Hypnotherapy is well known for healing trauma and pain relief. Hypnosis is also extremely valuable in working with sports enhancement, weight loss, motivation, self-esteem, anxiety, panic attacks, insomnia, increased confidence, smoking, phobias and stress related issues.

Category: Psychotherapy

The Conscious and Subconscious Mind

The conscious portion of your mind consists of about 10% of our thinking ability and the subconscious portion of your mind consists of about 90%.

Your conscious mind commands and your subconscious mind obeys.

Your subconscious mind is an unquestioning servant. It works day and night to make your behavior fits a pattern consistent with your emotionalized thoughts, hopes, and desires. Your subconscious mind grows either flowers or weeds in the garden of your life.

We have one mind, but there are two parts to our mind: conscious and subconscious. The conscious and subconscious parts of the mind could be compared to an iceberg. The portion of the iceberg above the surface of the water is the conscious portion and the ice beneath the water is the subconscious portion.

Our conscious mind consists of what is available to our conscious thinking process. It is the analytical, rational, logical, two plus two is four mind. Temporary memory and will power resides in the conscious mind. It is that part of the mind that says, “I should stop smoking.” “I should lose weight.” “I should not be afraid of elevators.”

The subconscious mind is not logical and it contains our permanent memory, emotions, habits, automatic responses, feelings, instincts and impressions. The subconscious part of the mind controls breathing, heart rate, blood pressure, temperature, and other natural functions of our body. The subconscious mind is concerned with bringing about our deepest wishes expectations and desires even if they are contrary to logic and our own well being.

In addition to our memories, habits, and impulses, the subconscious also contains that which we have inherited from our ancestors. We inherit through the subconscious our race knowledge, instincts and impulses.

The subconscious never dozes, never sleeps and keep us going by directing our breathing, heartbeat, etc.. Once the subconscious mind accepts an idea, it begins to make the idea a reality. It works the same for good or bad ideas. When applied in a negative way, the subconscious can be the cause of failure, frustration, unhappiness and even illness. Your subconscious mind is like the soil which accepts any kind of seeds – good or bad. It is the seat of your emotions and the storehouse of your memory.

The subconscious mind does not care if the body hurts, but rather that the deepest needs are met. If our greatest need is for affection and the only time we experience affection is when we are sick, we may get sick in order to receive the affection that we need. This occurs even though we don’t like being sick and the reason is unknown.

It is important to note that the subconscious can not tell the difference between a wish and a fear. If a fear becomes dominate in your thinking, the subconscious will interpret that fear as a wish and attempt to make it happen. I never tell a person not fear something or worry about something because that is like saying “Don’t think of the colour red.” As soon as I do that you can not help but thing of the colour red. I do suggest that when you fear something or began to worry about something that you replace that thought with something good because two thought of emotional content can not continue because one will take over. Make sure that the thought that takes over is a good thought.

What is the conscious mind?

In order to understand the subconscious, you must first understand the conscious. Visual representations of the subconscious mind often show an iceberg, and this is a very telling analogy. The small part above water is your conscious mind, this part is all you can see. It seems like this is how big the iceberg is.

The conscious describes our perception of our surface thoughts. The conscious mind encompasses your thoughts, habits and emotions. The things that you feel and notice are your conscious mind at work; however, the reason behind why you are having these thoughts is attributed to the subconscious.

Following the iceberg analogy, the 90% that lies beneath the water, the mass holding up the 10% that can be seen represents the subconscious mind. Our conscious decisions and beliefs are what make us the person we are. The countless smells, sights, interactions, feelings, and sounds around us, whether we’ve noticed them or not are working behind the scenes to form who we consciously choose to be.

For example, if you decide you would like to become a better cook, your conscious mind has made this decision. Your subconscious mind has collected information that made you want this skill. You may have witnessed the warmth and appreciation for a person who cooked at a dinner party. You may have noticed a coworker bringing in home-cooked healthy meals, and noticed them getting in better shape. A friend may have started a side business selling baked sweets, and you’ve witnessed them becoming a happier person by working with their hands to create these treats that are bringing happiness to others. Your subconscious mind learned and recorded how you felt while having these experiences and used that information to give your conscious a positive association with cooking.

What is the subconscious mind?

Your perception of who you are has been created by the subconscious mind over time. The information your subconscious uses to form your expectations, desires and beliefs are beyond our awareness and control. This process is automatic.

The human brain processes about one thousand trillion logical operations per second. You don’t have to consciously will your heart to beat, or your stomach to digest food. All of these processes are controlled by our incredibly diverse brain systems. Our subconscious picks up on everything we notice and directly pay attention to, as well as the events in our periphery. This gathered information is used to form the type of partner we choose, the movies we enjoy, our decorating style, and the things that bring us satisfaction.

The subconscious is also responsible for creating comfort in our surroundings. Knowing your way around town, the ease of navigating your laptop, and anticipating the needs of your children can all be attributed to millions of moments that have been stored in your mind to be called upon when needed.

If you’ve driven down a difficult winding road multiple times, the muscle memory causing this task to become easier is provided by the subconscious. You don’t spend time thinking about this road when you aren’t on it, but your brain has saved massive amounts of information and provides that information to you when you return to the road time and again.

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What is the differences between Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy?

Hypnotherapy is uses guided relaxation, intense concentration, and focused attention to achieve a heightened state of awareness that is sometimes called a trance.

The person’s attention is so focused while in this state that anything going on around the person is temporarily blocked out or ignored.

Psychotherapy is the use of psychological methods, particularly when based on regular personal interaction, to help a person change behavior and overcome problems in desired ways.


Psychology is the study of human behaviour and psychotherapy is an umbrella term for the many different ways of helping people with their thoughts and emotions.

Hypnotherapy falls into this category, so the purpose of this article is to compare it with traditional forms of psychotherapy, such as working with a psychologist, psychiatrist or even a counselor.

Hypnotherapy has two significant advantages over other psychological approaches:

  • Hypnotherapy deals directly with the subconscious mind.
  • Hypnotherapy is usually far quicker in producing beneficial changes and results.

These two factors are obviously linked. Hypnotherapy tends to be quicker, because it deals with subconscious thought processes, which are often the cause of many people’s problems. To be clear, I am not saying that hypnotherapy is superior, just that we have an advantage that sometimes can produce faster results than the other methodologies.

Hypnotherapy can also sometimes produce results, where other methodologies might fail. Direct communication A hypnotherapist is in a unique position of actually being able to communicate with the subconscious mind directly in a way that nobody else can. A psychotherapist can, but it takes much longer, as a rule. A counselor can, but will be no faster than the psychotherapist and possibly less effective. A psychiatrist can, but seldom without dependency-creating medication.

A psychoanalyst can, but will take several years to do it effectively. Hypnotherapists and psychotherapists have an understanding of the way the psyche works and also have a recognition of how beliefs about one’s self can be so inaccurate, how and when they will have been formed, and how limiting they can be. In addition to this, we both know more than a thing or two about communication. However, our “trump card” as hypnotherapists has to be our ability to bypass that Conscious Critical Faculty, so that we can work directly in the area where the problem is. It gives us a major advantage over even the very best of psychotherapists and counselors, since the only way they can work with the subconscious is via consciousness, which means that therapy will be slower and more complex.

Hypnotherapy is not always the best solution Do not, at this point, run away with the idea that the hypnotherapist is some sort of god, because we most certainly are not!

We cannot help those who suffer from severe mental illnesses.

We are very successful in treating emotional illness such as neurosis, but we are not suited to treating psychosis. There are also some emotionally ill people who will not respond to hypnotherapy, but will make great strides of improvement with psychotherapy. There are people who will fear us so much that we cannot help them at all, but they may respond to a counselor far more positively.

There are other conditions, such as bi-polar disorder, that will not respond to hypnotherapy and could even leave a person at risk if we did not ensure they have received conventional medical help. Hypnotherapy is also not a perfect tool for all to use in the treatment of obsession, although there are occasions when it has been effective; generally, behavioural-type therapies are more effective.

Obsession has always been a very difficult illness to get to grips with – for both therapists and clients.

However, it must be pointed out, that there are very few conditions in which hypnotherapy cannot be beneficial, even if it is only as a complementary approach. There are also some conditions in which straightforward psychotherapy is unlikely to be very successful, one of them being jealousy; yet the results using hypnotherapy, especially analysis, with that particular symptom can be quite good.

The influence of psycho therapeutic techniques Hypnotherapy does not merely involve suggestion style therapy; it is heavily influenced by a variety of psycho therapeutic techniques.

A skilled hypnotherapist will often incorporate many different methodologies into any given treatment. One psycho therapeutic method that is particularly useful for hypnotherapists is to directly challenge the limiting belief structures – which is the basis of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). For instance, when someone says, “I can’t do that,” we can ask them to change “can’t” to “won’t” and then explore the reasons.

Incorporating such methodologies into hypnotherapy gives us additional tools for permanent, lasting change. Please remember that hypnotherapy is complementary, not alternative. I believe that when we use these tools in conjunction with hypnosis, it makes them much more effective and they will often work much quicker.

However, everyone has their own unique model of the world, their own inner world, and their own differences. We can never know how long it will take a particular person to respond to psychotherapy or hypnotherapy. Although there are some exceptions, I personally believe that almost anything that psychotherapy can achieve, hypnotherapy can accomplish much quicker. I just see it as a more direct route to resolution. You can talk about something at length and never really resolve any of the underlying subconscious thoughts and feelings that fuel your waking reactions.

The advantage of hypnotherapy is that we can go straight to the source — the subconscious mind!

Ref:. www.selfhypnosis.com and www.mnhypnotherapyassociates.com

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