How Our Minds Work - Part 1
Before you can understand what hypnosis is and how it works you really must first understand how your mind works. We really have three separate and distinct minds, not one. You can think of it like having three heads on your shoulders or being one in a set of triplets. These minds do communicate and interrelate but not well, and therein lies the problems we encounter in life and the power of hypnosis. Each of these parts of the mind does their own set of tasks or jobs. This separation of duties is important to understand because it ends up causing us all sorts of emotional and physical problems.
The Unconscious Mind
Let’s talk briefly about the unconscious mind. This is the part of the mind the takes care of bodily functions such as your eyes blinking, your respiration, your heart beating, and your immune system. We are not going to talk too much about this part because hypnosis deals more directly with the subconscious mind. Before we move away from the unconscious mind I should point out that there have been many clinical studies done that have affected this part of us. One of these studies, noted from the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, was run on fifteen AIDS patients. They individually drew the blood of this test group and documented the T-Cell count, which was very low and abnormal. Individually they were all put through hypnosis regarding their T-Cell count and given suggestions of normalcy in this regard. Afterwards their blood was drawn again and tested. All fifteen people in the test group tested at normal blood counts. With this study and hundreds of other clinical testing scenarios we cannot discount the affect that hypnosis can have on the body in relation to the unconscious mind.
I have recently been working with a crack cocaine user who has AIDS. By clearing away most, if not all of the negativity stored in her subconscious mind, her CD4 cell count has risen from 200 to 426! CD4 cells are white blood cells that help coordinate the various activities of your immune system. HIV targets CD4 cells more than any other kind of cell in your body. A normal CD4 cell count is about 600-1,500 cells. CD4 cell counts usually fall as the HIV disease progresses. There is yet another test implemented on HIV carriers. This test is called the “Viral Load” test. Evidence shows that keeping the viral load levels as low as possible for as long as possible decreases the complications of HIV disease and prolongs life. After many months of HIV treatment my client’s viral load tested at 20,000 and climbing. Public health guidelines state that treatment should be considered for HIV-infected people who have a viral load higher than 30,000. After working with my subject using hypnotherapy, which was not targeted towards her HIV whatsoever, her viral load was tested at “Undetectable.” She is very happy and excited about this test result.
We can consciously dictate over some unconscious bodily activities if we want to. Through thought we can slow our heart rate down. What about breathing? Your unconscious mind controls this system. It knows exactly how deeply to inhale and exhale to supply your body with the exact amount of oxygen. Take a moment now and concentrate on your breathing, you’ll find that if you do you’ll mess it up. This is also true with male erection problems. If a man has performance anxiety about his erection, he will have problems in this regard. The moment he stops thinking about it and pays attention only to his partners feel, taste, smell and look, he will have allowed his unconscious mind to control this system and things will work normally. (Note to women here, do NOT make any big deal about this if your husband is dealing with this problem, it will only make it worse.)
Author Tim Bartley
Excerpt from the book Hypno Healing by Tim Bartley
http://ThoughtBecomesReality.com
