FUNCTIONS OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS:
What the subconscious believes is the difference between success and failure,
sickness and health and happiness and unhappiness.
It has six vital
functions:
1. It serves as a memory bank of computer. Nothing we have ever learned or
experienced is, in strict scientific literalness, ever erased
from these cell patterns unless a portion of the brain is injured or removed.
(Hypnosis is helpful in recalling past history and in
improving memory, concentration and recall.)
2. The subconscious controls and regulates the involuntary functions of the
body, such as breathing, circulation, digestion and elimination.
Since tension or stress inhibits these processes, they are responsible for the
symptoms of psychosomatic illness.
(Hypnosis
is a helpful tool to re-establishing their normal functions because it can reach
the controlling force.)
I cannot emphasize too strongly, though, that should you have any doubts you
should consult with your doctor to be certain before
proceeding with this method of treatment.
(Hypnosis can be used to enhance healing in conjunction
with medical treatment when the illness is not psychosomatic.)
3. The subconscious is the seat of our emotions and this accounts for its
domination of the conscious mind. Since the emotions govern
the strength of our desires, and since our desires govern our behaviour, we are
at the mercy of our subconscious unless we learn to
control it. When we have conflicting desires, the subconscious one usually wins.
Subconscious beliefs can cure or kill you.
4. The subconscious it the seat of the imagination. Many people say they have no
imagination, but although they may have suppressed it,
it is still there and active, often working against their best interest and
well-being. Creative imagination is one of the great secrets of
success. All great artists, musicians, engineers and architects draw their
so-called talent from their subconscious minds. Most of the
greatest works of art were created while the artist was in some form of self
hypnosis. In this state, the imagination is dominant while the
reasoning mind is dormant, and creative powers are at their peak. Mozart claimed
his musical inspirations were formed like dreams,
independent of his will. Coleridge created Kubla Kahn "in his sleep." Newton
solved most of his mathematical problems while in so-called
dreams. Goethe said his greatest poems were written while in a dreamlike state.
(One's imagination can work for good or bad
according to how the individual uses it.)
5. The subconscious carries out our habitual conduct. It manages and controls
the activity we have reduced to habit.
6. The subconscious is the dynamo that directs our energy, the energy that
drives us toward our goals in life... The subconscious mind does
not think, but it reacts to the thoughts you give it, and carry out your orders.
It is much easier to direct the subconscious than to let it push
you around. It is intended to be the servant and you were intended to be the
boss, and if yours has not pushed you toward success and
happiness it is time you started giving the orders!
FIVE PRINCIPLES OF CONVINCING THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND:
1. The slow, hard way to reach and convince the subconscious is by repetition.
2. Identification with group or parent: If you are Irish you may have a
subconscious desire to show off your so-called "Irish temper," which
is merely an idea accepted because you are a member of a group. Again, you may
have been told "You're just like your father" often enough
to have accepted some of his habits as your own.
3. Ideas presented by authority figures are usually accepted as absolute truths
by the subconscious.
4. Intense emotion opens up the corridor to the subconscious because the
conscious mind is inhabited by emotions. If a child is badly frightened
by a dog, he may fear dogs for the rest of his life, in spite of his conscious
reasoning that the average dog is not only harmless, but friendly.
5. The fifth way to subconscious change is by hypnosis, and this method is much
more practical and effective than the other... Hypnosis is the
fastest and shortest route to the subconscious.
History has recorded a continuing controversy over whether or not humans have
"free will." Many great philosophers, including Schopenhaur and Einstein,
have maintained that, since we are obviously products of our inheritance and our
environment, our choices in any given situation is determined
by our attitudes, desires and opinions, which are the result of those that
preceded them, and then those the preceded them, and so on
back to our childhood when our attitudes, opinions and resulting desires were
implanted in our subconscious mind by our environment.
We are
obviously product of factors beyond our control, and to many this seems to deny
that we have free will or moral responsibility. But we have the
wherewithal to modify these previously learned behaviour patterns by eliminating
destructive or anti-social ideas while in hypnosis, and replace
them with positive, truthful concepts that will enrich our lives. Hence our free
will.
Your subconscious mind understands pictures better than words. Imagine it will
happen; tell your subconscious to make it happen, believe it will happen
and it will.
Your subconscious mind understands pictures better than words. Imagine it will
happen; imagine it in your mind and tell yourself and tell your
subconscious to make it happen, if you imagine it will happen; it will.
