However, every aspect of you does not function in this way. In fact, far from it, and for those conditioned to something happening now, that can present a problem when it comes to making changes on a personal level.

The body learns behaviours through muscle memory over a period of time, you learn processes through repetitive learning and in short you store a lot of your daily, regular functioning in the subconscious parts of you as you do that. Within your subconscious there are a serious of habits, behaviours, thought forms, emotional responses and more that come together to make up your own personal programming. You a creature of many different programmes (whether you like that thought or not) and when it comes to making a change, that culture of immediacy does not have the same sway to affect change within your subconscious. Unravelling an old pattern and establishing a new one takes longer than simply pressing a different button to make change.

For example, you decide to start thinking a fabulous new thought to replace an old dysfunctional one and to start bringing positive improvements into your life. Perhaps “I can do it” replaces “I cannot do it” for a particular circumstance in your life.

It might be that the new thought changes your life there and then, however it is much more likely a repeated thinking of that thought (plus something extra) are likely to change your life as you find yourself thinking it, feeling it and “doing it” over a period of time.

Scientists are now able to prove what most of us in the self-improvement / spiritual / energy / whatever world have known for a while. That a new thought establishes a new neural pathway, however it is only the repetition of that thought on an ongoing basis that makes that new neural path fully established…or almost. The something extra that I referred to in the previous paragraph is the emotion that comes with the idea of that new thought becoming permanent in your reality. The emotion of establishing the new thought is necessary to create profound and permanent change, partly because we need to feel it to make it more real and partly because we need to use as many of our senses as possible when creating our future (i.e. more than simply visualising it)

Once the thought that creates, and the emotion that generates are in place, and other senses are thus engaged, then effectively your energy system has changed, the new reality established, and different circumstances start to happen in your life. In our hypnosis and regression courses, I call this future creation and it is an integral part of our hypnosis course and how successful hypnosis sessions manifest. Do this routinely and regularly and your world changes. It is as simple as that.

Hypnosis is a powerfull way to effect new patterns in your life, though contrary to what a lot of people seem to think, it is not a wave of a hypnotist’s magic wand in a single session that does the trick. Instead it is a combination of what happens over a series of sessions that take place, or perhaps repeated listening to the recordings from that session or more than likely both of those that will help you shift you from A to B, combined with your positive intention to initiate change for you.

I am getting a lot of positive emails and comments from people who are committed to helping themselves and are doing so by using my App “Hypnosis for Transformation”  . Those comments have increased since I published a blog article about a lady who had seriously benefitted from repeatedly listening to the free recording “Gratitude” and got amazing results. Gratitude rather than gratification is the motto!

You may prefer the words “Dedication”, “Self-Nurture”, “Commitment” rather than “Routine” when you thinking about your own personal self-development, and that is fine of course. Whatever words, whatever process, whatever tools you need to work with are all fine, so long as you are prepared to sit down and regularly help yourself to do what you need to do for you.

Whatever you do, a form of “Routine to be the Route IN” is very likely to be a necessary key to you making permanent, powerful change for you, and there are many ways to do that.

Sometimes change does happen in the blink of an eye (exactly like Buddha said). During our Transformational Regression Training course last week one of our course participants, Zena, gained remission and significant freedom of movement for what had previously been a severely arthritic wrist for a few years. It happened within a single 2 hour session and the results of that over the next few days were a joy to behold as well as a powerful testament to the efficacy of regression.

In her words “…my wrist is now fabulous, I have the occasional twinge, but apart from that, I have my life back…something as simple as being able to turn my door key and not enter the house fighting back tears. You performed a miracle.”