Self-hypnosis is often touted as a way to change undesirable behavior. This is true, but with a big, huge caveat. Your conscious and subconscious minds must agree on the change you’re trying to make. Here’s what we’re talking about.
Your conscious mind is rational. It’s the part of you that has desires and wishes. It sets goals and dreams of amazing things in your future. If it was up to the conscious mind, everyone on the planet would be living their greatest life.
You know this isn’t the case. That’s because the subconscious mind drives a lot of conscious behavior.
While your conscious mind can easily look at an area of your life you’d like to change, that’s not all that’s required. Your subconscious has to get on board. You have to convince it to agree with your conscious hopes and desires.
Most people believe every aspect of your mind should agree with what’s best for you. That would be great if it was true, but it simply isn’t. Your subconscious is full of memories. It’s been fed programs of behavior and beliefs and thoughts since you were a child. Those programs have been reinforced for decades. They play out again and again on autopilot.
This is why we often repeat negative behaviors even though we are rational, smart people who don’t want to create bad results in our lives. Since our subconscious mind leads to our conscious behaviors, we repeat negative habits repeatedly. This can lead to self-resentment. We wonder why we keep making mistakes when we truly want a different reality on the conscious level.
Self-Hypnosis Can Get the Conscious and Subconscious Minds In Agreement
You’re looking for the perfect scenario to get your conscious and subconscious minds in coherence. Remember, you’ve received input and programming from your family and teachers, parents and other adults, friends, the media, and every experience you’ve been engaged in since you were a child. That’s a lot of computer code you have to rewrite.
This means that it usually takes several sessions of self-hypnosis to get your subconscious thinking in a way that agrees with your conscious desires.
Self-hypnosis directly communicates with your subconscious. You pick one aspect of your life you’d like to change. Continually and repetitively speak to your subconscious and paint a positive picture of what this new behavior will deliver.
Stick with it. Your subconscious understands repetition. It sees it as you telling it something really important. Over time it basically gets tired of hearing you say the same thing! So it begins to take what you’re telling it and make it an unconscious habit. You begin doing the things that are necessary for you to consciously realize the great end result you want to have in your life.
Look into self-hypnosis if you’ve struggled to create lasting change in your life. It’s not an overnight cure or miracle drug. Over time it can reliably help you realize the desired result.
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