The following article is from a chapter in Randal Churchill and Cheryl Canfield's provocative new book, Churchill-Canfield's Law: What Can Go Right Will Go Right.
Like a computer, the subconscious mind is the storehouse of our prior programming. It is a memory bank of our thoughts, feelings, emotions, memories, imagination, creativity, habit patterns, impulses, desires and instincts. It includes that automatic part of our mind that operates the physical body without any conscious direction. The subconscious mind can also be called a gateway to the superconscious. (More…)
Read moreThe following article is from Randal Churchill’s book, Regression Hypnotherapy
A hypnotic regression is a process in which a person in hypnosis recalls a memory or series of memories from the subconscious mind. While in hypnosis a person’s awareness is heightened and memories can become much more vivid. Also, there is easier access to the emotions, barring suggestions for detachment. (More…)
Read moreThe following article is from Randal Churchill and Cheryl Canfield's provocative new book, Churchill-Canfield's Law: What Can Go Right Will Go Right.
The rational, intellectual part of the mind is amazing - constantly juggling external information and situations, sorting through facts, making choices and often on fast forward as we muscle our way through the day. It can be rich, stimulating and exhausting all at once. Then we might throw ourselves into some mind-numbing activity like television, social media or internet surfing as a way to relax and put on the breaks. What we may be short-circuiting is our connection to a deeper, inner awareness that links us to our greatest potential. (More…)
Read moreExcerpted from the updated and expanded 2nd Edition of Become the Dream by Randal Churchill
To get powerful, lasting and fairly rapid results in therapy, it is essential that the methods employed reach and affect the subconscious mind. The subconscious houses the emotions, imagination, memory, habits, intuition and instincts. It also regulates our autonomic body functions, is the part of the mind that dreams, and is the pathway to the superconscious. It is the very core or essence of how we experience ourselves and the world. Meaningful personal transformation, whether in or out of therapy, results from a shift in the subconscious mind (More…)
Read moreUnderstanding the Broad Context of Suggestion
The vast majority of writings comparing and contrasting the use of direct and indirect suggestions in hypnosis refer to the structure of language, and may sometimes reference the timing, tone and volume of the voice. But there is much beyond the way we word suggestions and how we use our voices that can have a major suggestive impact. These impacts are something we need to be keenly aware of in order to give maximum benefit to the influence of suggestions (More…)
Read moreA Journey Through Time and Space by Keith Thompson
This article initially appeared in the Pacific Sun.
A state of intensified attention and receptiveness, and an increased responsiveness to an idea or to a set of ideas."
"Primarily a special psychological state with certain physiological attributes, resembling sleep only superficially and marked by the functioning of the individual at a level of awareness other than the ordinary conscious state."
These disparate definitions of hypnosis bear witness to an observation by psychology researcher Martin Orne: although there is no widely accepted definition of hypnosis, considerable consensus exists at a descriptive level. In other words, "Don't ask me to define it, but I'll tell you how it works and what it can do." (More...)
Read moreInterview with Kevin Ryerson - internationally acclaimed Expert Intuitive
This interview is from our archives. It took place 19 years ago.
KR: I think that hypnotherapy has great value in the area of certain educational models, in reducing stress and helping people access information that has laid dormant. I think it will also re-empower people to work with their personal altered states, such as artists or people in business following their intuition or creativity.
Biofeedback is a form of self-help that will probably continue to increase and will be one of the cutting edges where hypnosis will be applied. And as these things move into an even more slightly esoteric or leading edge, medicine itself will come to accept hypnotherapy as a standard method of practice in medicine. Hypnotherapy will probably become the real bridge between many of the holistic art forms and alternative therapies--truly re-empowering people to retake command of their own sense of direction for both mental and physical well-being. (More...)
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