This is a vast ques­tion, and many answers have been pro­posed. In 1957 Karl Jung hinted one pos­si­ble answer in his book “The Undis­cov­ered Self”. The Con­scious Mind (that part of us which is ratio­nal, speaks in words and which we are aware of) takes us away from expe­ri­ence. The dis­so­ci­a­tion between the Con­scious Mind and the Uncon­scious Mind (that vast, sym­bolic part of us which … you are not con­scious of right now, but which con­tains the pro­grammes behind our behav­iours) is at the root of many human problems.

The logic of the Con­scious Mind dis­so­ci­ates us from real­ity itself. The Con­scious Mind attaches labels to real­ity and we become iden­ti­fied to labels, by the same token, restrict­ing our flex­i­bil­ity and emo­tional and men­tal free­dom. Exam­ple: I hate my job, but it pays well. Ratio­nally, there is no rea­son to feel mis­er­able, but I do. All the ratio­nal rea­sons (Con­scious Mind) are here to be happy but emo­tion­ally, spir­i­tu­ally, (Uncon­scious Mind) I am not.

Hyp­no­sis bypasses the crit­i­cal fac­ulty of the Con­scious Mind to work directly at the uncon­scious, sym­bolic level by giv­ing sug­ges­tions to the Uncon­scious Mind; if the Con­scious Mind is the goal set­ter, the Uncon­scious Mind is the goal get­ter; when the two are aligned, we func­tion at top per­for­mance; hence the effec­tive­ness of Hyp­notic sug­ges­tion in times of stress and con­fu­sion.

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