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| Understanding The Role Of The Mind |
What Do You Mean I Created My Self-Image?
The first question is “How Does The Self Image Come Into Being?” Now
on this point, the most important thing to understand is that you
created your self-image. In fact, you started creating it before you were
even born and it was mostly complete and in place by about the age of
six years old.
The key thing about the self-image is that, you created your self-image,
therefore, you can change it!
The way you created your self-image was by the ways in which you
originally perceived and interpreted the experiences you had in life. At
one point, each experience you had in life was totally unique, the first of
its kind.
The first time you experienced hunger, the first time you took a breath,
the first time you experienced food in your mouth and you swallowed it,
the first time you experienced someone holding you and smiling at you,
the first time someone spoke harshly to you or yelled or screamed at you.
There was a first time for each of these experiences and many, many,
many more. Each new experience brought with it an experience of
deciding what this new encounter meant to you.
On this point, it's extremely important to understand that we human
beings have a deep, deep need to assign meaning to the events we
experience in life. It's part of our nature. It's genetically wired into the
brain. We have no choice about whether we are going to assign meaning
to the things that happen to us.
Where we do have a choice is that we get to choose what meaning we
assign to each and every event we experience.
The difficult part is that, since your self-image was mostly created in
childhood, the majority of the meanings you chose were generated by an
inexperienced mind that simply did not have the same powers of
reasoning that your adult mind has. Consequently, you, like all of us,
became wounded very early in life. And most of us become somehow
stuck in certain of those wounds and therefore unable to heal them.
How We Become Trapped By The Past
The way that we become stuck in our wounds and trapped in the past is
that we almost always hide our wounds from ourselves in some way.
The world-famous Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung (1865 to 1961)
referred to wounds that we hide from ourselves as the “Shadow” and the
Shadow is always a part of the self-image.
If you want to learn more about Dr. C. G. Jung, M.D., use this link.
Information on Dr. Carl Gustav Jung from The Philosophy Professor
Basically, what Dr. Jung said is that, when these wounds occur (which is
very often before the age of 6), the emotional impact is so overwhelming
that we somehow split them off from conscious awareness. In other
words, these types of wounds make us feel so extremely threatened
emotionally that our unconscious mind feels forced to find some way to
hide them from the conscious mind.
Sometimes these Shadow wounds are so severe that the unconscious
mind hides them from us completely and we have no memory
whatsoever of the events that caused them or the emotional impact of
those events. Most of the time, though, we retain some memories of the
events and some level of memory of the emotional impact but most of
the emotional impact remains hidden.
These hidden emotions create patterns of responding to life that become
totally automatic. In other words, we lose our ability to choose how we
wish to respond to the events of life. These unconscious patterns are
what keep us trapped in emotional responses that we have little or no
control over. This is what I mean by a damaged self-image.
The Solution To A Damaged Self-Image
This is where my Wilson Method Empowerment Hypnosis© comes in.
My Empowerment Hypnosis© works to change your self-image, the
mental programming in your unconscious mind. So, whatever the
problem, if it was generated by a damaged self-image, my Empowerment
Hypnosis© works to correct it.
For more on healing a damaged self-image see either the page on “My
Services” or the page on “My Super Hypnosis CDs.”
The first question is “How Does The Self Image Come Into Being?” Now
on this point, the most important thing to understand is that you
created your self-image. In fact, you started creating it before you were
even born and it was mostly complete and in place by about the age of
six years old.
The key thing about the self-image is that, you created your self-image,
therefore, you can change it!
The way you created your self-image was by the ways in which you
originally perceived and interpreted the experiences you had in life. At
one point, each experience you had in life was totally unique, the first of
its kind.
The first time you experienced hunger, the first time you took a breath,
the first time you experienced food in your mouth and you swallowed it,
the first time you experienced someone holding you and smiling at you,
the first time someone spoke harshly to you or yelled or screamed at you.
There was a first time for each of these experiences and many, many,
many more. Each new experience brought with it an experience of
deciding what this new encounter meant to you.
On this point, it's extremely important to understand that we human
beings have a deep, deep need to assign meaning to the events we
experience in life. It's part of our nature. It's genetically wired into the
brain. We have no choice about whether we are going to assign meaning
to the things that happen to us.
Where we do have a choice is that we get to choose what meaning we
assign to each and every event we experience.
The difficult part is that, since your self-image was mostly created in
childhood, the majority of the meanings you chose were generated by an
inexperienced mind that simply did not have the same powers of
reasoning that your adult mind has. Consequently, you, like all of us,
became wounded very early in life. And most of us become somehow
stuck in certain of those wounds and therefore unable to heal them.
How We Become Trapped By The Past
The way that we become stuck in our wounds and trapped in the past is
that we almost always hide our wounds from ourselves in some way.
The world-famous Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung (1865 to 1961)
referred to wounds that we hide from ourselves as the “Shadow” and the
Shadow is always a part of the self-image.
If you want to learn more about Dr. C. G. Jung, M.D., use this link.
Information on Dr. Carl Gustav Jung from The Philosophy Professor
Basically, what Dr. Jung said is that, when these wounds occur (which is
very often before the age of 6), the emotional impact is so overwhelming
that we somehow split them off from conscious awareness. In other
words, these types of wounds make us feel so extremely threatened
emotionally that our unconscious mind feels forced to find some way to
hide them from the conscious mind.
Sometimes these Shadow wounds are so severe that the unconscious
mind hides them from us completely and we have no memory
whatsoever of the events that caused them or the emotional impact of
those events. Most of the time, though, we retain some memories of the
events and some level of memory of the emotional impact but most of
the emotional impact remains hidden.
These hidden emotions create patterns of responding to life that become
totally automatic. In other words, we lose our ability to choose how we
wish to respond to the events of life. These unconscious patterns are
what keep us trapped in emotional responses that we have little or no
control over. This is what I mean by a damaged self-image.
The Solution To A Damaged Self-Image
This is where my Wilson Method Empowerment Hypnosis© comes in.
My Empowerment Hypnosis© works to change your self-image, the
mental programming in your unconscious mind. So, whatever the
problem, if it was generated by a damaged self-image, my Empowerment
Hypnosis© works to correct it.
For more on healing a damaged self-image see either the page on “My
Services” or the page on “My Super Hypnosis CDs.”
Each new day brings with it a chance for a new beginning. The choices you make today
don't have to be influenced by what happened to you in the past. Today, right now, this
very moment, is your only moment of power. Right now is the only opportunity you have
to begin changing the undesirable patterns in your unconscious mind that keep you
trapped in the past. This is what my Wilson Method Empowerment Hypnosis© helps
you to do. Use this moment, right now to make a new and better choice for you.
Edward John Wilson, M.Ed., L.P.C., C.Ht.
don't have to be influenced by what happened to you in the past. Today, right now, this
very moment, is your only moment of power. Right now is the only opportunity you have
to begin changing the undesirable patterns in your unconscious mind that keep you
trapped in the past. This is what my Wilson Method Empowerment Hypnosis© helps
you to do. Use this moment, right now to make a new and better choice for you.
Edward John Wilson, M.Ed., L.P.C., C.Ht.
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