All About the Mental Bank Concept

 To minimize risk of exposure to and spread of the COVID-19 virus, I am temporarily suspending in-person hypnotherapy sessions with me in my office. However, phone, Skype and Zoom consultations ARE and WILL REMAIN AVAILABLE! 

 

(This blog was originally posted on September 4, 2019)

 

 

According to John Kappas, Ph.D. everyone follows a subconscious mental script. This script is created very early in our lives, and we will behave and even think in ways that are consistent with it even when the script does not facilitate achievement of our personal goals. Fortunately, the Hypnosis Motivation Institute founder created The Mental Bank Concept, which posits that each of us can change the script from what we are, to what we want to or should be.

In addition to the intended benefit of changing our mental script, he promised that by doing the ledger we would also start to earn more money, or even receive monetary gifts to boost our real income. I clearly remember the inference in current HMI Director George Kappas’s challenge to the class as he speculated about how many people would actually spend two minutes each night before bed writing in our Mental Bank Ledger. After all, is two minutes’ of writing before falling asleep too big a sacrifice to make to improve your life, especially when your efforts for self-improvement are measured by earning more money in the process? When the class broke up for a break, I was one of the first people in the room to rush down the corridor to purchase a ledger.

This is how the Mental Bank Concept works: Each night, right before you go to bed, you will allocate a value (symbolic money) to specific behaviors, activities or events that have occurred during the day. You can “pay” yourself for going to work, working out at the gym/exercising, spending time with your family, attending a religious service of your denomination, etc. It doesn’t matter what the activity is so long as they reflect your efforts to change your subconscious mental script and achieve your new, positive behavior or goals. Then, you will write an affirmation to reinforce these behaviors and encourage you to continue to make these changes.

In creating the Mental Bank Concept, Dr. Kappas intended that people write in the ledger just before going to sleep because this is one of the times during the day that we are most suggestible, or amenable to learning. (The other time is the first 30 minutes after waking up in the morning.) The suggestions for the desired behavioral change will bypass the critical mind and drop right into the subconscious mind; the SCM will continue to process these thoughts and behavioral changes throughout the night, he explained.

Although this process is very simple, many adults are very reluctant (subconscious resistance) to change their lives using the Mental Bank Concept, Dr. Kappas observed. “Only 30 percent of adults will ever change their original script. Everyone else passes the pattern on. To change the behavior, you must change the subconscious script,” he warned.

I have been following the Mental Bank Concept since 2004, and it does work. The more subconscious and conscious work I do to achieve my goals, the more self-confident I feel every time I accomplish one and the greater the tangential (monetary) rewards I receive. For more information about The Mental Bank Concept, check out this video link.

Contact me today at (661) 433-9430 or send e-mail to calminsensehypnosis@yahoo.com to set up an appointment to experience how hypnotherapy and the Mental Bank Concept can help you achieve your goals. I will provide your first Mental Bank Ledger to help you get you started!

 

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*This promotion may not be combined with any other offer. It is non-transferable and may not be exchanged for cash. Promotion ends on November 30, 2020

 

 

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/.

© 2020

 

Just What I Need When I Need It

(This blog was originally posted on October 6, 2016)

Photo by Rick Hustead

I have noticed something very interesting in the past couple of weeks. When I think about some physical skill or flexibility that I need to improve for my riding, that “thing,” whatever it is, seems to appear in my environment. Then there were those fortuitous events I described in my blog, Lost…And Found, when various items I believed were gone forever suddenly showed up again. On a couple of occasions, I have been able to find not only a spot but a great spot to park my car in a lot where parking is at a premium. And now, this has started to happen.

  At the beginning of each yoga class the instructor suggests that we set an intention for the practice. Most of the time I “ask” for patience with myself to be able to stay in a pose for a little longer than I have been able to in the past, or hope that I need fewer corrections from the teacher. That is coming from my conscious mind, though, and these desires are more superficial. They aren’t what I actually need. My subconscious mind takes care of that.

 Inevitably, the focus of the class addresses something my riding instructor has told me to work on during my previous ride. At some point during my lesson, she will identify something I need to work on, such as strengthen the muscles in my legs or abs, sit up taller or keep my shoulders back, increase my stamina, etc. She has even created a regimen of ballet stretches and other exercises for me to do to improve these areas for my riding. I do sets of lunges and demi and grand pliés in second and first position to open my hips and tread my feet on the edge of step to increase flexibility in my Achilles tendons. In addition, I practice straight kicks to the front, side and behind my body to isolate movement of my legs from my hips; sit-ups to strengthen my abs; and sprints up and down her long driveway to increase my stamina. Meanwhile, I also take yoga classes five times a week to improve my balance, strength and, of course, practice isolating movement in specific areas of my body.

I didn’t mention that goal to the yoga teacher before the class; but my subconscious mind attracted the day’s curriculum for me, nonetheless. The day after my trainer told me I needed to get more flexibility in my hips, the yoga instructor focused on hip openers throughout most of the practice. We did a lot of those today, as well. As I rolled up my yoga mat at the end of class I thought about all those crunches I still needed to do later, and the teacher announced, “Next week we are doing core work!”

In his book titled, Success Is Not an Accident: The Mental Bank Concept, Hypnosis Motivation Institute founder John Kappas, Ph.D., explains how the mental scripts we program into our subconscious mind determine the outcome of our actions. Whether we imagine a positive or negative result, the SCM follows that subconscious mental script to actualize the goal you “want.” These instances are great examples of how the Law of Attraction facilitated the opportunity to work toward my goal of increasing strength and flexibility through my yoga practice. As Ralph Waldo Emerson previously wrote, “Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”

 It’s like magic, and I am the magician.

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/.

© 2016