Do you have a tough life? Does everything feel exhausting and like more effort than it's worth? Incredibly awkward feeling, so how do you make sure to lighten up your life?
This blog article will give you helpful insights and tips for that question.
I have a hard life
If you have a tough life, or at least feel that you do, chances are you have experienced some things in your life.
Perhaps you didn 't have a happy childhood and/or are dealing with a lot of uncertainty in life. Or you suffered from illnesses early in life.
The work you have also falls hard on you, for example[1].
Why is life hard?
Anything can happen in life that makes life feel tough. such as being laid off or your child becoming seriously ill. Research shows that depending on your self-image and your idea of those problems this can make your life feel very heavy.
However, this is not necessarily the case; there are also people who manage to keep their well-being high despite these types of situations[2].
How do you make your life lighter?
So a seriously ill child apparently doesn't have to make you feel like life is tough. At first, that may sound pretty crazy.
According to the researchers, the trick for people who could maintain their well-being was to look at the situation without bias and see the pros and cons of the situation.
In more standard life events that are "negative," such as losing your job or something similar, it can be a signal for someone who is otherwise mentally healthy to change their life and begin a journey toward personal development or transformation .
(Quite coincidentally, we often get people who are in this process in training at the Hypnosis Institute Netherlands)
In these modern times, scientists say it's harder to be successful than before (so that criticism of Boomers is secretly justifiable), so you may think that "being happy" is out of reach.
Fortunately, despite unemployment, single parenthood and lower purchasing power, you can be just as happy now as you were when you could buy a house in a single-earner household and afford a family with three children. Researchers just don't really understand why, because that means it no longer has to do with "possessions."[3]
As mentioned, it also has to do with your mental health to make a transformation.
However, it can sometimes be very difficult to change your life (or even just your lifestyle) because of emotional baggage you have carried earlier in your life. To make your life lighter, it may sometimes be necessary to first process your emotional baggage so that you can then make the change in your life that you want.
Sometimes you can also be in the middle of a problem, such as when you are seriously ill, and then hypnosis can also help relieve stress and cope with the situation. For example, research shows that hypnosis helps people with cancer cope with the stress of the disease and treatment[4].
But what if that's all over again? What if it's time to change things to make you happier? Then it's time to deal with the emotional baggage.
Hypnosis for Change
Processing emotional baggage is something in which hypnotherapy can play a role. Just the hypnotic state and 1 small session can help people suffering from chronic stress, likely a problem if your life feels heavy.
Research shows that this can quickly reduce feelings of stress, anxiety and depression[5].
If you have suffered from acute trauma, due to a car accident or violent incident for example, hypnosis with cognitive behavioral therapy can also help well in processing this trauma[6].
In addition, you can use hypnosis to transform your emotional baggage, which can help with a variety of problems.
Preventing Guilt
In fact, that baggage can make you feel guilty when you don't need to. For example, you want to be there for your family, but you also have to work to pay bills.
You want so much, but you have so little time, and you buy off the guilt with gifts that may also make you feel guilty.
So how do you actually prevent this? Because walking around with guilt feels leaden.
With hypnosis, you can find out what beliefs cause you to feel guilt, for example, because you also choose your career while having a family. Or because you choose your family while your colleagues are very busy.
You can never get it right as far as you feel.
In cases like this, regression can help you figure out what event is causing you to feel guilty for not thinking you are doing as "you should."
In fact, regression allows you to go back to a time when an impeding belief was created, to fix it[7].
Fewer responsibilities
Perhaps your life is tough, too, because you have a little too much going on. Saying "yes" to everything and suddenly you are being lived instead of living yourself. Cutting down on those responsibilities can also go a long way when it comes to living a lighter life.
So it then becomes more important to set your boundaries, and that is sometimes difficult. Hypnosis can help in such cases to see situations in a different way, making it easier for you to indicate that a colleague could do better, or that your child should look for his favorite soccer shoes himself.
This can be done with Ericksonian hypnotherapy combined with positive psychology. In fact, this helps you strengthen your ego, gain more self-confidence and, as a result, you can better define your boundaries[8].
Your role under the microscope
In addition, you get all kinds of roles in your life. The biggest role change people notice is when they become fathers or mothers, especially mothers (and fathers who take care of their children the most) are quite often consumed by the mother role and may feel like they are losing themselves as a result.
Very annoying, but is it really?
With hypnotherapy, you can scrutinize all parts of you, i.e., the mother, the wife, the careerist, the friend, and balance them more with each other so that you can be yourself again.
This can go a long way in easing a tough life as well.
This technique is advanced and will be taught in the third training at the Hypnosis Institute Netherlands .
Choosing for yourself
In our training I often meet people who take the training "because they can finally choose for themselves," often that moment is actually 5 years later than they would have liked.
So why is it that you are self-absorbed? What would your life look like if you did choose to take care of yourself?
This vision of the future can already give you a good entry point to change. Because a lot of problems can be solved by finding the cause. We often do this with the regression technique.
But the opposite is also possible. If you know where you want to go, what your life looks like when it's not heavy, but light, then you can then take steps to reach that goal .
In fact, with a progression, you can come up with some kind of plan on how to step by step make your life easier and less demanding.
Especially if combined with regression. A hypnotherapist can help you with this.
And if you don't have a good idea yet, a post-hypnotic suggestion often also helps make you more aware of the lightness that life holds, even during tougher moments.
Learning hypnosis for enlightenment
Want to learn more about what hypnosis can do for you and how you can help other people with it?
Then come to the free master class for an introduction.
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Hypnosis Institute Netherlands' training can be taken in class, or live online. There is sufficient guidance for 1-on-1 attention so that you can fully absorb the material.
As a result, not only are you going to learn how to make other people's lives brighter, but by getting started with the techniques, you're going to transform yourself.
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