The mind's potential for change is virtually unlimited. The brain consists of about eighty-six (86) billion neurons, and the self-directed alterations of these neuronal combinations opens up unto vast potential of desired outcomes. Altered patterns of self-directed thoughts during a hypnotic trance affect every other part of the body through the nervous system, the neuronal extension of the brain, manifesting as the outward expression of behavioral activity in the fulfillment of the conceived goal. When the brain is in an ultra-relaxed state, which is the optimal stress-load conducive to learning and creativity, and in this state its subject visualizes the accomplishment of that goal, it [the brain] has created the working model, or the architecture, from which to construct the actualization of that goal-oriented product. During the fixed concentration on a particular goal in an induced hypnotic state, these neuronal electro-biochemical transactions of thought thus become re-arranged, transformed, and fixed into steady patterns encoded in the unconscious but autonomic processes of which we are unaware yet experiencing in the conscious choices and actions we make. Is it any wonder that a person can achieve anything s/he wants? An organism that can conceive, contemplate, and balance the equations of principles on which the systems of the universe operate, yet is powerless in understanding itself. This enigmatic and most powerful processor by which both external and internal realities are understood is at the same time paradoxically unable to understand its own operations, which essentially attests to the complexity of its nature. Our task at hand in hypnosis is to understand that the mind is powerful and capable of challenges that we put it to task, not how and why it does it, just as we do not need to know why a seed germinates to enjoy the benefits of the shade, comfort, and beauty that its growth will bring.
