I was curious when I saw how many people landed on my website or personal blog from a Google search stated as: What is a mental hiccup? 

I smiled when I saw that since this is a term I had started using twenty some odd years ago, whenever something happened that shook up my mental process, my mental belief system.  At the time, I thought I had made the term up myself.  Back then, it delighted me to no end when I saw the person in front of me look puzzled, process my intention in using the phrase and then see the smile of comprehension break out on their face.

When I just now googled the question myself, I saw how the term is being used in a variety of ways from layman to Doctor alike.  Isn’t that wonderful about the English language?  It kind of evolves, as we want it to.  We make up our own terms, use them, and people seem to understand us in the context of the discussion.  Look at how the name of the popular Internet search engine, Google, has become a verb in such a very short time. 

So, for the sake of those readers who might wonder how I am personally using the term, this is my definition:

Mental hiccup: when your brain gets startled out of its habitual way of processing the meaning of the world around you and, subsequently, so does your participation in that world get shaken out of its old habit patterns. 

Mental hiccups wake you up and lift you out of the labyrinth of your old way of thinking.

Here are some slang synonyms I have heard or read that indicate a similar dynamic:

1. •Brain fart
   

2. •Wake up call
   

3. •Snapping out of it (‘it’ being the trance state one was in, which is another way of saying a temporary belief system)
   

If you’re interested in reading more about belief systems and thought - how they work and how you can consciously change them - you might want to check out the following entries on this website:

Under the section entitled Open Your Mind:

1. •The Power of Thought
   

2. •Focused Thoughts Create Clearer Results
   

3. •Ask and you shall receive… exactly what you asked for and are willing to have
   

Actually, most of the entries talk about it in some way, shape or form, so these are just starting point suggestions.  Go to Vibrational Voyages Road Map if you want to see all the entries laid out in front of you.  Go with what ‘feels right’; that is most likely your Divine Soul guiding you towards your own mental hiccup moment.

If you have been reading my personal blog, you’ll see that it is one of my more favorite terms, as well as one of my more favorite events.  Every mental hiccup I have had thus far has taken me further into my heart space, which is infinite Divine Love.

Enjoy the mental hiccups in life – they wake you up!