I became interested in hypnosis because I had a compulsive desire for sweets and unhealthy food. I struggled with this problem for years. I tried a few methods: different types of diets, changes in eating habits, different type of nutrition routines, powerful exercise regimens. None of these willpower-based approaches worked for me permanently. I started researching hypnosis. I saw a lot of positive comments so I decided to give it a try.
Through hypnosis, I got rid of my problem permanently. It was easier than he had imagined. I did not experience any feeling of deprivation. Gradually, the routine of eating healthy, clean food became natural and even pleasurable. As a positive side effect, I lost a few extra kilos, without struggling, reaching the weight I was looking for.
WHAT IS HYPNOSIS AND HOW DOES IT WORK?
Hypnosis is a natural state of mind, and we experience a hypnotic state hundreds of times in everyday life. Whenever we do something automatic, like drive down a familiar road, take a shower, just before falling asleep at night! During a hypnosis session with a hypnotherapist, one experiences deep and pleasurable relaxation, light drowsiness, while being in complete control, even if extremely relaxed. The conscious mind is calmed and distracted, which allows the subconscious mind to become active and open to positive suggestions. Currently, science has been thoroughly researching hypnosis. It is proven that during hypnosis, powerful healing and integration occurs in the brain, which is clearly seen through MRI, EEG (electroencephalogram) and MEG (magnetoencephalogram). Hypnotherapy is often used within the fields of conventional Western medicine and psychology, and professional hypnotherapists may work with nutritionists, physicians, and psychiatrists for better and more rewarding results.
HOW WRONG SUBCONSCIOUS BELIEFS CAN DETERMINE THE TREND OF YOUR LIFE
We have a conscious intelligence and a subconscious intelligence. The conscious mind is responsible for thinking, rationalizing, analyzing, logical. The subconscious, on the other hand, is not logic at all, it is the source of your imagination, feelings and emotions. The subconscious records all our previous life experiences, all our memories, everything we have heard or seen and also how we feel and how we perceive each experience. It is the part of the mind that controls all the autonomic functions of the body, such as heartbeat, breathing, digestion process, blood circulation, liver function, etc., daily life. Our subconscious intelligence controls all our behaviors, attitudes and actions, it does not analyze, it does not discriminate between good or evil. Most of what we do is a product of the subconscious mind. All the ideas, information, thoughts, that we have automatically stored in the subconscious mind, since childhood, form a belief system.
This set of beliefs, in turn, ends up driving your thoughts, feelings, and actions, producing your current behavior patterns, and ultimately creating your present reality. When you were a child, your parents, your teachers, your religious tutors, they were all sources of information, you trusted them. You believed everything they said, even if it was false. At that young age you couldn’t filter all the information you received. In fact, from the time you were born until the age of 7, your brain was in a constant state of light hypnosis, since the rational brain had not yet developed. If your mother told you: “spinach is good for you”, you would believe her. And so, if your parents told you that you are not important, that you are not smart enough, that you have no talent, you believed them too. Then eventually, after hearing those misconceptions over and over again, they were reinforced and ingrained in the subconscious, creating false and negative programming.
This conditioning constantly influences people’s lives, their decisions and actions, without them being aware of it. So even if you consciously know what to do, to make positive changes, some unconscious limitation, negative programming, is interfering with the results of your goals, sabotaging your success and well-being. For example, on a conscious level, you have a strong desire to accomplish a positive goal or make a positive change. You begin to take the right action to achieve it. Your unconscious limiting beliefs, on the other hand, may transmit a hidden signal, which is the opposite of that desire.
Your conscious intentions and your subconscious messages, in this case, do not match, but conflict. They just don’t have the same goal! You can compare the subconscious to the computer hard drive and your limiting beliefs to the software installed on it. To play your music, open and run Media Player installed on your hard drive. The current version of the player often freezes, creating problems. So you decide to play your music through the latest version of Media Player, which you haven’t installed yet. You try, but you fail over and over again. It is impossible, as you will never be able to play your music using software that is missing from the hard drive. So the old version of Media Player will continue to play your music files, over and over again! In my case, all the steps I had previously taken to cure my food cravings had not worked because I was trying to solve this problem, using will power, applying harsh discipline and resistance.
These are functions of the cognitive mind, which, although intelligent, only has 5% of the power of the mind. The subconscious mind, on the other hand, has 95% of the power, directing our thoughts and actions 95% of the time. Also, some limiting negative subconscious beliefs were in conflict with my conscious desires. My faulty conditioning would associate healthy food with suffering and deprivation, unhealthy food with pleasure and reward. So my subconscious mind would repeatedly set off a self-protective alarm to prevent a painful experience from occurring, sabotaging positive change, over and over again.
It is not so easy to change false and limiting unconscious conditioning, to replace many years of negative thinking, simply by having the will to do it, or by using your willpower and conscious mind. The subconscious is much stronger and stunted than the conscious mind. So, in the end, he always wins the battle. Scientific facts state that the subconscious mind can process about 400 billion bits of information per second, while the conscious mind can process only 4 thousand per second!
Through hypnosis it is possible to remove old useless software that is causing your computer (your subconscious) to crash and install new software that will allow you to run the program you want. Hypnosis allows you to permanently change your negative conditioning and replace it with a true and healthy belief pattern that is consistent with your conscious intentions, aligning conscious desires with healthy unconscious beliefs. It is only by reaching this alignment that allows you to be able to successfully manifest your goals. Only through permanent positive and healthy changes in your subconscious mind will you achieve permanent positive changes in your life!
