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Ultra Height —
A Heavenly Way to
Correct Sabotaging Beliefs

We humans pride ourselves on our rational minds. Our ability to think things through and make decisions based on reason is what distinguishes us from the animals, which act largely on instinct. We are ruled by reason. Or are we?

If you sat down and dissected your daily activities, you’d find that most of your behavior is controlled not by your conscious, rational mind but rather by your subconscious mind. When and what you eat, when you arise and go to sleep, what you watch on TV or read and, most importantly, how you perceive and react to the people and events in your everyday life are pretty much controlled by your subconscious mind. It directs your habits. It also generates your emotions.

Your rational mind is quite handy if you are working out a solution for a business problem or delving into an academic question. But just try and change one or more of your ingrained habits, and you’ll find that your rational, conscious mind has little power over the irrational, emotional subconscious mind. This is the mind that contains all the beliefs and perceptions—the programming—that you have adopted since you were born. And if it believes something to be true, no matter how irrational that belief may be, you will behave according to that belief. Reason has no lasting power over our programming glitches.

We can begin to glean the nature of some of that programming by listening to our self-talk—that little voice that jabbers in the back of our minds during most of our waking hours. In fact, the purpose of meditation is to silence the constant internal chatter so that we can tap into a wiser part of ourselves.

Now, there’s an easy way to tap into our wiser self where we can become aware of our subconscious programming and chang it to better serve our goals and desires. It is a hypnotherapy technique called Ultra Height and was developed by Gerald Kein, a 50-year  veteran of hypnosis who heads the Omni Hypnosis Training Center in Florida. With this technique, clients enter the most relaxed of hypnotic states. While the body remains in utter peace, the mind is gently guided up to a superconscious level. From this wise and totally loving state, clients have a bird’s-eye view of their subconscious mind and any belief or perception that is getting in their way.

What’s more, once clients realize that the perception is not in their best interest, they can shift to a more supportive perception if they so desire. And it’s their own wisdom—not the hypnotherapist’s—that guides them in reprogramming their subconscious mind with a more constructive perception.

Ultra Height allows you to discover the programming that keeps sabotaging you and correct it through your own guidance. In fact, you don’t have to share your discoveries with the hypnotherapist if you choose not to. Unfortunately, few hypnotherapists know the technique unless they have trained with Kein. If you’d like to experience this heavenly state, call me for an appointment.

Judy McBride, BCH

Quit Smoking

I empathize with smokers. I began smoking in my teens when it was “cool” and only succeeded in quitting permanently decades later...after many short-lived and long-lived attempts.

It took a complete change in attitude. Each time I had “quit” unsuccessfully, I perceived it as giving up an old, familiar behavior. I tried the patch, the gum, group programs that threatened black lungs and other horrors...even hypnosis...long before I became a hypnotist myself. But I still had to rely on my will power to overcome that urge. I later learned that will power—which is a function of our conscious minds—is no match for our habits—which are generated from our subconscious minds.

Only after the light bulb went on, and I realized that by quitting I would be giving myself a gift of fresh air, easy breathing, more vitality and better health, did I succeed. That change of outlook made quitting much easier and made me certain that I would succeed. If I had coupled my positive new outlook with hypnosis in my earlier attempt, quitting would have been a breeze.

So I carefully screen callers who want to quit smoking before I schedule an appointment. First, you must have other smokers in your home agree to keep their smoke outside and away from you. If you’re planning to quit only because your spouse or kids or doctor are on your back, don’t waste your money or my time. You must want to quit for one person and one person only...yourself...because you realize that the benefits outweigh the old, familiar behavior.

But if you’re heading in that direction, I can help you perceive quitting as your gift to yourself. I also help you become aware of your rationale for trying those first cigarettes and reevaluate it from the vantage point of your older, wiser self.  And you may need help shifting other beliefs that cause you to unconsciously suppress feelings by grabbing for a cigarette.  Then, we disconnect the triggers that propel you to light up throughout the day...a cup of coffee or talking on the phone.  Finally, with some strong motivation from me, you’re on your way to being a nonsmoker...for good!

Judy McBride, BCH