The power of your subconscious mind is amazing.  Your subconscious actually determines much of what you do every day.    Dr. John Kappas, the man who founded the first nationally accredited school of hypnotherapy in the United States, Dr’ Kappas’ developed the theory of mind to explain how our minds develop, and how our conscious and subconscious minds function.

According to the Theory of Mind, from birth and through about age eight, we learn a great deal.  Much of this learning is done through a process called identification and association.   For instance, we touch a hot stove, and we have learned to identify the stove and associate it with heat, or being burned, in a more drastic case.

During this childhood time, we are learning positive things and negative things.  We learn that we like hugs and kisses, but we don’t like spankings..  We learn that we like cake and cookies and we don’t like Brussels sprouts and anchovies.  But mostly what we learn is how to behave.  And we mostly learn this by watching and interacting with our primary caregivers, Mom and Dad.   What we learn as children becomes what we know, our “knowns”.   These “knowns” are our life script, and become our subconscious mind.  In this way, the power of our subconscious mind influences our behavior.

After age eight, we start developing what is known as the critical mind – logic, reasoning, decision-making, and analysis.   This becomes our conscious mind.   According to Dr. Kappas’ theory – the subconscious makes up 88% of our mind, and the conscious makes up 12%.

Think about any activity you do.   How about getting in the car and going to work.? Well you unlock the door, put the key in the ignition, turn the key, take off the parking brake, put the car in gear and start driving.   Were you doing all this with your conscious mind?   Were you thinking “Now I have t turn the ignition”?  No – you did it with your subconscious mind.  You might have been thinking about the workday ahead, or anything else.    According to Dr. Kappas’ theory of mind, 88% of what we do is controlled by our subconscious.

The theory of mind explains why hypnotherapy can be an effective tool in changing behaviors.  With the guidance of a trained hypnotherapist, you can make changes to your subconscious programming.   You can use the power of your subconscious mind to change your deeply embedded life script and achieve whatever behavioral goal you have established.

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