My daughter had a birthday recently. She’s doing well in school too. She was invited to be apart of the Honor Society – the highest honor for a high school student.
I don’t take much credit for any of it – she did it herself.
I did hypnotize her from the moment I first saw her. But to be fair, all parents hypnotize their children, like it or not. Children are hypnotized by their teachers, parents, television, movies, advertisements, medical doctors, and even their friends.
A child’s subconscious mind is wide open – ready to accept ideas. The problem is that we adults really don’t know how the things we say and do are going to be interpreted by the child. In fact, our own programming is mostly unconscious to us. That’s we say, “like father, like son” “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.”
The reason is not so much genetics, but programming. What about when a child is much different from the parent? That usually means that the parent’s habits and style had such a negative impact on a child that the child self-programs themselves (unconsciously usually) to be opposite.
A poor child may become a billionaire (Oprah) in order to compensate. A sickly child may become a health and fitness icon (Jack Lalanne).
To not understand this is a big mistake. Unfortunately, most of us spend the rest of our lives following an unconscious storyline that we accept and - try as we might – rarely change.
Is it time to change your story?
