How hypnosis can boost your self-esteem and make you more confident

Suffering the effects of an acute lack of confidence and poor self-esteem is not a good place to be. It is known to progressively erode your personality and chip away at your ability to complete even the simplest of tasks. And there is no worse feeling than having to remind yourself of how you suck at basically everything. Hypnosis for confidence is something you should definitely try out if you’re looking to land something of a confidence boost. How do you feel about the prospect of garnering enough self-esteem and finally being able to flaunt those new-found nerves of steel? How would you like to take centre stage in conversations without even trying or getting the better of that agoraphobia? Hypnosis for confidence and self-esteem have got you covered on all those fronts and even more. And here’s how it works.

How hypnosis can help you build confidence

Hypnotherapy seeks to reconfigure the thought patterns of the individual by targeting the reasons and beliefs that you may have about your confidence. It does this by helping you forget the doubts that you may have about this element of your personality. It works on your subconscious, filling you with belief that you’ve been there and done that. This subconscious thought pattern is eventually worked into your consciousness through ways that are subliminal. Essentially, hypnosis helps you learn again how to be confident in yourself instead of letting your self-esteem take a hit at every turn.

Consider your feelings and thoughts

Hypnosis for confidence is no quick fix. It works nothing like the stroke of a magic wand that will make all your problems vanish into thin air. It requires a lot of input on the part of the individual. You’re going to have to provide answers to certain questions which border on what you’ll do when you become more confident and what having more confidence really feels like. The answers you provide to these questions will give you an insight as to what the future holds, so you are motivated to set and achieve goals on a daily basis. Another upside to setting and achieving goals is that you’re kept abreast with your progress level, you essentially feel the hypnotherapy working its magic by giving you an air of self-awareness and assurance. You are worked into a condition where you become more attuned and at home in surroundings that once proved the bane of your very own existence.

There almost certainly won’t be anything close to something of an epiphany where you suddenly become smug, cocky and arrogant, or where you instantly begin to do things that you’ve never dreamt of doing in the past. Unlike popular misconceptions, this isn’t a scenario where a hypnotherapist gets into your head and makes you do things. It works by reaching deep inside of you and pulling that innate, recessive confidence that we are all born with. And we’ve all got confidence deposited in copious amounts in all of us by nature. Life generally happens and we see it grow or disappear. Make no mistake about it: hypnotherapy does not turn you into a person that you are not. It is nothing like one of those eye-spinning, sleight of hand, mind-takeover that we all see on TV. It requires a conscious effort on the part of the individual; a dedication to change the way you think and feel about situations to help your self-esteem grow.

The views expressed in this article are those of the author. All articles published on Hypnotherapy Directory are reviewed by our editorial team.

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Written by Biodun Ogunyemi, Certified Master Hypnotherapist ANLP,BNLP,SNLP,C.H,Dip.Hyp
Glasgow G2 & London W1H

Biodun Ogunyemi is the founder of Optimind, one of the leading hypnotherapy practices within the UK. He has practised on Harley Street and is an experienced hypnotherapist, trained to the highest level in advanced hypnotherapy and NLP and is the author of over 180 hypnosis products.

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