"I WANT TO HAVE THE FUN THEY'RE HAVING" HOW TO BE A BETTER SUBJECT PART 2 from Ophelia's blog
Conscious or unconscious response?
This hung me up for the longest time. Feeling that if I was conscious/aware of a response or if I was responding consciously, it didn’t count or wasn’t “hypnosis”. Tists told me that it doesn’t matter and I couldn’t see that, I thought it mattered very much.
Finally I gave in and went with it. It seems the secret really is that how you respond (consciously or unconsciously) isn’t the issue, what matters is that you are responding. It still doesn’t quite make sense to me, but overthinking is the enemy, and accepting this lets you have a whole lot more fun with it.
Parkey put it well:
The Wall