I became interested in hypnosis, because I had a compulsive craving 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 nutrition routines, powerful exercise regimens. Neither 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 I had imagined. I did not experience any feelings of deprivation. Gradually, the routine of eating healthy and clean food became natural and even enjoyable. As a positive side effect, I lost a few extra pounds, without struggling, reaching the weight I was looking for.
WHAT IS HYPNOSIS AND HOW IT WORKS
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 driving on a familiar road, taking a shower, just before going to sleep at night! During a hypnosis session with a hypnotherapist, one experiences deep and pleasant relaxation, slight drowsiness, while being in full control, even if extremely relaxed. The conscious mind calms down and shuts down, allowing the subconscious mind to become active and open to positive suggestions. Today, science has been thoroughly investigating hypnosis. It is proven that during hypnosis, there is powerful healing and integration in the brain, which is clearly seen through MRI, EEG (electroencephalogram) and MEG (magnetoencephalogram). Hypnotherapy is often used in the fields of conventional Western medicine and psychology, and professional hypnotherapists can work with nutritionists, physicians, and psychiatrists for better and more rewarding results.
HOW UNCONSCIOUS 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, logic. The subconscious, on the other hand, is not logical at all, it is the source of your imagination, feelings, and emotions. The subconscious records all of our previous life experiences, all of 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 autonomous functions of the body, such as the heartbeat, breathing, the digestion process, blood circulation, liver function, etc. of daily life. Our subconscious intelligence controls all the behaviors, attitudes and actions of bears, does not analyze, does not discriminate between good and bad. 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 guardians, they were all sources of information. 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 you were 7 years old, 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 believed her. So if your parents told you that you are not important, that you are not smart enough, or talented enough, you also believed them. 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 is constantly influencing people’s lives, their decisions and actions, without their realizing it. So even if you consciously know what to do, to make positive changes, some unconscious limiting, negative programming is interfering with your goal results, sabotaging your success and well-being. For example, on a conscious level, you have a strong desire to achieve a positive goal or make a positive change. You start to take the right action to achieve it. Your unconscious limiting beliefs, on the other hand, can transmit a hidden signal, which is opposite to that desire.
Your conscious intentions and your subconscious messages., in this case, they do not match, but they are in conflict. They just don’t have the same goal! You can compare the subconscious to the computer’s hard drive and its 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 freezes often, 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 fail over and over again. It is impossible, since you will never be able to play your music using software that is missing from the hard drive. Therefore, the older version of Media Player will keep playing your music files, over and over again. In my case, all the steps I had previously taken to heal my food craving hadn’t worked because I was trying to solve this problem, using willpower, applying harsh discipline and endurance.
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 and directs our thoughts and actions 95% of the time. My incorrect conditioning would associate healthy food with suffering and deprivation, unhealthy food with pleasure and reward. So my subconscious mind would repeatedly trigger a self-protection alarm, to prevent any painful experiences from occurring, sabotaging positive change, over and over again.
It is not that easy to change false, limiting unconscious conditioning, replace many years of negative thinking, simply by having the will to do so, or by using your willpower and conscious mind. The subconscious is much stronger and stubborn than the conscious mind. So in the end, he always wins the battle. Scientific facts claim that the subconscious mind can process around 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 the old useless software that makes your computer (your subconscious) stop and install new software that will allow you to run the program you want. Hypnosis allows you to change your negative conditioning permanently and replace it with a true and healthy belief pattern, which is consistent with your conscious intentions, aligning conscious desires with unconscious healthy beliefs. It is only by reaching this alignment that allows you to successfully manifest your goals. Only through permanent positive and healthy changes in your subconscious mind will you be able to achieve permanent positive changes in your life!
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