Take a moment to remember a time when you felt like you were at your very best. Maybe you were succeeding at work or school, confident at public speaking and in social gatherings, on top of your athletic game, or feeling happy in your relationships. Does your life still operate with those feelings as the key players of your experiences today? 

The ups and downs of life come and go, but when we go through too many difficult circumstances over a relatively short period of time, it can be hard to fully retain the good feelings, experiences, and habits of yesteryear. Periods of stress, such as going through a divorce, losing a loved one, navigating a rocky relationship, wading through work troubles and financial challenges, and enduring many other traumas big and small, often build up and slowly shift us from more comfortable, familiar spaces of emotion and habits into states of worry, hurt, sadness, and anxiety. 

If we experience these emotions for long enough, the prolonged exposure to stress and negative emotion tends to pull us away from a more positive version of ourselves. When the negative emotions become more familiar, we often have a tendency to “forget” the positive version of ourselves and adopt the trauma thoughts and patterns we’ve been living in as a part of who we are. Instead of temporarily visiting the negative feelings and then returning to ourselves, we move in and begin to live in them, often unable to remember how to get back to where we lived before. 

You may not consciously remember how to get back to your best self, but you’re in luck: the subconscious mind (the other 85 to 90 percent of the brain) does. This part of the mind powerfully remembers the details of your life from the time before you were born to this very moment as you read these words. 

To be able to reclaim those times when you felt our best, you must re-familiarize  with the forgotten parts of yourself that have slipped into your subconscious mind.  If you can connect with them intensely enough that your brain rewires, the inverse of what happened before will take place. You will shift  back into your best self again by reacquiring and reclaiming your old feelings. Just like that, you can be on top of your game again.

Of course, this all sounds good, but how do you “re-remember” yourself into what you don’t remember very well now?? With clinical hypnotherapy or any therapy that allows you to go deeper than the alpha and beta waves of consciousness, the course of action is simple. Once you are in a subconscious state, you will:

1. Discover where and why the shift happened in your mind.

2. Do healing work surrounding any leftover trauma still interrupting positive thought patterns.

3. Reconnect with “lost” positive feelings, emotions, and habits.

4. Let your mind begin to rehearse integrating those feelings into your life again. 

Steps one and two are vital to make permanent change occur during steps three and four, but the third and fourth steps of the strategy are where you will see some very positive, rapid changes begin to take place as you build and deepen old neural pathways of positivity.

During the most powerful parts of this mind-retraining process, you will get up to 400 times the change rates of the conscious-thinking mind, making hypnotherapy an effective tool that allows the mind to recreate and even amplify your best inner qualities of the past. During hypnotherapy, you are able to swim around, so to speak, in the recreated feelings, giving your mind the opportunity to deepen these feelings and intertwine them into what life will feel like today as you move forward with them.

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If you would like more information about the hypnotherapy process and what it can do to help you or if you would like to discuss whether you’re a good candidate for hypnotherapy, please feel free to visit my website at balancedmodernhypnotherapy.com, text or call 435-429-2560, or email me at [email protected].