(This blog was originally posted on July 24, 2014)
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? I previously posted a blog titled Introduction
to the Mental Bank Concept, in which I explained how the Law of Attraction
can facilitate, impede or even prevent us from achieving our goals. In a
subsequent blog titled Intuition,
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. 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/.
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