Monkey Mind
Your Conscious mind contains all the chatter or so-called thoughts that are going on in your awareness and is what I call— the monkey-mind. It is constantly chattering about what it has its attention on at any given moment. This can be environmental awareness, like the room temperature, our own body sensations as well as information in the form of thoughts that bubble up from the Subconscious mind (programs).
It bounces around all over the place and is always thinking, thinking, thinking and trying to figure out our problems and dilemmas. It can take many years of meditative practice to get the Conscious monkey-mind to calm down enough to introduce a new idea — and then have it delivered strongly and intact into the Subconscious mind without using the Mind Gate process.
Hypnotherapy
In hypnotherapy, the Conscious mind becomes overloaded by the words of the hypnotherapist. As a result, all of these words, expressed as ideas and pictures cause the Critical mind or mind gate to become overloaded and then disorganize or open up. When the mind gate disorganizes all of the accumulated MU’s (message units) drop into the Subconscious mind— without analyzing the information— and the hypnotherapist’ positive suggestions go in too!
However, the most recent suggestion will be the strongest and will be the one acted upon by the very powerful Subconscious mind. If that idea or suggestion is accepted by the Subconscious mind then the Subconscious mind will act on that suggestion and those positive ideas or information will then bubble up into our Conscious mind as thoughts.
Those thoughts cause our body to respond with emotions (energy in motion) and our emotions determine our state of mind which drives our behaviors. That is how change is accomplished with hypnotherapy. However, the Mind Gate process incorporates self-hypnosis along with yoga or diaphragmatic breathing, meditation and visualization techniques. With the Mind Gate process, you can accomplish amazing changes by simply allowing yourself the time— before sleep— or first thing after awakening— while the mind gate is still disorganized— to introduce a central idea (suggestion) and block some of the monkey mind’s chatter…. with music.
Monkey Mind
Do not under any circumstances engage the monkey mind. Let me be very clear about this. Would you get in between two Grizzly bears fighting? It would be futile and you would likely get badly injured. That’s how I want you think of your monkey mind. Your monkey mind does not care about your welfare. It does not care if you are happy. It is afraid you may wake up and realize that it is not the real you. It wants control of your mind. It would even kill you if it could figure out a way to do it without dying itself! Observe it from a distance. You must always be the observer and never let yourself be fooled again. The monkey mind— disguising itself as your thoughts— is simply negative programs running— and that is all. You must remember this always! It is not real, no matter how real it may seem and— even if you are experiencing a negative life situation that it wants you to put your attention on— you will not improve that situation by thinking about it.
Your Conscious mind is way out of practice at fantasizing so it will want to figure things out. That is what you believe you are supposed to do and the monkey mind loves to engage the Conscious mind in figuring stuff out but you have forgotten how to use the Conscious mind properly. You have forgotten how to focus on what you want. Remember, you are the director and producer of your life movie and that is what your Conscious mind is designed to do.