How Does Hypnosis Work?

How Does Hypnosis Work?

We have two parts of our mind: the conscious and the

subconscious. Our conscious mind is the part of our mind we

need to analyze and rationalize. 

It is able to only do one thing at a time, and it has a working or

short-term memory perfect for remembering that telephone

number someone gives you just before you dial it, or the fact

you got up from the sofa to make a cup of tea when getting to the

kitchen. It’s the part of our mind that is talking to us all day long,

sometimes with an ongoing chatter that never stops. It helps us

solve problems and is able to make sense of any behavior we

see or experience.

Our subconscious mind is busy all the time too. It is in charge of

all the autonomic parts of our body. These are the parts that we

need to stay alive, such as a regular heart rate, stable blog pressure, and our breathing. It also holds our creative parts, our

emotions, our imagination and all our feelings and emotions.

Our permanent memories are all stored in our subconscious too.

All the things you believe and live by coming from what is stored

in your subconscious. When you respond to something with any

emotion or a smell or action evokes a memory, that’s coming

from something stored in your subconscious.

Your subconscious self can sometimes get a little drowned out

with all the chattering your conscious mind does during the day.

Self-hypnosis helps that conscious mind quieten down enough

so you can get some important information to your old subconscious. It’s a time when positive suggestions can be

placed into your subconscious.

In many ways, your subconscious is like a computer. Self

hypnosis reprograms your subconscious and then reboots,

saving all the new information there for it to use when you

awaken from your relaxed state. Because many of our actions

stem from our emotions and feelings, changing these affect the

way we act and react in different situations.

If you think you’ve never been hypnotized before think again.

You enter a hypnotic state at least twice a day as you go to

sleep and then awaken. Studies have shown one of the best ways

to learn a skill is to sleep on it. It allows the subconscious save

all the material into your memory banks where it stays ready to

use again.

A hypnotic state can happen naturally when you are relaxed. If

you’ve ever been driving and suddenly realized you are almost at your destination but are a little unsure of how you got there,

then you’ve been accessing your subconscious state. Book

lovers may know the feeling of becoming so immersed in a good

book they don’t hear someone talking to them. That’s you

moving into a state of hypnosis.

Sometimes stress or environment can prevent us to stilling

ourselves enough to teach our subconscious to think positive

thoughts. Negative self-talk playing in our subconscious can

prevent us from losing that weight, giving up smoking or feeling

confident when walking into a business meeting.  Using self-hypnosis tools can provide our subconscious with

new and fresh positive thoughts and phrases that replace or

override negative ones. As these become our chief thoughts,

they affect our reactions and behavior and positive changes

begin to occur in our lives. The best part is, as it is driven from

our subconscious, we don’t have to utilize that willpower or

reason to get there- we just let our subconscious lead us instead.