Why Do We Want To Learn Hypnosis?

The power and wisdom of your unconscious mind is the key to your success in hypnosis. The article below by author and practitioner, Tad James, expresses this notion eloquently.

Excerpted from Hypnosis, A comprehensive Guide by Tad James  Copyright 2000.
Reproduced by permission of Crown House Publishing Limited

The value of experiencing trance and learning hypnosis lies in attaining the power to heal our own bodies and guide clients in healing theirs… power to learn… and power to create changes in our lives.

The doorway to success in hypnosis is the Unconscious Mind. Your Unconscious Mind not only holds information that is outside your consciousness, but it also manages sensations and body functions. A moment before reading this sentence, you probably were not aware of your feet against the floor, or your back against the chair. You have sensations coming to  your body all the time, but you remain unaware of most of them. In addition to managing all of these sensations, your Unconscious Mind keeps your heart beating, your blood circulating, your digestion working, and your lymph system operating… and makes your eyes blink without your conscious awareness. It is exciting to know that your Unconscious Mind manages all of that with perfect precision.

[In fact], your Unconscious Mind can communicate with every cell in the body. Due to the pioneering work of Dr Deepak Chopra [Ernest Rossi, et al], scientists have begun to realize the full extent of the Mind/Body connection. Not only does the information from the Mind affect the body, but there is now scientific  evidence that your mental processes, mental states, and mental behaviors affect all the cells in your body all the time.

The Unconscious Mind not only manages sensations, movements, and body functions, but also actually sends information that travels and affects billions of individual cells throughout the body, giving us health or dis-ease according to our Unconscious beliefs. Chopra describes this as your immune system constantly eavesdropping on your internal dialogue.

From the point of view of hypnosis and Neuro-Linguistic Programming, your immune system is also eavesdropping on the pictures that you hold in your head… the sounds that you remember or pay attention to… the feelings that you have… and the concepts that your mind considers. Through the conductivity of the neuro-transmitters that surround all cells, your immune system is constantly affected by the activity of the Unconscious Mind.

There are many things we are conscious of, but the operation—and health—-of the body is optimally a function of our Unconscious. Hypnosis allows us to begin reaching the Unconscious Mind and utilizing the Mind/Body connection. This is the beginning of our ability to manifest a number of wonderful things.

In addition to healing, the Unconscious Mind opens new doors to learning. If there is something you want to learn easily, you can say to your Unconscious Mind, “Let’s learn this”, and it will support you. If you are concerned about the presentation you are making, you can say to your Unconscious Mind, “Let’s organize all of this to flow easily and effortlessly”. Your Unconscious Mind will do all of this for you.

In trance, we can also tap into real power to create changes in our lives, healing what needs to be healed, preserving learnings from the past, and making new neurological connections to manifest our dreams……If we have rapport with our Unconscious Minds, we will have all the resources we need to create the future of our dreams.

[Dr.] Milton Erickson [often referred to as “The Father of Modern Hypnotherapy”] once said, “Patients are patients because they are out of rapport with their own Unconscious”.  Hypnotherapy [clients] are people who have had too much programming—so much outside programming that they have lost touch with their inner selves. People who are in rapport with their Unconscious Minds are also in control of their destiny.