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Stop Chasing Luck: How Clinical Hypnotherapy Activates Your Personal Opportunity System

  • Writer: LCCH Asia
    LCCH Asia
  • Oct 2
  • 4 min read
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Do you believe in luck? For most people, it feels like a cosmic game of chance, a coin flip between good fortune and misfortune. While many might dismiss good luck charms as harmless superstition, research reveals that nearly one-third of people carry a lucky object, and many maintain little rituals designed to encourage the fates to smile upon them.


The truth, however, is far more empowering. The ability to experience "good luck" is not a mystical gift but a psychological skill. It's one that can be learned, developed, and actively engineered in your favour through focused techniques.


The secret lies not in fate, but in your attitude, your observational skills, and the powerful, internal filtering system of your unconscious mind.


Psychologist Richard Wiseman's Four Secrets of Lucky People

British Psychologist, Richard Wiseman
British Psychologist, Richard Wiseman

According to pioneering British psychologist Richard Wiseman, who conducted a decade of rigorous research into the phenomenon, people are not born lucky or unlucky (Wiseman, 2003).


He discovered that genuinely lucky people tend to share four fundamental psychological traits:


  1. They are more open-minded and flexible.

  2. They smile more frequently and are generally easygoing by nature.

  3. They listen closely to their intuition.

  4. They are resilient, turning perceived bad luck into good fortune.


This positive, open demeanour makes them naturally receptive to seeing and acting on opportunities that others, weighted down by worry or negative routines, simply miss.


The Reticular Activating System (RAS): Your Inner Filter

People who consistently talk about their problems inadvertently reinforce them. Their thoughts and attention naturally gravitate to their lack of money, how miserable they feel, or the relationship they lost. This negative focus draws their attention away from the things they want in life and reinforces the limiting belief that they are doomed to be unlucky.


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The scientific explanation for this filtering effect lies in the Reticular Activating System (RAS). This bundle of nerves in the mid-brain acts as a gatekeeper, filtering the immense amount of sensory information bombarding your brain every second.


The RAS follows your focus. If you are constantly thinking about failure or loss, the RAS determines that negative outcomes and obstacles are important, and it filters out anything that contradicts that focus. This is why people with negative attitudes often miss obvious opportunities and gifts when performing tasks, as compared to more positively minded subjects in experimental settings.


Thinking about bad luck very literally creates that bad luck by blocking your conscious mind from perceiving available solutions or opportunities.


Clinical Hypnosis: Reprogramming the Filter

Clinical hypnotherapy is a natural and effective tool for reprogramming your unconscious filters, including the RAS. It works by guiding you into a deeply relaxed, focused state where the critical, analytical part of your mind is quietened. This deeply focused state is often associated with an increase in Theta brain waves, a frequency linked to relaxation and high suggestibility, which allows the mind to absorb new, constructive programming.


This therapeutic process focuses on two key changes:


1. Turning Down the Negative Critical Voice

Negative internal narratives often lead to limiting beliefs that fuel anxiety. For instance, fear of failure or judgement can keep the RAS restricted and highly vigilant against threats, making it impossible to spot opportunities.


Hypnotherapy helps you learn how to turn down this negative critical voice that obsesses about the things that can go wrong. By reducing your base level of anxiety, your RAS becomes less hyper-vigilant about threats and more open to perceiving novel, positive inputs. The result is a calming of the internal environment, which is the first step to becoming more observant of your surroundings.


2. Installing an Opportunity Focus

Using hypnotic imagery, the therapist helps you redirect the activity of the RAS. Instead of focusing on problems, you focus on positive outcomes and desired experiences. The unconscious mind then begins to work for you, naturally reducing distractions and becoming more receptive to good fortune. With some know-how and a little bit of practice, you can begin to see solutions and possibilities that were previously blocked by negative mental chatter.


The Four Principles of Created Luck

To consistently experience more good fortune, the focus of hypnotherapy is to integrate the following behaviours and beliefs into your subconscious:


1. Maximising Chance Opportunities

Lucky people vary their routine. They change their route to work, try new cafes, or meet people in different places. This creates diverse, non-routine connections which break patterns of predictability, ensuring the RAS remains alert and open to unexpected information.


2. Listening to Gut Feelings

As you become more in tune with your inner mind, a state enhanced by the clarity gained through clinical hypnotherapy and the improved mind-body connection, you will start receiving the subtle clues that provide your hidden advantage. These can be very quiet and subtle, such as noticing a gut-feeling or intuition. However, they can also be much more direct, such as through a dream or even a deep conviction on how to act.


3. Expecting Good Fortune

Lucky people inherently consider themselves lucky. This positive self-belief is a powerful self-fulfilling prophecy. When you expect to be lucky, you are more observant of your environment and more open to seeing opportunities. This belief system, once accepted by the unconscious via hypnosis, is reinforced using a technique called future pacing to anchor this new belief in your long-term memory.


4. Turning Bad Luck into Good

A truly lucky person views failure or misfortune as a temporary lesson, not a sentence. They see the positive outcome that can emerge from a negative event, reframing "bad luck" into valuable experience. Hypnotherapy can help shift the emotional charge away from past failures, ensuring they no longer act as anchors that restrict future behaviour.


The capacity for luck is not magic; it is simply a reflection of an open, focused, and positive psychological state. Clinical hypnosis provides one of the most effective ways of getting your unconscious mind and the RAS onboard, making it the most valuable good luck charm you can invest in.


Ready to Change Your Fortune?

If you are tired of relying on chance and are ready to stop filtering out the opportunities life offers, clinical hypnotherapy can help you re-tune your inner system. Take the next step toward a mind that is primed for success and consistently attracts good fortune.


References

  1. Wiseman, R. (2003). The Luck Factor. London: Century.


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