Wonders of mind!
Sunday, August 10th, 2008I am sure that you know about the two sections of our mind i.e. Conscious and subconscious. Conscious part is basically used in taking day to day decisions of our life and it’s a logical part of our mind. While subconscious mind is the one which is capable of giving us anything we want by drawing the power from the infinite. This part of mind is not in our conscious control. To reach this part of the mind, doctors and hypnotists are using certain techniques like hypnosis and repeated autosuggestions.
If the subconscious mind accepts certain ideas, it may react to suggestions containing such ideas, though they are not based on reality. The mind will behave as if the suggestions were true! We can see this phenomenon in persons subjected to hypnosis. In one of the experiments one doctor addressed the person under hypnosis. He told him that he was going to be touched with a red hot iron rod. The man was told that it would cause some serious pain and severe damage to his skin. In reality the doctor touched him by his own finger, not with a heated rod. But the man winced as if skin had been burnt. His arm was put in bandage, when he was still in hypnosis. When the bandage was removed after six hours, there was a blister on the spot which the doctor had touched with his finger. By next day, the blister expanded and looked exactly like a burn injury. When the experiment was repeated in the presence of experts, the result was the same.
In the next part of the experiment, the doctor touched the arm of the man under hypnosis with a red-hot iron rod and told him that he was going to touch him with his fingers and that there would be no pain. The man showed no signs of pain either while he was being branded or later. There was no blister on the skin where the tip of the red hot rod had touched. But it did not cause any pain and it disappeared fast.
A famous weight lifter was subjected to hypnosis. He was given a suggestion. “However you may try, you will not be able to lift the pencil on the table.” The man who could easily lift weights of 400 pounds could not lift the pencil despite his efforts. His subconscious mind completely accepted the suggestions of the expert and made him behave accordingly.
Does it mean he became weak in the state of hypnosis? No, he had his normal strength. But without being aware of it, owing to contrary hypnotic suggestion, he behaved against his own nature. On the one hand, he strained his muscles deliberately to lift the pencil but on the other hand, the suggestion, “You can’t lift the pencil” had it’s impact. The negative suggestions prevented the manifestation of his real strength and brought him defeat.
One person who could not even speak a word before the audience was subjected to hypnosis and was given the following suggestion: “You can speak well.” He got up in his hypnotic state, spoke fluently and fearlessly, and surprised both himself and others. A difficult mathematical problem which usually takes an hour to solve was solved in just twenty minutes by the man under hypnotic suggestion. The gift of speech and the ability to solve a mathematical problem were already hidden in the individuals. They were not the result of the power of the hypnotist either. But the individuals themselves were not aware of their ability earlier. Negative suggestions hidden in their subconscious mind had suppressed their abilities the doctor just released them from the state of suppression. A handful of people, in spite of repression and negative suggestions received since childhood, are able to overcome them and develop a remarkable degree of self confidence. This self confidence is the key to release of the tremendous energy held in the check.
What mind accepts strongly as true results in the behavior of that person? The above example proves this. When you are in hypnotized state, and if you have been given negative suggestions then we can imagine what damage they are capable of. Normally, we are protected by nature; when our conscious mind is active, it does not readily accept new suggestions or ideas. It thinks, deliberates, compares the suggestions with the earlier experience and accepts it gradually. Otherwise every fear or suspicion would have overcome us. “I am suffering from fever”, “I am getting weaker” – such suggestions of the subconscious mind would be readily accepted by the subconscious mind and would be expressed in reality. If our conscious mind constantly repeats the same thought, the subconscious mind seeks an opportunity to translate it into reality. And as I have already told you the subconscious mind have all the powers to draw from the infinite.
If a man, day night, thinks he is miserable, low and nothing, nothing he becomes. If you say yea, yea, “I am, I am”, so shall you be; and if you say”, think that you are not, and day and night meditate upon the fact that you are nothing, aye, nothing you shall you be. That is a great fact that you ought to remember. We are the children of the almighty; we are the sparks of the infinite, divine fire. How can you be nothings? We are everything, ready to do everything, and man must do everything.
“Have faith in yourselves, and stand up on that faith and be strong; that is what we need.”
Wishing You Health, Wealth, Abundance, Joy & Happiness for you,
Vikash Kumar
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