Spiritual healing through your subconscious mind
The subconscious mind is a treasure trove of insights and guidance. The information that you uncover from your subconscious mind can lead to spiritual healing.
There are two ways to access your subconscious – through meditation and hypnosis. I’ve tried both and I find that hypnosis is far more effective.
While meditation can allow you to connect with your subconscious mind, it can be difficult to sustain that connection for a long period of time.
With hypnosis, you are being guided by a hypnotherapist which makes the process easier. Instead of having to maintain a connection on your own, the hypnotherapist uses words and pictures to calm you until you are in a trance-like state. Once in that state, you can communicate with your subconscious mind for an extended period of time.
The first time I experienced hypnosis was a few months ago when I did a past life regression (check out my post from 5/20/24 to read more about it).
During that session, I uncovered – and released – trauma that I had been carrying from prior lives.
I recently signed up for a series of clinical hypnosis sessions focused on weight loss. I’ve been an emotional eater for as long as I can remember. My hope is that through hypnotherapy, I will get guidance on when and why this behavior started. Once I have that guidance, I can reprogram my subconscious mind to break my pattern of emotional eating.
The subconscious mind drives 95% of what we think, say and do.
If there is an issue you are struggling with, chances are that your conscious mind – even with all its willpower and determination – may not be strong enough to overcome that issue.
The purpose of our subconscious mind is to store information – in the form of memories – about everything we have ever experienced. Those long-term memories drive our everyday actions.
The subconscious mind has an unlimited capacity. Because of the volume of information that is stored there, your subconscious creates “short-cut” associations to communicate with the conscious mind.
An example of this is phobias – your conscious mind knows that you have a fear of spiders, but it may not know why you have this fear. In this instance, the “why” is stored in your subconscious mind.
Alternatively, you may know exactly why you are afraid of spiders. When you were 10, your classmate locked you in a closet full of spiders as a prank. The event was significant enough that you remember every detail about it. That memory lives in your conscious mind. In this instance, a short-cut association from your subconscious mind is not needed.
There are some memories that are buried so deeply that they become 100% disconnected from your conscious mind - no memory and no short-cut association. This is called repressed trauma, which is a survival tool used by your subconscious.
Repressed trauma, also known as dissociative amnesia, is a defense mechanism that prevents a person from remembering events that were severely traumatic. In most cases, these events occurred during childhood.
Most people have repressed trauma from childhood. That trauma can take many forms, and the severity of the trauma varies.
Since children lack the coping skills necessary to process trauma, the subconscious mind buries the memories so deeply that they are severed from the conscious mind.
Because of this, the trauma will manifest within the body (as a trauma response) instead of within the mind.
Trauma responses within the body can include anxiety, depression, sleep disorders, eating disorders, anger issues or substance abuse.
If you struggle with any of these issues, I highly recommend hypnosis. It can be an effective tool to unlock repressed trauma, which is often the root cause of long-term issues or behaviors that negatively impact your life.
Once you unlock it, you can process it and release it, so that it no longer has a hold over you.