What is Hypnosis?
The most important relationship in the world is the relationship you have with yourself.
Your beliefs of who you are creates the reality you experience. What you focus on is what you attract.
To change your life you must first change your beliefs.
Your answers are inside you, I can help you find and implement them.
The wonders of hypnosis are many, but for now, I’ll just mention some of the more important aspects of this phenomenon. First, as most of you know our minds are made up of at least two major parts, the conscious and the subconscious. The conscious mind is the part we use most of the day. It is that which drives us to work, pays the bills, plans dinner, and gets things done in the outer world on a daily basis, the part we are aware of most of the time. This part of us is also referred to as, The Ego.
Our subconscious is where all memories, all emotions, and all imagination live.
Everything that has ever happened to us is somewhere in our subconscious. The way we felt at the time of important events, awareness of our spirit, or higher self, as well as intuition, all exist in our subconscious. So, our conscious mind interacts with the outer world, and our subconscious with the inner world. An important thing to be aware of is, our mind does not live exclusively in the brain, it exists throughout our body. Emotions live in our muscles, and organs, even our cells hold memories and traumas.
When we engage in a journey of healing, or change, ALL of us must be involved to effect the changes we seek. However, the difficulty is we usually have no way of conversing with the subconscious directly. When we are young children, we have little conscious mind discrimination abilities and we live mostly in the present. What we see, hear, and feel is questioned very little. Nearly everything that happens goes into our subconscious directly without evaluation or discrimination. As we mature through puberty and develop a sense of discrimination ability, events no longer have a direct channel into our subconscious, but must pass through the filter of what we have previously learned. This is both a blessing and a curse. We are better able to protect ourselves by evaluating life experiences, but we no longer have direct access to our belief systems, emotions, or memories for change or growth. Everything that has happened to us, and how we feel about it is locked into the mind and body state we were in at the time the events took place. Parts of our body-mind will hold the interpretation of specific happenings. The problem is, as adults we no longer have direct access to where these events are stored.
Be aware, when push comes to shove, the subconscious is in charge of our lives, always.
The ego may know what it wants, but the subconscious knows what we need.
That’s why, just knowing consciously with our adult mind where a behavior came from, and the circumstances surrounding an event doesn’t necessarily allow us to change our feelings or the way we respond to things in our lives. We don’t have direct conscious control of our beliefs and feelings. Just take a moment to reflect on your life and the lives of people you know. If our adult conscious mind was really in charge of our lives, I believe we would all decide to be happy, doing the kind of work we enjoy, associating with the people we really like, and who are good for us, while living in a place of comfort, and in charge of our own chosen destiny, feeling happy, free and at peace. I know few people who live in that place. However, with effort we all can.
We need some way of communicating our adult ideas and desires to our subconscious and to allow our subconscious to talk directly with our conscious adult mind. Remember the subconscious, for all its strength and power, learned its lessons in childhood, and has the intellectual sophistication of an eight or ten-year-old, so once the dialogue is initiated we need to choose our language carefully.
Adult logic and reasoning has limited influence with the child like subconscious within us,
We don’t experience the world in the same way. After unlocking the door we must be cautious with our communication. Something very special is going on, and we want to make sure the child inside hears our message. And, of course we need to listen with respect and honest concern to the subconscious. There is an adult with an agenda for change or growth having a conversation with a young child whose primary concern is safety and love. Hypnosis is the best and quickest way to establish the lines of communication necessary to affect the growth, change, and increased awareness we all need in our lives.
It’s nice to know, hypnosis is a natural part of our lives, and most of us spend some time each day in this wonderful state. Let me give a few examples to show what I’m talking about. Frequently while going to sleep or waking up you will be aware of a sort of twilight zone where you are aware of both the sleeping world and the waking world at the same time.
Hypnosis is a very special place of peaceful quietness and comfort
Have you ever driven your car someplace and upon arrival realized you don’t remember the trip? This is another state of hypnosis. Sometimes while watching a fire or flame you enter a place of daydreams, very calm, relaxed and contemplative. Again a state of hypnosis. The problem with these accidental or natural journeys into the hypnotic realm is that it is very difficult to actually get something done under these conditions. The same is true with meditation. However with a skilled hypnotherapist assisting and guiding your way, it is possible to achieve rapid and profound changes in your life. It is comforting to know you are aware of what is going on and you are in charge of your actions at all times. You can never be made to act against your will.
Give me a call; I would love to discuss the life changes you want to make. There is no charge for our first meeting.
Lyle Tautfest, D.D., CHT.
Answers Hypnotherapy
303-789-0646