The Great Secret - The Renewing of Our Minds

© Copyright August, 2009 - W. Dennis Parker

Renewing Your Mind through Pondering and Meditation

(Romans 12:2 - Ephesians 4:23 - Psalms 49:3 - Proverbs 4:26 & 5:6)

“Freedom Through the Conscious Awareness of Choice”      Christian Hypnosis - Hypnotherapy

It was at the end of our American Council of Hypnotist Examiners - Hypnotherapy training courses. We were just a week away from receiving our certifications. Our instructor, Virgil Hayes, asked us to put our pencils down and place our hands comfortably on our laps, sit up straight with good posture and be comfortable, and place our feet firmly upon the floor. We knew the drill from the many times we had done this before, we were about to experience another group hypnotic induction. My mind was now mostly calm and clear, from weeks and weeks and hundreds of hours of individual and group therapy participation and training.

We had observed many sessions that we participated in both individually being the client and as a group. Each individual session became profitable to our own experience and learning, as we utilized the questions and directives, analyzing the answers ourselves for ourselves. Thus our minds were becoming free of childhood issues, the altercations with classmates, friends, parents, grandparents, and other authority figures were dealt with, desensitized, and re-scripted.

As a group our minds were now mostly clear and free from those childhood experiences, all of the altercations and even greater things that were dealt with during the class. The many abuses that this life's experience has given to some, were dealt with, and people went from being victims to survivors, again and again. We participated and witnessed the trance therapy processes successfully utilized as the major traumas of life came out at some point with different students during the courses.

When people go into trance and their minds, spirits, and bodies, (the soul, if you will consider it) are free to choose whatever they will deal with next. The processes are such that the individual client directs what the hypnotherapy session is going to be about, not the therapist; you simply have to facilitate the proper trance state (trance maintenance) and be prepared to apply the processes to whatever comes up, and again after that, experience after experience, layer after layer. You generally never know what the session is going to be about in advance. It keeps it interesting to say the least.

Specific issues can be probed for, but are best handled in turn when they are presented as the next layer of the onion to be peeled, so to speak, by the client. This means that other foundational work chosen by the individual themselves before, is now in place, and they are supportive of the processes and ready for the next layer which comes up automatically when they are fully ready to deal with it. There is much more to this, but this is enough for now. (See Sequential Hypnotherapy)

It was a line upon line, precept upon precept, sequential learning experience from all the experiences of our lives. Once the process was understood, you would find your mind doing it over and over again, especially while you slept at night. Dreams would come and go and issues were resolved while I slept. It was expressed as being the same from most everyone in the class. This is why I use these processes, calling them "Therapeutic Prompts" with the Cd’s I have produced, and will continue to do so with future recordings and training offerings. It works!

I learned that if I were prayerful and asked the Lord, for the Holy Spirit to guide my spirit in the processes, that there was divine assistance and intervention, and the work of clearing out negativity and darkness in my soul went even faster, with greater wisdom, understanding, and discernment as spiritual gifts, granted just for the asking. Meditating upon our life’s experiences and pondering and figuring out the real lessons intended to be learned by our Creator, is a righteous purpose and use of our natural trance abilities.

Our Father in Heaven, the Father of our spirits, (Heb.12:6) wants us to have the best earth life learning experiences possible, we are from time to time to experience happiness and joy. He has given us commandments that if followed assist us to avoid the major pitfalls and miseries of life, that we can intentionally bring upon ourselves if disobedient to them.

However, we will all get to experience the major lessons of life. At some point we will have serious illness or have to recuperate from accidents. We may have financial difficulties, problems with a spouse or children or both, death of close loved ones and friends. The list goes on forever, as all these things will give us experience and be for our good, developing wisdom and understanding within us.

Our faith will be rewarded after the tests and trials, the real blessings come after we have learned the lessons. If we don’t learn the lesson the first time, we may get to repeat the experiences, over and over again. I wish I were not such a slow learner at times. Our Creator wants us to gain the best education possible while in this earth life school, where in we learn to walk by faith. He is interested in our well being, but as the principle of agency is of Heaven, He generally won’t just interfere, but will respond favorably and bless us when asked. We need to ask, seek, and knock, and then He will assist us to receive, find, and have effectual doors opened for us. This is what takes our natural God given trance abilities to a higher level of importance and usefulness.

It was interesting to observe Virgil as he worked with different individuals. We found that everybody had similar experiences and were experiencing similar thoughts and similar feelings. The negative thought scripts we were fixated upon were binding us down, holding us back, and keeping us from being all we wanted to be. To participate with each individual going through similar processes was actually strengthening to the confidence of the group. We rose together in our individual strengths as we witnessed the continual changes in ourselves and each other for the better, week after week.

We came to realize that it was normal to have these negative and inhibiting earth life experiences, thoughts, and feelings. It is all part of being in this life, and part of the regiment or curriculum, if you will, of this life's worldly schooling. However, I believe it is our responsibility to "overcome the world", and we were learning mental, emotional, and physical skills, processes, and procedures, to do so through trance pondering and meditation.

Virgil was of the opinion that in order for us to be good therapists, it was important that we had our personal issues cleared up first. We would not then be triggered emotionally during a session, and would have the understanding of what to do next as we had already been through the same or similar circumstances ourselves, or observed others get through "it". Whatever their particular "__it" was, it was to be dealt with and cleared up. Our minds were to be clear, our personal emotional content desensitized, and our thought processes re-scripted. We had opportunity to do so with each passing week that we participated in this therapy process, observing and learning and clearing up our own individual issues, along with those people whose turn it was to be in, “The Chair”.

When I first started the training classes I would have been the equivalent of a severe attention deficit. My mind raced from subject to subject. I had so many voices of thoughts, so many experiences constantly bombarding my mind and distracting me. These were uncontrolled thoughts randomly going through my head. The voices of thought were all so familiar and normal to me. There were voices of thoughts speaking and recalling experiences or proofs, where I wasn't quite good enough to win this or that, or I was not as smart as others in certain ways, and so forth. Thoughts and feelings of inadequacies, fears, guilt’s, and it must have been my fault, as we learned, filled most everyone in the class.

Virgil began this group induction, explaining to us once more that our mind has a conscious area, which processes analytical logical thinking, that observes and learns new information, and that all thoughts are evaluated and accepted or rejected based on analytical and logical thinking decisions being made when weighted against our accepted prior learning’s and established beliefs. We had studied and understood the Critical Factor, the belief barrier, the storage area of our belief systems, that is somewhere between consciousness and subconscious functions of imagination, memory, and emotions, that filters out unacceptable thoughts, and thoughts not believed to be right, true, and correct for us. (See – The Theory of the Mind and How Behaviors are Created – http://www.wdennisparker.net/)

He then had us fixate and focus intently on his hand. He slowly moved his hand and we were to observe the length of each finger and how far they were from his thumb and so forth. We were to consciously focus so intently on the creases of his hand, so that we were learning and observing outwardly in conscious mind focus only. We were prompted to observe and become aware that while in this total singularity of focus, we virtually had no imagination, no memories, and no emotional content. We were disconnected from other mental functions and capacities. It was interesting to experience such mental capacity awareness.

He explained that there is a part of us inside our minds, which enlightens us, that in therapy he named and called, “I am of self”. “I am self” is within our mind, our Intelligence, or whatever other term you choose to call that part of us, that thinks, reasons, and decides, and moves within the mind connecting to one part of the mind or another at any given moment in time. I will identify for you what I have come to believe it is, over many years of observation in a moment.

He had us observe again that while we were in this singularity of conscious focus observing his hand, our mind being fixated in consciousness, there is no connection to memory, which allows for temporary hypnotic amnesia. There are other factors to hypnotic amnesia, but this is one of them. In order to demonstrate this, he then asked us to recall our address, and at the same time continue to focus intently on the hand. While we did as he asked, we had no address, we had no memory, we had no name, we had no recollection of any kind. He then asked us next to let go of this fixation and find our address, observing the movement within our minds of “I am of self”.

The general comment was that to find our address we had to think. Within our minds we could literally feel movement as we then entered recall, as my, “I am of self”, went back to memory, somewhere toward the middle back of my head. My address just seemed to pop into consciousness and we all were able to then verbalize.

It was startling to me to feel this movement in my mind and head. It was also very delightful; I remember grinning from ear to ear and could not resist commenting – Cool!!! I looked around the room of some thirty plus people and they were all smiling and had very pleasant looks on their faces as well. Then we were asked to look at his hand again and be aware of the movement, and it was so. I felt part of my mind literally move from back in memory, forward to conscious focus, somewhere in the front of my forehead. It was described by one as being the area of the third eye.

We were able to meditate in this deep trance, our mental processes so focused that we pondered upon directions to the point that we fixated and focused on individual thoughts, and individual emotions, to such a state that you can isolate one thought from another, and one emotion from another. Pondering and meditation (what the world is calling hypnosis) brings peace of mind and mental control when done appropriately for righteous purposes, and not the reverse as portrayed in the illusion of mind control, of another, as presented in stage hypnosis.

Then he had us pretend and imagine that we could see with our eyes closed a beautiful rose and we were to imagine this rose as the most beautiful rose we had ever seen, felt, or smelt. We were to imagine that we could touch the stem, but be aware of the prickly thorns. We put the imaginary rose to our noses and could smell the fragrance. He then had us place our index finger on our heads where we were in our minds at that time in imagination. With our eyes continually closed to that point, he had us open them and each one of us had our index finger somewhere to the front top of our heads above the forehead.

Next we did emotions and feelings in similar manner. Virgil had us go back and remember a very happy time in our lives, when we were experiencing our favorite birthday, Christmas, or sometime when we were with family and loved ones in a most joyous occasion. “I am of self” then went back into that emotion. We felt the joy and happiness that was stored there and learned that the feelings of happiness and joy are always there, we were just not always connected to it.

Then immediately he had us open our eyes and look at his hand, and as we did so the movement in our minds was delightful and caused many of us to laugh. “I am of self” went from the back of our heads, to conscious observation at the front of our heads. He had us look at his hand being completely disconnected again from the joyous feelings.

It was a continually surprising and delightful experience as we continued to develop these concepts within us and we had an opportunity to experiment with our minds and the physical literal movement of “I am of self”. We practiced going from place to place being free of fixations. The past scripts of negative predominant thoughts were gone or controlled, and so were the emotional traumas. The influences upon my mind from all of the prior negative fixations of "I am of self" and the distracting voices within my head, were gone or in control.

The point is that we were now free to think as we chose, and know where we are in our own minds at any given moment of time. We knew what trance state we were in, and could be there intentionally for our own goal achievement of learning at a more amplified learning rate, or experiencing and practicing the many mental skills that had been developed. These skills and knowledge are personal power which assist us to not be hypnotized by other worldly influences. In fact, much of the Hypnotherapy I have done, is in DE-HYPNOSIS, not hypnotizing others, but helping them find consciousness, agency, and choice, coming out of chronic trance vulnerability.

This knowledge, experience, and understanding, keeps one from being vulnerable to others who wish to use subliminal hypnotic techniques for control and their personal gratifications, whatever they may be.

Virgil went on to teach us that this knowledge of “I am of self” is conscious choice and conscious awareness, and conscious decision making. Understanding the movement and recognition of controlling our own mind is a "Great Secret of the Mind" that few ever get to know of, or experience, because of the effort and energy it takes to clear one’s mind of darkness and accumulated negativity, but that most everyone has the capacity to do so should they pursue it.

We practiced having full and complete control of our minds for some time in the class. I learned that the processes of hypnosis and hypnotherapy are to bring us to a state of freedom of our own mind, not to control the minds of others. We are to have control of ourselves and assist others to learn control of their own minds as well.

After that day I came up with my therapy slogan: “Freedom through Development of the Conscious Awareness of Choice”. I have been teaching these principles and doing group and individual therapy ever since. I have assisted many others to obtain this freedom of mind. But now it seems it is time to share what I have learned with all others who will listen and take an interest. I believe these concepts are the righteous objectives of Hypnotherapy.

Freeing “I am of self” in the mind is the result of all positive mental thoughts and processes. Cravings and what are called addictions in my opinion, are negative non-productive Predominant Thoughts that “I am of self’ has become locked on to, captured by, if you will, because we have allowed these thought pattern to persist within us. We have giving up our own will and agency of choice to them, and we act out these thoughts in our daily actions. It is the same for our Positive Predominant Thoughts that we fixate upon as well.

We decided to smoke that first cigarette, and we have to decide to stop smoking and make it our last. We decided to over eat, and we must decide from moment to moment to eat sensibly satisfying the needs of our bodies and circumstances in emotional control. We decide from moment to moment to be out of control, and we need to decide to take our power of righteous conscious choice back. We are to ponder and meditate upon our Predominate Thought patterns, understand the good, bad, and ugly, and challenge and change what ought to be changed for the good. (This is best done in Christian Trance Hypnotherapy with the Therapeutic Prompts incorporated into the "White Series"  Cd's, and with full Hypnotherapy Proceedures and Processes.)

These hypnotherapy processes when employed correctly create IMPULSE CONTROL, control of one’s own mind, by themselves, for themselves. You could say that whenever you make a decision to do something you have been hypnotized. You decide something consciously and “I am of self” fixates upon it, so we act upon it. We fixate a positive or negative predominant thought that “I am of self” locks onto when given a specific stimulus. Our character, personality, and behaviors are influenced by these accepted predominant thought fixations.

This experience was a great reward of my spiritual and mental quest. I understand and appreciate the great gifts and powers our Creator has given to us. I feel the need to speak out with a greater voice and assist others who want to create and develop freedom and peace of mind for themselves. I now feel the need to assist others in greater ways to experience “Freedom through Development of the Conscious Awareness of Choice” or mental agency, utilizing one's own power of choice appropriately.

I believe this understanding is the foundation and basis of pondering and meditation as accomplished in full hypnotherapy. Potentially, other therapies such as NLP, cognitive therapy, shock therapy, chemically induced therapy, may all come to be recognized as an effort to free “I am self” in our minds, and have us function with agency and choice again.

If you think about it for a moment you will recognize you have felt this movement of “I am of self”, from time to time, yourselves. We may be consciously aware of it when we are falling asleep, and we literally feel something fall in our minds, downward toward sleep, deep trance. I feel that “I am of self” literally gets dislodged for a moment when we are knocked out in a fight or from some other blunt force trauma.

I wish to now tell you the Paul Harvey version and the rest of the story, and identify to you what I have come to believe over the years is what “I am of self” as Virgil called it, clinically/therapeutically in class, really is in our minds.

The Great Secret of Our Mind is that, “I am of self” is our “Intelligence" and is that part of us we call our Conscience”, the natural state of mental and spiritual discernment, giving understanding of right and wrong, good and bad, righteous and evil.  It is the decision making agency, power, and Light of Christ and Truth within us, which is given to each of us as a divine portion of the Light of Christ.

We can abuse our Intelligence or Conscience, by not following it, respecting it. Our personal enlightenment will lessen within us, can be dulled, nullified, and seemingly captured and taken hostage by the attending dark presences that come interjecting these accepted inappropriate now Predominant Thoughts of negativity and darkness of mind and spirit. They attempt to persuade us in making decisions and choices which violate God’s laws. We call these temptations.

Our Intelligence, this light of understanding, reason, discernment, is our Conscience, and is what makes us different, and separates us from the animals. I believe it is known as the Light of Christ that is given to each man who enters the world. It is the light with, and by which, we are to judge all things, and our obedience or disobedience to it, is foundational to the way we will be judged. We are to learn to follow our conscience, this internal gift of light and truth, and free it to direct us more fully, as we overcome the negativity and darkness of our lives.

John in the New Testament said it this way:
IN the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
6 ¶ There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
(John 1:1-14)

We are to repent, have a new heart of flesh in place of the stony hearts we have created from our negative experiences, tests, and trials. We do so as we ponder and meditate upon them in our minds and hearts, turning former negative, maladaptive thoughts, and emotions, to love and forgiveness, instead of anger and hatedred, to righteousness, instead of our former vain imaginations.

5 ¶ And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. (Old Testament Genesis 6:5)

19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh. (Old Testament Ezekiel 11:19)

21 But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD.
(Old Testament Ezekiel 11:21)

31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye. (Old Testament Ezekiel 18:31-32)

We literally gain additional light, truth, and spirit, (Intelligence) when we make righteous choices and perform actions of obedience. Our conscience becomes stronger and clearer, when we obey it in righteousness. When we are disobedient we lose some of our light, Intelligence, (literally) and we become more darkened as it leaves, dulling our spiritual sensitivities of conscience through thoughts and actions of disobedience and wrong choices.

The processes of Christian Trance Mediation and Pondering are to receive direction, revelation, wisdom, and understanding, from that part of us that is given to each of us, as a divine gift, to guide us. Our conscience when followed diligently draws additional portions of the Light of Christ to us (literally) through righteous thoughts and actions of obediance.
(Titus 1:15 – Hebrews 9:14 – Hebrews 13:18 – 1 Peter 2:19)

We read the explanation in John, now here it is again explained in modern scriptures.
The Spirit of truth is of God. I am the Spirit of truth, and John bore record of me, saying: He received a fulness of truth, yea, even of all truth;
27 And no man receiveth a fulness unless he keepeth his commandments.
28 He that keepeth his commandments receiveth truth and light, until he is glorified in truth and knoweth all things.
29 Man was also in the beginning with God. Intelligence, or the light of truth, was not created or made, neither indeed can be.
30 All truth is independent in that sphere in which God has placed it, to act for itself, as all intelligence also; otherwise there is no existence.
31 Behold, here is the agency of man, and here is the condemnation of man; because that which was from the beginning is plainly manifest unto them, and they receive not the light.
32 And every man whose spirit receiveth not the light is under condemnation.
33 For man is spirit. The elements are eternal, and spirit and element, inseparably connected, receive a fulness of joy;
34 And when separated, man cannot receive a fulness of joy.
35 The elements are the tabernacle of God; yea, man is the tabernacle of God, even temples; and whatsoever temple is defiled, God shall destroy that temple.
36 The glory of God is intelligence, or, in other words, light and truth.
37 Light and truth forsake that evil one.
38 Every spirit of man was innocent in the beginning; and God having redeemed man from the fall, men became again, in their infant state, innocent before God.
39 And that wicked one cometh and taketh away light and truth, through disobedience, from the children of men, and because of the tradition of their fathers.
40 But I have commanded you to bring up your children in light and truth.
(Doctrine & Covenants Sections 93:26-40)

Please see additional videos, articles, and trainings that will be produced and provided over the coming months. I feel we are participating in end time prophecies as we see the varying events of the world unfold as described centuries ago, and that it is time to prepare our minds and hearts more earnestly for future prophetic events. I feel a need to be of greater assistance to others who choose to learn these principles. We can experience and have free agency of mind, making conscious-conscience choices from moment to moment, directing our lives appropriately, and achieving greater goals.

The world needs tens of thousands of Christian Hypnotherapists, Instructors, and School Operators, who understand these principles, and who can discern what the Lord is putting into their hearts to do. We need to overcome the world, teach and assist others to do the same by overcoming thoughts of the negative dark side infiltrators of our minds and life’s experiences. We ought to utilize our God given gifts of conscience and trance mediation and pondering for goal directed, positive, and productive purposes, understanding our true potential to have Peace of Mind.

May you each be blessed in your personal quests,

Dennis

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The Enhanced Self Esteem and Personal Improvement Cd is foundational to all Christian Hypnotherapy. The Weight Management and Personal Health Improvement Cd is excellent for Overall Health Improvement. It contains “Impulse Control Techniques” as well as the Therapeutic Prompts. The Crush the Habit Cd is to assist people with becoming a non-smoker. Additional Articles and Web pages will be added over the coming months.

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© Copyright August, 2009 - W. Dennis Parker