December 13–Mindset and Hypnosis

About a week ago I listened to my good friend Dean Mercado of Online Marketing Muscle give a wonderful presentation called, “Get Your Year In Gear” to a group of small business owners.  Dean’s first key point was “Mindset” and how it can move you toward your personal/business dreams and goals or how it can stand in your way and stop you from reaching them.  While Dean does marketing coaching and I do life coaching, there are many areas in our work that overlap. 

Dean spoke at length about how what we think really does create our reality and then referred the group to me, if they needed to do some mindset work.  Today I’d like to talk about how hypnosis helps me in creating mindset changes.

What Is Hypnosis?

Most people have some idea about what a computer does, so I find it easier to explain hypnosis in computer terms.  Think of the subconscious mind as a “super computer.”  It stores information about every experience we have ever had in our life, exactly as it happened at the moment it was happening in sight, sound, color, etc.  Everything we have learned and believe is stored there.  When we want to create lasting change, we have to get to where the “programming” is saved. Hypnosis is a deep state of relaxation that allows us to reprogram the subconscious mind.

So You Think You Have Never Been Hypnotized…

For those of you who have never been formally hypnotized, I am about to break the myth of “I’m not sure or I really don’t know if I can be hypnotized.”  Twice a day whether you know it or not, you are in a state of hypnosis.  That period just before you fall asleep and just as you are waking up is when the brain is in alpha waves.  That is the same state that hynosis produces.  For those who have ever driven a car and wondered “how in the world did I get to this spot without being completely aware of it?”  The answer is simple.  You were in a state of waking hypnosis.

Do You Know The True You?

What did you learn about money, success, and your self-image?  Do those beliefs move you toward your dreams with the knowledge that you can accomplish anything?  Or, like so many of us, do you find yourself believing that others have those abilities while you lack them? These are the questions I explore with my clients and then we go on to delete the old self-doubts and save new empowering suggestions that move them in the direction of their dreams.

For those of you still believing the myth that “you are under the control of the hypnotist who can make you do things against your will” let me assure you, that will never happen.  The hypnotist is just the guide who knows how to get you to the programming.  You are always in control.  Still skeptical?  Why not learn self-hypnosis? For anyone interested, I will be teaching a self-hypnosis class after the holidays are over.  You can contact me at: jean@tranquilitybasedlifecoaching.com for more information.

Remember:  To have a dream come true you must first believe in it knowing you have the ability to make it happen. 

As Walt Disney said, “It’s fun to do the impossible.”