hypnosis self esteem

Hypnosis is an awesome key for keeping you positive

Last night some friends and I decided to do something off the cuff for all of us. We went ice skating! The funny thing is, is that none of us have ever skated more then 3 times in our lives. So what a site it was to see us all bumping into each other like bumping cars in Disneyland. But, we all noticed one particular little girl with pony tails skating about the ice as if nothing else mattered. Her lines were fluid and graceful and moreso, you can tell that she was simply enjoying herself! This gave me a flash back to the 2002 Winter Olympics when the whole world witnessed an underdog by the name of Sarah Huges win the Gold over predicted winner Michell Kwan. Do you remember Sarah Huges?

Watching her was inspiring and instantly flashed to an article I wrote for Divas fitness magazine in 2002. Have fun and remember to reach for the Gold.

Sarah Hughes won the hearts of millions as she gracefully skated to Gold at the Winter Olympics in 2002. Although she did a marvelous job, however, a small part of Sarah’s success can be attributed to the uneasiness that Michelle Kwan faced going in to this same Olympic show down.

When Sarah Hughes stepped on the ice rink it seemed as if we were watching a little girl on the ice pond skating for the love and enjoyment of skating. The pressures of Olympic Gold were not evident from the flowing lines and the dynamic jumps she so naturally exuded on the skating rink. It was as if she was all by herself just having fun. Minutes later we saw a complete antithesis of that calm and ease from the predicted Gold winner, Michele Kwan.

Right from the get go, Michelle’s routine was filled with unease that was the complete antithesis of what we saw in Sarah Huges. I’m definitely not a professional skater, but I am an expert in understanding the subconscious mind and I think I may provide some clues as to what happened to Michelle that night.

When I saw Kwan’s first jump even I noticed an uneasiness that was quickly corroborated by the comments of the announcer on Television.

When you get to this top level, you have to have everything in order to win the Gold. That includes, eating well, sleeping enough hours and preparing your mind. Michelle Kwan seemed to have everything, however, she may kept with her a voice that has plagued her since the Olympics in Nagano, Japan 4 years earlier.

So what in God’s grace could have affected Michelle that night?

Michelle must have been prepared for this as she’s probably completed those jumps hundreds of times before in practice. But the times in which she may have failed at those attempts coupled with the event in Nagano, Japan, may have put so much pressure on her that a nagging little voice might have whispered in her mind “I can’t do this. My legs feel too heavy, and I don’t want to fail again.”

You know that little voice that gets in your way when you want to accomplish something. Think back to when you might have said something to yourself like “I’ve been overweight my whole life, so I may as well just eat ’cause I won’t lose weight anyway, I can start my diet tomorrow” … Familiar, ya?

How did this voice come into existence?

This voice may be a result from a time or times that you’ve failed in your past which unfortunately can result in your subconscious mind wanting to protect you from feeling bad by setting you up for failure (I’ll be going into more detail about this situation in part 3 of this article).

The obvious problem in this predicament is that with repetition and/or the right circumstances you accept that little voice and it becomes your reality no matter how much conscious effort and analytical thought you put into trying to change your behavior.

However, unwittingly you may have enforced this nagging little voice with conscious rationalizing thoughts about not being able to lose weight, like, my whole family is heavy, I come from line of big boned individuals, 1 percent of the population has a true genetic defect that can’t make them lose weight and maybe I’m one of them.”

So what can you do to break this repetitious cycle? Well, this is where Hypnosis comes in. Hypnosis can help you replace the energy of those self-limiting thoughts with new suggestions for positive change.

Before we get into hypnosis I’ll have to give you the basic fundamentals of the conscious and subconscious minds. I’ll teach you in hypnotic terms how they work together and how work against each other. In part two of this article, I’ll discuss the conscious mind.

In part 3, I’ll discuss the subconscious mind and explain what hypnosis is so that I can teach you self-hypnosis.

After understanding how the conscious and subconscious mind works, you’ll learn a method utilizing affirmations to help you “clear out your cup” before putting “fresh water” back in it for “drinking.”

But to get started, keep in mind that your thoughts have energy to create and manifest your behaviours and thus your reality.

And in the next chapter of this article we’ll get started and on your way to winning the GOLD!