As a child we receive a lot of external messages about how we are perceived, a baby learns to cry (and different cries) depending on whether they need changing, feeding or comfort. So as we grow and develop understanding we look to the adults around us to tell how we are perceived. If this is negative – that you are not good enough or your stupid or you’ll never amount to anything – what picture of yourself do you think you have? Does this mean it’s true? Consider the source of information? Now that you are an adult, can you see how the information gained about yourself from the outside world may have been flawed? Did you live up to (or down to) the expectations? As you are reading this, I suspect you want to change – why because you are querying the validity of the information.
Low self esteem is about having little internal value. Only trusting the negative imagines sent your way. How many times have you accepted a criticism as being true but dismiss a positive, for example, doing a good job.
I will be doing a series of posts on self esteem over the next few days. There is a lot to take in and so I want to break it up to ease digestion.
I always assume the reader is looking to make a change. Hypnotherapy can help facilitate the change. In a nutshell, we can quickly access the subconscious mind where all the memories that condensed to make you feel the way you do are stored. Only your subconscious mind had help you develop a more positive attitude and belief in yourself. The beauty of hypnosis and hypnotherapy is that it is a short course of therapy using hypnosis (no more than 10 weeks) is all that is needed to set you up for a different path in life. No matter how many negative images we receive, I hope that you can believe that someone somewhere showed you some positive attention but you dismissed and believe that no-one ever saw potential in you.
I would like to end on this note: you must realise that your mind is like a heat seeking missile – what you focus on comes to be. Look at the negative and everything will be negative, look for the positive and a whole new wonderful world opens up.
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