(This blog was originally posted on March 7, 2014)
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| Photo courtesy of Sara Fogan
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 in 1995. 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: The Mental Bank Concept, 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 subconscious 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 (and very
wealthy)…?
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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