Diana Clift “Who Controls Your Mind?”
Diana will argue that our conscious reality is largely shaped by suggestion and habit, but that conscious reality is not who we are! From the moment we’re born we are taught how to perceive the world, and from then on our beliefs and assumptions are shaped by family and culture. Our thoughts directly impact our physiology, hence the placebo effect and related phenomena. The reverse is also true. The body directly influences the mind. It is possible to change our minds and physiology dramatically. I shall propose some simple techniques to break damaging habits of thought, feeling and behaviour and provide more useful suggestions for ourselves and others.
Diana writes: “I’ve always thought there’s more to consciousness than brain and yet I was trained as a biochemist and did research in Neurochemistry at a time when the prevailing assumption in science was that mind and brain were indistinguishable. I was a pretty incompetent neurochemist anyway so I left and worked in Environmental Science for several years before moving into complementary therapies, most notably music therapy and entertainment for elderly people and then hypnotherapy. I was a professional hypnotherapist in England for 12 years before emigrating to Canada last year. I still treat clients in the UK by video call and am now starting a practice here in Victoria. My work convinces me that consciousness is infinitely more mysterious and complex than our current understanding.
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