Where Does Your Pride Come From?
Part III

For the last few blogs I have been talking about the origin of Internalized Homophobia and how it manifests in each of our lives. What does all this mean in terms of Hypnotherapy , NLP, & Mindfulness?
Your brain is an incredibly sophisticated piece of equipment. In fact it is said to be so sophisticated that no computer will ever match it’s ability to think and reason.
Like a computer it receives information through the central nervous system, translates it into electro – chemical bits of vibrating bytes, down loads it into our hard drive, and has been doing so from the moment we are first born. According to some theories this process has been going on for several months before our birth.
Think of your mind as having three different components, the conscious, the brain, and the subconscious.
Our Conscious is comprised of all our central nervous system, our five senses and possibly more. In this way we download every piece of information that we are ever exposed to. From birth to puberty (about 11 – 13) we take in this information accept it all without any analysis. Much like a keyboard on a computer, the Conscious records every bit of information and imprints it onto the physical mass of cells and tissues that we call the Brain.
The Brain, like a hard drive on a computer, stores the information for future playback in the form of neuro firing patterns, electro – chemical bits of information that travel along the pathways producing behaviors that make up our personality. Since we simply absorb this worldly input and stimulus, it all contributes to what becomes our agreements, our blueprint, our personal individual road map of reality. Many of these beliefs are woefully defined by merely a same gender attraction which must therefore, be the sole primary motivation of our lives. From the age of about 13 on we start developing the capacity to analyze the information that we receive. Many of those pieces of information, our original agreements, become what many people call our inner child. In the LGBTQ community the majority of us start out with false beliefs and agreements about who and what we are. We often accept agreements that we are sinners moral deviates, and less than our straight companions. These thoughts and ideas becoming our core beliefs, and ultimately contribute to internalized homophobia.
One of many human challenges is that we identify with our bodies, and our thoughts and feelings as the ultimate truth of who we really are. This is simply not so. We are that which has a body; we that which possesses and creates thoughts and feelings but we are not these things. We came to believe that our value is defined by the external.
We strive to create success. We can pull ourselves up, get a good career, make a good living, and take fabulous vacations, but none of that is going to matter until we release our false beliefs and agreements.
Finally the subconscious, vast in scope, truly and simply tailors our experiences to its programming. Like what we see on the screen of our computers, the things we manifest in our lives our actions and more importantly perhaps, our reactions and responses to the people, situations, and circumstances of our daily lives is dictated by our deepest core beliefs.
It is interesting to note that the subconscious processes off of images in our mind. If I were to ask you, describe your mother, would you see a paragraph in your mind that says, “my mother is 72 years old, 5’ 8”, 165 lbs, reddish blonde hair, etc.”. or would you see an image of your mother, a picture in your mind of what she looks like and a feeling she evokes.
We can rationalize, we can minimize, we can deny our agreements each & every moment of every day. But until we face our innermost core beliefs, we will always end up continuing down that old familiar path.
Utilizing the power of our brains with hypnosis, you can release yourself from the debilitating trap of old beliefs, your images, and old feelings. Foundations Hypnosis Seattle – Bellevue uses a technique called Emotional Release Therapy that can actually cut the emotional ties, at a very deep level, to those old images and agreements. Once those ties are cut you are able to rebuild a crumbling negative foundation with a strong positive one, a foundation that allows you to accept yourself as A PERFECT WHOLE & COMPLETE HUMAN BEING who just happens to be a member of the GBLTQ community!!!!
As a community as far as we’ve come, we’re still exposed to a multiplicity of challenges on various fronts.
We are each armed with a wondrous and amazing and mighty tool, our brain. This tool can be either a merciless master or a wonderful servant and we each absolutely possess the power to master this tool and live the life of our dreams.