I was checking out the articles on the way the subsonscious brain works and found out the intersting writings from Loretta Peters-Martin, a certified Clinical hypnotherapist and Life coach which points towards the situations when you missed an exit off the freeway or taken a wrong turn because your mind wandered somewhere else. She mentioned Daydreaming as a form of hypnosis that can happen to us any point of time during the day or night and a fresh idea comes in mind or remember to calendar something that we had forgotton. She mentioned that hypnosis is not a form of mind control. No one can hypnotize anyone into doing anything that is against his or her morals or ethics, and no one can be hypnotized into doing something that they do not want to do. We all experience some form of hypnosis every day - chopping veggies, driving or exercising. When we are in a state of hypnosis, our conscious mind is relaxed and our subconscious mind is susceptible to suggestion, while simultaneously we are very aware of our surroundings and what is happening.
We have a left-brain and a right-brain. The left brain is our logical mind - the one that says: "Don't touch the stove; you'll get burned," "I have to go to work today," or "Pick up the dry cleaning." The right brain is the creative mind - the subconscious mind and the place where the inner child resides. Our subconscious mind has a 10 year-old mentality. It stops growing by the age of 10, and that is why our dreams can be strange and symbolic. It is so the subconscious brain (the inner child) can understand and process. Like kids do take in everything literally.
Here is an example given by Loretta Peters-Martin of how children (and our subconscious minds) take things literally and she said, when she was a little girl, she was an Army brat and used to moved around a great deal to places like Germany, Texas and Georgia. When she was 5 and her younger brother was 4, she lived in Ft. Benning, Georgia and played with a friend their age - a little girl whose mom was Caucasian and whose dad was African-American. That was her first experience around a "mixed" child - i.e., the beautiful olive skin, the green eyes and the curly blonde hair. One day her mom said to her brother and her that the child was hateful. As an adult, she knew what her mom meant by that, as the little girl had some sneaky, vindictive ways about her. However, her little 5 year-old mind understood that to be: "Mixed children are hateful." For a long time after that, she used to think all "mixed" kids were hateful.
That is how the little child's mind works? The right brain - the subconscious mind - is where all of our experiences and memories are stored from childhood.
Most everyone has suppressed emotions from childhood. Even if we grew up in a functional family, we can still suppress issues and hold experiences in our subconscious minds. For instance, here are a couple of other examples that the author presented on how the subconscious mind works:
Take the African-American male who was one of the top salespeople in his company, but he couldn't make it to the number one slot. Whenever he got close, he felt something sabotaging him - pulling him back. He dreamt of making 6 digits a year and having his own company. What came up for him during hypnosis was the suppressed statement his mother made to him when he was a young boy: "Son, you'll excel at everything you do, but you'll never have what rich white men have." Do you see how the young subconscious mind can be affected?
Take the woman who has been married and divorced 5 times - in and out of relationships. Each time she was in a great relationship, she would do something to sabotage it. What came up for her during hypnosis was a memory of helping her mom with the dishes when she was a little girl. Her parents just had a little argument. It was nothing major. They were simply miffed at each other. The mother stated to her: "Don't ever trust men - they're not worth the trouble." Do you see how she was subconsciously sabotaging herself all those years just to keep from trusting men?
Hence, In order to have the lives we desire, we must release the gunk. Hypnosis is an excellent way of releasing false beliefs we accepted as children. It is a powerful tool for releasing old concepts and belief systems which no longer serve us.
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