Uncover the hidden influence of your subconscious mind and how it controls 88% of your mental landscape. Based on the insights of clinical hypnotist Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander, this blog post delves into the laws of hypnosis – repetition and association – and explores the hypnotic modalities of authority, doctrine, and internal experience. Learn practical strategies to tap into your subconscious for personal growth and goal attainment.

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The transcript discusses the influence of the subconscious mind on behavior, using hypnosis principles to illustrate how to harness this power. Here’s a structured summary and practical application:

Key Concepts:

1. Iceberg Analogy:
   • Conscious Mind (12%): Active, logical thinking.
   • Subconscious Mind (88%): Controls behavior, stores beliefs/emotions, prioritizes safety.
2. Laws of Hypnosis:
   • Repetition & Association: Repeated information linked to trusted sources/emotions bypasses the critical filter (subconscious guard).
   • Hypnotic Modalities (methods to influence the subconscious):
     • Authority/One-Upmanship: Trust in figures perceived as superior (celebrities, leaders).
     • Translogic, Paradigm, Doctrine:
       • Translogic: Temporarily logical ideas (e.g., misleading ads).
       • Paradigm: Current trends/zeitgeist (e.g., social media trends).
       • Doctrine: Established rules (e.g., religious texts).
     • Internal Experience/Overload: Emotions/stress overwhelm the critical filter (e.g., fear-based messaging).
3. Critical Filter:
   • Blocks new info unless associated with safety (authority, familiarity, positive emotion).

Practical Application:

Goal Example: Building a Gym Habit

1. Emotional Incubation (Anchoring):
   • Visualize Success: Imagine completing a workout, feeling endorphins, and pride.
   • Attach a Trigger Word: Choose a word/phrase (e.g., “Strong”) during this visualization to anchor the positive emotion.
   • Reinforce: Before gym sessions, repeat the trigger word to evoke the emotion, linking it to the action.
2. Repetition & Association:
   • Consistent Practice: Regularly visualize and use the trigger word to strengthen the subconscious link.
   • Leverage Authority: Follow a trusted fitness influencer; their advice may be more readily accepted by your subconscious.
3. Overcoming Critical Filter:
   • Positive Associations: Frame gym sessions as self-care (safe/beneficial) rather than a chore.
   • Avoid Overload: Start small to prevent overwhelm, ensuring the subconscious doesn’t reject the change.

Considerations:

• Existing Negative Associations: Replace them by consistently pairing the activity with positive experiences (e.g., post-workout rewards).
• Consistency: Repetition is crucial to solidify new subconscious pathways.
• Environment: Reduce conflicting stimuli (e.g., distractions) to avoid overwhelming the critical filter.

Conclusion:

By combining repetition with emotional anchoring and trusted sources, you can reprogram your subconscious to adopt new behaviors. This method leverages the subconscious’s preference for safety and familiarity, turning desired actions into automatic habits.

UnEdited Galaxy AI TranScript from Samsung Voice Recorder on S24 Ultra

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (00:00) Your mind controls your behavior more specifically in your subconscious, mind controls your behavior more than your conscious mind. As a clinical hypnotist. One of the things that we’ve learned it’s to use the analogy I have an iceberg, your conscious mind is the tip of the iceberg The roughly 12% that you see above the water, it’s while you’re a subconscious mind is the 88% below the water, it has all the weight that’s what actually is sinks, the ship, that’s the actual mass, most of the mass of the iceberg that’s under the water that you don’t see.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (00:47) But it’s what you don’t see that may have the most consequences. And that is part of the understanding of the subconscious mind to get a better understanding of the subconscious mind. And specifically from the viewpoint of view, clinical use of hypnosis, there are a few things to understand a handful There are 5 things that will be discuss here and up will enable you to see I get a strong grasp of app how your subconscious mind works and how to use it to achieve your goals to get fear from where you are to where you want to be and first the first 2 things to understand.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (01:38) Our repetition and association and the next 3 are the 3 hypnotic modalities, switch red light camera ahead 3 hypnotic modalities, which are authority one upsmanship, is number 1 translogic paradigm indoctri it’s number 2 and internal experience. Overload It is number 3 now, a simple way to link these things is 2 look at it. This way, interestingly enough, the second hypnotic modality, which is between 1 and 3, where we can attach what I didn’t state is the name of these 2 before, but they are the 2 laws of hypnosis, or the laws itself hypnosis.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (02:46) Understanding that all hypnosis is self hypnosis. I mean, this is repetition and association, but the first one repetition, it’s particularly interesting, because this is where we can speak, look at and attach that to the second hypnotic modality composed of 3 parts which is translogic. Paradigm doctrine.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (03:09) So just for the purposes of this explanation, so you can use it. I have a working understanding of this is that translogic paradigm and doctrine are simply different forms of information translogic is transitory logic, it makes a sense or is logical for a short period of time. By the time you realize that it’s not That it was a slight of thought, then it’s already too late.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (03:44) Because the suggestion has taken hold, and you’ve changed your behavior because you believed it for the moment transitory, right transitory logic, the second one is paradigm, which is sort of like a Zeitgeist, the spirit of the time, something. That everybody knows and It’s just kind of the trending thing that’s going around and again, information and finally as doctrine, I’m an adoption, is the written material. I mean something that’s written down in a book in a Bible that are the rules of behavior it’s the same thing as paradigm and translogic, except it’s more set in soap Stone, so to speak.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (04:30) So that’s the information, and that’s related to repetition, because it’s the information that is repeated, but to us from translogic paradigm indoctrinate, those are the sources of information or message units now the second law of hypnosis is more related to the first and third hypnotic modalities, the first one being authority and 1 upsmanship, and the third being internal experience of overload. So for example, we’re more likely to believe something that’s repeated to us a transitory logic, a translogic, what is repeated to us, we’re more likely to believe that, and accept that when it comes from an authority figure when it’s when it’s associated with an authority figure.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (05:24) Right? So a repeated piece of information that might be transitory. Logic translogic, right logical for a short period of time.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (05:34) It’s when it’s said by an authority figures, we believe it automatically. Because oh such-and-such a leader or authority of saying, so it must be true, right because they have one upsmanship might we perceive them as being the authority or above us, the more expert than us, in some particular thing, or have more status. They might be rich or what have you?

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (06:01) And so therefore what they’re saying is true, we mistakenly do that a lot of times with celebrities, which is not all together to say that celebrities do I cannot step outside of the zone of what they do as entertainers, musicians, actors or whatnot it’s just that we. We uh, blindly unconsciously, hand over authority authority to them, because they’re very familiar with us. Due to a parasocial type of relationship because we might see them all the time, or everybody likes them.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (06:35) And so if an authority, a celebrity, if someone who we feel has one upsmanship over us Repeatedly says something that’s associated with them. So we tend to trust it. And so this is how the repetition and association works now just to step back a moment the way that that happens, another part of the theory of mind, like where we learn about the iceberg, that the 12% is the conscious mind above the water.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (07:07) And the 88% is a subconscious mind below the water right? That holds most of the weight. So the other part of that, it is how things get from our conscious perception right that one2%, that’s taking in that information and 2 being accepted by our subconscious mind, right, and we have A A theory about something called a critical filter.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (07:33) And this critical filter is the guard against the information, getting into the subconscious mind, because most of the information that the subconscious mind is familiar with it. The subconscious mind is familiar with is because that information Because helped us to survive, it’s deemed as safe. And so it’s associated the information that we have in our subconscious mind is associated as being safe, and that’s why it’s there, because it’s safe, it continues our survival.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (08:06) And so when something is a piece of information is associated, right? So when a translogic or a paradigm or a doctrine is associated with an authority figure, which even doctrine itself sometimes turns into an authority figure, even though it may not be a living being, it could be a Bible which we consider as the authoritative word. Right, but when so?

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (08:29) Looks like for using that example, a religious book. When we get information from the book we associated with that book that is coming from that book is the authority and so it more readily is accepted by our subconscious mind. And therefore, it is what holds the weight, the 80% that controls our behavior even though 12% of our mind may be 3 I’m finding things in our environment that might be counterintuitive to that, so that’s one way, right?

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (09:02) The other thing on the other side, because that’s the first the hypnotic modality, right? So the other thing is that we have our is the third hypnotic modality, which is internal experience and overload, and this is what we get. The emotions the problem and the overload emotions can be overloading right, but there also could be just a lot of message units, an overload of message units, someone who’s overwhelmed by information by noise by other kind of stimuli could be loud, noises or just a lot of different noises at the same time lots.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (09:40) Of different kind of images, temperature, or a combination of all of those right? We can get overloaded by information information overload, which is one of the things that happens with the internet and social media, but I may, or may not get to that what happens is, once again, information was it, it could be transitory logics. I mean, that makes sense sort of 4A short period of time or a paradigm, something that everybody knows the trending stuff on social media, right?

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (10:12) For example. But if it causes an internal experience, an emotion, we can call it right, if it makes us feel something, then what happens is that we associate that information with that feeling? And depending on what kind of feeling we have determines how we’ll behave according to the information that we get.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (10:40) Let’s use something very controversial right now. That’s very divisive, which is the current President of the United States, Donald Trump. So there’s a big divide, a lot of people hate them a lot of people love them.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (10:52) There’s diehard bands for Donald Trump. Now you heard me mention Donald Trump’s name you got a feeling Either you are celebratory, yea, I’m glad he’s our President, or you were angry, gosh darn at that son of a bee, right? You’ve associated an internal experience, a feeling, an emotion with them, and sometimes those emotions can get so strong that they overload you, but that’s associated with the information, that is, the name Donald Trump.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (11:25) Right? So that’s how repetition and association aren’t it works? The essentials is that information is of any kind.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (11:34) The perception is always associated with something some way that we feel of something that we trust, either an authority that we trust the world that we feel has one upsmanship over us knows more than us is better than us, in some way. So we accept that information or it causes an emotional experience, an internal experience of feeling and/or an overload, and depending on what’s associated with the information determines how we behave. Now finally wrapping this up, how can we use that to achieve our goals so very simply?

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (12:11) If you have a goal, for example, achieve a certain routine, let’s say you want to get into the gym 3 times a week. What you’ll do. Who’s that either before you go to the gym, you can imagine yourself doing certain workouts and feeling good about doing those workouts and feeling good in the gym and imagining what it would feel like the adrenaline the endorphins.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (12:41) And just knowing and having satisfaction that you completed something that is good for you, one way and to do that as I call it the emotional incubation system before where you would first, imagine yourself accomplishing something good and having a success in something and then attaching. A string of words you could like sort of like online, how search engine optimization works like long tail, keywords or short tail keywords. It’s either one word or a string of words that you attach to that feeling when you feel successful.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (13:11) And you’ve accomplished something you feel really good like you feel like you’ve You’ve won and then you come out of that stage and you then you start to imagine the thing that you want to do like go to the gym 3 times a week and you take that same emotion and then you use the word that you attach to it before to bring it back up like a search. Engine, right, so you say the word. Or the string of words and it brings that back up and then you associate that with the imagination, the image of you in the gym, doing your workouts and then you can do the same thing when you go to the gym after you incubated for a while, you can be in the gym, doing the workouts that you were imagining and then you say the word to yourself, or the worst yourself, and you bring up those emotions of accomplishment of success of winning it.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (13:57) While you’re there and those things become associated with you imagining that you go to the gym. And when you’re actually at the gym and that’s how you do it, you can do that, but with any goal that you have, I’m focusing here on this act of going to the gym. But it could be the act of doing any exercise.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (14:17) It could be your home gym that could be riding your bike. It could be taking a walk It could be a choosing healthy food. But that’s the essence of how you accomplish this, and it’s repetition of information translogic paradigm and doctrine, and you associate it either with a source that you trust an authority or one upsmanship or a good feeling, or an overload, which could be a bad feeling all right, and depending on How it’s associated how you get that information of what it’s associated with, or who it’s associated with this will determine in large part, how you behave according to that information, and that’s how you use it to successfully achieve your goals.