Hypnotism basically grants you access to your
subconscious and unconscious
mind. Now you may wonder what the big deal about the subconscious mind is
and why it makes a difference whether we have access to it or not. Our
subconscious mind is the storehouse of everything we have ever seen,
felt or
done in our lives. For example, consider a skill you need to learn, such as driving
a car. The first few times you drive a care, you will be focused only on driving
and will not be able to focus on any conversation in the car. That’s because your
subconscious mind hasn’t had time to store the skill. After some time and
practice, driving will come naturally to you. Why?
Because the information you’ve gathered from your experience of driving will
have been stored in your subconscious.
That means your subconscious is now in the driver’s seat.
You use the information stored in the subconscious
mind to drive while your
conscious mind focuses on the conversation in the car.
The subconscious mind is the one that is responsible for the feelings and
emotions you experience when you encounter a new situation. For example, if
you were to audition for a talent competition, all the fear and anxiety you fear is
from your subconscious mind that has stored the feelings and associated it with
events that could possibly humiliate you. The unconscious mind controls all our
involuntary actions such as breathing. It essentially works from the moment we
are brought into this world to the moment we leave it.
The conscious mind,
on the other hand, is responsible for all the logic and
reasoning we do. The conscious mind accounts for only 10-12%
of our mental
capacity. The remainder is the work of our entire subconscious and unconscious
mind. The conscious mind is the one you use to confront problems,
arrive at
solutions and work with on a daily basis. It is home to the working memory; the
memory we need to function on a daily basis. It controls our logical, analytical
skills and voluntary body actions.
Now that we have discussed the differences between our subconscious,
unconscious
and conscious mind, you should know that hypnotism isn’t just to
reach your subconscious mind. It signifies a state
of midway consciousness
where the mind is more susceptible to suggestion. There are two theories about
what happens after hypnosis takes place. One theory, known as the altered state
theory, suggests that once a person has been hypnotized, a trance state sets in. It
states that this trance state is your sleeping consciousness. The second theory
(non-state) posits that when a person is under hypnosis, the role they perceive for
themselves is in play. It claims that it is more like an active role-playing state of
mind, in which the person assumes that they possess all the ideal characteristics
desired, when reality challenges that role.
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