WHO’s DRIVING THE CAR?
Our Subconscious mind and our Conscious mind have a wonderful contract between them. They have been working together for our highest good since we were born.
We can see this if for example if we look at how we learn things. There are many ways we learn things, the most common way is consciously. Like the way we practice our tables in school, repeating them over and over until it comes to us automatically without having to think of it. Or when we start to learn to cycle or drive a car. In these situations we think a lot about what we have to do while we are learning, eg., clutch, then put into gear, then clutch off slowly and increase the pressure on the gas at the same time...BINGO WE ARE DRIVING THE CAR!! So consciously we learn something. When we do, what is really happening, is that we are showing our Higher mind how it is done.

With practice the learned skill is taken over by the Higher Mind or Subconscious mind and it is fine-tuned there. By this I mean that the Higher mind takes these practical techniques and combines them with an intuitive knowledge of the torque of the car and the weight of it and how much acceleration (and in what gear) is needed to make this hill!!! The skill is then ours forever and now that it is learned, our Subconscious mind will do it for us effortlessly and with ease.  Furthermore, we can take note that most of the time, we do not have to consciously think about driving a car once we have learned.

Typically people driving a car will do so while they are thinking about several things, e.g., the shopping, the news on the radio, the best place to go in order to get parking. So, who is driving the car while all this “conscious” thinking is going on? The answer is your Higher mind. How is it driving the car? The answer is, through our state of trance. In other words our conscious mind gets out of the way and lets the expert take over; only getting involved when necessary. This is the same as Hypnosis.

Hypnosis when watching TV:
We have all experienced hypnotic trance when watching our favourite program on TV.  Watching it we are totally engrossed in every detail of the show, so much so, we may even experience the emotions of the characters!! We focus on the TV yet we can still hear the kids playing or the doorbell ringing and decide to attend to that if we need to. We are so engrossed in the show that when its over we feel like we have been sitting there for only a few minutes. This is an experience of Trance.

There are many levels of trance, like there are channels on TV. Your therapist guides you as you switch on the TV, select the channel and your healing show. That’s right, you got the idea now: you hold the remote!