(This
blog was originally posted on December 25, 2013)
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| Photo by Rick Hustead |
For many
of us, doing something new or unfamiliar can be
very scary. But, you know what? After you do that thing just one
time it loses that essence of being scary. It becomes “known” to your
subconscious mind and is integrated with your repertoire of behaviors. Your
subconscious mind will file away the memory of that sensation, experience, or
associated emotion for future reference for future behaviors the rest of your
life—even if you never repeat the specific behavior. (Advanced calculus,
anyone?)
John G. Kappas, Ph.D., and Alex G. Kappas
Ph.D., revolutionized the practice of hypnotherapy based on their findings that
not everyone receives hypnotic suggestions the same way (suggestibility). Suggestibility
refers to how you learn, and it influences how you interpret every experience. In
Kappasinian Hypnotherapy there are two categories of “known” (learned)
experiences:
- Pain: Anything new or unfamiliar (unknown). It may also refer to a physically or emotionally painful experience.
- Pleasure: An experience that is known and familiar, although it may not necessarily be pleasurable. “Pleasure” can be a positive or a negative emotional/physical experience.
When
you first learned how to walk, the first step or two was probably wobbly. You
probably held onto a parent’s hand for dear life for the first attempts; it may
have taken a week before you could make it across a room without stumbling and
falling down (Pain). Fast-forward a week, a year, 20 years to today. Now you
are able to skip, jump and run without even thinking about it (Pleasure)
because these activities are familiar and comfortable.
Just
imagine all of the New Year’s Resolutions you will achieve and goals you can
accomplish once your subconscious mind recognizes and accepts that these new behaviors
are now “knowns” and they are here to stay!
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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