The Meditative Suggestion Technique

What It Is, Why It’s Highly Effective, and What It Can Do for You

Meditative Suggestion is a powerful two-part “deep mind access strategy” designed to create a direct, focused connection between the conscious and unconscious mind. These two aspects of the mind often operate in opposition without our awareness. To understand why this technique is so effective, we must first explore the nature and purpose of the unconscious mind.

The Unconscious Mind: Beyond Freud’s View

Sigmund Freud described the unconscious mind as:

“A reservoir of feelings, thoughts, urges, and memories that reside outside our conscious awareness. Most of the contents of the unconscious are unacceptable or unpleasant, such as feelings of pain, anxiety, guilt, or conflict.”

While this highlights one aspect, it is not the complete picture. The unconscious mind is also the seat of our deepest personal truths, core beliefs, and habitual patterns. These beliefs shape how we perceive and interpret the world. When rooted in false or limiting constructs, they become the flawed foundation of our reality.

Change your perceptions, and you change your experience of reality.

The unconscious mind constantly processes incoming sensory information, filing experiences into simple categories: good/bad, important/unimportant. It builds a worldview from these interpretations and communicates its “truths” to the conscious mind. The conscious mind, trusting this input completely, operates within the boundaries set by those deeply held beliefs—whether empowering or limiting.

Dr. John G. Kappas and the Theory of Mind

Dr. John G. Kappas, Ph.D., a pioneer in hypnotherapy, developed the systematic Kappasinian approach, blending traditional Ericksonian hypnosis with insights from psychology and neuroscience. Central to his work was the Theory of Mind, which states:

“The unconscious mind is always listening, and up to 90% of everything we do and think occurs unconsciously.”

Kappas viewed the unconscious as the primary driver of beliefs, emotions, and habits. By accessing and reprogramming it through hypnosis, lasting positive change becomes possible. The direct suggestion methods used in Meditative Suggestion draw heavily from these Kappasinian principles.

How Meditative Suggestion Works

Over time, the unconscious can accumulate negative perceptions and limiting beliefs that no longer serve us. Meditative Suggestion overcomes these obstacles by bringing the conscious and unconscious mind into cooperative alignment. When both parts focus on the same positive idea, a new state of self-awareness emerges. Old limiting patterns are replaced, and the unconscious becomes highly receptive to new, empowering suggestions introduced through hypnosis and autosuggestion.

The technique consists of two complementary phases:

Phase 1: Conscious Autosuggestion (Self-Practice)

This active phase requires focused commitment—the degree of success depends directly on your concentration and willingness to achieve your goal.

1. Define Your Goal: During an initial consultation (or self-reflection), clarify your desired outcome and distill it into a concise, positive statement in the present tense.

   • Incorrect: “I want to have lucid dreams.”
   • Correct: “I am a lucid dreamer, and I know when I am dreaming.”

   The statement must be positive, direct, and phrased as an already-accomplished fact. Negative or future-oriented phrasing reinforces wanting rather than realization.

2. Create Your Mantra: This positive statement becomes your repetitive phrase—the central pillar of your meditation.

3. Practice Daily: Repeat the mantra with deep focus. With each repetition, vividly visualize the desired outcome and feel it as true in the present moment. Persistence and belief are essential.

Phase 2: Hypnotic Suggestion (Guided)

This phase is facilitated by a practitioner (or recorded session) with your full consent.

A series of deepening trance inductions guides you into a highly suggestible state—between wakefulness and sleep. Here, the same positive idea from your conscious mantra is anchored deeply into the unconscious using hypnotic and post-hypnotic suggestions. In this receptive state, fundamental shifts can occur: limiting beliefs are released, and new empowering patterns take root.

The ultimate aim is unity—conscious will and unconscious will working in harmony rather than opposition.

Benefits and Applications

A notable side effect of regular practice is heightened dream awareness, including frequent lucid dreaming and occasional out-of-body experiences (OOBEs). This appears to arise naturally from training the waking conscious mind to interface directly with the unconscious.

Meditative Suggestion can be applied to:

• Enhancing athletic performance
• Improving focus, concentration, and mental clarity
• Reducing anxiety and overcoming social anxiety
• Modifying negative behaviors
• Reinforcing positive goals
• Releasing self-doubt and limiting beliefs
• Inducing lucid dreaming

Final Thoughts

I am currently offering individual sessions and group classes focused on my passion: Lucid Dreaming through Meditative Suggestion.

For more information, deeper discussions, and mind-expanding topics, visit the Facebook group “Lucid Dreaming through Meditative Suggestion.”

If you’re ready to align your conscious and unconscious mind and transform your reality, this technique offers a proven, practical path forward.