How Hypnotherapy Can Help You Cultivate Positive Thinking

Speaking To Your Unconscious Mind

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You want to move past the conscious mind and into the unconscious one because the conscious mind is noisy and often a liar. It’s constantly analyzing, judging and projecting limiting beliefs and outdated ideas onto everything it sees. But it’s also the mind you’re usually making decisions with. Your unconscious mind holds the truth about what you think and feel. Some of those truths aren’t pretty but need to be confronted.

Many experts in hypnotherapy would tell you that your beliefs about your own identity were formed and solidified when you were a child. You had experiences, and those experiences delivered specific messages to your brain about who you are and how the world works. You were little, so you didn’t have the context or wisdom to challenge those messages. You took them in, and they sunk deep, and eventually, they became “facts” to you. But most (if not all) of your negative, limiting beliefs are not facts. You just have to talk to your unconscious mind to dislodge them, which happens during hypnosis.

This is also why it’s important that a hypnotherapist put you in a state of feeling safe. You’re talking to your inner child in many cases, and they need to feel secure enough to reveal fears and doubts. It’s common to cry (and sometimes cry a lot) during hypnosis because you’re finally releasing negativity you’ve been holding onto for decades.