by Sparkster

Created on: February 16, 2008

The human mind is an enormously powerful instrument which we use within our daily lives, yet the sheer power of the human mind is hugely underestimated by most people which tends to then put limitations on their beliefs. Our own mind can cause us to experience seemingly paranormal events by playing tricks on us, causing us to have negative hallucinations and look around all over the place for something, to find that it was there right in front of us all along and in the very first place that we looked. When placed in unusual circumstances, such as staying in a haunted castle for a night, our own beliefs and expectations inevitably lead us into experiencing events as paranormal that would, in any other circumstance, seem completely normal. When placed in this kind of situation our perception of normal every day dormant sounds, such as background creaking, become stronger and more pronounced and we represent them to ourselves in a much stronger way leading ourselves into our own illusory experience. When we begin to question our beliefs about the seemingly paranormal event that occurs, we then lead ourselves further down the path. We may experience the feeling of touch on the back of our head or neck. This is a completely normal physiological response. When questioning our beliefs we may also experience what appears to be the sound of a voice. Bear in mind that human speech patterns are made up of a series of several smaller sounds, click and pops which all exist outside of human speech. This can cause us to misperceive external sounds as human speech and is actually very common. How many times have you been sitting with your partner in silence, when suddenly they turn around and ask 'What did you say?'

We spend most of our lives on autopilot, remaining in our own suggestible frame of mind. We continue to listen to our own interior dialog without even being aware of it and subconsciously following the suggestions that it throws at us. What exactly is a frame of mind? A frame of mind is the way in which you represent a certain situation or memory to yourself. In NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) there is a technique called 'reframing' which leads you into viewing these representations from a different angle in order to help you see the bigger picture. Our conscious mind and our subconscious mind are constantly feeding each other with information. The information fed into your conscious throughout each day is stored in your subconscious mind, which then analyzes

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