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Messing
with Your Mind or Changing Your Mind?
Probably
the most popular erroneous notion about hypnosis is that it involves “messing
with my mind”. Unfortunately,
this keeps many people with legitimate concerns from seeking help through
hypnosis. If messing with
people’s minds was my job, I’d quit in a minute. Fortunately, however, hypnosis does not work that way—except
in movies.
Actually,
the mind’s role in hypnotherapy is to become more useful to the person seeking
to make changes and reach goals. You
have probably heard statistics about how little of our minds we use, somewhere
between 3% and 10%, depending on the source.
The hypnotherapy process helps to train more of the mind to be available
and productive.
A
part of our mind, the sub-conscious, is considered our “organic computer”.
This is the part of us that “runs” constantly, even while we
sleep. Like a real computer, it stores information, memories, habits, emotions
and lots more in its memory banks. It
also has the incredible job of keeping our complicated bodies functioning 24/7.
Even
though we have tons of mental stuff in sub-conscious storage, the conscious mind
isn’t aware of much of the contents. This
is a good thing! We don’t need
conscious clutter, yet if we need to access stored information, it is possible
using hypnosis.
For
example, if someone has an irrational fear, it could be helpful to locate
So,
actually, hypnosis is about changing your mind about something that is not
working for you. You have the right
to change your mind, for example, about smoking, or about eating for the wrong
reason, or about biting your fingernails. When
you realize something about your life is not working, you have the right to
change your mind and one effective way to do that is with hypnosis.
Perhaps
the most important point is that no person has the right to mess with any other
person’s mind. Our minds are
sacred territory and need to be honored and respected as the God-given gifts
that they are. And God is happy
with us when we change our minds as part of the process of improving ourselves.