Neural Networks, Your Nervous System, & Why Hypnosis Creates Rapid Change
Have you ever wondered why hypnosis works so fast?
You’ve heard me talk about neural networks, and how hypnosis helps you build new ones and shift out of old patterns. But let’s break it down even further.
What Are Neural Networks?
Your neural networks are like roads running through your brain and body. Every habit, belief, and emotional response travels along these roads. The more you use a road, the faster and more automatic it becomes.
Which is why:
You don’t have to think about how to brush your teeth.
You recognize a song after just a few notes.
You react to certain people before you even realize why.
Your brain loves to be efficient, so it follows the fastest route to a reaction.
How Neural Networks Affect Your Nervous System and Shapes Attraction
Imagine this scenario:
You meet someone new. You don’t know them yet, but something about them feels magnetic. Maybe it’s the way they carry themselves. Maybe it’s their voice, their scent, their energy. Before you even process it consciously, your body already knows. Your heart flutters. You feel that pull toward them. Something in you says "Yes, this feels right."
And you haven’t even spoken yet.
Now, imagine the opposite:
You meet someone, and before they even say a word, you feel an instant discomfort. Your stomach tightens. Something feels off. You feel irritated or even disgusted, but you can’t explain why.
These are your neural networks at work.
Your brain zips down an old pathway, looking for past experiences that match the present.
It pulls up an entire story before your logical mind even catches up.
This person reminds me of my ex who broke my heart…
This voice sounds like my old boss who crushed my confidence…
That person looks just like that kid who bullied me in school…
Your brain isn’t working against you.
It’s trying to predict what will happen and protect you, and yet, in doing so, it often locks you into old patterns.
Emotional Triggers & Safety: Why We Chase What Feels Familiar
Why do we feel drawn to unhealthy patterns?
Why do we repeat cycles, even when we know better?
Why does stability sometimes feel boring, and chaos feel like “passion”?
Here’s a fact that sounds devastating if you don’t know how to heal: Your brain isn’t wired for happiness. It’s wired for familiarity.
For example, if love always felt like uncertainty growing up, your brain wires think that uncertainty is love. If you had to fight for attention, your brain wires connect struggle with connection. If peace felt foreign to you, your brain might mistake calmness as boredom, and therefore, rejection.
So when someone safe and secure enters your life, then you might not feel the spark because your brain doesn’t recognize it as love.
Instead, it seeks the rush, the emotional rollercoaster, the unpredictability because that is what feels like “home.”
Of course, it’s not really home. It’s just an old survival pattern.
Rewiring Attraction
If your brain has been on the same broken highway for years, how do you build a new one?
First, you need awareness. You can’t change what you don’t see.
Second, you can disrupt the old pathway. This is where hypnosis comes in.
Third, you can create new pathways. Hypnosis helps you visualize and emotionally experience a new kind of connection, so your brain is attracted to that instead.
For example, instead of being drawn to avoidant partners who make you chase them, hypnosis rewires the emotional response so your body actually relaxes in the presence of stability, certainty, and deep connection.
Instead of mistaking drama for love, your nervous system learns to associate love with calm, excitement, and deep fulfillment.
This is why hypnosis isn’t just about removing the bad. It’s about training your mind to desire the good.
Because what happens when your entire system is drawn toward what actually supports you?
And this is why hypnosis is so powerful.
Because instead of reliving the same story on autopilot, hypnosis lets you rewrite it.
Through hypnosis, we bypass the overthinking conscious mind and speak directly to the subconscious, which the part of you that builds these pathways.
And when we do that, something incredible happens: We disrupt the old story. We build a new road, one that leads to a better outcome. And then we make it easy for your brain to take the new path instead.
Think of it like this: The old pathway is still there, but we hang a giant "ROAD CLOSED" sign on it. The new pathway is fresh, clear, and ready to use immediately.
Now, when you see someone who reminds you of an ex?
Your brain has a choice.
It no longer automatically follows the old fear-based route.
Am I Doing Hypnosis Right?
A lot of people wonder if they’re “doing hypnosis right.”
They think, “All I’m doing is imagining things.”
Yes, that’s exactly what you should be doing. Because your imagination is how your brain builds new neural pathways. The difference between a daydream and hypnosis is that you relax your logical mind, your nervous system, and you get all parts of moving in the same direction at once.
Because the more vividly you see, feel, and experience a new outcome, the stronger that new pathway becomes.
And this is why hypnosis can’t happen without you. Your mind is yours. If you want to take down the “road closed” signs, you can. If you want to keep the old pathways, you can. If you want to make the same mistakes again, you can.
You are always in control.
And when you're ready to move forward, you now have a new, faster, and easier path waiting for you.
If you’re ready to go even deeper, I would like to invite you to consider a custom hypnotic audio just for you, or to join us at the Lucid Hour.
