Turning off the Negativity of the Conscious Mind

Imagine how much more you would achieve if you were able to simply ‘turn-off’ the negativity tap?

Ok, it is a little easier said than done, but here are a few things to be aware of that will help to boost your ability to attract the things you want in your life:

Our conscious mind is bombarded with varying degrees of negativity during any normal day – there are all the challenges of family life or work, often followed by half an hour of mostly unpleasant television news, and listening to our loved ones as they recount the frustrations of their day.  If we filter out all the negative thoughts and replace them with positive ones, it will create profound improvements to our daily reality. Read the rest of this entry »

Meditation, Hypnosis, and the Conscious & Unconscious Mind

The popularity of hypnosis and meditation as a pathway to healing, relaxation and self improvement, is evident from the proliferation of reading material, both online and offline.  To some, the practices of meditation and hypnosis seem mysterious and ‘new age’, yet they are neither.

Meditation and hypnosis have been practiced for centuries. Some eastern religions consider meditation to be the pathway to enlightenment.

Meditation and hypnosis share a common goal – to quieten your conscious mind. They operate on the same principle – that quietening the conscious mind opens the door to the unconscious. During meditation you quieten your conscious mind to receive peace or enlightenment. Under hypnosis, you open the pathway to the unconscious (sometimes referred to as the subconscious) to alter your beliefs or retrieve repressed information.  Both hypnosis and meditation strive to improve our conscious lives by accessing the unconscious.

To understand how meditation and hypnosis work, it helps to understand your different levels of consciousness.  We all understand what our conscious mind is, but when we attempt to define the unconscious we get a little lost.

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