Hypnosis as a Tool to Move Past Intellectual Understanding
Wow, that’s some kind of title. But this is an important point to understand for those who want to make important, powerful changes in their lives.
About 14 years ago or so, I began a spiritual journey that I hoped would bring me a higher understanding of our spiritual nature, and more importantly, a feeling or experience of enlightenment. I devoured books on spirituality and looked at a number of religions. After several years, I began to get an understanding (my own personal understanding) of what enlightenment was all about. What I discovered was that it wasn’t all that difficult to attain an intellectual understanding of spiritual enlightenment. But just because I had an intellectual understanding didn’t mean that I was having the actual experience of enlightenment or being enlightened.
Quite to the contrary, my new understanding gave me a painfully acute awareness that I was far from experiencing the sort of enlightenment I was looking for. But that’s okay. It was an important step for me to understand that I had to take what I’d learned and be able to incorporate that understanding into myself in a transformative way. And that’s where hypnosis fit into my life. I realized I had to incorporate the teachings I’d learned into a deeper level of my mind (my subconscious.) I became a CHT (Certified Hypnotherapist) around the same time I had this new understanding, and hypnosis has helped me to become less judgmental of myself and others, to be more in allowance of myself and others, and is also helping me to learn to enjoy life more and not take things quite so seriously.
This anecdote rings true for just about any area of our lives that we might wish to change. If you want to quit smoking, it’s easy to make that decision on a conscious, intellectual level. After all, a decision to quit smoking is a fairly rational decision to make. But quitting, making that transformative step from smoker to non-smoker, isn’t as easy as we’d like it to be. Because we also have to get our subconscious mind to go along with the change we want to make. And that’s where hypnosis can help us to move past the intellectual understanding of what we want to change and truly incorporate that change into our lives.
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