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So How Can You Make That Change Now?
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Whenever we experience the world around us we experience it firstly through one of our senses i.e. hearing, sight, touch, feeling etc. We are all different in how we experience anything.
Sub Modalities
Our sub modalities are part of the how and what of our minds. So if I ask you to think of a happy experience your sub modalities will determine how you experience that memory or imagined experience. Is it a feeling, or a movie, or a sound? If it is visual is it moving or a still image like a picture? Is it colour or black and white? Do you experience it as if you are in it, or is it like you are watching from outside? If you experience that happy time as a feeling then your sub modalities determine how and where you feel it or if you have a strong sense of sound with it, then your sub modalities govern how near or far the sound is. What the timbre is etc.
Memory
Our memories are our stored experiences. We spend about 90% of our time with our minds moving between the past and the future. Rarely do we actually stay grounded in the present moment, in the “Now”. Now when we think of past or future experiences we give meaning to those remembered or future experiences.
Pattern Match
When we give meaning to something we do so often without realising. Let’s take a simple example like a dog. When we see a dog our brain gives meaning by running a pattern match and comparing to past experiences, even those experiences we have consciously forgotten. The brain does very quickly indeed, the process of “is it the same as”? or “is it different from”? So when we see a dog we know and recognise it as a dog because our brain has run a pattern match. This meaning is a combination of pattern matches that our unconscious runs on our behalf. Those pattern matches are simple things such as; good, bad, safe, dangerous, similar to, different from.
Meaning & Experiences
We cannot experience anything without giving meaning to it. That meaning is a combination of past memories, the anticipated future and the coding that our sub modalities give it.
So our experience of the world and ourselves is unique to each of us. Let me give another example. As you hold a book to read your unconscious mind will make meaning (or sense) from it and I don’t mean the obvious printed words. How heavy the book is, how the pages feel to touch, how close the print is. How you understand and process the written words. The meaning between what you are reading and your surroundings. Every one of us will experience the same book in a different and unique way due to the unconscious processes our minds are running all of the time.
So How Can You Make That Change Now?
The answer lies within you and your own mind’s ability to change any of those unconscious processes. Let’s take a hypothetical example: Peter is an adult male and he is scared of dogs. When Peter was three years old had no previous experiences of dogs and the only meaning his mind searched for when he saw a dog was the meaning he had gained from children’s books. One day whilst in the park he was bitten by a dog. His brain stored this experience as a memory. Many years later as an adult Peter can not consciously recall this memory. When he was three his brain stored this experience as danger. Consequently whenever Peter sees an animal that has four legs his brain begins to search for meaning. If the animal he is now seeing as an adult is in fact a dog then his brain goes “ah a match…dog = dangerous” To deal with the danger Peter’s brain will flood his system with chemicals produced by the body and Peter notices a sensation he recognises as fear. Peter can now take appropriate action and the fear will subside. The brain says to itself “Good that worked well I’ll store that for the future” and this latest experience confirms to the brain that it did indeed take the right action as Peter, now out of harms way, feels fine. A simple cause and effect algorithm that Peter’s brain is running. Now it would make no difference to Peter if that dog was a small Chihuahua or a big snarling dog. The response was completely out of his conscious control once his brain began running the pattern. So when Peter with help from a hypnotherapist, has recovered the earliest memory and examined it with the perspective of his adult mind and not that of his child mind or his brain has learnt to run a different algorithm then Peter will have a different response to the dog.
So whatever behaviour you want to change now I am here to help you achieve that. We can change any aspect of our lives that we wish to.