Someone who studied hypnotherapy during COVID after thyroid cancer explains that 95% of our thoughts operate below awareness, shaping habits from childhood. They share techniques like deep breathing and meditation to access and reprogram these hidden patterns for a pain-free life.
I know I'll follow your lead, but we're going to get into some science of the mind that I actually came into as I was studying hypnotherapy. During COVID I found myself on the couch and someone said, "You should take this course. You'd be pretty good at it given your background," having had thyroid cancer and a lot of other crazy things going on in my life. And it absolutely changed me because what it did was it opened a window to the power of the mind and how so So much of our thinking is subconscious and yet is affecting the way that we live our life. And it doesn't need to be that way. And so for me, you know, as the modern age continues to lift and we're able to access sciences, I mean, when you think about it, brain sciences are really only 10 to 15 years old. There's so much to be discovered to help us live beautiful and empowered lives, the lives that we want. And there's no reason to suffer.
I mean, we're called to take every thought captive. And the problem is you talk about this. Only about 5% of our thoughts are even conscious, we're even aware of them. The other 95% are buried under the water, you know, like an iceberg. So how do we even start to take those thoughts captive? How did you do it when you were on the couch in COVID?
Well, what I came to understand is that when you're able to deeply relax your body, and that just means deep breathing and getting into a deeply meditative state, you're able to bring the conscious mind into a place where it will step back. So we're only 5% conscious relative to the power of the human mind, 95% subconscious. So if you think that you've got a trillion synaptic connection opportunities in this brain, that the subconscious mind is 1 million times more powerful than the conscious mind, that we are full of habits and trains of thought that get embedded when we're younger, you can come to appreciate the fact that we don't know what we don't know. And so when your subconscious mind is being able to keep your heart beating and your breathing and that sort of thing, it is also running that pattern and program you learned when you were 5 or 6 years old. And so technically, from a scientific manner of speaking, when you get into that deep trance state, you're able to inquire— inquiry is the key here.
