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Your Mind Isn’t Against You — It’s Following Rules You Were Never Taught
The mind operates according to a set of principles — rules, if you like — that most of us were never taught. And when we try to change without understanding those rules, we’re essentially pushing against the very system we’re trying to work with.
Your Brain Can Change at Any Age
For a long time, people believed the brain was fixed.
The idea was by the time you reached adulthood, your brain was already set. Your patterns, your reactions, even parts of your personality were seen as more or less permanent.
That idea has shifted. Research shows that even into your 60s, 70s, and 80s, the brain can still reorganise and adapt in response to new experiences and learning.
What Actually Happens in Your Brain During Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy is backed by a growing body of scientific research — but the more interesting question is what's actually happening inside the brain when someone is in a hypnotic state.
Why Your Emotional Mind overpowers Your Logical Mind
The conscious mind is our logical mind. It reasons, analyses, plans and problem-solves. It’s extraordinarily useful for a vast range of challenges — just not emotional ones. Because emotional problems don’t live in the conscious mind. They live in the subconscious — the part of the mind that operates beneath awareness, storing our beliefs, our bodily responses, our emotional memories and our automatic patterns.
The beliefs you formed before you were seven are still running your life
There’s an invisible force shaping almost everything — how you feel about yourself, what you allow yourself to have, how you respond when things go well and when they don’t. It’s not your personality. It’s not fate. It’s your core beliefs- they can be rewritten.
Your inner critic isn’t trying to destroy you. It’s trying to protect you.
The voice that tells you you’re not good enough. That you’ll be found out. That you shouldn’t say that, charge that, ask for that. It feels like an enemy. It’s actually an overprotective part of you that’s been trying to keep you safe — and has wildly outdated methods of doing it.