Which aspect of what I wrote would you like to know more about? I'll certainly keep posting more info...but of course I don't know which aspects interest you the most unless you let me know.

However, as a taster....There are some underlying rules that govern how the brain works which when utilised creatively within therapeutic endeavour you can change your habitual emotional responses to events, people, actions, behaviours etc. That is why hypnotherapy and hypnoanalysis works.

The rules are:

Ideas or thoughts can result in physical changes within the body. If a thought triggers a negative emotion the subconscious brain "learns" it as if it were factually correct, even if it is imagined.

The brain does not distinguish in importance between real or imagined events. So if you have unresolved matters and you go to sleep you will dream and resolve the issues through your dreams even though your dreams are not real they release your emotional energy.

The brain delivers what we focus on...think negative and we'll find the negative in everything we experience. If we focus on negative outcomes that is what will be achieved. Think positively and we'll notice the positive instead. E.g. Glass half full or half empty.

In order to do something you have to imagine it first.

Fixed thought patterns can only be overturned through the subconscious - you can do this by imagining changes as the subconscious brain does not know the difference between imaginery and reality.

Conscious effort (willpower) alone when attempting to change your habitual responses will result in the opposite occuring. You need your subconscious to be in synergy with your conscious. That's why hypnotherapy works it works on the subconscious. You can imagine yourself changing behaviour and acting differently and this will then allow you to follow what you consciously want to do e.g. give up smoking...don't concentrate on giving up smoking as you are still thinking of yourself as a smoker...first imagine how non-smokers behave and imagine yourself as a non-smoker ...step into a non-smokers body in your imagination and become one. Then you'll reduce the resistance you have to give up as your conscious and subconscious will be in synergy.

Opposite ideas cannot be held in the mind at the same time - they cancel one another out. That is why sometimes therapists will use paradoxes. E.g. if you feel anger the paradox of anger is love so if you think of love your anger disappears. (Incidentally that I believe is often why religious thought helps people in distress as well as it usually includes some element of love and loving one another rather than fighting one another or life. Linked with the rule that the mind delivers what it focuses on and you can be much more positive when approaching life's struggles.Even if we do not believe in god we are never alone as we have our subconscious as well as our conscious to help us resolve our difficulties....try it...allow yourself to clear your mind of thoughts and be open to recieve the point of learning or wisdom....or imagine a cave with a very wise person and imagine asking the person a question for which you have been wanting an answer about what you should change in your life, or how you should behave... imagine the wise person deliberating for some time and then telling you the answer and giving you a box with a gift inside, open the box and accept the gift....thank the wise person and go on your way accompanied with the new wisdom and gift. )