Using Hypnosis to Reach Your Goals
3 min readMost people know that using their will power can help them to get what they want in life. When you want to do something, you might try over and over and give up or you might stop doing a bad habit for a few months and then months down the way pick it up again. Smoking, for example, is one habit that is often hard to break and even if you give it up for a while, it can be tempting to pick it back up in a social setting.
It seems that when you have willpower to do something that it can come, and you can be strong for a minute but then out of nowhere the willpower is gone and you go back to that bad thing that was holding you back. This can cause your mind to have different signals.
Setting Your Mind on Your Goals
Once you make a real decision to do something then you will find that you can do whatever you set your mind to. You can change your mind to support whatever you want to do. This doesn’t actually take willpower but what it takes is your conscious and unconscious mind to work together to help you accomplish your goals.
When you start using willpower and your imagination then you can stop doing things that you want to stop and start doing things that you want to start. You can find out that the power of your mind can help to give you the right message to make you want to do what you need to do. This coupled with strong emotions can help you to do things that are not good for you.
You need to not worry as much about willpower as you need to worry about how to change your mind to work with your body.
Some people that are trying to give things up will often look to hypnosis to help them. They will try to find classes online or in workshops that they can take to help them beat a bad habit. They will try to learn how to go into a trance to connect their unconscious and conscious mind together.
Here are some things that you need to know:
- What your conscious mind is good at and what your unconscious mind is good at.
- The idea of saying what you want.
- The idea behind cause and effect.
- How you communicate and get the outcome that you want.
- Using both willpower and imagination together.
- That you are able to see perception differently when needed.
Hypnosis
Hypnosis as a time when your body is willing to receive and respond to different ideas. This allows you to act with suggestions and ideas.
This is something that has been around since ancient times and there have been people that have called it different things. It wasn’t until the 50’s that it was considered a real thing by the American Medical Association, and it was put into a category of therapy or hypnotherapy.
Consciousness
When you talk about your conscious and unconscious mind, it talks about your awareness on things. When you are unconsciously thinking of things, you are also consciously thinking of things. This is part of your mind that you are not always aware of, but it is something that helps you to do things that you do all the time and even helps you to live and stay strong in your life.
You don’t have to look too far to find some kind of information on hypnosis. Sometimes, people call hypnosis different things such as:
- Guided imagery.
- Meditation.
- Relaxation therapy.
- Visualizing.
If you find someone that is a licensed hypnotherapist then you can find that getting put into a trance can help you. Some are able to go into a trance like state easier than other people are able to while some it takes more work. Even when you are doing things on a daily basis like driving, your mind might wander elsewhere, and this can be a trance that you are in.
Being in a trance is a normal thing and it is just a time where you are very relaxed and calm. If you want to change in your life, learn to connect with both your conscious and unconscious mind and see what your body has in store for you.
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