Many people go through their lives without understanding why they make the same mistakes, follow the same patterns, and live in the same ruts. They aren’t happy with their present situation, but they seem to be unable to make any lasting changes. Are you one of these people?

Perhaps you’ve attend seminars, read books, and taken courses, but, in the end, fallen back into the same dysfunctional patterns you’ve always followed! Why does it always turn out this way?

We struggle to make permanent changes in our lives because we input information only into our conscious mind. The problem is that your conscious mind does not control your belief system or your behaviour.

To change your behaviors, you must first reprogram the hard-wired center of your mind: the subconscious mind.

How Does Your Subconscious Mind Work?

The subconscious is the largest part of our mind. It contains all the messages we’ve received throughout our lives. You belief mindset and character traits are held here, and grouped into millions of thoughts clustered held there.

The relationship between the conscious and subconscious minds is like an iceberg. The conscious mind is represented by the visible tip of the iceberg, while the subconscious is represented by the gigantic lower portion of the iceberg hidden from view.

You can’t see the subconscious in action, but it certainly has a major impact on the voyage you take in your life.

The subconscious is the place where all of your learned behaviors reside. Once you learn to walk, you don’t need to consider how to lift and place each foot to take the next step, do you? Of course not! Your subconscious mind automatically controls your steps.

Your subconscious learns behavior through repetition and practice. Just as it learned to control your footsteps when you learned to walk, it also controls your footsteps in your life’s journey based on what you’ve reinforced throughout your life.

The good news is you can reprogram your subconscious mind by inputting and reinforcing new thoughts and actions! By tapping into the the subconscious mind with several different techniques, you can reprogram how it works.

Here are some strategies you can use to change your mind and change your life:

1. Affirmations. Affirmations work to change your subconscious mind by using positive, personal, present tense statements to override the embedded negative thinking. By repeating these positive thoughts, you can create new pathways in your subconscious, giving it new attitudes.


Then your subconscious causes you to act in new ways that agree with these new attitudes. For example, repeating: “I choose healthy foods at each meal” can change your mindset about what you eat and why!


2. Visualization. Visualization is the act of creating detailed mental pictures that depict a desired outcome so you can see success for yourself. These images stimulate the subconscious into accepting them as reality, which then directs behavior accordingly. Top athletes around the world use this technique during game-time.


3. Hypnosis. Hypnosis and various other types of therapy works with the subconscious mind. By easing you into a state of extreme relaxation, you will find that hypnosis is effecive and works. Once you’re in this state, the conscious mind releases its grip, and the subconscious mind is easier to access.

While under hypnosis, it’s much easier to reprogram the subconscious into accepting new thoughts as reality.


4. Subliminal Audios. You can use subliminal audios while you sleep. The conscious mind listens to music or someone speaking on one level, but the subconscious mind hears another layer of information recorded underneath the audible portion.


When awake, the conscious mind is distracted with the audible portion of the audio, making it harder to tap into the subconscious mind.


Using techniques like these can help you reprogram your subconscious mind and remove the burden of the negative thoughts buried there. Imagine the freedom of living your life without the automatic dysfunctional behaviors you’ve had driving you for years!


When you transform your negative outlook into a positive one, you can accomplish so much more. In doing so, your mind will be released from negative programming, allowing you to excel and succeed throughout your life.

Much in modern hypnotherapy is owed to Milton H. Erickson, who considered that subjects could be put into a state of trance through conversational story telling, instead of using the old Freudian – you are getting sleepy method. Ericksonian hypnosis thought that particular words could trigger the mind and have an impact on a person’s behavior, whether they were in a trance or not. This belief is at the heart of NLP hypnosis otherwise known as Neuro Linguistic Programming, which is one of the hypnosis techniques used in hypnosis sessions to help folks overcome several mental and physical complaints.

During a hypnotherapy visit, patients will answer questions regarding their medical history and the condition they would like treated. Next, the hypnotherapist will discuss how stage hypnosis works. The subject will typically be asked to lie down and will be guided through relaxation techniques, sometimes employing music or a series of hypnosis techniques. Often a story is told and the wording of that story helps the subject fall into a state of trance. In this state, the sufferer will be given a post hypnotic suggestion to help ease his or her complaint. The majority of sessions last around an hour and adult patients see profound improvement in four to ten visits, children in as little as one or two sessions. In some cases, patients receive self hypnosis tapes to use at home to facilitate recovery.

Hypnosis Hypnotherapy is employed to treat a wide host of physical and mental ailments. Most recently, researchers found that the mind plays an important part in pain management, especially with cancer patients or those undergoing surgery. Studies indicate that hypnosis meditation can reduce an individuals need for medication and shorten recuperation time. Thinking negative thoughts can lead to stress, which has important ramifications on the body. It can disrupt a woman’s menstrual cycle, create a cold sore, make an individual ill with a cold, disrupt sleep patterns, generate ulcers, facilitate hair loss, aggravate psoriasis, lead to heart disease and contribute to obesity. Nowadays, hypnosis sessions are used in the treatment of asthma, anxiety, sleepwalking, nail biting, smoking, inflammatory bowel disease, insomnia, addiction, bed wetting, fibromyalgia, IBS, eczema, psoriasis, acne, migraines, stress, tinnitus, cancer pain, eating disorders, phobias, depression and the pain of childbirth.

The trouble with hypnotherapy is that not everybody is open to hypnotic suggestion. The subject must be an broad-minded, willing participant who pledges to remain attentive, suspend disbelief and go along with what the therapist is saying. A frequent misconception is that hypnotists can hypnotize somebody, plant suggestions and cause the person to act against their free will. The process itself is mystifying, although there must be a particular level of agreeableness before healing can occur.