The Holistic Clinic Abergavenny

These days how often do we hear the advice to 'think positively', the numerous books and affirmations that exist offering us the possibility to change our lives through our thinking? Good advice if we all have so much will power and the ability to consciously consistently monitor and control our thoughts enough in order to erase our negative thinking patterns. The reality with most people is that their thoughts control them.

When sitting alone, miserable, ill, or in financial difficulties and unhappy, how can you possibly, truly believe a positive affirmation. Consciously you may say it, but your unconscious is sabotaging your plans, still set with the old negative patterns.

Many of us may have been 'programmed' negatively in our past. An example of this may be a teacher constantly saying 'You'll never amount to anything', and in that state of heightened emotion our unconscious has absorbed this suggestion so that we are 'unconsciously' living out the negative expectations of others.

In our daily lives most people are using about 10% of their mind's capacity, that of the conscious mind, while leaving the other 90% to the unconscious. Hypnosis is the tool, a bridge to the unconscious mind where enormous information-processing capabilities are stored. So in this age of computer technology we can appreciate the analogy by cell biologist Bruce Lipton, Ph.D, for example, of describing the conscious mind as operating with the computer processing power at about 40 bits of information per second, on a linear basis, one thing after another, while the subconscious processes information at a rate of 20 million bits per second, simultaneously. Therefore it surely makes sense to work with the guidance of that amazing part of our mind when focusing towards our goals.