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The Conscious and Unconscious mind

 "All change takes place first at the unconscious level. Then we become aware of it.”

Your conscious mind is but a part of your total psyche. Trying to make changes by using the conscious mind alone is not usually sufficient. If consciously trying were enough, you could make the changes you want just by thinking about them consciously. Your own experience demonstrates that this is often not enough.

Your other-than-conscious mind is a much greater portion of your psyche that operates usually out of your awareness, It is referred to in various ways: as the “sub-conscious”, “the unconscious”, or the “other-than-conscious.” It is highly responsive to metaphoric communication. If the conscious mind employs “will”, then the “other-than-conscious” mind employs “imagination.”

In NLP the conscious refers to everything that is in present moment awareness. The other-than-conscious refers to everything that is not conscious.

 Our conscious mind is the container for:

• sequential, logical, linear thinking, deliberation, 7 ± 2
• cognitive learning, language, solutions
• outcome orientated, aware of now, tries to understand the problem

 Our other-than-conscious mind is the container for:

•  thoughts, intuition, simultaneous processing
• feelings, emotions, resources, memories,
• possibilities, solutions, generative behaviour
• non verbal, experiential learning, communicates through sensation,
• altered states, sleeping, dreaming
• involuntary movements, runs the physical body (e.g. heart beat, digestion)
• your whole experience, everything that you are not paying attention to.

The other-than-conscious is not a ‘thing’ but a process. It deals with all the deep life sustaining functions and all the thought processes that break through into the conscious mind like bubbles bursting on the surface of a pool. The conscious mind is what we are aware of, but, like the sea, it has hidden depths that support it.

A hypnotist in London will help you create positive change by allowing the conscious mind to rest while the subconscious mind is given life coaching powerful suggestions. An empowering shift in consciousness is always possible when you open up to the power of cognitive hypnotherapy with a qualified leading hypnotherapist in London or a NLP Coach. If you are looking for life coaching to change your life then make sure they are a master of NLP and have experience as a hypnotherapist.

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