[img]560|left|Nicholas D. Pollak||no_popup[/img]The theory of the mind, in brief, states that we are born with an empty subconscious mind. Of our total brainpower we only use 5 percent. Of that amount, 10 percent is our conscious mind, 90 percent our subconscious. By the age of 12, our conscious minds and behaviors are fully formed — though the brain itself still has a few years to go.
We are the total of all of our experiences to date, some good, bad, wrong, right. The conscious mind decides what is right or wrong, good or bad. Our subconscious just stores the information.
As with a computer that stores information in its hard drive, the information sits, unused, until a user gives instruction through the keyboard or touch screen. The hard drive puts out the requested information.
The same can be said for the conscious and the subconscious minds. The conscious mind requests a behavior and the subconscious gives the conscious what it asks for. What is given is what the subconscious has learned to be what the conscious mind wants when certain situations occur.
What an Addict Learns
For example, a drug addict has learned this behavior somewhere between the ages of zero and 12, and he accepts it as a norm. If the person did not actually take drugs until later in life, the addictive behavior still already has been learned and applied elsewhere, until, the drug became the addiction.
Most recovering addicts agree that when they are not using, their addictive tendencies still are there, just redirected to healthier pursuits. They often joke that when you take the alcohol out of the alcoholic, you still are left with the “ick” The point is that while they were using, they had a subconscious image of using, but in wanting to be sober, their image changed to clean and sober. Each one of us is where we are as a result of the sum total of all our experiences and the decisions we have made.
How many of us have thought that had we done things differently, our lives would have been so different? What truth. The question is, What do you want to be? Can you see it clearly? Do you know the actions you must take to change your path?
Remember, the way we act today is a learned behavior stored by the subconscious. If you are able to create a new image of what you want to be and how to get there by using hypnosis — recognized as a powerful tool for helping persons realize their potential — the subconscious will accept the new image. It will immediately start giving you the behaviors you want in line with your new image.
Not Like Climbing a Mountain
This is not hard. Anyone can do it. Even if a hypnotist were to help you with the imagery, neither I nor any other hypnotist can create the change for you. You must do it for yourself.
A hypnotist teaches you to phrase your suggestions in the most effective way and assists you in creating the changes. Ultimately, though, the person himself must act on the changes and fight to resist being pulled back into old behaviors. The hypnotist helps you by reaffirming the image and strengthening your self-conditioning, your self-confidence to attain the success, happiness and prosperity you want.
It is important to remember your self-talk can make or break you. My favorite example is the difference between “have” and “want.” Those who get up and say “I have to go to work today” will be far less successful than the person who wakes up and says “I want to go to work today.”
In brief, to make the new you, know what you want, visualize yourself already there. Devise a plan to get there, work the plan and remember to say to yourself not what you have to do to be successful, but what you want to do to be happy and successful.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me by telephone, 310.204.3321 or by email at nickpollak@hypnotherapy4you.net. See my website at www.hypnotherapy4you.net
