Train Your Brain

Ghandi once said, "Usually I meditate for an hour each morning, but I have so much to do today, I will meditate for two." In other words, once you have something worked out firmly in your mind, its physical manifestation comes quickly. HAMMERTOES For example, a woman suffered from hammertoes (toes curl down). She tried everything, even having the tendons in her foot cut to help her toes lie flat. The tendons grew back together! Finally, she decided to try hypnosis. In one session, she recalled her father had been very mean. If she would cry, her father would threaten her with a beating. As an adult, she remembered how mean her father was and how afraid she was of him. What was buried in her subconscious were decisions she had made as a child: To stop herself from crying (and avoid a beating), she would curl up her toes. She had equated showing emotion with physical pain. As an adult she was continuing to curl her toes to keep from being emotional and avoid pain. Ah ha! Once she understood what caused her behavior, her toes went flat and remained flat. THE LEFTY A 57-year-old man procrastinated when writing checks and paying bills. He wanted to conquer his procrastination and tried hypnosis to overcome it. It worked, but not in the way he anticipated. During hypnosis, he remembered being in kindergarten and holding his pencil in his left hand. His teacher walked by and remarked, "Oh, you must be a lefty" (meaning he must be left-handed). At that very moment, his young mind decided he must be left handed. Why? Because he was told by an "authority figure" that he was left handed. (Children are taught to respect authority and grown-ups are always right.) Because as a child he didn't have enough information to make an informed decision on his own. (A child doesn't have enough information until the ages of 7-9. Before that, their young minds accept pretty much everything - carte blanche.) Because of this one remark, he spent the next 51 years writing left handed. However, everything else he performed with his right hand - opening doors, throwing balls, etc. Once he analyzed the incident with his adult mind, he realized he wasn't left-handed, but really was right handed. He started writing with his right hand and within two days said it felt "right". And his procrastination had left. For more examples, visit www.personalenergyprogram.com THE LESSONS WE LEARN We learned many lessons as children. Some were good and others not so good. These lessons play out constantly in our daily lives and run our behavior, even today. You usually remember an event, but how your young mind interpreted the event is usually buried deep in your subconscious. If you want to change a behavior, you need to: 1) Become aware of the event(s) that caused the behavior you want to change, 2) Determine how you interpreted the event(s), 3) Recognize how your interpretation created the behavior you want to change, and 4) Change or delete the behavior. The fastest and most efficient way to change an unwanted behavior is through the use of hypnosis. With hypnosis you can easily access your subconscious mind, locate the event that triggered the pattern, understand how you interpreted the event, analyze the resulting behavior and re-train your brain by changing or deleting the behavior. With hypnosis, you can easily re-train your brain. Remember, once you have something worked out in your mind, its physical manifestation comes quickly.