Redemption: achieving your redemption with a different perspective

If you are not feeling well, sometimes something can happen that brings deliverance from that feeling. That redemption can cause you to go through life much lighter and enjoy yourself again

You may need to be freed from all sorts of things, but generally from unpleasant feelings such as depression, anxiety, anger, sadness, disappointment, regret, or even guilt.

But how do you deliver yourself from that?

How do you get out of this personal hell?

This is also important because if you dwell on negative thoughts for too long, you may suffer from chronic stress and possibly even burnout[1].

Your personal hell

If you feel stuck in a negative emotion or thought, it can feel like your personal hell.

Freeing yourself from this often leads to personal growth. There are several ways to do this. Research shows, for example, that the coronavirus has caused post-traumatic stress in some people and that they have turned to religion to cope with it (to stay on the theme of hell for a moment). Women in Spain, in particular, have dealt with it in this way and subsequently saw themselves as more spiritual and personally grown[2].

In any case, it’s wonderful when you can free yourself from such a negative emotion, because that means you’ve changed something within yourself that allows you to cope with it. This means you’ve grown.

If guilt is hell, what is its opposite? It can be difficult to answer this question. You may have some hesitation, and it's not because of the question, but whether you believe guilt is hell.

If so, you can see right away how direct and simple this is. In this blog, I have an exercise that can help you rid yourself of negative thoughts. You may not need the exercise then. In a previous blog you have already learned more about your holiness and that this redeems you.

Exercise:

You can do this exercise in one day, with four five-minute practice periods. First, you repeat the idea:

"My holiness is my salvation."

Next, track your unloving thoughts. These can include fear, insecurity, uneasiness, depression, anger and so on.

Whatever form your unloving thoughts take, they are frightening because they are unloving. So they are what you need to be delivered from.

Specific situations, people or events that you associate with unloving thoughts are appropriate topics for this blog's exercise.

It is important for your salvation that you begin to see those events differently. That you give those events a different vision, that you see them differently.

Slowly examine your mind for any thought that stands between you and your salvation, without putting too much emphasis on any one thought.

Apply today's idea to every event:

"My unloving thought about ... keep me in hell. My holiness is my salvation."

This practice period can become easier if you hold shorter practice periods in between. In these, you just repeat today's idea to yourself a few times.

It can help you take short moments to just relax and not think about anything.

This can all be difficult at first, but it gets easier as you practice.

End each practice period by repeating the idea again, adding, "If guilt is hell, what's the opposite?"

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Where does your negative thinking come from?

Now, it may be that this exercise alone doesn’t do much for you. You understand that that one memory or situation you want to avoid at all costs is keeping you in hell, but how do you get out of that hell? How do you make sure you start feeling better—or simply more at peace? How does this help you see the situation differently?

Therapy is at least one solution to negative thoughts[3], but what should it do?

That thought at least shows you something you think is wrong. It's injustice, it's not right and it even makes you feel bad.

The judgment you form comes from somewhere. There is something on which you base your judgment. That something is your beliefs about how life works, how the world is supposed to function, and how you can function in the world.

These beliefs often take root in your subconscious when you’re still a child. You’re born as a sort of blank slate, and in the first seven to eight years of your life, that slate gets filled with “this is how life works.”

You actually never look back at that full sheet of paper. That just sits comfortably in your subconscious determining your feelings from day to day about what you are experiencing. It somewhat determines when you feel things are going well and it determines your feelings when you think things are not going well at all.

To let go of those loveless thoughts, it is important that you consciously pick up that full sheet of precepts. After all, you are an adult now and you know much more than you did when you were a small child.

It can be very difficult to do this on your own. A hypnotherapist can help you with this.

If you have a problem—such as that negative thought that just won’t go away—you can see a hypnotherapist for help. Using a technique called regression, you can be guided to identify the moment when your subconscious mind formed a certain rule about how the world supposedly works.

Often you will come to an event from your childhood. It may be that one of your parents said something, you saw something, a teacher or peers did something and you determined at the time that it meant something.

By taking another look at that situation now as an adult, you can rewrite your rule of life. Sometimes it is enough to empathize with the people who were there at the time, and sometimes more is needed.

The hypnotherapist then has multiple techniques on hand to help you update your rule of life so that you suffer less from those unloving thoughts.

You may even feel that it was illogical that you were walking around with that thought.

Talk to someone close to you

Is it still too big a step for you to go to a hypnotherapist? Then talking to someone close to you can also do a lot. You can present your problem and vision to him/her, and then that person with the insights of his/her sheet of living rules can tell you how he/she sees it.

This can also already change your outlook on unloving thoughts tremendously and bring you to salvation.

Omdenken

Looking at your problem differently can also mean reversing the loveless thought. If this is difficult, this is also an activity a hypnotherapist can help you with.

A few examples:

"Nobody wants to help me."

Conversion thought: "I haven't found the person who can help me yet."

"I'm on my own."

Conversion thought: "I can ask for help."

"I can't say no."

Omden thought: "Saying no is important for my long-term health and employability."

These are just examples. You can also be given hypnotic suggestions following your session with the hypnotherapist that you can repeat at home to keep your redemption well established.

These may include suggestions such as:

"The future is not fixed."

"Everything can be figured out."

"I am good the way I am."

"People who love me accept me as I am."

These are just examples. Depending on your loveless thoughts, you may be given other suggestions.

Would you like to learn more about how hypnotherapy works, why it works, and how it can benefit you? Then join a free online masterclass on hypnosis.

Would you rather help others as a coach or therapist? Then you can also sign up for one of our training programs. The courses are taught online to ensure the continuity of your learning journey (no COVID-19 restrictions to throw a wrench in the works 😉).

[1] https://peerj.com/articles/4181/

[2] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.567836/full?utm_source=F-AAE&utm_medium=EMLF&utm_campaign=MRK_1481182_69_Psycho_20201112_arts_A

[3] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01173748