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| Photo courtesy of Sara Fogan My first horse...and the first realization of a subconscious script!
The
first time I saw my future dream home, I was riding in the back of a taxi on my
way to a job interview for the Public Health Medicine Department at the
University of Hull. Through the heavy rain, I spotted a three-story,
Georgian-style home with bay windows set behind a brick wall on the main road. Lush,
green ivy grew up a trellis on one of the walls. There was a circular, gravel
driveway and a wrought-iron gate in front of the house which made the property
look like it belonged in a Jane Austen novel. In my mind, the property was the
epitome of “England.” I wonder who lives there.
I would love to live there, I remember thinking. Three weeks later, I returned
to the same neighborhood looking for a flat to rent when I started my new job at
the university. I could hardly believe my luck when I found an advertisement
for an apartment on the property I had so admired. The rent was even within my (new)
budget, and I quickly signed the lease.
Eight
years later, a friend at work invited me to visit her property and meet her
horse. I had loved horses since I was a very little girl, and always knew that
somehow, some way, I would have one of my own. Within a month I started taking
riding lessons at a property across the street (literally) from my colleague’s
home; by the end of the year—thanks to her recommendation—I was buying my first
horse from my new riding instructors.
By the end of
the following year, I had also started my hypnotherapy certification at the
Hypnosis Motivation Institute. An HMI representative told me about his work as
a hypnotherapist and encouraged me to “try” the free introductory course at the
college. The idea of hypnotizing people was definitely an “unknown” and even a
little daunting to my conscious and subconscious minds when I started the class.
However, everything about hypnotherapy resonated with what I imagined I would
be doing when, at eight years old, I announced that I wanted to be a
psychologist when I grew up. When I learned that I already had a connection
with the college through the company where I was working at that time, I just
knew that I was on the right path to fulfilling my destiny.
Are
these examples of good fortune? Were they products of divine intervention? Or,
were they testimony to the power of the mind to actualize a subconscious desire
or script at work? I say the power of the subconscious mind, every time.
In
his book, Success Is Not an Accident,
HMI founder John Kappas, Ph.D., explains how the mental scripts we program into
our subconscious mind determine the outcome of our actions. Whether we imagine
a positive or negative result, the SCM follows that mental script to actualize
the goal you “want.” If you tell yourself that it takes an hour to get to work
every day or that you are bound to jam your knee on your friend’s coffee table again,
that is what will happen. If you imagine that you will have a safe, easy
commute to work or that you will find a great spot to park your call when you
go to the mall, your SCM will work to make those things happen, too. Moral of the story: be careful and specific in what you want and think about, because you are likely to end up with exactly that.
Have
you ever heard the Hollywood story about the time actor/comedian Jim Carrey wrote
himself a $15 million check years before he became famous…?
Sara R. Fogan, C.Ht. is a certified hypnotherapist based in
Southern California. She graduated with honors from the
Hypnosis Motivation Institute in 2005. For more information about
Calminsense Hypnotherapy® and to set up an appointment, please visit http://www.calminsensehypnotherapy.com/.
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