The Mystery - The Magic - The Myths: Subconscious-Mind Therapy and Chakras

Subconscious-Mind Therapy - A Healing Model: The Mystery - The Magic - The Myths

Do you know that scientists say that we only use 10% of our brains? It is safe to say that Humans aren't using nearly enough brain power as we should, and I don't know about you, but it is a tad annoying that we have so much power at our disposal; yet we are thwarted by our own subconscious. However, after reading this article, everything should change.

There is a subtle and important difference between the auto repair and headache scenarios and getting the changes you want from therapy. The broken motorcar cannot repair itself. If you are not mechanically inclined, you take it to the mechanic, pay him to fix it and that is where your responsibility ends.

The mechanic takes on his responsibility and does the 'work'. Once you have swallowed the headache tablet the biochemical process takes over and you have little say in what follows. In this case, we might say that your responsibility ends with taking the pill. The mechanic 'forces' the car to be mended and the active ingredient in the analgesic 'forces' the headache to change. Not so, however, when it comes to making changes within your inner, subconscious, emotional self. No therapist or therapy can force you to change.

The reason this is so different is that in the case of having therapy we are talking about a very different set of circumstances. Here we are talking about a process of 'healing'. And you are the only one who can do your healing, whether it is physical, emotional, spiritual, mental or anything else. Therapy does not heal people. Any and all therapies are nothing more than 'models of interaction' between the client and the helper. Let us for a moment consider what happens if you break your leg and go to the doctor for help. The doctor will carefully realign the broken bone, wrap it in plaster, lend you a pair of crutches and give you a prescription for some painkillers. Providing you take care of it and follow your doctor's instructions, it will be all healed up in 6 or 8 weeks. The doctor will then take a picture of your leg, take the crutches back, give you a bill and send you on your way.

However! It was not the doctor, the plaster, the crutches, or the analgesics (and certainly not the bill) that caused the healing. Those things merely created an environment in which your own inherent healing capacities could take over and do the healing. Without help, your leg may not have healed, or more to the point, it would have eventually healed inappropriately. And so it is with any healing process. In principle, there is no difference between what would be seen as a physical healing process and a subconscious, mental, emotional healing process. Therapy creates the environment and you do the healing.

In the world of therapy and healing, there are many myths, a little mystery and what seems like a whole bunch of magic. Many of the myths will undoubtedly live on. Most of the mystery and magic can be put down to the way in which we heal ourselves when given the opportunity to do so. In the last 100 years or so, science has demystified much of the mystery. The magic is a different matter. I see magic almost daily in my clinical practice and it always seems to happen when clients are allowed to keep their share of the responsibility for change. If you need a therapist's help with personal issues, be sure to find one who knows it is you who does your healing and who knows how to really allow you to do your healing. If the helper thinks it is they or their therapy that does it, you will be robbed of the responsibility needed to get the job done.