Losing Weight With Self Hypnosis: Why The Subconscious Is King

The subconscious rules. We bow to its every whim. Even if we know what we're doing is harmful or even life-threatening, we do it if our subconscious commands. Our subconscious is what keeps us in abusive relationships. It keeps us smoking cigarettes, and hanging out with the wrong kinds of people. If it tells us to sit on the couch all day and watch TV, we do it. And it tricks us.

You see, we don't believe we're being controlled at all. We believe we're doing exactly what we want to do. We're smoking cigarettes as an act of rebellion. Yea, tell that one to the fat cat tobacco companies who are pulling your strings whenever they choose. That's why it's called the subconscious. It's underneath our conscious awareness. We don't know why we behave the way we do, we just do it. The only clues to our master's presence is our emotions. It is through them we can trace our patterns back to their origins. In this way, we can discover why we smoke cigarettes. We can understand why we stay with a mate who's verbally or even physically abusive. We can learn why we eat when we're not hungry.

You might be thinking, "So what? Just knowing why I overeat is not going to make me thin." And you're right. It's what you do with that information that's important. But with hypnosis, we can find another way to meet that need. We can go back in time and change the original emotion to something healthier. This creates a brand new pattern.

How does this happen?

Well, even though the subconscious rules every aspect of our lives, it is incredibly stupid in some areas. For example, it doesn't know the difference between what is real and what we imagine.

So, what this means is that if we regress ourselves to a point in our past where an undesirable emotional pattern was created, we can re-imagine that scene the way we'd like it to be, minus all the negative emotional stuff.

And, since the subconscious doesn't know it's not real, it will override the original episode, and start acting out a new behavior based on the new, imagined reality. This is especially effective in a state of hypnosis, where you are immersed in the scene, with all your senses engaged. You are literally creating a new memory for the subconscious to process. One of your choosing. In essence, you are creating a brand new pattern.

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