Rooting Out The Subconscious
When I was in high school, I let a friend of mine talk me into watching Night of the Living Dead with her. Images of relentless zombies assaulted me off and on for years afterwards. Thanks, Mel. 
Lately, I’ve been receiving Facebook page invites, Twitter messages, and e-mails that remind me a little of those undead drones. Instead of Night of the Living Dead, it’s Weeks of the Hypnotists.
It’s my own fault. A couple months ago, out of curiosity and not awareness of my alignment, I read a sales page about hypnosis audios. The seller of the audios claimed that the audios would get your subconscious on board with a money mindset.
The seller was adamant that the reason law of attraction doesn’t seem to have a positive impact for most of us is that our subconscious minds are off chewing on all kinds of negative beliefs even while our conscious minds are focusing on what we desire. I guess all that negative belief digestion causes a sort of energetic heartburn or gas that prevents vibrational alignment with desires.
I actually wondered, for a minute or two, whether my subconscious mind could be the cause of my apparent inability to get aligned with the financial prosperity I want. Do I need hypnosis, I asked myself.
I immediately got a grip and remembered that I’ve had hypnosis in the past, and was never all that impressed with the results, and I remembered what Abraham-Hicks has said about needing to change subconscious beliefs.
Before I did that, though, apparently I’d put enough attention on the hypnosis sales page to pull in a whole lot more hypnosis sales pitches.
Forget About The Dirt
If I understand the law of attraction, vibration, and alignment correctly, beliefs are like the dirt in which we sink the roots of our desires. This dirt (belief system), can provide nourishment for our positive thoughts and thereby help us grow into alignment with what we desire or it can poison our thoughts with toxins created by limited thinking and thereby shrivel up the energetic limbs we use to reach for vibrational alignment.
Does hypnosis really clean up this dirt? Do we need to dig in there and sprinkle some Miracle Grow into our subconscious minds in order to get what we want?
Abraham-Hicks says no.
Although anything we do that feels good to us can be beneficial, it’s not necessary to “program” the subconscious mind by using hypnosis audios or any other sort of inner training process.
Why?
Because there’s an easier way to do it.
Good Feelings Support Roots
The reasons you don’t need to dig down into the soil of your subconscious mind to see what negative stuff you may have squirming around in there is that you have this lovely, easy-to-use method that can tell you whether your subconscious mind is up to mischief AND can then get your subconscious redirected toward positive thought.
The method is the use of what Abraham-Hicks calls your emotional guidance system. The system is simple.
Step One—pay attention to how you feel. If you feel good, all your thoughts are reaching toward vibrational alignment with who you really are and as a result, all you want. If you feel bad, your thoughts, be they conscious or subconscious, are not in vibrational alignment with who you really are and what you want.
Step Two—if you feel good, build on that by reaching for even better feeling thoughts. Do what you must do to feel better and better and better. If you feel bad, reach for a thought that makes you feel better than you currently do. It may not be a thought that makes you want to put a lamp shade on your head and dance on a table, but it’s a thought that brings you some relief from the way you felt before you found the new thought. Once you feel better, find another thought that makes you feel better. And so on.
These good-feeling thoughts are all your vibrational root system needs. That’s it. No fertilized dirt (subconscious mind duly programmed to believe in what you want) required.
Although hypnosis and other systems being offered by many law of attraction coaches and teachers can be helpful IF it makes you feel good to use them, they aren’t necessary. The powerful vibrational alignment of feeling good is all your energetic roots need for you to grow into the fullness of all you desire.
What say you? Agree or disagree? Does your subconscious mind need tending? Or is climbing the emotional guidance scale enough?
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The photo in this post is of a tree that clings across an opening in the bluff at the edge of Kalaloch Beach, which is where Tim and I spent the afternoon on our anniversary Friday.
Tags: Abraham, Abraham-Hicks, Alignment, Emotional guidance system, hypnosis, Law of Attraction, negative beliefs, subconscious mind, Vibration
May 9th, 2010 at 7:45 pm
Im totally with you Ande, If it makes you feel good to use them then go for it but not necessary. I too took hypnosis and was let down by the results. What was promised did not happen.
The older I get or should I say the wiser I get, the more it comes back to What my mom used to tell me. Gregory, Count your blessings everyday. Gregory, if you cant say something nice about someone, dont say anything at all. Gregory, Life is what you make it. Gregory, your future is bright.. Gregory, you can be as happy as you make your mind up to be. Gregory, look on the bright side… Everything I needed to be incredibly happy in life was there the whole time and it was my mother who showed it to me the whole time but I never knew it.
First Mother’s day without her and she was my biggest fan. I miss her..
May 9th, 2010 at 8:26 pm
Ohhhhh, that’s so touching what Greg wrote about his mama. She was surely a gem.
I’m in total agreement, Ande, and I love the clarification that Abraham brings to hypnosis.
I’m reminded of an amazing discussion I had once with an Abe pal AND hypnotism enthusiast who insisted that if only ESTHER were familiar with hypnosis, then Abraham would have been more apt to recommend it. But Esther, this person believed, didn’t possess the concepts, so Abraham couldn’t endorse it.
Yeah, that boggled my mind. (But it wasn’t the first or last time — haha.)
As Greg says, if a person feels good using hypnosis, great. It could work just as any other good placebo works by giving hope and fostering belief in desired results.
But Abraham makes it clear that any previous thought that isn’t currently active in our vibration does not affect said vibration. So if we’re not currently able to be aware of a thought and to have it evoke feeling within us, it isn’t relevant and isn’t doing any attracting via LOA. It would be inert — doing nothing to magnetize our desires or their opposite.
Abraham does not say there IS no subconscious mind. They’ve referred to it over the years, especially in the early days, I believe, but in the context of our not needing to go into it and ferret anything out.
It would surely be that area of the mind, then, that is accessed when people are hypnotized to do odd and amusing things by stage hypnotists for entertainment purposes. But it is not a source of self-sabotage that needs re-programming.
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May 10th, 2010 at 11:12 am
Thanks, Karen, for that clarification–”if we’re not currently able to be aware of a thought and to have it evoke feeling within us, it isn’t relevant and isn’t doing any attracting via LOA”–that’s the essence of it, and that’s what I thought. I’m amazed by the amount of disinformation out there on LOA, but I appreciate the contrast of it that focuses my thought in a clearer way. It’s so great to have you on board here, with all your extensive knowledge. I appreciate it!
May 10th, 2010 at 11:13 am
You were quite blessed to have such a mother, Greg, and you honor her with your acknowledgment of her wisdom and love and belief.