Premise:
Your unconscious mind
(or wisdom mind ) knows more than your conscious
(or critical mind.)
Think of Google. No matter how many people are searching for information at the same time, it responds to your request in a matter of moments. It is everywhere at the same time. And yet…Google is nowhere. (Hmmm! Some people talk about God that way! God…Google… just sayin!)
Access your unconscious, (wisdom) mind:
To do this, bypass your critical, (or conscious) mind with deep relaxation. Achieve deep relaxation with any number of self-hypnosis techniques. The most simple and immediate way is to put on ‘Alpha’ or ‘Theta’ music which you can download from the internet. I use www.RoyaltyFreeMusic.com Do the following once your mind is relaxed:
Begin the process of time regression:
Close your eyes. Start with recalling pleasant memories such as a happy birthday, holiday or vacation. This is to get your mind in the process of retrieving past memories. Take a few minutes and imagine as many details as you can. Put yourself in the situation by seeing the things around you, hearing the sounds, smelling the scents and feeling your body. For example: “I remember a Christmas with family friends. I can see a green box. I open it and see some socks. I feel the stiff cardboard as I open it.” If you replay the event several times you will likely recall more and more details.
Now it’s time to apply it to your lost item:
With your eyes closed and your mind relaxed, remember a time when you had it. It could be the very last time you remember seeing it or a previous time. See it in your minds eye. Allow yourself to be “in” the situation. To immerse yourself. Imagine you are in your own body looking out from your own eyes. (Not looking at yourself on a movie screen)
Ask yourself the following questions:
What do I see. What am I doing. Do I feel the item in my hand? . Am I in a hurry to go somewhere/ Had I just hung up the phone. Did I just walk into the house? What sounds can I hear. Are the kids there in the house with me? Continue to replay this over and over. More and more details will come to you. Then do the same thing with an other situation in which you had the item. Eventually, the memory of last time you had it will surface.
If you still haven’t found the item:
Create a hot air balloon in your mind’s eye. This is a communication device from your conscious mind to your unconscious mind. Put a picture of the item in the balloon. Ask for the item to be found. See a picture of yourself holding the item again. Put that in the balloon. Now release the balloon and watch it going higher and higher until you can no longer see it. Feel yourself let go of the problem.. . Your unconscious mind is now on a search. Go about your daily activities. Let the process ‘percolate’. It may take a couple of hours, or days. At some point when you least expect it, like a bolt of lightening, you just might suddenly remember where it is.