Did you know that the body and mind is connected? The best way to think about this is that we are essentially learning how to work with our unconscious mind. One of the important things about trance and hypnosis is the notion that you have an unconscious mind. Did you know that you had unconscious mind? Let’s define the term “unconscious mind”. Your unconscious mind is the part of you that you are not conscious of right now. That’s probably one the better operational definitions. Think about this for just a minute. You probably wouldn’t be aware of the feeling of your feet against floor or the backs of your legs against the chair or your back against the chair. In all the while you have sensations coming into your body but we are not aware of a lot of those, and your unconscious mind on the other hand manages those sensations for you and does a lot of other things for you.

It causes your heart to beat, it circulates your blood and it causes your digestion to work. It makes your lymph systems circulate and among other things it makes your eyes blink. So, the unconscious mind is in charge of all of that. Another very important assumption that you should make is that your unconscious mind can communicate with every cell in the body.

Until the mid eighties, people could say to you, oh you are doing hypnosis training, well that’s just in your mind. So yes hypnosis is just in your mind, it’s not something that’s “real.” But since about 1985, science has begun to realize with the pioneering work of Deepak Chopra, who is a medical doctor in the US, science has begun to realize that not only does the information from the mind affect that body, but there is now scientific evidence that mind is available to communicate to all of the cells in the body.

Originally when the neurotransmitter was first discovered, neurotransmitter is by the way, the chemical that is in between the synapses between two nerve cells. Originally they thought the neurotransmitter was just in the brain and later they decided that neurotransmitter was actually between every neuron in the body. More recently quantum physics and quantum biology, now tells us that the neurotransmitter bathes every single cell in the human body, which means that mind can communicate with body in any given moment.

Now you are probably aware of the amount of time that it takes for the information to go from one part of the body to another. If it was totally instantaneous it would move very quickly, but when you get into your bath or shower, do you test it with your hand or you test it with your foot. Did you ever notice that when you test it with your hand, that it takes less time for the information to get to your brain, than when you test it with your foot? If you didn’t notice that, next time you take a shower or bath stick your toe in first and wait till the information gets to your brain, and then stick your hand in the wait for the information to get to your brain and what you will notice is there is a discrete amount of time between the hand going into the hot water and the amount of time it actually takes to get to your brain.

What that’s indicative of is the amount of time it takes the neuro transmitter to go between the synapses and the synaptic aphesis as well as being a transmitter from one cell to the next, to the next, one neuron to the next as the information goes from your hand to your brain. So it’s your unconscious mind that becomes the means of working with the mind body connection. So the second major assumption that we will be making, is that it is the unconscious mind that is our key to the mind, body connection. What we are essentially saying then is that there are many things we are conscious of but the function of the body and the operation of the body is pretty much unconscious and we are not really aware of that function at the unconscious level until we bring it to awareness. It’s hypnosis that allows us to begin and stimulate, and working with the mind body connection, to begin to accomplish many wonderful things