I realized the other day that for a hypnotherapist I sure don’t write much about hypnotherapy and what it does. I live it so I don’t think “I bet most people don’t know how this works” so humor me today while I enlighten you a bit about your mind.
Ok, so your mind is like a digital recorder documenting everything you do and experience. Then making decisions about what each of those things mean to us and how we should respond to them. Basically, all your habits start with a set of beliefs.
For practical things like your morning routines and driving habits it works great. As in “there’s a stop sign, that means we need to apply the brakes” Think of it as programing code setting up all your routines, your beliefs about yourself and your place in the world and ALL your habit-based responses. Which by the way, 95-98% of what you do is habit based.
When it comes to beliefs about yourself it’s a little more complicated. A child growing up (hopefully) learns that they have value, and their personal safety is important. So, they are taught not to put themselves in harm’s way, to stay away from hot stoves, dangerous people, and even unhealthy food because their safety and health matters. Basically, that they are important.
That’s the way it’s helpful but let’s look at when it’s not.
Let’s say your family of origin was not nice and instead of learning that you were loved valued and appreciated you learned the opposite. That you had no value in the world that you didn’t deserve good things. Your mind may have created a set of beliefs and habits that reflected this inner programing that you are not valuable, not lovable, worthless and in short do not deserve good things.
Think for a second how that underlying belief of unworthiness might cause you to take unhealthy actions in your life. Things like overspending, overeating putting yourself in the company of dangerous people or engaging in unhealthy behaviors like doing drugs.
So how do we access these unconscious hidden beliefs so we can change them.
Hypnotherapy and deep meditation are both great tools. In both cases you are getting access to the place in the brain where those beliefs are stored and allow them to be changed into something more life enhancing. A hypnotherapist knows how to guide you to where those beliefs are hidden and what to look for, but you can also do this yourself if you know how. I will say it’s kind of hard to do (even for me) if you don’t have someone guiding you there.
OK Jill but therapy is expensive, what else can I do?
I hear you! Could have put a whole family through collage on the amount I have spent on therapy over the years (I might have actually) and I still see great value in it. But I understand that’s not available to everyone.
Start with this…
Did you know your mind does not know the difference between a real and an imagined event? That’s why a really ugly dream can be hard to shake even when you know it’s not real.
If you don’t have access to help remove negative programing you can help balance that a bit by picturing yourself receiving all the good things you want and enjoying life with them. We call that daydreaming, but I think of it as self-activated therapy and it is a powerful tool for change.
Another thing you can do is catch that voice in your head in the act when it says not nice things to you and tell it to stop, then direct it to the true thing, as in “Stop, I am a good person and I deserve all the good things, in fact I am going to go get those now..”
Yes it takes some work and discipline, but it will help immensely.
Bottom line.
Know that you are loved, valued and appreciated and most importantly worthy of all the good things. Now spend a few minutes every day picturing those good things coming to you and watch how that changes your life.
All the best,
Jill K Thomas CHT
Soul Connect Transformations
Hypnotherapy and Intuitive Readings
760-803-2841
www.jillkthomas.com
Author of the books “The High-Income Healer” “Tales from the Trance” & “Feed your Real Hunger”
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