they are equivalents, the things that are equivalent to hypnosis, that we might not think of because all hypnosis is self hypnosis, we are all completely responsible for our

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (17:55)

own programming. It’s just that we haven’t been taught that, and so we don’t know what it is, but I created an acronym. Itch Kitch to help with that hypnosis, it is simply these days, they’re all equivalent, hello baby influencing training conditioning, hypnosis, p ITC h call Ravin, influencing training conditioning and hypno service, those were all the crowdex, and so you can find Got these things you are able to understand that they are the same and realize that it’s not so mysterious about your process. It’s really simply the way that we operate.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (18:45)

And I intentionally use the word influence, because as social media, we have influencers that I could have easily replaced the eye With indoctrinate, I could’ve, I also even use the the letter e somewhere. I don’t know how I’d bit that into pitch. But education everything we perceived from the time we were born and also even before we’re born, do we have senses then is what makes up our programming influencing training conditioning and hypnosis, and we may be able to innovate on those things by mixing things.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (19:22)

And mixing them together from our own experience and education and making it our own in the same way that you would do a research paper, write and but take all these different sources together. And then you rewrite an original piece of content or research paper-based off of what you learned and your perspective and your discoveries about it. But it’s the same thing that we do every day, we’re all like scientists in our own mental laboratories all the time.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (19:47)

And that comes in through our senses and what we associate those things with, you know the same thing, if you, if you burn yourself on a stove hot stove, the first time you usually get it You don’t need much repetition from that but the association of the pain is what teaches you don’t do that again. But sometimes we need a repetition. But that’s what the basic of this is, and that’s how we can reprogram ourselves.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (20:15)

The final word on this is in order to achieve our goals, if healthy aging wellness, fitness Athletic longevity is we must being intentional and deliberate How about constantly putting before us information that supports those goals by over and over again, revisiting the type of information that is gonna support our goals? I’m being intentional and deliberate about that. It is more likely that we’ll get there it helps us to be more efficient in achieving our goals than being distracted by so many other things that pull us to and pro.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (21:03)

And um, yea is the science, a repetition and association, the laws of dipnosis, it’s simple, but it’s not easy because if it was easy, everybody would be doing it all the time. And nobody would ever have any issues of not reading the labels on the food that they eat of choosing to. Sit down on the couch and watch TV instead of taking a walk or going to the gym or riding their bike, or what have you or You know, eating ice cream, you know, instead of something healthier.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (21:37)

I don’t I don’t right? We wouldn’t be having these issues and then complaining about why am I feeling this way, I have no energy, I have you know stamina? I don’t like the way my body feels or looks so if it was easy, we’d all be doing But it is simple.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (21:54)

And that’s why it’s it’s simple to talk about and to continue to have those kind of conversations with yourself, you just put that information before you over and over again, and then do your best tool, associate it with the positive benefits and outcomes in the way that you will. Feel When do you achieve your goals? That’s the main thing right there?

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (22:15)

What is 2 yes, one repeatedly find information that is in support of your goals, but 2, you have to associate it with the feelings and motions and other trappings, human psychology that indicate That you have successfully achieved those goals. Because if you have the feel, if you have the image just say you imagine and I’m not talking about visualization, they’re completely different things. Well, actually, I wouldn’t say completely different things, imagine visualization is a subset of imagination, imagination we all can imagine thinking.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (22:57)

We just might not all be able to visualize, but if you imagine yourself being more fit right? Being hero, rather than the 0 where you are. And this is not a 0 meaning, put down, is there simply a way of talking about going from where you are to, where you want to be right?

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (23:13)

So going from 0 to €, but if you imagine yourself in the hero stage. And but you have feelings of disappointment, attached to that imagination that you won’t get there. What’s going to happen.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (23:26)

Is that your behaviors are gonna lineup to lead you to that disappointing feeling associated with that, imagining yourself as the hero, but if you do your best to realign the types of emotions and feelings that go along with having achieved that goal. That’s the association that you make. Repeatedly, then your behaviors are more likely to lineup with getting you to the point where you feel.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (23:54)

Thank you achieved the goal, because that’s what you’ve been feeling all along, that’s the Magic of it as to science. It, that’s the art of it, that’s the all of the a repetition and association Repeat, what do you want to be in your imagination and associated with the feelings as if you had already achieved it.