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Last week I stood in the main auditorium of the Zaantheater. Besides being one of my "bucket list" things, it was also a way to get people to experience that hypnosis is cool. I think I succeeded and I will share what I shared there here as well

Getting in touch with your unconscious

The evening began with an introduction in which I shared how I got started with hypnosis. What many people may not know is that 10 years ago I was still working in construction as a foundation specialist (that's what we called ourselves). A lot can change in 10 years....

What would you like to do? Many people often overestimate what they can achieve in a day or in a week but all underestimate what they can achieve in 10 years. It is so long that you often cannot imagine what is possible then.

I myself was addicted to drugs 10 years ago and working in construction, just had a son and almost had twins. Where were you 10 years ago? And what are you doing now? Maybe the same thing and you want something different. That is really possible when you make a decision and move in the right direction with the right strategy.

For me, that decision came rock hard after we got the news that one of the twins might not make it because of an infection. That flipped a switch for me. Fortunately, he is alive and in perfect health, but that realization that he might drop out and that it would be my fault (I had told myself that...) was the last straw.

What would you like to be doing in 10 years and what would you like to be like then? Imagine if you had that now. You've achieved it and you see yourself with those skills, with the things you want and how you feel now. What would that look like? How would that feel? That's the direction you want to go and I can tell you right now that you can achieve that faster than 10 years....

Much faster...

Because when your unconscious and conscious are a team then things happen much faster. Now it is often the case that you consciously want to do something, but unconsciously it gets sabotaged for whatever reason. When there is a conflict between your conscious and your unconscious, your unconscious will always win. That's why you want it on your team!

How to get your unconscious into your team

First of all, you have to imagine that if you have almost never had contact with your unconscious that it may take some time. Imagine you have a brother you haven't seen for 25 years and suddenly you knock on his door and ask him directly if he can help you now. The chances of him doing that are not very good right away, especially if you are very rude, pushy or disrespectful to him.

So it's a bit like that with your unconscious. Treat him or her with respect, of course. When you do and are grateful for the contact it will certainly want to help you.

How to connect

You can connect with your unconscious by doing the following. Ask a question to which you know a certain answer. For example:

Is my name Edwin? (in my case then ;-)). Then feel which finger would like to go up. Repeat this a few times with questions that you are sure are a yes.

You also do this with "no questions.

The moment contact is made, you can start asking different questions and feel when it's a yes or no. With that technique you can really go in many directions and it works super well. It is one of the basic techniques you learn with us in the hypnosis 1.0 training because it comes back so often in almost all the other techniques.

Of course, there are many other ways to connect as I did at the Zaantheater with "The Swan. Out of 280 people, more than 200 got in touch with their unconscious.

How cool is that!

Once again I am going to give an evening like this in response to all the responses. If you want to be there you can check here for opportunities to attend.