Different Layers of Consciousness
Hypnosis is a fascinating topic and I am full of it because I am just finishing an eight week course in becoming a certified hypnotherapist. The average person [should we ever find her] is fairly ignorant of the actual qualities of hypnosis.
My own way of describing it is in the context of ‘mobility of consciousness’. The idea is that we can move around in our own consciousness to various different layers. And each layer has different strengths and weaknesses. Each layer has access to different resources and opportunities.
In casual conversation we have figured out about four different layers of consciousness that every human visits almost every day. The sleep state, the normal waking state, meditation, and self-induced alpha states (hypnosis). There are undoubtedly many more and a whole discipline could be devoted to investigating this.
The reason I took this course is that I believe that hypnosis is the discipline that focuses most directly on consciously changing the state of consciousness you are in for particular purposes. Where else do we find this expertise in our society? [everywhere actually, I am thinking of barbers, dentists and entertainers for a start, not to mention a much older profession ;]
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November 18th, 2008 | Tags: layers of consciousness, reality creation | Category: Commentary, Rant | Leave a comment |
You Create Your Own Reality - 101
All the ‘dead guys’ are adamant about this point, we create our own reality. It is as though this is an idea whose time has come. Science, weather, cartoons, presidential elections, they all point to the fact that we create our own reality.
It was Seth, channeled by Jane Roberts who first coined this phrase but it has grown to define a movement in consciousness that is only gathering strength in this new millennium.
Just being ‘alive and kicking’ steers our reality creation mechanisms in whatever direction we concentrate our attention. This is our power as expressions of Source in this physical dimension.
Ok, so let’s talk for a moment about the mechanics of reality creation and why it is so significant for us to begin to accept our role and responsibility in the creation of our own reality. [What might at first blush seem like a burden turns out to be the ultimate freedom so please bear with me.]
If you create your own reality, as all the ‘dead guys’ tell us, you are creating the one you’re experiencing right now. This is not something you can stop doing, or fail to do, or screw up in any way. This is not a superpower we can turn on and off.
In each moment, without exception, we each immaculately create our own reality without thought or effort, and there’s really nothing we can do about it at that level. It is an inherent characteristic of our being.
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November 16th, 2008 | Tags: reality creation, YCYOR | Category: Commentary | Leave a comment |
Hypnosis Homework - Weight Loss Protocol - November 14, 2008 - John Hawkins
My homework is to create a protocol for the hypnotic treatment of weight loss. Of course, this raises many, many issues. Only a few of the most salient of which can be addressed here.
The basic plan is to use Krasner’s lovely process, including the Benefits Approach right up front for developing SMART suggestions with the client. If it seems appropriate, we can use age regression for the therapy.
Desensitizing the ISE and then engaging the Informed Child to help release the emotional energy blocked up in opposing the event. The plan is to open up new choices for the client in their nows that are much more in harmony with their preferences.
Simply guiding the client’s attention to hitherto blocked areas of normal human perception is enormously balancing and healing because the natural energetic signature of our Ego Construction zeros and neutralizes any system it enters. [this is part of Energetics 101, whenever you energize a new system, or one that has come online after a long interval, you naturally zap everything to make sure all systems are ‘go’.]
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November 14th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Leave a comment |
Email comments on a dream about transition and acceptance
Excerpt from original email:
The strongest feelings during the dream were ones of opposition and acceptance all at once, and the warmth and close feelings toward my bride. She seemed to exist in an emotional sense, though I can’t recall any of her features.
I’m open to other interpretations as well, in case anyone thinks of any.
Hi [correspondent]
As I re-read your account this afternoon a couple of things popped up…
There is an obvious male-female dynamic… and I recalled what are often called ‘plumbing’ issues that women are thought to be prone to in some quarters… [This is all about female biology and the accompanying emotional, cultural, and symbolic associations.]
I see you accepting your feminine energies pragmatically, even though you may feel at some levels that this is not really necessary, or need not apply to you…
Your attraction to being with the ‘bride’ speaks volumes, and your repeated willingness to accept what you don’t particularly want - even going on record as not preferring it, thank you very much - also speaks volumes about acceptance and allowance that is very instructive…
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November 11th, 2008 | Tags: acceptance, dreams, feminine energy | Category: Commentary, E-mail | Leave a comment |
Moving Around in Consciousness
This idea has crystalized for me just lately. I have previously written about this as ‘mobility of consciousness’ and I thought a diagram might add a nice layer.
This was brought into focus for me again recently by a synchronicity last Thursday. I was getting ready to go to the Kris radio show I co-host with Mark Bukator, Reality by Design.
I happened to read a short passage in Jane Robert’s book, Psychic Politics, describing her idea that the state of consciousness we are in is a crucial component of whatever we are experiencing in any particular now.
She describes being downtown in front of a bank. While she is experiencing a heightened level of awareness, including greatly enriched sensory perception, the person on the sidewalk beside her, supposedly experiencing the same reality, might have been thinking about lunch.
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November 4th, 2008 | Tags: consciousness, hypnosis, mobility of consciousness | Category: Commentary, Kris Radio, Practice, Toronto Session | Leave a comment |
Mobility of Consciousness
The ability to consciously move around within our own consciousness is emerging for me as one of the key skills for thriving in this amazing Shift in Consciousness that’s said to be going on all around us these days.
As I see it, being able to move at will to a suitable layer of consciousness, and then manipulate our energies from that vantage point, this must be the premiere talent, skill and most useful ability to acquire in this changing world.
The reason I am studying hypnosis is that this is the only modality I am aware of that directly addresses this issue - learning how to deliberately change our level of awareness or the layer within consciousness we are operating from.
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October 31st, 2008 | Tags: consciousness, mobility of consciousness | Category: Commentary | Leave a comment |
(This is my reply to a correspondent who asked about how my activities have changed due to recognizing that I ‘own’ my entire universe in the sense that I am creating it.)
Hi [correspondent]
Thanks again for your input and interesting questions…
Lately I have been fascinated by the idea of putting some of the ‘dead guys’ basic principles together and seeing what kind of implications and even corollaries come up about what our life can be in this dimension of consciousness.
Most of the channel sources I resonate with are pretty cagy about setting out in detail what our potentials are. They all hint that our potential is WAY beyond what we currently believe but mostly leave it to us to figure out what that might look like in practical terms.
I believe the reason for this is that even they don’t know exactly what we are going to manifest here in this dimension as this shift in consciousness takes hold. I almost get the feeling they are waiting with bated breath [if they were breathing :] to see what we will do with our newly remembered awarenesses. They don’t want to limit or prejudice our choices and that is why they are purposely vague about what our future might hold.
Kris gave us a broad hint recently when he affirmed that taking action in the world was the junction between the conscious 10% and the neo-conscious 90% of our awareness. When we are ‘in our heads’ and doing things primarily at the mental layer, what we create is also at the mental layer.
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October 26th, 2008 | Tags: Conscious creation, neo-conscious | Category: Commentary, E-mail | Leave a comment |
Why Appreciation Works
Kris gave a very helpful explanation tonight for why appreciation, or thanking your problems, works. He and other ‘dead guys’ have told us often that appreciation is powerful medicine.
If we can find something to appreciate in any situation - it doesn’t even have to explicitly be about ourselves. If we can find a way to appreciate ANYthing in a difficult situation, the whole thing will turn on a dime in response to the change in energy we are expressing.
Kris explained that the reason was because when you appreciate your life in that way, or thank your problem for being meaningful and significant, you are moving to another layer of consciousness where you are not simply the focal awareness anymore, but are observing this focal awareness and expressing appreciation for its mechanisms.
By expressing appreciation for things that we seemingly have no direct control over, such as our problems, we are automatically viewing our lives from a much broader perspective than simply what we see looking out of our own eyes every day.
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October 23rd, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Leave a comment |
Putting a Couple of Ideas Together
In the interests of integration, I have been putting together some of the basic ideas of ‘you create your own reality’ thinking. It’s fun to extrapolate some of these ideas and see what they look like in combination with each other.
The basic idea, obviously, is that we each create our own experience of reality right down to the molecular level. [Whether we literally create our own reality, or merely create our experience of our reality, or it's only our perception of our reality, it all amounts to the same thing.]
The second idea that impacts greatly on the first one, is the idea that the ‘we’ that is conscious and thinks about our life here and what we want, is only a small part of the ‘we’ that is creating the whole of our reality for us, moment-to-moment.
There is much more of us involved in this grand endeavor than our conscious daily thoughts and beliefs. Kris has called the conscious part of ourselves ‘the thinker’ and our neo-conscious selves - our whole self - is ‘the maker’. And it is at the layer of the ‘maker’ that our material creation energies come into play to actually manifest our reality.
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October 22nd, 2008 | Tags: putting ideas together, YCYOR | Category: Commentary | Leave a comment |
You Can’t Change What You Don’t Like
Wise folks everywhere talk about acceptance and how important it is, and I am all for acceptance in my life. Kris has recently offered a practical new take on this idea.
Acceptance is one of the keynotes of all new age metaphysical philosophies. And I am sold on the value of acceptance and how important it is to my enlightenment and ease of life. Proponents of acceptance will get no argument from me.
This does not change the fact that there are lots of things in my life - lots of things - that I don’t like and would like to change. Isn’t that what conscious creation is all about? Changing the stuff we don’t like? Don’t we get to use our powers as the divine creators of our lives, to create what we want?
[That’s what I thought I was signing up for!]
Turns out this is a bit of a ‘loss leader’ conceptually, because the first half of creating what we want is not about changing anything at all. It’s about accepting whatever reality we find ourselves in presently.
This is Kris’ helpful new way of presenting this perspective…
“You can’t change what you don’t like.”
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October 20th, 2008 | Tags: acceptance, dislikes | Category: Practice, Rant | Leave a comment |
