Although we all have one brain, we possess two minds or two phases of mind power – CONSCIOUS and SUBCONSCIOUS. It is important to understand the function of the CONSCIOUS MIND and the SUBCONSCIOUS MIND, because each one has different functions, abilities and capacities. First of all, it’s important to understand that if you are having difficulties making changes, you are not weak willed nor does i
t mean you cannot change. You inability to make the necessary changes is purely because you are using the wrong part of your mind to try and make the change. Our conscious mind is the part that does the reasoning, has the will power and contains the ability to critically assess and evaluate our life. Even though our will is very powerful we see ourselves making the same mistakes over and over again. Our conscious mind is not in control of our life. It is the subconscious mind that runs our life according to our belief systems and our programming that happens from the time we are born or probably even before. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that you have to change the SUBCONSCIOUS Blueprint or automatic programming, otherwise you will keep getting the same results no matter how hard you try to change. There are many ways to do this. One of the fastest ways is through hypnosis. What hypnosis does is bypass the Critical Factor or the Gatekeeper which allows you to rewrite the Blueprint in your SUBCONSCIOUS so that it ends up giving you everything you want out of life without any effort or struggle. The Gatekeeper is designed to keep information out — which is tremendously useful when someone tries to persuade you to do something stupid like telling you that you can “Jump off a building and you’ll fly!” But, it’s also very harmful when it keeps you stuck with a belief or habit that you don’t want any more. To make changes the conscious and unconscious mind have to be in agreement to do so. The Gatekeeper has some very powerful tools at its disposal, which include emotions like fear, doubt, worry and anger. These are psychological defence mechanisms that automatically reject new information. Up about age six we are learning things very quickly. If you observe children you can see how quickly they are able to pick up new information. This is because the Critical Factor is not developed. As we age it becomes more important to exercise caution to know the difference between right and wrong, hence the Critical Factor becomes more discerning and developed. After the Critical Factor has been developed, it creates a new set of problems. Let’s say you are a smoker and you say, “I want to quit smoking”. That is your Conscious Mind speaking. The Critical Factor will turn to the SUBCONSCIOUS and ask if that thought can enter. The SUBCONSCIOUS is in charge of our habits such as smoking. Now as intelligent as it would be to stop smoking, the SUBCONSCIOUS always takes the path of least resistance and resists change, so because of those characteristics, the SUBCONSCIOUS will decline the opportunity for that thought to enter. The SUBCONSCIOUS operates on the “principle of least effort”. It likes things the way they are and likes routine. In fact, it hates change. Because it hates change and likes to keep things the way they are, it may even try to justify the decision to keep smoking with excuses such as “I need to smoke to reduce stress” or, “it keeps me from being anxious or grouchy”. So it may reject the ‘quit-smoking’ message. Obviously, once you replace those hidden SUBCONSCIOUS blocks and beliefs, nothing will stand in the way of becoming a non-smoker or changing any other habit or changing any other aspect of your life. The roadblocks will be gone. Here is something else that is very important to understand. Most people try to change their habits and beliefs through the use of willpower. I WILL stop smoking. I WILL lose weight. I WILL be confident. I WILL become wealthy, etc. The problem with willpower — believe it or not – is willpower does not exist! The truth is that you do not have willpower or lack of willpower. What is really happening when you use what most people call “willpower” is your Conscious attention is overriding your Subconscious attention. In other words, you can always consciously override what the SUBCONSCIOUS mind has been programmed to do. For example, if you’re a smoker and you consciously decide not to smoke, you probably will not smoke – for awhile. However, the moment you get distracted, the cigarette ends up in your hand because your SUBCONSCIOUS attention says you smoke, so you smoke. The same is true if you’re on a diet. When your “willpower” breaks, when your conscious attention gets distracted, what happens? You find yourself with cheesecake in hand. Because that’s your SUBCONSCIOUS mind taking over and you keep doing the same thing you did before, which is to eat the cheesecake. Let’s say you tend to procrastinate. So you decide to use “willpower” to stop yourself from procrastinating. That works okay for awhile until your conscious attention gets distracted. What happens then? You go right back to procrastinating. When you consciously try to change (using what some people call “willpower”) you’re okay and your commitment works. But as soon as you get distracted, your SUBCONSCIOUS Blueprint (the way you were before you tried to change) takes over. Between your CONSCIOUS and SUBCONSCIOUS mind there is a division called the “Critical Factor”. The Critical Factor takes what the CONSCIOUS mind is thinking and then seeks approval from the SUBCONSCIOUS mind to pass the information along. Sometimes it allows it to be delivered and sometimes it does not. Many say we develop this Critical Factor at about age six. Prenatal and neonatal brains operate predominantly in Delta and Theta EEG frequencies through the first six years of our lives. This level of brain activity is also referred to as the hypnotic state. While in this hypnotic state, children do not have to be actively coached into specific beliefs. They develop a core belief system simply by observing and interacting with parents, siblings, peers, teachers, religion and television. Later on we think we are thinking, but for the most part we are just reacting to life based on our beliefs. This causes us to act in habitual ways that are in accordance with our beliefs – which are mostly Subconscious. Said another way, most of the time you are on autopilot, but you think you’re flying the plane!! You are in a trance! The problem with any trance is that our trance does not allow other perspectives or viewpoints to become part of our consciousness. This causes us to view our beliefs about the world as “The Truth”. Beliefs create the trance state. When you lock on to your version of the truth, your reactions to what happens in your world become predictable and automatic. You behave in a way that is congruent with what YOU believe to be true. A large part of the Subconscious patterning process – the formation of your trance that I have just described – relates to beliefs that we develop regarding ourselves. A few moments ago we talked about the Gatekeeper. The purpose of the Gatekeeper is to keep you in your current trance. In order to change the trance we have to get by the Gatekeeper. Therefore, your task is to get that Gatekeeper out of action or out of commission, so that you can go straight to the Subconscious, where the Blueprint is, and start changing that Blueprint to make it a richer, healthier and happier. You want to rewrite the Blueprint so that your Subconscious attention ends up giving you everything you want out of life. Hypnosis is designed to do. It gives you the ability to change the Subconscious Blueprint so that all the energy goes in the direction that you want it to go. When you do that, life becomes easy, natural and effortless. No willpower, no forcing and no unpleasantness required.
