Transforming yourself or transforming others. Change is involved, and going through a change is something that can be gradual or very quick. It is sometimes difficult to consciously transform something and to help you speed up the transformation process, you will get insights about transforming and the role hypnosis plays in this blog article.
Transformation meaning
Initially, it is helpful to realize what transformation means. Transformation means that something is transformed or changed. Consider, for example, the transformation of ice, to water when it thaws.
Since you are reading a Hypnosis Institute Netherlands blog here, this blog is about your personal transformation, your change and how it starts from within. You can also think of this as a psychological change.
And this can involve very big and very small things.
Perhaps you want to transform habits, but perhaps you also suffer from mental symptoms that you want to transform into mental strengths.
Inner transformation
Inner transformation is important if you want to change something lasting about yourself. For example, if you want to lose weight and you use a crash diet to do so, that is something you can do temporarily because of some external goal you want to achieve.
Like fitting into certain clothes at someone's wedding.
But after the wedding, the need is gone and you'll probably gain weight again.
So then you haven't gone through an inner transformation.
For example, if you want to live healthier or work in a different way altogether, you need changes on another level, such as:
- Consciousness
- Mindset
- Values
- Worldview
- Beliefs
- Spirituality
- Connection you feel with other people
- Connection with nature[1]
If you find that your life is not what you would like and you are ready to transform yourself, the first step is to take a hard look at who you really are.
To take a moment to reflect on yourself and look at the roles you assume. At the Hypnosis Institute Netherlands, we also call this sharing work. This can be especially useful if you suffer from conflicts, like wanting to be sociable at parties, but balking every time you have taken more than 1 piece of cake or something similar.
If so, you are suffering from internal conflict in your inner parts. Getting clarity about that can be the first step toward an inner transformation that helps you make sustainably healthy choices.
This is something a hypnotherapist helps people with.
People who don't want to see a hypnotherapist right away can start with mindfulness to gain a better understanding of their own thoughts and feelings, but without guidance, it doesn't lead to transformation quickly.
Increase insight for accelerated transformation process
How many times in your life have you had an "aha" moment that made you suddenly think differently about certain things? That "aha" moment, was a moment of new insight and this new insight changed your beliefs such that you started doing things differently.
This is more of a natural transformation process.
But if you are not happy with certain habits you have, such an "aha" moment is not likely to come to you to radically change your habits. People who are concerned with the environment and who want society to change have already realized that they need to give more people such an "aha" moment and that society changes only when someone's inner self changes.
People who want to change can ask a hypnotherapist for help to gain more insight into themselves. In fact, many beliefs that get in the way of an "aha" moment were formed in childhood.
Only then, you were far from knowing everything.
But during that time, you may have learned:
- With aggression and anger, people are going to do what I want anyway. (no longer works when you're an adult)
- Food is always nice to me. (causes obesity)
- I can't say "no." (causes burnout and stress)
- I have to be beautiful (everyone gets ugly at some point, so you really have to let go of that at some point).
- Dogs are scary (and you can't have fun walking if there are dogs somewhere, and they are everywhere you can have fun walking).
When a hypnotherapist helps people reveal what moment in life has created these types of limiting beliefs, it is often the starting point of transformation.
This starting point is often found with the regression technique.
Depending on the transformation a person is looking for, a hypnotherapist can use multiple techniques to stimulate a transformation by fixing the limiting belief.
The moment has passed
For example, if you've gotten an obstacle from an anxious moment in which you've been mentally stuck, the fast phobia technique will help give you an "aha" moment that it's all completely irrelevant.
In fact, you can imagine that before that moment nothing was wrong, and a time after that moment everything was actually back to normal. Only those unconscious beliefs then did not get the update that everything was back to normal.
This can help you, for example, get sleep problems because you stay super alert, or suffer from street anxiety or fear of dogs or something similar.
The hypnotist then helps people with a visualization to change the feeling at that moment, so that it also has good closure for the subconscious.
Exactly how this technique works is explained in a Hypnosis Institute Netherlands training course.
Empathize with other people around you
Some situations are not scary or anything like that, but need more insight that you just don't have yet as a child. For example, if you are bullied as a child, you are not aware that bullies often do this because they do not have a nice situation at home.
At that point, all you know is that that bully is a huge **** and that it bothers you and makes you feel bad.
During a regression, it can be helpful to empathize with other people who were around you at the time. The moment a belief was formed. For example, if you could never say "no" to chores from your parents and therefore cannot say "no" to your boss now.
In cases like this, it can be helpful to look at that situation from a different angle.
This can give you whole new insights.
Like that boy or girl had a hard time and with bullying still tried to have a sense of control. Not convenient, but okay.
Or like that your parents were very busy and thought it was important that you at least knew how to clean your room. A form of love, just not always conveniently expressed.
This type of empowering can already help you tremendously to transform certain limiting beliefs, allowing you to let go of the past and better stand up for yourself.
Conversation with the inner child
Sometimes you have had such a difficult situation that a conversation with the inner child is needed. In that case, you can see your adult self as the best friend or indeed available parent for your inner child.
You can start the conversation with your inner child and give it love. A whole lump of self-love.
This can also transform you to stop making bad choices in hopes that someone will step in and take care of you like a parent. Instead, you become your own best friend and start making good choices for yourself, seeing that you are powerful and not dependent on other people to manage your life.
These kinds of techniques during hypnotherapy can cause tremendous inner transformations. Whereby you do break habits that you have been unable to break properly for years.
Even whole depressions can be reduced and even transformed away with these types of techniques.
How cool is that?
All levels of transformation can be touched with hypnotherapy.
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