Hypnosis and The Mind

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Hypnosis and The Mind

by Michelle Beaudry, CHt

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Fundamentals of the Mind

The human mind may be subdivided into three parts: the Unconscious,

Subconscious and Conscious. These compare to a computer:

 

Unconscious = operating system

Subconscious = hard drive

Conscious = RAM

 

Each part has separate and distinct tasks. The Unconscious mind operates

your automatic body systems such as the circulatory system, much as a

computer’s

operating system includes its basic functions. The Subconscious mind

operates like a hard drive by storing files of all kinds, from a full memory

bank of

your past to your emotional spectrum, to its most vital task: protecting you

at all costs. The Conscious mind is our everyday mind, making immediate day

to day decisions like what to wear, eat, and drink. It is the gatekeeper,

choosing what information is to be acted upon moment by moment. It’s the mind

you

’re reading this book with right now, and its tasks include comparing,

reasoning, and explaining. These abilities are called the Critical Factor and

are

bypassed in hypnosis.

 

Importance of the Subconscious Mind

To update a file on your computer, you must open the original file and make

the changes. In the human mind, original files are stored in the

Subconscious. To gain access, we must reach the Subconscious directly,

bypassing the

Conscious mind. In other words, one way to gain positive changes in the present

is to neutralize the negativity in the past. We do not change the memories, we

upgrade how you feel about them.

 

This upgrading can only be accomplished in the Subconscious, for that is

where memories are stored, and it can only be reached through bypass of the

Conscious mind, and that can only be done through hypnosis.

 

Why? It’s what works. Hypnosis specifically sets the Conscious mind aside

temporarily.

 

Your Mind Must Protect You; Good News, Bad News

All levels of your mind work to protect you as best they can at all times.

And this especially applies to the Subconscious.

 

It must protect you at all costs, and to do so, it may even lie to you, or

more to the point, to your Conscious mind. It may lie about you, about others,

it may even lie to your hypnotist while you are in trance. It may hide

memories from you. And much, much more. This is because once it accepts

negative

behaviors in the name of your safety, it hangs on to those behaviors. Some

examples are:

 

•smoking anything

•being obese

•declining success

•biting your fingernails

•spending compulsively

 

You may well ask, how can compulsive spending possibly protect me? It

distracts you. Misdirection is one highly effective way your Subconscious

protects

you by keeping a lid on overwhelming emotions. Ergo the addict.

 

You may well ask, how can declining to be successful possibly protect me? It

limits you. Limiting exposure to risk is another way to protect you.

It is when such protective efforts do not meet your current needs that you

desire change. Hypnosis sets aside the Conscious mind, makes changes via the

Subconscious mind, and change is achieved.

 

 

How Hypnosis Upgrades Your Files

Hypnosis is able to change your perception of your memories, and thus of

yourself. We do not change the events themselves, we upgrade how you feel about

them, and thus your daily life is upgraded.

 

By accessing the original files stored in the Subconscious, you are able to

see all of the reasons why your mind specifies your behaviors in the name of

protecting you, and together we upgrade those behaviors since, typically, the

need of that protection is gone. You are no longer in the middle of the

event that had such an impact on you.

 

Your Conscious mind does not have complete access to your memory files; that

is not its job. This is why merely talking about change is such an

ineffective means of getting any. Talking happens in the Conscious mind. Change

happens in the Subconscious.

 

And here’s the rub: the Subconscious outvotes the Conscious mind. It is far,

far larger, stronger, and more powerful. This is why willpower fails so

miserably for the dieter. Unless the Subconscious agrees to a healthy diet and

a

normalized body weight, your finest of intentions are short lived, having

been overridden by the Subconscious mind.

 

Emotions are a function of, and are stored in, the Subconscious. When you

have had an emotional reaction to danger, for example, real or imagined, those

emotions are felt and stored in your Subconscious. Hypnosis accesses those

stored emotions, upgrades your perception of them, and this results in changed

behavior.

 

You must give yourself permission to make changes. You must want to change.

You must want to enter into hypnosis. And this means not being afraid of

hypnosis. So, let’s define what hypnosis is in several ways, as there is no

single perfect way to phrase it.

 

What Hypnosis Is

 

•“Hypnosis is the bypass of the critical factor of the conscious mind

combined with the establishment of selective thinking,†says the US

Government.

•Hypnosis is a blend of physical relaxation and extreme mental alertness.

Yes, I said extreme.

•Hypnosis is a state of focused concentration. This is why a few minutes of

emotional expression in trance is worth hours in an alert state. Humans are

so easily distracted, and the Conscious mind is forever making excuses for

everything. In hypnosis, the conscious mind is set aside, and excuses are seen

for what they are.

•Hypnosis is the state you enter into every time you watch a tv show you

like, see a film you like, or sit down at the computer intending to only be

there for 10 minutes... and suddenly it’s two hours later.

•Hypnosis also happens when humans fall in love, literally entranced.

 

What Hypnosis Is Not

•Hypnosis is not mind control.

•Hypnosis is not a royal proclamation.

•Hypnosis is not sleep. We use relaxation, not sleep, to enter hypnosis. You

do not wake up from hypnosis, you emerge. And you already know exactly what

emerging from hypnosis feels like! Remember the last time you went to the

movies, loved the film, and at the end when the credits rolled, you suddenly

“

came to� You just emerged from hypnosis. That’s exactly what it feels

like,

because that’s exactly what happened.

•Hypnosis is not being unconscious. You can hear everything that goes on

around you during trance; you’re just not interested in it.

•Hypnosis is not relaxation. That’s just an optimal starting point.

•Hypnosis is not being drugged. However, one can easily mimic a drugged

state in hypnosis, provided you have previously felt the effects of that drug.

Your body remembers. This is useful for pain control.

•Hypnosis is not involuntary. Just as no one can make you enjoy a movie that

fails to entrance you, no one can make you remain in hypnosis. I typically

teach my clients self hypnosis on the very first session so that they know for

certain that they can emerge whenever they like. Anyone can emerge from

hypnosis instantly by making that their intention.

How Does It Actually Happen?

Hypnotists use methods we call techniques. These include Direct Suggestion,

Regression To Cause, The Forgiveness Pyramid, Parts, The Spa of Your Inner

Mind, The Recording Studio, Progression, and Higher Mind, among others.

 

The Last Word

The media uses hypnosis on you all the time. Aaaalllllllll the time.

Advertisers have been known to employ hypnotists to assess the hypnotic

potential of

a given advertisement, and pay good money for it.

 

Every time you watch television and enjoy it, you go into a state of trance.

Ditto listening to music, going to the movies, watching a DVD, hearing talk

radio, reading a magazine, and so forth. When you don’t like a particular

type of music, it is expressly because it fails to put you into the trance you

listen to music for.

 

So here comes the big duh. Why should media have all the fun? Please visit

your friendly neighborhood trance specialist and use hypnosis to further your

own goals.

 

Ah, hypnosis. So easy you can do it with your eyes closed.

 

 

 

Copyright 2007 by Michelle Beaudry, CHt, fulltime clinical hypnotist in the

Orlando, Florida area; certified by the National Guild of Hypnotists, member

of the American Alliance of Hypnotists, secretary of the Hypnosis Education

Association, member of the Womens Wellness Society and the Innovative Hypnosis

Research Group, board certified by the National Board of Hypnosis.

 

Contact her at _info_ (info)

or 407 862-9144.