“I
fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who
has
practiced
one kick 10,000 times.” – Bruce Lee
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| Photo by Rick Hustead |
During my tenure as managing editor of Black
Belt magazine, I became very familiar with this refrain/admonition: “You
fight the way you train.” It didn’t matter that you have practiced your martial
art for thirty years and have a tenth-degree black belt in that style. If your
training and competitive expertise are in point-sparring versus contact
fighting, chances are you will still be in trouble when it comes to defending
yourself against someone who jumps you in an alley. The problem isn’t bad
technique; you just defaulted to your subconscious “known,” your comfort zone.
Over the years, your repeated training to pull your punches to not make actual contact with an opponent
ultimately over-rode the natural instinct to connect a devastating punch or
kick with the attacker’s body to defend yourself.
I keep this philosophy in mind when I help my
hypnotherapy clients achieve their self-improvement goals by creating a new subconscious
mental script to facilitate their desired behavior change. By the time they
contact me for hypnotherapy, chances are they have been practicing that unwanted
action or belief system for many years. No matter how many times they tell themselves
they absolutely, positively do not want
to smoke one more cigarette or eat another piece of sugary/fried food, this
message is coming from the Logic/Will-Power/Decision-Making and Reasoning
faculties based in the Conscious Mind. No matter how much you want to get rid
of that negative habit, the Subconscious Mind will have a different perspective.
All those memories and positive associations (pleasure)
with doing the “unwanted” behavior are stored in the Subconscious Mind, and the
Critical
Area of the mind, which is positioned in both the Conscious and
Subconscious areas—is a great gate-keeper to prevent change in this status quo.
For the Subconscious Mind, change—even desired change—equals pain, and it will fight very hard to
prevent change from occurring. To our frustration, this usually means
succumbing to temptation to smoke just one more cigarette or polish off your
child’s left-over fries, and we go back to practicing those actions we want to
stop once and for all.
The great thing about hypnosis is its effectiveness to
overhaul or even delete those mental scripts that keep us in that loop of
practicing unwanted habits. When you are in hypnosis, I can talk directly to your subconscious mind and,
using your motivations, reasons and goals for the behavior change, rewrite that
negative script to facilitate desired behavior changes. Once these new mental
scripts are in your Subconscious Mind, resistance to making these changes melts
away and are replaced by consistent repetition of new, healthy actions and
belief systems to reinforce and achieve your self-improvement goals. With
hypnosis, we can create a new “default” behavior and connect that metaphoric
punch with the desired target: achieving your self-improvement goal!
Special offer: Save $20 on your FIRST appointment, valid through May 16, 2017. Not exchangeable for cash. For more information or to set up an appointment, contact me at (661) 433-9430 or send an e-mail to calminsensehypnosis@yahoo.com.
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/.
