The Iceberg

 “The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.”  Sigmund Freud

Freud proposes that the visible part of the iceberg, floating above the water, is our conscious mind – our thinking brain that is responsible for cognitive processes, knowledge and memories (although the accuracy of memory is debatable!).   According to the metaphor, this tip of the iceberg is one-seventh or 14% of our mind. 

The unconscious mind makes up the other 86% of the iceberg that sits underwater.  This is the part our mind which is made up of everything we have ever learned or experienced since birth.  So it follows that there is a lot of information stored here which we are not consciously aware of and which we don’t have access to on a day to day basis.  There is a good reason for that - the volume of information would be physically impossible to handle all at once! 

Today in our fast paced world, most people are letting their conscious minds drive them – it’s a natural response to all the stimuli we encounter every day.  We are continually responding to pressures and demands and therefore we tend live in our conscious minds.  But by doing so we are not using our minds to their full potential.  

We are utilising only the tip of the iceberg.

There are many theories as to what hypnosis is and how it occurs, but the most important thing to remember is what it achieves: it opens the door to access that hidden 86% of your mind. 

Hypnosis not only allows someone to find answers to problems and to change behaviours - it is much more valuable than that.  When you learn how to use self hypnosis and start to practice it regularly, your whole way of experiencing the world changes. 

After a while you are able to take control and dip in and out of your unconscious quite naturally – to engage with that other 86% of your mind - the sleeping giant. 

Think of the implication.....how much can you open your mind?

Leigh