The Power is Within
I would like to introduce myself. My name is Katherine and I hypnotize people for a living. It has been my great fortune to have the honor of delving into people’s minds since 1989. In that time I have learned a great deal about the power of the subconscious mind. I can best relate this information in the form of a story. So, find a comfortable place, settle in and listen as the story unfolds.
It is my story, your story, everyone’s story. The story begins at the beginning of life. We all have a subconscious as we begin this physical life. In fact, we put it to better use as a child. We trust our intuition, we speak with angels and loved ones who have passed away. We imagine life to be the way we want it. Our play time is completely real. However, as our lives unfold, society teaches us to stop listening to our inner voice. Such a shame, too, since everything we need to know resides in our mind.
The subconscious is the repository for imagination, intuition and creative problem solving. Our perception of every event in our lives is stored in the subconscious. Using the creative power of the mind, we can resolve the traumas from the past.
Because the subconscious never sleeps, we can present a problem to our subconscious in trance or right before we go to sleep for seven consecutive nights and have an answer by the eighth day, if not sooner.
How do you reach into the power of your mind? Hypnosis creates a bridge from the conscious mind to the subconscious mind. Spending as little as 15 minutes a day in this state begins the process of change and unfoldment.
And now, thank you for waiting. Here are the short stories that I promised you.
Home Sweet Home
When I was first learning to use my intuition, I bought a house. Initially, I had looked at this house and not liked it. I am not sure why I did not recognize that this was my perfect home. Perhaps I was distracted by the kids who were six and eleven. At any rate, one day at work, I suddenly thought, "I want to buy that house on Raintree Place." I called my realtor to let him know that I wanted to see it again. He reminded me that I had not liked this house initially. True, but something had shifted internally and I knew that I had to pay more attention. I felt very much "at home" in this house.
Sleep on It
Try this method the next time you need to come to a decision. Gather all your information. Write it down–both pros and cons. Once your research is complete, send a request to your subconscious in this way: as you fall asleep at night say to yourself, "I want to know which choice will be for my highest good." Then let it go and go to sleep. Within the next few days, your subconscious will provide your answer as you awaken in the morning, or at some time during the day when you are relaxed and your mind is elsewhere. Answers come in for me as I awaken, while I’m doing the dishes, in the shower and when I am driving on the freeway, just to name a few.
The subconscious mind stores all experiences, runs our autonomic nervous system, controlling such bodily functions such as heart rate, blood pressure, and respiration. Certain activities become subconscious functions. Think about learning to drive. Initially you had to concentrate on your every move. But after awhile, it became an automatic function. That’s probably why we easily go into highway hypnosis when we are driving on familiar roads. Since our subconscious is driving the car automatically, our conscious mind can, and does, drift off. The subconscious can, will and must act out any image, idea or concept that you allow to be imprinted. The subconscious mind does not know the difference between what we imagine and what is "real." That’s a great bit of information but how can we use that in a practical way?
I used this function of the mind while healing from major reconstructive hip surgery. In my mind I imagined that there was a sticky webbing on my hip bones as well as on the new bone that was introduced during the surgery. My goal was to accelerate the integration of the new bone. I simply imagined crocheting the webbing from the new and existing bones together. I spent about 3 minutes a day for 30 days with this image. I had another x-ray three months after the surgery. My doctor commented that since I was healing so well I wouldn’t need to come to see him again for six months. I reminded him that it had been three months since my surgery. He was seeing evidence of six months of healing in only three months! The subconscious mind is your faithful servant. My mind didn’t disagree or argue with me. It simply acted on the images that I presented.
Everyone is capable of using the power of their subconscious mind to tap into their inner resources and create a new reality. In the words of Henry Ford, "Think you can, think you can’t. Either way you’re right."
Katherine Zimmerman, CHT
Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, Reiki Master
916-373-1932
Sacramento, CA
Biography
Katherine, the main instructor for the California Professional Hypnosis Institute (Sacramento), a state approved hypnotherapy school is also an internationally-known author and speaker, Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, Author, Reiki Master, and EFT Trainer with a private practice. Since 1989, she has taught classes on self hypnosis, EFT and other related subjects, along with doing presentations on hypnotherapy at professional conferences nationwide.
