Day 81: Multi-Level Communication

Previously, I mentioned the value of meditation and self-hypnosis in maintaining health. Taking that further today, I want to share something taken from John Overdurf & Julie Silverthorn’s Training Trances – Multi-Level Communication in Therapy And Training, which is a transcript from a live training:

JOHN: Your conscious mind can be aware of seven plus or minus two chunks of information and your conscious mind can pay attention to whatever is going on at the time.

JULIE: While your unconscious mind knows everything else.

JOHN: Your conscious mind tends to think in a sequential way, because it thinks one thing has to go after another.

JULIE: And your unconscious deals in simultaneity; it has the possibility of dealing with everything simultaneously.

JOHN: Your conscious mind is logical.

JULIE: Your unconscious mind is intuitive and it associates new learnings easily.

JOHN: Your conscious mind tends to think in terms of cause and effect; it’s linear. It says this makes that happen: one thing after another in the same way so that it is sequential and logical.

JULIE: Your unconscious mind knows everything is a cybernetic loop, that one thing merely influences the other, not one thing causes the other. Your unconscious mind knows it’s a cybernetic system.

JOHN: Your conscious mind is constantly asking, why is this true? Why is this the way that it is?

JULIE: Your unconscious mind knows why.

JOHN: The conscious mind generally is the part of you which does the thinking. All the regular thinking, the intellectual thinking which you engage in during the course of the day.

JULIE: Which makes it easier for your unconscious to do all your feeling.

JOHN: Your conscious mind is generally equated with your waking state.

JULIE: And your unconscious with your sleeping and dreaming state.

JOHN: Consciously, you can voluntarily move parts of your body.

JULIE: Yet its your unconscious which moves your body involuntarily.

JOHN: Consciously, you can be aware only of what is happening right now.

JULIE: Yet your unconscious is the storehouse of all your memories.

JOHN: Conscious mind tries to understand problems. It thinks that by understanding problems, it won’t have the problem.

JULIE: If only it would allow the unconscious mind which does know the solution to present you with the solution, then your conscious mind can…

JOHN: Direct the outcome. Your conscious mind can decide what it wants all the rest of you to do.

JULIE: While your unconscious mind expedites the outcome.

JOHN: Conscious mind is deliberate.

JULIE: Unconscious is automatic.

JOHN: Conscious mind is verbal.

JULIE: Unconscious is nonverbal.

JOHN: Conscious mind is analytical.

JULIE: Unconscious mind is able to synthesize things.

JOHN: Conscious mind is most effective when tending to information that’s occurring.

JULIE: While the unconscious mind records all the information to which the conscious mind has attended.

JOHN: So the conscious mind has a limited focus.

JULIE: And the unconscious mind has an unlimited focus.

JOHN: The conscious mind is the domain of your cognitive learnings and understandings.

JULIE: And the unconscious mind is the domain of all your experiential learnings.

JOHN: Notice what that does. How many of you experienced a feeling of something spreading apart or expanding? What we did was very minimal because we virtually read down the list and added only a few words. In actual practice, you may not even need to use the whole list [to induce a trance]. You can be selective. There are a number of other nuances we’ll be adding which will make this far more effective than what you’ve just experienced. Additionally, you can combine this experience with Pacing Current Experience…So, as you’re sitting here, you can pay attention to me consciously…

JULIE: And your unconscious mind, that logical part, can wonder what this is really all about.

JOHN: While your unconscious mind can really be getting to grips with the source of why you’re here.

JULIE: And while your unconscious is doing that, your conscious mind on some level may still be asking why, why would we be doing any of this in the first place?

JOHN: And consciously you can consider what your outcome is. Consciously you can even make a picture of you at the end of the training. [And we reading can make a picture of ourselves with what we want too].

JULIE: You can think about it consciously for as long as you like.

JOHN: Because it’s your unconscious mind that will go back through your history and find all the resourceful experiences you need to combine in various ways that will make that outcome happen.

JULIE: And you’ll know you’ve had that outcome when your unconscious signals you with the right feeling.

JOHN: But that’s not nearly as important as being consciously aware of what’s being said right now each time your eyes blink.

JULIE: And for some of you your eyes blink automatically.

JOHN: Unconsciously.