Power Of The Mind

The Brain

The brain is an amazing creation, this 3lb lump of jelly can figure out the complexities of space, even contemplate us contemplating the complexities of space! A piece of brain the size of just 1 grain of sand has more than 100,000 neurons and around 1 million connections. You do the math- if you can : ). The rods found in the eyes alone produce many 100′s of millions of pieces of information at any one time and the brain is working tirelessly to assemble all this information and more, to give us our view of the world.

Senses

Our senses provide a neverending stream of information all feeding back to the brain for it to formulate our conscious experience. However this conscious hypnosis derby experience is not necessarily what we think it is. What we see/feel/hear, everything we experience everyday is a perception created by our brains. That is to say its not necessarily real. All our lives our brain has collated information, it has reviewed this information based on our belief systems our thoughts and feelings and what we have learned from our peers and significant others and the result is what we experience. We are all a product of our environment- the crucial thing is that we can each perceive our environment to be different from the person next to us, therein lies endless possibilities.

Control, or not ?

We might like to think that we control everything we do, we are in charge and we lead our lives the way we want. Well most people think that, but they are wrong. If we were in charge of ourselves no one would be overweight and not want to be, no one would have phobias that rules their lives, drinking problems or any similar issues. Some part of our brain controls what we do, and it does pretty much what it wants a lot of the time- it needs to be harnessed to help us achieve our goals. We call this part of us our subconscious mind, its not a tangible thing that can be found during an autopsy, but we all like to talk like we have one.

Free Will

The existence of the subconscious may be hard to prove empirically (proven scientifically beyond a doubt) but whatever you want to call it, this part of us can even learn to turn pain off! There is a part of us that knows far more than we realise consciously.  Many years ago, Benjamin Libet proved by recording our electrical activity on our brains that some part of us is aware of our actions 500 milliseconds before we consciously are. This revolutionised the notion of free will- we might think that we just speak but our brain has already thought of our words following the first word spoken, before the first word has been uttered! Even today, leading Neuro-scientists like V S Ramachandran have proved that there is often a “person inside us” that knows far more than we consciously do.

H.M

The most studied person in psychology known only as HM had his hippocampus removed (this is the part of the brain responsible for forming new memories). After testing with never before seen experiments (drawing a shape by looking in a mirror) HM showed that after several days of testing he got better and better at the test. This proved that some part of his brain remembered the experiment although consciously HM had no recollection of the experiment, every new day he thought it was an experiemnt he had never experienced before.

Hypnosis

So when we are faced with a problem, we can suffer needlessly. Just like when something is on the tip of our tongue we know what information we need but we cant seem to access it. The answers are in our heads, its just that we are completely oblivious to it. After all, whatever problem we have can only be a response to something. If you are suffering needlessly try hypnosis. Hypnosis has been proven time and time again to be an extremely quick yet very effective way to solve our problems. It works so well because it allows us to get to the part of our brains that control much of what we do, and then to help retrain that part of us to work with us instead of fighting us. We can all learn to do more than we currently do.

Hypnosis is not voodoo or rubbish as many people like to think. It is so natural we tend not to really notice it, but in the same way we dont notice the other wonders of the world most of the time. Our subconscious is in everything we do -you dont even know it! If we were to call hypnosis ‘neuro-modulation’ or some other similar term then people wouldnt be so sceptical.  In years to come, hypnosis will be practised much more widely than it is now. If for no ther reason than it can cut the costs of many illnessess or operations in different ways.

Self hypnosis is a gift that we all possess but most of us seldom use. Successful people use it even if they dont know it, its our determination, even powering our drive to succeed.

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