Let Your True Story Come Alive! Part 5

Every experience leaves a trace.

Your life story is recorded in the memory banks of your subconscious mind. Every thought, word, deed, action, choice is there. Within your subconscious mind are templates that hold deep reserves of memory, association, feeling and belief that make up your narrative. Your subconscious records everything. You give it weight, order and meaning.

I have been telling stories for years.

As a hypnotherapist, when I work with you, I tell a story to your subconscious mind, based on what you tell me and what result you want. It has to be believable to the subconscious mind, otherwise it won’t accept it. Therefore, I must be a truth-teller in my work.

Please visit my coaching page to learn more about my program on transforming your story.

Let Your True Story Come Alive! Part 4

I work with people who are not living their true story.

When you change your false story to a true one, you:

• Create a hand-crafted, authentic life where nothing goes to waste.
• Turn regrets and sorrows into learning and growing.
• Deepen your compassion, gratitude and joy of living.

When you heal your deepest wounds, you:

• Honor and take care of yourself in healthy, new ways.
• Resolve your paradoxes and contradictions.
• Own your power.
• Temper your negative ego and learn to recognize its lies and false stories.
• Let your character, truth and integrity be your guide.

Your true story is buried, not clear. Your perspective is skewed. My job is to help you see your true story—which may end up being very different from what you thought it was. Each pass youtake at understanding and healing your story uncovers more of its true power. Of its light. Of its meaning and purpose. Nothing goes to waste. Everything that happened has value.

Please visit my coaching page to learn more about my program on transforming your story.

Let Your True Story Come Alive! Part 3

What is the story you want to tell?

You may find yourself in a fairy tale – a completely false life. You may not even notice it. You may be asleep to it. Like the story of Sleeping Beauty, the first step is to awaken.

Often when you first awaken, you will encounter your obstacles. You’ll feel the pain, shame or sadness that set you to sleep in the first place.

When you seek greater success and abundance in your life, strong, loving relationships, meaningful work and fulfilling right livelihood, you will hit up against your false story. The one that stops you. It will stop you from a greater expression and expansion of yourself, and of your true story.

That false story resides in your subconscious mind as a subconscious construct or blueprint with corresponding beliefs, thoughts and feelings, decisions and choices attached to it. It feels true, but none the less is not. It may be time to let go of the past; to make a new blueprint that supports your new visions and dreams, and the abundance you desire.

Please visit my coaching page to learn more about my program on transforming your story.

Let Your True Story Come Alive! Part 2

You are the author of your story.

You can influence your story. You influence your story with your conscious intent to change, to heal, to make new. As you transform your story, you think and feel differently.

One of the most important ways to influence your story is to reflect upon what happened to you, what you experienced and to give it new meaning.

You begin to put your own imprint on your own story.

You decide. You can transform your story anytime, anywhere, anyway. That is your power.
Sometimes your story diminishes, limits, or holds you back from your dreams.

Sometimes your story is a drama, sometimes it’s a comedy, and sometimes it’s a tragedy. If you feel stuck in a tragedy, you can rewrite it. There are endless possibilities.

Please visit my coaching page to learn more about my program on transforming your story.

Let Your True Story Come Alive! Part 1

Once upon a time…
In a galaxy far, far away…
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…

The structure of the story is the structure of consciousness itself. We all tell stories all the time. We can’t not tell stories”
— Mike Daisy

Our lives are a story.

Our brains are wired to recognize story from day one. Stories are an integral part of our life from birth. As children we learned fairy tales, fables, family stories, songs, and poems. We communicate to ourselves and each other through story. Narrative is woven into everything.

It’s important to examine your story, to shine a light upon the old narrative and see what is really true.
You may not be able to control what happens to you, especially in childhood. As infants and children you are imprinted and influenced by others in your life, both in positive and negative ways.

But your story is continually unfolding – alive, vibrant and responsive to you.

You can rewrite the parts of your story that began long ago and just carried forward, but no longer represent your life today or reflect who are now.

Please visit my coaching page to learn more about my program on transforming your story.

The Subconscious Mind: An Owners Manual Part 4

Your subconscious mind cannot make decisions, but it can take direction.

Tips for using affirmations:

Here are some tips to remember when working with your subconscious:

• When you want to program something by using affirmations, it is important how you talk to your subconscious. It knows when you are telling a lie.
• If you say to your subconscious, I am healthy, as your way of affirming health, your subconscious will look at your current level of health and say, OK, if you call this health, we will maintain this level for you. If you say, I am becoming healthier every day, it gives the subconscious a process to work with.
• If there is data in the subconscious that contradicts the affirmation you are using, the subconscious will bring that forward for you to clear. It is important to acknowledge your resistance rather than be afraid of it. Once the resistance is cleared, the affirmation becomes more powerful.
• Another way to put the affirmation: I am willing to receive more and more good health and vitality into my life every day. You will become more willing and more able to receive good health. Here’s another example of a good way to talk to your subconscious: I am healthy enough – and becoming more healthy.
• Three is a magic number to the subconscious. It will pay attention when you do or say something three times. It will begin to form a pattern. This is known in advertising as the “power of three.”
• Your subconscious cannot make decisions. Decisions are always made on a conscious level. Your subconscious must follow it’s programming, regardless if it is positive or negative. If the programming is that you should always finish everything on your plate, it will always give you the message to clean off your plate until you change that message.
• When you are working on a problem, or want to find the answer to something, try incubating it. Imagine an incubation chamber, locker, or cupboard and place the problem in there. Some people need to sleep on it, others will receive the solution when they are busy with something else. If nothing comes in three days go back to the incubation chamber and open it up. Spend some time with the issue and try again.
• When you want to create something, use your imagination consciously. It doesn’t matter if you do not see an actual picture. You can sense it. When it comes to visualization, some people are seers and some are sensors. For example: you have a sore shoulder. You imagine a warm towel placed on it. The subconscious responds by dilating the blood vessels in that area to promote healing. What you imagine doesn’t have to be literal or accurate. Your subconscious mind understands your intention.

Your subconscious is a significant part of your mind. You can use it to help yourself create your own positive reality. Over time, you can become proficient at working with your subconscious mind. Once you understand how to talk to your subconscious, your affirmations will be effective and authentic.

For more information about how to work with your subconscious mind go to my Hypnosis page or Hypno-to-Go.

The Subconscious Mind: An Owners Manual Part 3

Visualization is a potent tool to reach your subconscious mind.

Working With the Subconscious

With effort, you can learn to go directly into the subconscious when you want to change, heal or create something. I have found guided visualization to be a potent tool to get into the subconscious. The subconscious mind loves images and responds well to them. Image combined with feeling – even more powerful.

Image + Feeling + Repetition = Clear Result

You can do a guided visualization for yourself, by reading into a tape recorder and then playing it back. Or maybe you can get a friend to read it to you.

As you prepare to start any kind of meditative work it is important to find a comfortable position to sit or lie down – to have a comfortable, safe space. If you have your own special way of relaxing, go ahead and do that. Or you can take three deep breaths, stretch, then relax. Set your goal of what you want to work on in your subconscious and then begin the visualization.

Your Subconscious Mind

• Imagine your subconscious as a maze-like structure such as a big library, maze, warehouse or high tech lab. These particular images will allow you to more solidly connect with your subconscious.
• Create a guide to help you navigate the vast, subterranean territory of the subconscious mind – a librarian, warehouse manager, lab tech, who knows everything about your subconscious and can guide you where you want to go. Every time you enter your subconscious, call your guide first, then tell them what you want to do or where you want to go.
• Imagine going down into the library. Perhaps an elevator or stairs or manhole where you exit and there is the vista of your place. You go to the door of the library and step inside. There your guide meets you. If it’s a library, in the main room you’ll see rows of shelves with books that contain information. (I will use the library image for description purposes here but change the images according to what you’ve decided yours looks like.)
• Your subconscious is a busy place. You may see workers shelving and sorting books. Off the main room are doors that lead to other areas of the building. There are maze-like hallways that have many rooms off them. Some hallways lead to stairs that go to other floors with more hallways and rooms.
• To begin to familiarize yourself with your subconscious, you may want to start with a personal work station or a room where you can go and sit to visualize your goal.
• There are many areas of the subconscious that you may want to explore over time. You can ask your guide to take you to the room of beliefs. There you can find the book of beliefs that holds all your beliefs. You can change a limiting belief into an expansive or healing belief.
• If you are dealing with a health issue you can ask your guide to take you to the chamber of healing, where you can do some healing work. There, you may meet a healer or see a table with potions or medicines.
• The forbidden zone is a place where you put all the things you do not ever want changed or accessed. As a child you hid painful experiences, traumas you never wanted to revisit, and decisions you made to help you survive. It’s painful, but you can be taken there by your guide to revisit those things. You can review old contracts stored in the forbidden zone and change or destroy them. You can plant a garden and seed it with new hopes, dreams and visions and let your subconscious work at manifesting them.
• Once you have solidly connected to the subconscious, you can create a signal as a short cut to get there faster. Tap your wrist three times or say a secret word and you find yourself at the door to the library, warehouse or lab with your guide there to greet you. Remember that it’s your subconscious. You can discover all kinds of places in the subconscious that work for you.
• When doing a self-guided visualization you can end it by counting from one to five and bring your attention back to your body and the room. Take a deep breath and reorient yourself. It is fun to be able to go in and out of the subconscious at will and work with it as an ally.

When you take the time to solidly connect with your subconscious mind via a visualization like this, you begin the amazing process of taking ownership of this important and powerful part of your mind.
If you would like a hypno-recording that you can use time and time again or a personal session together to get you started, go to my contact page.

The Subconscious Mind: An Owners Manual Part 2

Your subconscious holds all the information about you – your self image, your world view, your beliefs, and attitudes.

It is a good idea to every so often go into the subconscious and clean out some of the old programs that are running that no longer work or serve your higher good. Like cleaning out a closet that is stuffed with old worn things.

There are many facets to the subconscious. Rooms if you like and chambers, and areas of the subconscious where information is stored.

Here are some examples:

• The room of beliefs.
• The chamber of healing.
• The forbidden zone.
• The incubation chamber.
• The room of expertise.
• The control center for the body.
• The information warehouse.
• The room of self-image.
• The door to the past, the corridor of time, the river of time.
• The hallways of future-think.

What do you believe?

A belief is a firmly held conviction you have accepted as true. You could go as far as to say that a belief is a personal rule you have decided you must abide by.

Your beliefs actively exist in your subconscious mind. Your subconscious works to consistently maintain your beliefs. It refers every piece of new data to existing beliefs and does it in less than a nanosecond. Accept or reject. The subconscious rejects what doesn’t fit with your belief system. But once the subconscious accepts an idea, it begins to execute it immediately. Simply put: What you believe is what you create.

Exploring old beliefs

It’s time to explore the messages you have accumulated through the years; that you got from the authority figures in your life when you were a child.

Perhaps they said things like:

• You are bad, not good enough, unworthy, undeserving.
• Success comes with too high a price.
• You are selfish to want success or abundance.
• Love is painful.

Find these messages, understand what they are and where they come from. See the patterns. Then you can go into the subconscious, review the seed events, feel the feelings of the child and adolescent, do the healing and reprogram the subconscious to reflect who you are becoming now.

You can change your beliefs:

• You are good and worthy and deserving.
• Success comes elegantly and effortlessly.
• Abundace and success are your birthright.
• Love is healing.

What do you think?

You are always communicating with your subconscious. There is a continuous loop, a flow of data between the subconscious and conscious mind. You convey information to the subconscious by thoughts, feelings and images and it sends messages to your conscious mind.

What do you dwell on?

Your habitual thinking is your story, script, tape. If you are not aware of your thoughts, then it is likely you are just running old thought patterns. You are telling yourself the same old stories and following the same old scripts. Can’t get a break? Nothing works out for you? You’re always unlucky?

You can learn how to work with your subconscious mind.

The function and structure of the subconscious is the same for everyone. However, the content is unique in each person based on your life experiences and conditioning.

Two people can have the same external experience and two completely different responses. For one person, going on the ferris wheel is thrilling and fun. But if a person has a fear of heights, it is threatening, even terrifying.

Your unique and powerful subconscious mind can become your ally and work for you rather than against you. The data in your subconscious is available to you to explore and change as you need to. It belongs to you! You control what goes into your subconscious and what you remove from it. As you clean out those closets, clear the old beliefs and change the old scripts and stories, it functions more positively and elegantly than ever before.

In part 3, I will show you how to enter your subconscious and work with it. You can learn to easily enter and exit your subconscious at will. You will create an image of your subconscious – mine is a library, where I go, using a quick signal to take me there. In my subconscious I may incubate a problem in my incubation chamber, or change a nagging belief in the room of beliefs, or create a new program. My subconscious guide is a young, hip librarian, who meets me at the entrance and sometimes we go to a seating area where I talk to her about what changes I want her to make for me. My (and your) subconscious is a vast and beautiful place to discover and explore more of through the years.

For more information about how to work with your subconscious mind go to my hypnosis page or my Hypno-to-Go page.

The Art of Dreaming Part 2

You can shape your dreams. Like a sculptor with clay, you can mold them into a form that will actively serve you. You can produce a thing of beauty and usefulness that will sustain and enrich your life.
– Patricia L. Garfield

Remember your dreams

The Art of Dreaming begins with remembering your dreams. It is important to have good sleeping habits for regular dream recall. Otherwise sleep-debt occurs when you regularly don’t get enough sleep. When sleep-debt builds up, the sleep you do get is so deep that it makes it harder to remember dreams.

You can develop almost total recall for your dreams. Accept and value each dream no matter how foolish or fragmentary it may seem at the time. Keep a dream journal and record even those fragments. A dream journal can be auditory (using a recorder) or written. You can include drawings, mind-maps, even create collages from the dream.

When you record your dreams over a span of time – as in years or decades – you get a view that can illuminate your inner world and the journey you have taken.

Your dreams can give you remarkable insights.

Sometimes you can find significance in a dream that is years old. Linear time does not exist in the dreaming mind. It can give you a dream in childhood that speaks to you for the rest of your life.

When going to bed, plan to remember whatever dreams come to you. Place a pad and pen or recorder within easy reach of your bed. The best technique I have found for remembering dreams is to repeat three times before going to sleep, “Tonight I will remember one dream.” When you are regularly remembering one dream, change the message to, “Tonight I will remember all my dreams.”

Once you remember your dreams and record them: you can begin to decode them. What kind of dream is it? There are different types and categories of dreams.

Some examples of dream categories are:

• Television dreams, containing characters from TV, movies and books.
• Precognitive dreams about the future.
• Symbolic dreams; they contain symbols and metaphors that hold messages about your life or a current life situation.
• Therapeutic dreams where every aspect of the dream is a part of yourself.
• Guidance dreams from your Higher Self and Soul
• Healing dreams

As you become skilled in dream recall, you can program for specific dreams using the same technique of self-suggestion. For example: Tonight I will have a healing dream. (three times) Tonight I will dream my next (creative project or goal.) Tonight I will have a guidance dream about… (problem.)

The best time to begin developing skill in dream recall is during an unpressured time in the morning when you awaken naturally.

Only you can interpret your dreams. Your dreams emerge from your psyche. The part of you that creates them knows what each dream means. Only you, the dream’s creator, know what you wanted to communicate to yourself via the various elements and events in your dreams. As you begin to work with a dream, its meaning and significance will start to unfold.

Synthesis

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
— Jack Kerouac

Dreams play a significant role in processing what is going on in your life. They help you grieve a loss or heal disconnected parts of yourself. They help you through life-changing events and help you learn. Your dreams can do a lot of the work.