Five hundred years ago St Ignatius de Loyola, who formed the Jesuit Brotherhood, discovered that adults were able to shape the beliefs of young children and that these beliefs would stay with them throughout their lives. We now know that these beliefs become the subconscious programming that determines the degree to which we will be successful or not, happy or sad etc etc throughout our life. Unfortunately for many, their subconscious programming is often disempowering and self- sabotaging. Many people are unaware that they have been negatively subconsciously programmed, but if you are not living your best life, in a specific area – or more- of your life, it’s likely you have been. People often blame their parents, but our parents are also victims - or successes - of their subconscious programming. Most parents love their children, and would be upset if they realised they were responsible for their offspring forming negative beliefs about themselves and their potential.

If you are unsure whether you have been negatively subconsciously programmed, look at your life. Your life is a print-out of your subconscious programs. Areas of your life where you find it easy to be successful indicate empowering subconscious programs that support your conscious intentions. But in those areas of your life where you struggle to find success, e.g. in your relationships, your job, if you struggle to make ends meet financially, or maybe you have made up your mind that you want to lose weight, stop smoking, or gambling, or any one of myriad compulsive behaviours… no matter how much you consciously want to change your behaviour, you always seem to sabotage your intention to follow through. Without doubt, the culprit will be the disempowering subconscious programs that were formed in early childhood... which do not support your conscious intentions as an adult. So what can be done?

The traditional way of untangling the subconscious programs which fuel our self-talk and behaviour has been hypnotherapy, or one of many forms of talk-therapy. However, talk therapies can take months or years, and even then, the outcome does not always achieve the desired long-term results. And many people are wary of hypnotherapy as they resist the idea of someone else controlling their mind. Fortunately, new ways of rewriting our bothersome subconscious programs emerged following the discovery that everything in the Universe is made of energy… including our thoughts and feelings. Forward-thinking psychologists theorised that if our feelings are energy, perhaps the feelings we describe as ‘negative’ are the result of the frequency pattern of our feelings becoming trapped in our body’s energy system anytime we fail to resolve how we feel when something upsets us.

These same forward thinking psychologists came up with various ways to release trapped emotional energy – collectively called ‘energy psychology techniques’. Marjorie Green, founder of Hypno-Sensing, studied many of these new techniques to practitioner level. After a time, she realised that while these techniques were often excellent at releasing trapped emotional energy, and providing often ‘instant relief’, the bothersome feelings which were released during their session, would often come back. She says, “It was only after studying the workings of our subconscious mind in greater depth, that I realised how powerful our subconscious programming is. Our subconscious mind is a creature of habit, and unless we convince it that IT IS our conscious intention to change how we think and feel, our subconscious mind will work tirelessly to reinstate the status quo. Your subconscious mind is in control.

Marjorie knew that people would have to use the energy psychology techniques regularly every day if they wanted to convince their subconscious mind of their intention to think and feel differently. Unfortunately, people complained they didn’t get the same results when using the technique on their own following their session – so they often gave up. She struggled to find ways to make it easier for people to use the techniques on their own, but for the most part was unsuccessful. She was on the point of giving up, when she had a dream that she found a solution. Next day, the details were sketchy, but the conviction that she would find the solution was intense. Over the next 12+ years, the solution evolved into the emotional transformation technique she has called ‘Hypno-Sensing’. It has proven to be very successful.