(This blog was originally posted on January 19, 2017)
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| Photo by Rick Hustead |
People often
come in for hypnotherapy to change or adopt a behavior that will help them
achieve a specific goal or succeed at a particular endeavor. Contrary to
popular belief (and the stories we tell ourselves), Hypnosis Motivation Institute founder John Kappas, Ph.D. asserted that such
success had nothing to do with intelligence, working hard, being nice or
deserving, etc. Rather, success (or lack thereof) boiled down to the mental
“programming” a person received and how that program was reinforced in daily
life (behaviors).
In Part
1 of this blog, I explained why subconscious resistance to changing those
familiar—albeit unwanted—behaviors can keep us stuck there. In today’s blog I describe
the Recipe for Success to help you stop the self-limiting script and help you
achieve your self-improvement goals.
1. Believe
that you are 100% successful at what you want to achieve. Everything that
happens to you is an expression of the subconscious signal you send to the
universe. As you change the previous programming of this script by changing
those old beliefs, the Universe will send you new opportunities.
2. Daily
Reinforcement. According to Dr. Kappas’s Theory
of Mind, every one of your current beliefs and action reinforces what you
learned from the time you were born until you were about eight years old. If
you are battling homeostasis,
you must battle it daily by
practicing the new beliefs and behaviors you want to replace the old, obsolete
ones.
3. Ideomotor
Response. Handwriting
daily affirmations and goals/achievements in the Mental Bank Ledger is a great
way to reinforce those new behaviors. (I teach my clients how the Mental
Bank Concept helps to replace their obsolete subconscious
mental script with one that will help them achieve new goals and provide
their first ledger to get them started!)
4. Symbolic
Language. Dr. Kappas chose monetary and numeric symbols (e.g., the $) to
represent success and growth because numbers are an important part of how the
subconscious mind works.
5. Hypnosis.
The hypnotherapist facilitates a natural process that occurs at least twice
each day during the “Magic 30 minutes” after waking up in the morning and just
prior to drifting off to sleep at night. These periods of natural hypnosis are
when a person is most suggestible to changing or adopting a new
behavior/belief. (This is why you are encouraged to do the Mental Bank right
before going to sleep at night.) Similarly, the hypnotic suggestions given
during hypnotherapy also “ride the wave” into the subconscious mind to effect
the desired change.
6. Precognitive
and Venting Dreams.
The majority of change does not happen in the office during the hypnotherapy
session. Rather, the hypnotherapist plants the seed for this change that grows
over time, starting in sleep. For example, during hypnosis I drop in a hypnotic
suggestion that my client will have a venting dream to release any attachment to the unwanted behaviors. Meanwhile, the
person can gain insight and benefit from dreams that occurred during the
precognitive stage of sleep about how to resolve any conflicts that have
prevented achieving the desired goal.
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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