To minimize risk of exposure to and spread of the COVID-19 virus and COVID-19 variants, I am continuing to suspend in-person hypnotherapy sessions with me in my office. Meanwhile, phone, and Zoom consultations ARE and WILL REMAIN AVAILABLE!
“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
(This blog was originally posted on May 2, 2017)
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!
Sara R. Fogan,
C.Ht. is a certified hypnotherapist based in Southern California. She graduated
with honors from the Hypnosis Motivation Institute in 2005. In July 2019 and
in September 2020 she was voted the Best Hypnotherapist in Santa Clarita,
California. For more information about Calminsense Hypnotherapy® and to set up
an appointment, please visit http://www.calminsensehypnotherapy.com/.
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