Critical Faculty

The critical faculty is that part of oneself, which passes judgment and provides questions to information presented to each of our senses. It is that part of us that questions “why?”, and although useful most of the time, it also hampers us in achieving goals, in turn limiting our life beliefs.

It has been said that our critical faculty develops somewhere between the ages of seven and twelve, but anyone exposed to a small child quickly realizes that a three or four year old has plenty of questions, the primary difference being a limit to life experience, and an understanding as to “if” possibilities, and “because of” references.

It is said that to enter the state of hypnosis the critical faculty must be bypassed in order to establish the next primary ingredient known as selective thinking.

With the critical faculty bypassed (that part of us that questions “why?”), it is possible to input new information into our thinking, and ways of being.

It has also been established by the works of many including the late Milton H. Erickson that only information that is good for the subject, and follows one’s moral code or values will be accepted. Due to this possible rejection of information, rather than stating that the critical faculty becomes bypassed, I prefer to say that it merely takes a rest, and sits back for a change, permitting new “good beliefs”, yet keeping one eye open to protect the experiencer, while rejecting any possible information that could be harmful or go against the person’s moral code.

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