Let's start at the beginning. Many of our beliefs and views about ourselves and life are formed in the very early stages of our life, in fact, they start being created the moment we are conceived, seems
hard to fathom, doesn't it? Yet so much scientific research is now available to help us understand how this period of our life from conception to early childhood, can leave indelible marks that can foster helpful or harmful ways of life.
As young children, our brains are in a Theta state, which sees us taking in enormous amounts of information at a subconscious level, which is extremely beneficial for the advancement of the
human species but not necessarily always conducive to our happiness. As we take in all this information as a child, we do so by absorbing what we hear and see until we are at a point in our childhood where we can challenge what we hear and see and find out for ourselves.
Without the ability to discern if the information is accurate or if it is helpful or harmful we all too often, take on beliefs that are erroneous and
destructive in our pursuit of a happy and fulfilled life. It is often only much later in life that we reflect, and observe what is happening around us and we see what we don't like, that we investigate why these things may be happening. And through this reflection and investigation, we start to understand our role in how we are bringing to ourselves the undesirable.
We can call this part of the process of waking up.
Up to this point, we may have spent a lot of time blaming others for causing our challenges.
This brings us to neuroplasticity, which is based on Hebb's Law that states; "Cells that fire together, wire together" and, more formally, "any two cells or systems of cells that are repeatedly active at the same time will tend to become 'associated,' so that activity in one facilitates activity in the other". In other words,
any cells that are remotely similar in their thoughts seek each other out and they connect together like gangs. What we repeatedly think about, becomes hard-wired into neural pathways, which become our subconscious way of thinking, or our programme, leading to repeated associated behaviours. Or drawing to us the same patterns so that our hardwiring can play out its programme. This is why we "unconsciously" find ourselves doing things we don't want to do. It is hardwired in our subconscious
and our subconscious runs up to 95% of the way we run our day. And you thought you had control 😊.
When we understand that our subconscious mind, is hard-wired with neural pathways that we have been building since infancy and that it actually runs our lives, until we start observing, reflecting, and taking the deep dive we need to challenge our thinking and patterns and changing our approach we can then understand why
changing our behaviours in line with what it is we actually desire at a conscious level, feels difficult. Unless we can change our minds at a subconscious level to align with our desires, change can often feel long, frustrating and on a continuous loop, and at times impossible.
If we want to change our lives, we have to change our minds, more specifically we have to change our minds at the subconscious
level.
The question then, is how do we change our minds at a subconscious level? The answer in short is, we need to:
1. Observe our surroundings
2. Reflect and challenge our thinking and our perspectives
3. Change what we are doing and what we are thinking
And then we start to create new coherent neural pathways and let the old non-coherent ones dissolve.
So, in a little more detail, to start. We need to identify those subconscious beliefs that are not serving us and that are in opposition to what it is we want to achieve. Then to identify these beliefs, we need to observe what is happening around us and make a
note of what we don't like, reflect on people that we don't like, and what it is about them that causes a trigger. What about them is maybe also in us at an unconscious level? Identify our emotions and behaviours. Then delve into the beliefs that underlie what we see. Often these beliefs lose power under inspection, as we look at where they came from. We then need to decide the new way of being, the new actions that we want, and the new beliefs that we want, and then repeat them
through positive affirmations, actions, and changes. And repeating them over and over again. In the beginning, it may feel completely unnatural, but that's normal – so we may need to "fake it until we make it". Through Hebb's Law, the nerve cells that are activated by our new thoughts start to fire together and then wire together into new neural pathways.
By consciously choosing these new thoughts we are
not only rewiring our new desired neural pathways but are also allowing the pruning of the old neural pathways because the opposite of “fire together and wire together” applies, whereby “If you don’t use it, you lose it”.
Changing our neural pathways takes constant self-observation and choosing the thoughts that align us with what we want for our lives. It takes repetition and persistence, to dissolve old
beliefs and adopt new beliefs that serve us.
There are modalities that really help in making the process of creating new neural pathways easier and here we will briefly cover a few of the most effective ones.
Hypnosis: In this state, brain wave patterns shift, with an increase in alpha and theta waves associated with relaxation and
heightened suggestibility. This altered state facilitates increased receptivity to new thought suggestions, making it easier to change thoughts, beliefs, and behaviours.
Repetition: Through repeating affirmations and visualisation a few times a day, in a state of real belief, we can create new neural pathways one thought at a time. It can take time, depending on how hard-wired the non-coherent belief/s
is/are, but through persistence, we will make our desired belief more dominant than the non-coherent belief.
Rapid Transformation: Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT) is a hybrid therapy combining the most beneficial principles of Hypnotherapy, CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy), Psychotherapy, NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming), and Regression Therapy. RTT builds on the basis that past experiences, habits, and beliefs create patterns in the subconscious mind, and that these patterns dictate our attitudes, actions, and reactions. Once we understand the cause
of the problem, the transformation begins.
Rapid Repatterning: Rapid Repatterning works through a powerful combination of
Hypnotherapy, Coaching, Clearing, and Repatterning, we tackle all the areas that need to move to help transformation at a core level.
It is possible to change so that we can live the lives we desire for ourselves, by changing our minds to align with what it is we desire.
It does take work, patience, and persistence but it can be so worth
all the effort when we find ourselves living lives we love.
Come and work with me through self-paced programmes or one on ones to turn on that magic on the inside and see the magic on the outside.
With love,
