I am continuing to suspend in-person hypnotherapy sessions with me in my office. However, phone, and Zoom consultations ARE and WILL REMAIN AVAILABLE!
This blog was originally posted on December 25, 2013)
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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!
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Sara R. Fogan, C.Ht. is a certified hypnotherapist based in
Southern California. She graduated with honors from the Hypnosis Motivation
Institute in 2005. Sara has been voted the Best
Hypnotherapist in Santa Clarita, California, three years in a row (2019, 2020,
2021). For more information about Calminsense Hypnotherapy® and to set up an
appointment, please visit http://www.calminsensehypnotherapy.com/
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