The Mind and Body Connection
The mind is a combination of your thoughts, perceptions, emotions, beliefs, attitudes, and images. The brain is the hardware that lets us experience mental states of mind. These mental states can be conscious or unconscious. Each mental state is associated with the physical body. Each mental state has a positive or negative effect in the physical body. For example, the mental state of anxiety causes you to produce stress hormones and increase the blood pressure.
- Conscious mind is that part which we’re using when analysing information. The conscious mind is the Ego mind, which is very rational and logical.
- Subconscious mind or non-conscious mind is the dominant part of the mind. It’s the part of the mind where all the natural processes are happening in the body like heartbeat, immune system, breathing etc. The subconscious mind is where all the data is stored. It’s like the database, storing all the information of everything that’s ever happened to you.
- Critical Factor is a part of the conscious mind. It interprets,examines, and filters incoming ideas.It is the gateway between the conscious and the subconscious mind. Hypnosis works to bypass this gateway to reprogram the subconscious. The Critical Factor is the guard at the gateway and has the power to accept or reject suggestions from entering the subconscious mind. We start to develop the critical factor after the age of 7. So up until this age, we are open and creative, and everything is positive or negative. Good or bad.
The Neurons
Did you know that your brain is made up of billions of brain cells called neurons, which use electricity to communicate with each other. The combination of millions of neurons sending signals produces an enormous amount of electrical activity in the brain, which can be detected using EEG.The combination of electrical activity of the brain is commonly called a Brain-WavePattern.
The many billions of brain cells create the field of electricity, which synchronizes with each other and produces a different pattern of electromagnetic brain-waves whether you are awake, asleep, meditate or you are in hypnosis.