Dyslexia and the Subconscious Mind.
How I discovered its importance in helping struggling readers and spellers.
Just after lunch, on a Thursday in November 2008, I was sitting in a London conference room, resigned to the fact that the problem I’d struggled with for over a decade, was never going to be resolved.
The room was buzzing as smiling people around me chatted while they sat on green, plastic chairs, sipped coffee and discussed the delicious lunch they’d enjoyed. The mood was excitement and anticipation, but I felt completely detached, painfully aware I was unable able to fully take part - and I really wanted to.
I was desperate and had no idea where to turn for help.
For years a previous trauma had left me feeling anguished and over the years my issues translated into unbearable physical pain. I just couldn’t understand what was going on.
I’d tried everything: Google searches, online advice, forums, free help and books. Then I spent what seemed like a fortune on different experts and practitioners, but the problem persisted. I was so confused. Why couldn’t anyone help me? Why couldn’t I help myself?
This thing was holding me back. It was so important to resolve in order to live a full life, doing what I wanted to do, which meant that I’d gone from “I can’t afford that” to “I’ll do absolutely anything”.
It was a training event about delving into the power of the subconscious mind that made all the difference.
Sitting in the workshop on that November day, I was surprised and horrified when I was called up to be the focus of a demonstration technique. Being the centre of attention was the last thing I needed. I considered refusing but as the technique was supposed to help remove an ongoing problem, I grudgingly made my way to the raised, wooden platform at the front of the room. My legs had turned to jelly, and my cheeks were rapidly turning hot and red.
I sat nervously on a brown, plastic chair and looked out at a sea of expectant faces, thinking, “this is ridiculous, it can’t possibly work". Honestly, the whole process seemed a bit ’woo-woo’. I was uncomfortable and unsure, but I had nothing to lose. After all, I’d tried so many conventional options without success. I put my resistance to one side and agreed to give it a go.
After 40 minutes with a practitioner, that debilitating problem had disappeared. Never to return.
The breakthrough was understanding that my issue came from my sub-conscious mind. I wouldn’t have come up with that in a million years.
The reason I’m sharing this is because at the time, I was a teacher desperately looking for a way to help my dyslexic students. I saw how much they wanted to read and write, but something was holding them back. Even after lots of conventional intervention and assistance, reading and writing was exhausting and frustrating for them.
It struck me that if working with the subconscious mind solved my problem, why couldn’t it help with dyslexia?
The thing is, as time goes on, we learn more and more about the things we choose to give time to until we consider ourselves ‘expert’, which is great. But what happens when we take the next step and become an expert in something else as well? Using information and knowledge from more than one field might make what we have more potent. Some of the most successful and influential people alive today have done just that, combining skills and information from two or more disciplines, enhancing and improving what they already had.
And so have I, intertwining an understanding of the subconscious mind with years of teaching experience.
It’s a total gamechanger.
See why my clients describe it as “magic”.
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