When I woke up today (for which I am grateful!) I had a question on my mind. In fact I went to bed with that question. Sometimes when I wake up in the morning I know the answer and sometimes the answer comes after some time.

That question is "What is the easiest way to change?", "What is the easiest technique that anyone can use to make a profound change in themselves?"

What I wanted to have is an easy method to make any habit as though it never existed or to create a new habit as though you always had it. 

I made a few notes in my journal and made a few diagrams of as a way of being creative, but, still no answer. And, over the weekend I read the book The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Dr. Joseph Murphy now in its umpteenth re-printing.

Not having an answer, I just left it aside and went out shopping with my wife. 

Then I watched a video promoting a hypnotherapy training course.

If there is any quicker way to alter the automatic habit patterns of your mind than hypnosis, I do not yet know about it.

Hypnotherapy is the practice of 'subconscious behaviorists'. Change the patterns of behavior, the automatic programs in your subconscious and you can easily remove old habits and create new ones.

Words change you. Language changes you. Hypnosis is a form of communication that addresses the symbolic language of the subconscious mind.

As children, our critical mind is underdeveloped. We are very susceptible to suggestions especially from those we trust like our parents, teachers and other caregivers.  Our ability to learn, also called our suggestibility, is learned from our primary caregiver, usually our mothers.

As adults we are much more on our guard. Our critical mind, unless we train ourselves to evaluate every new bit of information, prevents anything from making a change. In fact, it is so happy with whatever it already knows that it fights any change even for the better.

One very important purpose of our subconscious mind is self-preservation. At the very heart of this is the autonomic nervous system which not only keeps our heart pumping but also prepares for flight or stand and fight in case of some threat to ourselves.

We can make changes using self-hypnosis and visualization. The catch is that we have to remember to believe, remember to repeat the process often enough, remember to deal with any objections that some of part of ourselves may have.

With hypnosis and hypnotherapy you just have to get to your appointment.  After a few sessions you come away with new habits and old ones gone.

If you are even just a little bit curious about hypnosis, then you owe it to yourself to test it out.

Remember, you will be aware of everything that goes on. Hypnosis is not a form of sleep. It is a heightened state of awareness through which a trained hypnotherapist guides you to change long held habits or to create new habits.

Your therapist can also help you learn to use self-hypnosis. My best results with self hypnosis were from a guided method where a hypnotherapist taught me the words and let me experience the state before I used it.

Hypnosis is a gentle therapy. After hypnosis you just plain feel good. Habits can be changed, removed or created. And nothing is easier than that.