How
do you explain it when something happens that you just knew would occur without possessing substantive evidence to support
this feeling? Perhaps this incident is proof of your powers of intuition. Or, is
it an example of the way the Law of Attraction and John Kappas, Ph.D.’s Mental
Bank Concept works? You might even call it evidence of a self-fulfilling
prophecy, whereby you thought so hard about something that your subconscious
mind somehow “made” that event happen. Then again, maybe it’s just a huge
coincidence that something you thought about for maybe two seconds manifested
itself in the physical world an hour, day or week later. All of these
explanations are reasonable, possible and even likely depending on your belief
system.
Have
you ever thought about a friend or relative that you haven’t seen in a very
long time and then, out of the blue, receive an e-mail or a phone call from
that person? Have you ever turned on the television and discovered that a
favorite movie from your childhood is on, and you and some friends were
seriously, literally just talking about
how much you love it? I have had many experiences like these. Last week, I reconnected
with a friend I hadn’t seen or heard from in years. True story: I read an
article in the paper that reminded me of her, and the very next day she reached
out to me on Facebook. This afternoon, I was thinking about a scene from The Man From Snowy River. Kirk Douglas
is one of the stars of that movie; a documentary about him is playing on TCM as
I write this blog. I had absolutely no idea that this program would air when I was
thinking about the movie. These kinds of things happen to me a lot.
My
favorite personal example of this is from high school. I fell asleep listening
to the radio; I had been waiting all night for the DJ to play my favorite song
at that time, and I woke up two seconds before it came on. Of course, I was
very excited when I realized that I woke up just in time to hear my favorite
song a second before it played. I was sure this was an example of extra-sensory
perception: I mean, how else could I explain this happy coincidence? A few
years later, I even wrote an extra-credit essay about this experience for a
psychology course about perception. This time I had a more measured explanation
about how and why this experience occurred. Even during sleep, the brain
continues to work and perceive all sorts of sensory stimuli such as smell,
touch, sound and taste. (If you have ever incorporated the sound of your dog
barking outside or the smell of fresh-brewed coffee in your dreams, you know
this is true.) Similarly, I had likely heard
someone on the radio announce that the song would be played next, and that is how and why I woke up when I did.
So, what is
really going on? Earlier this month I posted a blog about the Mental Bank
Concept and how the Law of Attraction can facilitate or impede or even prevent us
from achieving our goals. (“The Mental Bank Concept,” July 2, 2014) More
recently, I explored the relationship between the human brain’s ability to
perceive various stimuli and organize, interpret and communicate this
information in the context of Dr. Kappas’s Theory of Mind. (“Intuition, July
22, 2014) And tonight I came across the following quote from Ralph Waldo
Emerson that both simplified and complicated this issue for me: “Once you make
a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”
So,
maybe that is the answer to my question after all. My hypnotherapy training at
the Hypnosis Motivation Institute and my experiences putting these theories
about the Law of Attraction into practice has taught me that the power of our
mind can make just about anything and everything possible. We just need to know
how and what to ask for, and where to look for the evidence that what we want already
exists and is waiting for us to find it.
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®, please visit http://www.calminsensehypnotherapy.com/.
