Rewire your mind for positivity

Have you ever achieved anything when you told yourself that you absolutely couldn’t do it? Did you try? Your mindset is a major key in determining your performance so, if you know that you can do something, or you can’t… you’re right!

I’m not suggesting that by having a positive mindset, everything will automatically fall into place. Getting where you want to go usually takes focus and effort, but if you have a negative, or ‘can’t do’, mindset holding you back then obstacles are in place before you’ve even started. A negative mindset throws up all sorts of internal blocks including negative self talk, inner criticism and limiting beliefs that keep you in place. A positive mindset opens you up to inspiration, opportunity recognition and seeing challenges as chances for growth.

Hypnotherapy is a powerful but gentle tool for reprogramming your mind toward positivity, resilience, adaptability and long-term mental and emotional health. 

It’s incredibly easy to learn negative thinking patterns as you move along your journey and these patterns have a massive impact on how you behave. These influences come from your past and are stored deep within your subconscious so you probably aren’t even aware of most of the negative processes that are holding you back.

Do you believe that that promotion you’d love to go for is beyond you or that you could never live in another city, even the one you’ve always dreamed of moving to? Perhaps you want to start a new personal or professional project but you’ve come up with a list of reasons why you could never succeed. Where do those assumptions come from and how do you know if you don’t try? When I say try, I don’t mean make a half-hearted effort and then be unsurprised when it doesn’t work. I mean really try. Put your focus, your energy and your passion into your goal. The only guarantee you’ve got is that if you do nothing, nothing is done.

A positive mindset helps you to approach each day with an uplifted, can-do attitude so that when you are faced with challenges, you perceive them as opportunities for growth.

The power of a positive mindset cannot be underestimated as it can impact your mental, emotional and physical health. 

Hypnotherapy accesses your subconscious mind where many of your deep-rooted negative thought patterns, self-doubts and limiting beliefs reside. While you’re in a deeply relaxed state a hypnotherapist can guide you to challenge these negative thoughts, habits and beliefs and replace them with new, healthier ones.

Hypnotherapy helps the brain rewire itself through neuroplasticity by introducing and reinforcing positive thoughts, emotions and behaviours while you are in a mentally relaxed and receptive state. Over time, with repeated exposure to positive suggestions, your brain creates new pathways that support a healthier mindset. Hypnotherapy can also help you increase your resilience and adaptability which are crucial during times of change as the ability to handle the unexpected with a positive focus keeps you grounded and moving forward. Incidentally, the deep relaxation produced by hypnotherapy has a positive impact on stress and anxiety reduction.

Using visualisation, positive reinforcement and affirmations, you’re able to reframe your approach to challenges from within, leaving you able to move forward with confidence and curiosity. 

When you begin changing your mindset, it’s important that you actively work to reinforce the new positive messages that you want to become automatic. How you reinforce a positive mindset will be individual to you but here are a few ideas to get started with:

• Daily affirmations are a great way to boost your mood, your confidence and your self-esteem as well as your mindset. Write down a short statement – or a few – that make you smile, fill you with positivity and remind you of your positivity. You can write them down and stick them around your home so you are reminded every day. A hypnotherapist can teach you to use visualisation techniques to strengthen your mental image of yourself with a positive mindset. Seeing yourself responding to challenges from a place of confidence, curiosity and openness to growth is perfect practice for making it a reality.
• Practice the gratitude attitude. Be conscious of the people and things in your life that you are grateful for. Doing this every day increases your sense of abundance.
  A combination of these techniques along with hypnotherapy creates a strong basis for truly lasting mindset transformation. 

The benefits of hypnotherapy for mindset transformation are manifold. Transforming your mindset from a negative to a positive really is the difference between truly breaking through the barriers that are holding you back and sitting on the sidelines and wishing you could. If you believe that you’re not good enough to go for what you want, then ask yourself where that belief comes from. If you’ve always believed it, that’s not proof. If you’ve never tried, that’s not proof. If you’ve given it a go (possibly feel that you’ve really given it a go) but deep down had that niggling sensation of self-doubt and criticism then that’s not proof either.

Those negative thoughts, limiting beliefs and criticisms could be weighing you down from your subconscious. Why not try changing the focus to ‘what if?’ What if you really gave yourself a chance? What if you tried something new to tackle your inner blocks? What if you were free of the negative chatter and able to approach challenges with a truly positive mindset? What if you allowed yourself to be curious for 20 minutes? 

A lot of hypnotherapists offer a free discovery call and this is a great opportunity to ask questions, voice concerns and find the one you feel will support you in the way that you need. Allow yourself to be curious for that discovery call and take the first step towards positivity and resilience.