We want to teach you a key principle of positive behavioral modification & change as an example of our course work. We teach students & clients how to overcome double mindedness. James 1:8 says, “a double minded man is unstable in all his ways.” We propose the double mindedness spoken of here is the incongruent predominant thought thinking errors that we have logged in our subconscious mind, that are in opposition to the goal achieving desires that we have in our conscious mind . When we have incongruent thinking & opposite beliefs at our conscious & subconscious states of mind it creates opposing forces within us, “instability”. We want to move forward, achieve new goals, be our best self, consciously, & yet as we hold opposing incongruent thoughts & beliefs in the subconscious mind, we experience inhibitions, hesitations, & we procrastinate. We are unstable in all our ways!

There is an area between the two minds called the Critical Faculty or Critical Factor which is the area of our belief systems. It is a filter to the subconscious mind. When we do conscious critical, analytical, logical thinking, & we accept a thought as being right, true & correct for us, we allow it to pass through the critical factor into our subconscious functions of imaginations, memories, & emotions. Once the thought belief is in the subconscious it will generate a behavior. The extreme to which demonstrate the behavior depend on how much amplification of our imagination we apply to the thought belief, & how much justifying, validating data, we can come up with in our memories to prove to ourselves that we are right in our chosen belief. The amount of amplification & justification is the amount of emotional content we experience as our feelings, driving the behavior, because we behave the way we feel.

The “KEY” is that it requires hypnosis, trance, or pondering, (all three are synonymous to us) to penetrate the critical factor filter barrier & access the incongruent thinking errors being held in the subconscious. It requires skills & training in trance to know which hypnotic level (because there are six observable trance states that we utilize in hypnotherapy, & hypnotherapy is a general term which is descriptive of three major categories: Suggestion Hypnotherapy, Clinical Hypnotherapy, & Spiritual Mind Management Hypnotherapy) is going to work best to challenge & change the newly found thinking errors. Once these thinking errors are challenged & changed appropriately & brought into alignment with conscious goal driven thinking, being single-minded, people now move forward in life fulfilling their dreams & goals more rapidly than ever before imagined possible.

We use the metaphor that what we are doing is weeding the garden of our mind. Let’s say we have a major thinking error, a big weed in our garden. (I am not good enough, or smart enough, or capable enough, or pretty or handsome enough, & so forth.) In conscious or cognitive therapy, we may whack away at the leaves above the ground, we may break off branches, & with sufficient time, we might even chop it down to the ground with enough logical & analytical reasoning. But, without hypnosis or trance access to the subconscious root & the training to know how to actually pull the root all the way out, when the individual experiences a similar stimulating event that generated the behavior producing thought processes in the first place, the root is stimulated again & simply grows back, & so does the behavior. Such is the case with yo-yo dieting. So a major key to behavioral modification hypnotherapy is the ability to get to the root of problem thinking errors & overcoming double minded instabilities!

by W. Dennis Parker