The Pink Paper Winter 2014 Winter 2014 | Page 8

holistic Hypnosis FOR HEALTH By: Aline Hoffman, Ph.D. Listen to the language of survivors. They intuitively tend to describe desired future achievements. Since the future is unpredictable, we speak of it the way we imagine it. Imagination is the language of the subconscious mind. The subconscious is that part of our mind where our longterm memory is housed. Here also are our emotions, beliefs, perceptions, and habits. Interestingly enough, the subconscious tends not to differentiate between what is real and what is fantasy. The conscious mind, on the other hand, is where judgment and logical evaluation occur. This is the rational thinking aspect of our mental processing. Star Trek fans might describe it as the “Spock mind.” The conscious, also referred to as the critical factor, is aware F