If you’re looking to take advantage of the transformative energy that comes with this time of year, I have a practice you can do for yourself that makes use of the power of your subconscious in channeling forward momentum in your life.

Hypnosis is a state of hypersuggestibility. Being suggestible means the mind is able to learn something (or re-learn something). In a hyper suggestible state, the conscious mind (where logic and reason are held) is bypassed so new information can be absorbed directly into the subconscious. Once someone is out of hypnosis, the conscious mind (which is also where willpower and decision-making is located), is better able to take actions that are in alignment with the suggestions given to the subconscious.

Media often portrays hypnotic memory recovery as effective, but attempting to recover memories through hypnosis is highly unethical because it is unreliable and can cause harm.

With the overabundance of content combined with an algorithm that knows what you’ll look at, your subconscious is vulnerable in ways that you may not be aware of.

Hypnosis is a natural state of mind, and we all enter into a state of hypnosis daily, but most people’s ideas of what hypnosis looks like comes from movies or stage hypnosis shows. But hypnosis isn’t magic, there isn’t anything to believe in, just as there isn’t any reason to doubt if tiredness is real, if feeling inspired is real, if feeling frustrated is real. Yes, hypnosis is real and everyone experiences it.

Willpower is an incredibly weak force for everybody when compared to the subconscious mind. If you really want to make a long-lasting change, you have to start with the subconscious mind.