HOW DOES HYPNOSIS WORK?
The Subconscious Mind:
the reason Why aren’t you able to change that pattern: the subconscious mind
Complaining about binge eating, smoking, not being motivated, ruining relationships, having that back pain for a long time…Familiar?
You are not the only one.
The patterns that we have a hard time changing in life originated from the part of our mind that the famous psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud called the unconscious mind, and later renamed as the subconscious mind.
→ When Freud explained the mind, he used the Iceberg metaphor. The tip of the iceberg is considered to be the conscious mind, right below it, a small portion is the pre-conscious mind and the vast majority of the iceberg is the unconscious mind. Today, the subconscious mind is considered to be about 99% of the total mind power!
→ How can you change subconscious programming that you’ve been wired for years?
Most people live unconsciously every day, with the programming gathered from their parents, friends, or close family growing up.
→ It is no coincidence that you are just like your mother or father or a combination of both.
→ There are multiple ways of changing the old programming in the subconscious mind. One of them is conscious therapy which can take a long time because the subconscious mind is very resistant to change.
→ Another way is persistence. For example, everyday meditations, journaling, everyday self-hypnosis, and everyday self-affirmations.
→ The most effective and faster way by far, is hypnosis.
Reprograming the subconscious mind
Hypnotherapy:
Hypnosis allows the conscious mind to be open, diving right into the subconscious mind.
→ Each suggestion that is given by the hypnotherapist reaches the subconscious mind directly. The hypnotherapist works on building new subconscious programming with suggestions, metaphors, imagery journeys, and repetition.
Hypnotherapy Effectiveness Rates
Behavior Therapy, %72 recovery rate after 22 sessions
*Source: Barrios, Alfred A. “Hypnotherapy: A Reappraisal,” Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice (1970)
Everyone has a different reason why they may be self-sabotaging unconsciously. However, there are some common reasons why someone can get in the way of their own success.