How To Master Self-Hypnosis In A Weekend: The Simple, Systematic and Successful Way to Get Everything You Want by Rick Smith

Author:Rick Smith [Smith, Rick]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3, pdf
Published: 2013-09-30T04:00:00+00:00

8: How Hypnosis Works

As previously mentioned, this book is written ‘backwards’. In my view, it isn’t necessary for you to know how or why hypnosis works in order to experience it. In fact, given that we are trying to disable your critical faculty, it may potentially help if you don’t know! So if you followed the book in chapter sequence, you may well have mastered Self-Hypnosis without any information about the technical processes whatsoever.

However, if you have chosen to continue with your hypnosis education by reading the second part of the book, you are now enabled to discover some of the science and theory behind hypnosis in general, and Self-Hypnosis in particular.

The established theory for the function of hypnosis goes more or less like this;

Your mind, that is to say the most recognisable manifestation of brain functionality, works on two levels, the Conscious, and the Subconscious (sometimes called the Unconscious, but this is confusing).

Your Conscious Mind is paying attention most of the time. It enables you to interpret things that are going on around you, and perform conscious tasks which require some level of concentration or focus. The conscious mind also acts as a ‘critical faculty’ making assessments and judgements based on a combination of logic and experience about all the information you receive throughout the day. It examines and decides whether the inputs are honest, reliable, safe, or useful. The conscious mind can be described as a filter, only permitting some things to penetrate your deeper brain, and outright rejecting (or at least triggering suspicion) when it encounters something which is not so clear.

Your Subconscious Mind, on the other hand, is running largely on auto-pilot. In there are stored all your learned behaviours and assumptions about a myriad of things which are considered to be factual. For example, your subconscious mind learns how to manage your walking, talking, eating and so on, from a very early age, so you do these complex things automatically. It also seems to be in control of your memory. Any learned behaviour is managed in the subconscious mind, such as driving a car, riding a bicycle, swimming, singing a song or playing an instrument. Also (and this is important) your subconscious associates emotions with experiences. Your imagination is very strong in your subconscious mind, and your imagination can simulate almost any sensation that you are capable of experiencing in ‘real-life’.

How does your subconscious acquire all this information? Well, much of it arrives via your conscious mind, from your key senses – Sight, Sound, Taste, Smell, and Touch. Based on its decision criteria, for example Safety, your conscious mind will either admit or block a new input, which determines whether it is allowed to enter the Subconscious Mind which has no such critical faculty and effectively believes everything it sees and hears. Without the filtration of your conscious mind, your subconscious would simply accept everything at face value, and you would never be able to make a decision about anything!

Hypnosis, when done correctly, temporarily weakens the influence of the conscious mind, or even turns it off altogether.

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