Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 4, Issue - 3, 1 September 2019 | Page 34

modalities. The meditation classes would calm my mind for some time
then again, the automatic negative thoughts would come back up and
“hijack” my mind and body.
To understand myself better, I decided to take a diploma course in
counselling psychology. I wanted to understand how my mind works. I
needed answers, I wanted to now play an active role in understanding
myself instead of just relying on higher and higher doses of
medication. While taking this diploma course, I came across a book by
Joseph Murphy “The Power of the Subconscious Mind”. I had never
heard of a “subconscious mind” and was curious to find out more. I
needed to know the root cause of my negative thoughts, irrational
fears and nervous feelings and if the subconscious had the key to all
my answers then that’s where I had to look. If it was an important part
of our lives, I wondered why the medical professionals I went to, didn’t
tell me anything about the subconscious mind. It looked like, if I had to
solve the mysteries of my irrational fears, then I have to go find out
everything about the subconscious mind.
What a journey I must say…
2. How did you become a Hypnotherapist.
To get to the root cause of my automatic negative thoughts and
feelings, I now needed to study the subconscious mind. Thank
goodness for the internet, I did some research and found out that
hypnotherapy would allow me access to the subconscious mind. I
wondered, being a top science student with so many years of
education and there was not one single lesson on the subconscious
mind.
In 2007, hypnotherapy was still very “alien” in Singapore. So, I
decided to go abroad to study hypnotherapy in London. It was not an