Thought ProcessIn order to explain hypnosis it helps to understand how we process
endless stream of information we are bombarded with everyday. Our conscious mind acts as gate keeper. It judges, critiques, accepts or denies information for storage in our long-term memory or subconscious mind. With repeated exposure or repetition to same information or experiences, our thoughts can evolve into actions.
The subconscious stores all of our habits, patterns, values and beliefs. It’s also home of our imagination as well as our body’s control center. It tells our heart when to beat, our lungs when to breath and controls every step we take every day of our life. It’s a very powerful place.
Once a subconscious pattern is established it’s pretty tough to break. Think of subconscious mind as hard drive of your computer. Once you down-load a program it automatically repeats every time you run it. The more often we repeat an action longer root of this pattern becomes. For example, by repeating an action 36,000 times it’s likely to become a consistent part of your life routine. This is number of times a ½ pack a day smoker reinforces their habit over a ten year period.
Gardening Techniques Think of subconscious mind as a greenhouse. Roses or poison ivy will both flourish in this fertile environment. Even though conscious mind’s job is to keep track of what gets stored, it’s only human and makes mistakes. Hypnosis offers unique opportunity to not only do weeding, but to also plant seeds of positive, healthy alternatives. The reason people have such difficulty attempting to make conscious level changes with long-term patterns is because they don’t reside in conscious mind. Long-term patterns reside in subconscious mind or long-term memory. It’s like weeding your garden by clipping them off at ground level. It looks great for a while but they always grow back. When changes are made on a subconscious level, patterns can be yanked out by root so they never grow back. Hypnosis 101
Have you ever driven to store and wondered how you got there because you remembered no details of drive? Or stared at your computer screen for what you thought was an hour only to be surprised that most of afternoon had disappeared? These are examples of naturally occurring hypnotic trance, which we all experience several times a day.
