The Power of Self-hypnosis

I can’t reiterate enough, that when we have a good understanding of how our mind works, we have the power to create powerful change in our lives.

Various Techniques

On my journey through dis-ease I’ve ventured down many paths, tried various techniques, and applied various thought processes to create change.  All these processes I’m gladly sharing in my book which I’m working on right now.  We still have a way to go with it, but it’s continuing to be a wonderful journey of enlightenment for me.  It’s also been reassuring to me as I look back at all these amazing processes. And believe me I’ve tried and tested them! It’s a great reminder to me as a therapist, as I am able to utilise these tried and tested processes with client’s or for myself as and when necessary. Sometimes we all need reminding that it’s beneficial to us.  

Where We Focus

You tend to find we focus on a specific technique at any one time. That’s what I’ve found along my journey.  You have many techniques to utilise, but you tend to stick with one or two specific ones.  You use the one that resonates with you for that moment. The bonus being you have all these, at hand in your toolbox, when required.  It’s reassuring in itself that they are there to literally grab hold of at times of change, or when you want to make a change in your life. 

Toolboxes

Our toolbox for life is constantly being updated and added to as we go through our daily life.  Just like we have been talking about in our recent blogs and positive quotes. We have learnt that our subconscious logs away information from our experiences, and our perceptions of those experiences.  Remember Perception is ‘Reality’. 

New Techniques

As we become aware of a new technique, we tend to get a little excited about using it. We are focused on applying it. It’s a new focus for us.  When we have something new it creates fascination. We are intrigued to see if it’s going to work. It’s almost like a new adventure.  As with most techniques, you can adjust them and apply a little of your touch to make them right for you. The general idea stays the same.  Again, you will perceive it in your own eyes and make the adjustments so that it works for you in the best possible way.

Working Wonders

One such process which is always very powerful, and one I use with many of my clients is ‘Self-Hypnosis’. I always love sharing this technique with them, once they have addressed and made positive changes from their sessions.  It’s giving them that special space to connect in with their subconscious, where they can make adjustments themselves.  This helps to maintain a healthy thought process, positive outlook, and positive responses.  It’s also about being kind to you. Using ‘affirmations’, or as I prefer to say ‘positive statements’ alongside self-hypnosis can work wonders.  Self-hypnosis doesn’t just bring you to a place of feeling calm. You really can address anything you are wanting to change or adjust.

A statement to yourself has POWER! Words have POWER!

Choose kindness and understanding within.  Remember you are always doing your best.

How Do We Talk to Ourselves?

Imagine if you spoke to your friend the way you talk inwardly to yourself. How would that make them feel?  We are all guilty of knocking ourselves down.  For example …  ‘I’m no good at that! Why did I say that? I don’t have confidence to do that! You are hopeless! I don’t like my shape! I could do better! That was totally rubbish!’   We’ve all done it at some point in our lives, beating ourselves up over what we have or haven’t done well.  We really should be talking kindly to ourselves within. Imagine what that negative self talk could create, if repeated.

Use Negative to Create Positive

We can use negative situations and negative self talk to create a positive.  Have you ever thought about using a negative to teach a learning? We learn more from negative experience than we do positive. We usually learn not do it again.  What you often find is people focus on the negative and hold it within them, which can then create blocks for them. Why not use the experience and say ’Well that didn’t go quite as planned but it has shown me the way to go now. I am now looking at other options that I would have never considered before’.  That negative experience has driven you to a new place of focus that could be life changing, allowing amazing new experience to come into your life.   If you can learn to look at it from that perspective imagine how your experiences would change! Imagine how your thought processes would change too!

So … what’s Self Hypnosis?

It’s basically connecting into our ‘Theta’ brain wave patterns. This is where we record and recall our memories. It also connects into the emotional aspect of ourselves. After all, the subconscious is our ‘emotional’ part of our mind. 

Your Space

Self-Hypnosis allows you to have space for you. To check in with yourself to make positive change.  A little like doing a meditation. A self-Hypnosis session could last as long as half an hour, an hour, or even just 1 minute. It all depends on what you want from your personalised session with YOU.   We spend 90 percent of our lives in hypnosis. So when we choose to direct ourselves specifically into this space, with specific intention, it’s amazing what you have access to. 

A Clear Direction

When working with clients, I direct them through a specific process, training their subconscious to automatically connect quickly and easily to those Theta brainwaves. We experience Theta brainwaves when we are in a hypnotic state, deep meditation, or light sleep. This also includes REM dream state. Clients gain an in-depth understanding through their sessions, which allows them to utilise self-hypnosis fully.  Something I learnt very deeply from my own healing journey, and now share with others.

Learning self-hypnosis as part of your hypnotherapy sessions for whatever issue is a common technique therapists share.  It’s a very good way of maintaining a positive outlook and is extremely good for dealing with anxiety or breaking a habit. 

Let’s look at a simplified version …

Beginners quick Self-Hypnosis Process

The fact that we spend most of our life in hypnosis, we are all able to connect into a hypnotic trance state.  It really is just a focused state of attention. 

  • GOAL. Firstly, set your goal of what you are wanting to achieve.  Create a positive statement in present tense.  E.g., ‘I am calm’, ‘I now experience….’
  • SET INTENTION. Honour that you are taking time for YOU! Set the intention that you are allowing yourself to connect into your own space. Make sure you are in a safe place, where you feel comfortable.
  • BREATH. Bring your awareness to your breath.  Take three deep breaths in and slowly exhaling out. Allow yourself to settle.
  • CONNECT. Connect with feeling relaxed. No one can get you while you are here in YOUR space.
  • ADDRESS. Address any part of you that is experiencing something you want to change or feel uncomfortable with. Check in with YOU.  Have a chat to yourself just like you would your best friend.  Replace it and focus on the outcome you want. 
  • VISUALISE. Visualise yourself how you want it to be. Remember the subconscious does not distinguish between reality or whether you are thinking it. It will believe it to be true. 
  • POSITIVE STATEMENT. Spend time visualising, experiencing your goal, repeating your positive statement until you feel you’ve done enough and feel more comfortable with it.
  • BREATH. Focus once again on your breath, start to make gentle movements bringing your awareness to where you are sitting. 
  • UP AND OUT. Count from 1 to 5 making yourself aware you will awaken feeling refreshed, energised and alert as you reach 5. 

This is just a very simple process. It’s a basic layout of how to go about self-hypnosis.  You don’t necessarily have to go into do any work on yourself. You could just enjoy relaxation and a connection to calm.

For a more detailed practise and understanding of self-hypnosis please do get in touch.  I personalise it to each individual client showing them the full benefit they can achieve from this amazing technique.

Enjoy 😊

#selfhypnosis #Hypnotherapy #selfhelptools #ownspace #negativetopositive

Reality or Reality??

When we have a deeper understanding of how the mind works in it’s mysterious ways, we have access to so much more, we have tapped into the knowledge to create powerful positive change. The more we understand, the easier it is to deal with life’s moments, good or bad. These understandings were so beneficial to me on my healing journey which I share in my new book. Read on…you may find you might think slightly differently. What’s your reality?

Have you ever thought about reality? What is reality? How does our mind process reality? You could ask many questions about it really.  Not many people really think of it much, they just going about their usual daily habits and routines, which all follow on one after each other. It’s how most of our days flow. 

So, what is reality? What is it we really see?  Reality is doing what we do in our everyday lives, we exist, we are in existence. We are matter in motion.  We live in the real world, our real world, we live in our truth, what we take to be true.  But what is our truth? Well, our truth is actually our perspective of that real world, and each and every one of us has a different perspective. Where does this perspective come from?

Why a Difference Perspective?

Our perspective is created from our experiences in life.  We all have completely different experiences because we are all individual people.  We are all living our life as WE see it or should I say, ‘FEEL IT!’. We create our reality because we can only create and see from our own perspective, the perspective which we believe to be true.  We are programmed through our life’s situations.  Another person may see the same situation completely different to you, may respond differently, because they have different programs and beliefs running deep within their subconscious.  We are all responding from our practised thoughts, habits and emotions which are linked to our experiences, our reality. 

Something to think about…

We CREATE what we BELIEVE

We BELIEVE what we PERCEIVE

We PERCEIVE what we EXPERIENCE

and … We EXPERIENCE what we CREATE

Anon.

Repeat … No matter where you start this quote it works, try it!  It gets you thinking!

How does the mind process reality?

Your subconscious mind remembers every aspect of your life, right the way back to the third trimester in your mother’s womb.  How amazing is that!  If it remembers every aspect of your life, it remembers not only the good experiences, but also the bad experiences as well. Each experience holds either a very strong emotion, or one that is not so strong, maybe irrelevant. If you have a strong emotion attached to an experience, your subconscious holds this more firmly as a belief within you.  It remembers how you responded at that point in time.  

If the response was traumatic and it made you anxious, any time you experience something like it again you will most probably find you will respond in the same way again, anxiously.  It’s your subconscious minds way of thinking it is protecting you, it believes it must respond that way. It’s been wired that way from the original experience; it doesn’t know any better.  It’s interesting to know that within any experience your subconscious will remember not only how you responded or felt, but it will also remember the temperature of the room, the colours, every single detail associated with the situation you found yourself in. 

The Monkey Brain

Your subconscious mind is also sometimes called the ‘Monkey’ brain. Basically, it doesn’t understand the difference between right or wrong, it just accepts what’s happening as true. Responses can happen from a traumatic experience programmed deep within your mind.  It plays out the response because it believes that is what it must do for you in that moment, it remembers from the first time you experienced it. You can think of your ‘monkey brain’ as a computer, saving the data information that is being fed into it. It then draws on the information that’s appropriate to help you through experiences which are arising again that are similar. Each time this happens it adds to the belief, strengthening it, whether it’s good or bad. 

Real Reality or the Power of Thought?

Now we understand that the subconscious doesn’t understand the difference between right or wrong, it just takes things as truth, let’s think about the reality we see in front of us and the reality within our thinking minds, the realities we visualise.  Does the subconscious distinguish between the two? 

Science and Imagery

It has been scientifically proven that when we experience something in ‘real reality’, then think about that same situation again in our minds, the brain fires, and wires in the same way. Experiments have been done with athletes to prove this works.

They got the athletes to run their race physically in ‘real reality’ around the racetrack, running the best that they possibly could, aiming to win and gain their best time whilst they were practising.  They then got the athletes to lie or sit down and visualise themselves running the exact same race again in their minds eye, visualising the run.  The aim is for the athlete to focus very clearly on the positive outcome of winning their race. When they visualise and imagine the positive outcome the mind and body is programmed to respond in that way.  This provides a strong belief within them that they can perform at their optimum levels. 

Scientists measured their brain waves and frequencies both in the ‘real reality’ and the ‘visualised reality’.  What’s interesting is the results show that the brain fires and wires very much the same, whether the athlete is physically running, or visualising running. 

Is Perception Reality?

If every experience remains deep within us, the response, the feeling, the emotion, the belief that it’s true, that it’s happened before us and within us, every single detail, then our perception of that experience is our belief around it. From that belief we then create future responses, which further builds that belief to be true.  

But is that truth actually true? … well it will be to you because you don’t know any different, you have learned from your experiences. That truth may be, and probably will be different for someone else. Our experience is what we believe, the belief is a perception of YOUR reality …therefore, Perception is Reality!

Can we change our Reality?

With the understanding of this, what could WE change in our reality? If our reality is only a belief we hold, could we change our experience through changing our belief? The new experience would then change not only the belief but the perception too. Perception is how we view and experience the world around is … therefore, Perception is Reality!

Favourite Quote …

My all-time favourite Quote is from a selection of books called ‘Seth Speaks’ which I found extremely useful whilst going through my cancer journey.  It helped me deal with the possibility of death.  Death was knocking right at my doorstep back in 2010 and this powerful quote was totally life changing for me.  It taught me how the mind works, I was intrigued by it.  When we understand how our mind works, we have amazing power to utilise through our thoughts! That powerful quote is …

‘We Create Our Own Reality’

… no one else, just us, through our perceptions.  Our Perceptions are OUR REALITY!

Thinking about how the subconscious understands reality, we can now see how beneficial Hypnosis can be in changing beliefs, experiences, and perceptions, it truly is a very powerful therapy, its life changing! … and that’s why I became a Hypnotherapist!

#reality #perception #experience #belief #create

Proposals, Hooks, and Titles … What’s my book about?

So…I’ve started blogging about my writing Journey and my hypnotherapy work. The last three weeks have been a total revelation to me.  Since watching the video of Rebecca Campbell on my Hay House Community, it’s shifted so much within me! It’s been an absolute life changer!

Learning Step-by-Step

The thought of doing Book Proposals, creating a ‘Hook’ for my book, sorting a Book Title out, Chapter Titles etc seemed quite daunting, but we are getting there now, we are flowing. I have had the book title for quite a while now, and it really does resonate with me.  I also have a ‘hook’, but I won’t share these just yet, I’ll keep them under wraps as a surprise later, but they feel right to me at this present moment in time. I’m not rushing this project, I’ve got a steady flow, and it’s coming together nicely. Most importantly, I’m enjoying every minute of it right now which is a much better place than I had been before, I’ve learnt to trust ME!… and this journey. 

It’s quite a process writing a book, and there really is no right or wrong way to do it really.  It’s what resonates with you.  Once you find the right way for you it’s more believable to you to complete, it’s a step-by-step process. Like anything, you can’t be concerned with the final product, you really do have to take it through one step at a time.  

Trust … Faith … Belief

When you can’t see the road clearly ahead …

Have TRUST, FAITH, and BELIEF you will be guided at the next turn.

What’s it all About?

What’s this book of mine all about? Why am I writing a book? Why did I get this idea in my head to do such a project? Read on…

Where it all Started

The book writing all started back in 2008 after receiving Hypnotherapy for Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity, EHS for short.  It’s a dis-ease that not many know about and can be looked at as quite taboo.  After receiving no success from the NHS or doctors regarding this dis-ease, and I’d seen many of them believe me! … in complete dire straits I was guided by a friend to try Hypnotherapy to attempt to alleviate the effects I was experiencing from Electrical equipment, WiFi, Mobile masts the list goes on and on.  October 2007 was my first appointment with an amazing Hypnotherapist called Mike England, who is now a very dear friend of mine. Little did I realise what I was about to experience and the amazing journey I was about to enter. 

A ‘Powerful’ Journey

The Hypnotherapy initially wasn’t an overnight sensation, but what it did do straight away was refocus me in the right mindset. It created hope for me.  I was severely depressed and literally losing the will to live with the responses I was experiencing. ‘How could I live in a world of electricity if it did this to me!’ Modern technology was only going to get better and signals stronger and bearing in mind this was when we were back on 2G strength! I’d experience pain in my body, feeling faint, lack of focus, tingling sensations the list goes on and on. I couldn’t even drive our new car we had just bought! And that’s a story in itself! That’s what drove me to go for a hypnotherapy session. After a few sessions it really started to become powerful and shift in the right direction. I was amazed! And totally drawn into how this stuff works.  The mind, especially the subconscious is very powerful, more powerful than we could ever realise. The journey was amazing and learning how the mind works was just so fascinating.

Cancer Diagnosis

The journey continued through the Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) with symptoms improving all the time and sensitivity reducing as each month passed, I never gave up and kept on keeping on with the ‘Trust, Faith and Belief’ and with the process of healing, but I still wasn’t right, something didn’t seem right.

In October 2009, I found hard lumps in my neck, my chest cavity we had noticed was protruding out slightly on the left-hand side.  I also kept feeling as though there was something in my chest. I was sent for tests just before Christmas 2009 and then called for a biopsy in the January, to then be diagnosed on Tuesday 26th January 2010 with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, Cancer of the Lymphatic System. It was diagnosed at stage 2 initially, going into stage 3, but later found out it was heading to a possible stage 4 as it was showing signs it had started to enter my bone marrow after a bone biopsy.

Once again because of the powerful experience I had received from Hypnotherapy I chose to utilise it once again to help me though the cancer journey which I was about to embark. 

Powerful Hypnosis

Hypnotherapy proved to be the right journey for me, in fact it was the most powerful journey.  That’s why I’m now a Hypnotherapist myself.  I had received very good success regarding the Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity and, I had complete faith in it.  There are many people out there who never seem to overcome EHS, but I was experiencing great success. At the point of the cancer diagnosis there was still a small amount of response going on regarding the EHS, but it was now very minimal.  Had the EHS caused the cancer? There were all sorts of thoughts going through our heads at the time. 

Trusting in the Hypnosis so much, I embarked on another Hypnotherapy journey, utilising it once again to help with the cancer journey ahead. I received a hypnotherapy session on the morning of each Chemotherapy treatment to help me on my healing journey. I was able to continue working through my treatment, with a very positive mindset. 

Sharing My Story

My book back in 2008 was initially all about the Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity.  Little did I realise the journey I was about to embark.  The book slowly transformed into the cancer journey too.  Now, this may seem quite unusual to hear but, the way I see it, and the way it feels within me is, the EHS journey was way harder for me than the cancer journey.  That might come as a shock to people, but it’s absolutely true!  If I hadn’t have gone through the EHS experience first, I really don’t think I would have coped with the cancer experience in the same way.  It’s almost like it prepared me for it! It made me strong in mind. I was very positive throughout the cancer journey, I shocked quite a few people around me.  They couldn’t believe how positive I was. 

Overcoming Procrastination

So yes, I’ve stopped and started this book, in fact this is the third version of it now that I am working on, it’s been going on for 14 years now!  There have been beliefs within me that I have had to address to get where I am, to allow this to move forward in the right way. Overtime, it’s changed its direction and it probably will do again in the coming months, but do you know what? I’m writing it now to get it out there to help people understand how powerful the mind is, how we can create amazing changes just by the power of thought! Connecting into the power of the subconscious mind. If I can help one person with my story, then I will have done a good job!

Creating Help and Advice

The book is a Transformational Memoir sharing my journey, tips, and techniques. My aim is that people reading my book will be able to apply the advice to their life. 

When we have a reasonable understanding of how the mind works, which I share in my book and with every client in their hypnotherapy sessions, it can create life changing possibilities.  It literally can change your life, just like it did mine. I wouldn’t be where I am today if it wasn’t for this amazing journey, and you know what? I wouldn’t change any of it, not one bit! it’s been the making of me. 

So…the reason I want to write and share my book with everyone is to show this amazing power we have within us, the power that I found in me, that everyone out there has within them.  Its life changing if we allow the door to open and let in the light.

#Whatsmybookabout #book #Transformationalmemoir #Propsals #Hooks #Electromagnetichypersensitiviy #Cancer #Hodgkinslymphoma

Fear and it’s Tricks – Testimonial Time

It’s amazing how fear can play tricks with us. So, let’s find out in today’s blog a little more around the subject of fear and how the mind processes it.

The focus this last couple of weeks has been of FEAR! Fear can surface in numerous ways, with anything. It’s interesting to know that we are only born with two fears, the fear of falling and the fear of loud noises. All our other fears have been created by us, through our life experiences and perceptions about those experiences.  We can only learn and process life from our own experiences nobody else’s, therefore everyone’s perception will be different. 

How does our Subconscious process Fear?

Like stress, a fearful response can occur with a thought. It is a thought. It’s a physical response that your body has practiced from your thoughts, memories, and reactions from previous experiences, particularly a fearful one! Your subconscious remembers those experiences when you find yourself in similar situations. Just thinking about those situations that created that fearful moment initially within you can strike an adverse bodily response. 

Cynophobia ‘The Big T-Rex!’

For example, let’s use an irrational fear, fear of dogs, known as ‘Cynophobia’, as today’s testimonial is just that.  Say you had ‘what seemed to you’ at the time a very big dog running towards you when you were a toddler.  This dog was observed, ‘by you’, like a big, massive T-Rex coming at you! As a child our minds are very creative.  Now, remembering that the subconscious doesn’t understand the difference between reality or whether we are thinking it, the thoughts of a T-Rex coming at you could allow strong emotional responses to come into our mind, especially in a two-year-old.  This would instantly create a fear response.  

To add to it…if your parent or guardian responded in a way to protect you, suddenly whisking you off out the way of the so observed T-Rex dog! that would reaffirm within you what you were experiencing. ‘He’s going to bite me!’. It’s the emotional response to that situation that creates the deeper-seated memory.  

Why and How does this Keep Happening?

Every experience you have is recorded in your subconscious mind. It is then filed away in your memory bank or memory library so to speak (See The Mind). These experiences will include every second of your life, right back to the third trimester in your mother’s womb. 

Now, consciously we can’t remember every single experience in our life, but our subconscious does. The T-Rex coming at you probably is a memory you will surely remember as an adult.  It’s also likely you have told the story repeatedly to friends and family of how awful it was at the time. Now, from YOUR perspective, it might have been awful back then, when in fact it was just a big playful, bouncy dog just wanting lots of love.

When we experience something fearful, stressful, or frightening and there is strong emotion attached to it, the subconscious logs it away very quickly in that memory library. Each time it is triggered you add more emotion to it. Strengthening the thoughts, reactions, and physical responses, thus creating a habit and a belief around the thoughts and response. All this coming from what was originally a lovely playful dog wanting a great big fuss! 

Each time that child then sees a dog, that memory along with the thoughts and responses reappear, it then builds and builds, creating a stronger fear. It’s how fears expand and trick the mind. The subconscious is also known as the ‘monkey brain’ and our body starts to respond in the same way that it did initially. We must remember each situation is about perspective too. We all have our own perspective, which of course comes from our experiences. Changing our perspective can switch a situation and tip it on its head.

Why does the Subconscious think it’s Protecting us?

We learn a lot from our experiences, and so does the subconscious.  Remembering everything about the situation.  It remembers the temperature of the room, colours, sounds, textures and of course your feelings, responses and especially your emotions. 

When we find ourselves in these similar situations again, the subconscious ‘pattern matches’. In an instant it brings back the information from the previous experience ‘The Big T-Rex!’ and creates a response in the same way.  If you responded in panic, fear, anxiousness, heart racing or a particular bodily response, those feelings arise within you instantly to protect you when it finds itself in that position again. 

The subconscious thinks it must respond this way because it doesn’t know any different, it’s been wired that way. 

The Power of Hypnotherapy

Hypnosis allows access to the powerful part of our subconscious mind (see Hypnosis).  Once in a state of Hypnosis you can be guided to create positive changes to release the anxiety, stress, fear, and feelings associated with our experiences. Our subconscious doesn’t understand the difference between reality or whether we are imagining it, so imagine what you can change when you are in a state of hypnosis being guided to create positive change.  

I liken it to ‘updating your App’ on your mobile phone or computer.  The subconscious works in the very same way. We are literally all a walking set of programs. Your brain fires and wires from our experiences so imagine what you can rewire, just by a change of perspective about your experiences.  It can create amazing changes to allow you to move forward in a positive way. 

Final Words

It has been lovely to receive amazing news of a client having success after just one session back in August 2021.  I received a lovely message letting me know of the success for overcoming her fear of dogs. Sadly, our beautiful dog Tess lost her life to cancer very suddenly last October, we had no idea at all that she was ill.  It came as such a shock to us all, she really is sadly missed.  

Tess used to help me with clients suffering from fear of dogs.  After each session I would bring her into the therapy room and allow my client to meet her, it was always with great success. Working alongside me she has helped so many people overcome their fears, she was just totally amazing.  This client was the last one to be helped by our Tess.  I know now that she works through me as her energy here can still be felt.

I am commemorating this Blog and wonderful Testimonial in remembrance to Tess, she will always stay in our hearts, she was by far the most special dog we could ever have wished to have had in our lives.

Testimonial

I cannot thank Michelle enough for the massive difference she has made to my Daughter’s life. From a very young age my Daughter had developed a phobia of dogs. It stopped her being invited over to friends homes if they owned dogs and would cause her severe anxiety if she came within a few metres of a dog. Over the next few years we tried many different techniques to overcome her fears but nothing ever worked. That was until she met Michelle.

She made my Daughter feel at ease and took time to explore what may have lead to these fears. By the end of the first session Michelle, along with her wonderful dog Tess, helped my Daughter to begin to overcome her fears. It was amazing to see how quickly the change occurred. My Daughter has now gone from strength to strength and was recently was able to stay overnight with a friend who owned dogs. This would never have been possible without Michelle’s help.

You can read more Testimonials here

#fear #cynophobia #powerofhypnosis #testimonial #subconscious

Noticing the Shift – Following your Inner Guidance Path

As a therapist, and a therapist working with the mind, people think we’ve got it all sorted, when in fact we are only human and we are also on our life’s journey, scrambling through life’s obstacles and the ups and downs it throws at us.  I wanted to share with you today some inner guidance from my experiences this past week, which in fact could allow you to apply to any area of your life too.  

We are not talking necessarily about one topic here; it can be applied where we most need it. We just require a different perspective. When we learn to STOP! in a moment which makes us feel uncomfortable, it allows us to process our inner feelings more deeply.  It allows us to connect to our inner guidance which we all have, we just have to learn to know it’s there for us.  We just need to access it.  Use the negative to create the positive.

Inner Guidance Path

When you stand at a crossroads in your NOW moment, STOP for a moment…be in touch with your intuition, your gut feeling…there lies your inner guidance, your inner wisdom…respond from beyond your mind…take the path you most connect with…Trust it.

Michelle Townsend – Harmony Life Balance

So, it’s been a very interesting week.  It all started last Wednesday 8th June 2022.  Up until then the procrastination was totally awful!  Not getting into a daily discipline with writing. Well, actually, yes, I was, but then something would scupper it again, and again, and again. It’s been a constant toing and froing, which just frustrates me so much. When I write, I’m on it, it makes me feel good. When the procrastination kicks in, the beliefs to go with it kick in, it’s frustrating making me feel sluggish, losing my flow, motivation, and confidence.  I have this constant fight going on all the time. But….8th June something happened.  I’ve been processing my beliefs, yes me as a therapist, we all have beliefs that hold us back. 

Monday 6th June saw the regular Q & A zoom session from Hay House writer’s Community, it was due to start at 11pm UK time.  I was so tired after a busy day but, was also feeling guilty for not using my writer’s community again to the best that I could. So, I mentioned to my husband, I’m going to watch this tonight even though I don’t feel up to it.  There was a strong feeling to watch it, so, I did.  Well, this started me focusing, giving me ideas again, which happens regularly. I write them down then don’t do anything with them. I’ve got so much written down it literally needs putting together like a puzzle. 

Inspirational Videos

Moving onto Wednesday morning, I had the sudden urge to listen to the Video of the month on Hay House which was Rebecca Campbell.  I made notes throughout as I listened, I was engrossed.  As I was watching I felt a sudden urge of excitement, motivation and a feeling of freedom come over me.  It was almost like Rebecca had unlocked some of the blocks I had been struggling with, which has then made writing flow again for me.  I’ve worked with the 7-minute rule, and it does work but here’s the thing, it’s maintaining it every day!  The 7-minute rule has given me a lot to write about that can be used in my book, and will be used in my book, but it seemed different this time, like a shift had occurred. 

I was due to meet a friend for coffee that morning, and had an appointment, so I got ready.   As I opened my front door I was presented with a feather, just before my doorstep!  You can see this in my previous blog post. Wow! It took my breath, I instantly knew it was guidance, reassurance, whatever you want to call it.  I didn’t pick it up, that never came into my mind, just went on with my day. The day seemed to flow, enjoying coffee with my friend, my appointment, the weather ended up being sunny even though we had been forecast rain. I also had clients bombarding me with calls. 

When Music sends a Message

On my return home I selected a Gloria Estefan album to listen to, then whist driving to my amazement the song ‘Flashdance…. What a feeling’ came on.  Looking puzzled for a moment I then had the realisation I had obviously attracted it, my energy, my frequency had changed from that morning, I was now attracting all these messages and different experiences.  The lyrics from Flashdance was just spot on, so, with a big grin on my face I drove along singing my heart out to Flashdance!  That song was then followed by ‘It’s alright…think I’m gonna make it’ by Christopher Cross!  Another song with appropriate lyrics! What’s going on?? Where had Gloria Estefan gone? I took it for what it was, a message, put myself in a place of gratitude continuing my day and feeling newly motivated.

A Place of Learning

The following day, I was still feeling this euphoric feeling of inner guidance coming through me.  I was starting to really look at how I could do a Blog on my website, I had no idea how to do it, what it entailed, or what was needed.  The advice for a blog had come from Hay House, Rebecca Campbell, Kris Carr, and many other speakers, it helps your writing journey you see and is good to share it, just like I am now in this blog.  The thought of this freaked me out, but I was aware that this was a deep-seated belief within me that’s been running for a long time.  

Addressing beliefs is what i’ve been doing, and it was all starting to shift from that Monday evening. So, I continued my day…running my relaxation group for the Cancer Support, off to my yoga class, then returning home for lunch before teaching for a few hours.  Now this lovely feather I had seen the previous day had vanished completely, and it certainly wasn’t there whilst I was seeing pupils in and out the front door, (I’m a music teacher as well as a hypnotherapist you see) but to my amazement as I was escorting my last pupil of the day out, I opened the door to find the feather had reappeared! Not only had it reappeared it was now right ON my doorstep! Wow!  Another breath-taking moment.  I smiled to myself, keeping what I’d noticed to myself whilst I spoke to the pupil’s mom.  I decided at this point to pick it up, I wanted to keep it for a while as a reminder of moving forward. Things were starting to move for me, I had noticed things flowing in all areas of my life.  

Positive News

Following on from Thursday, Friday continued to be productive.  I managed to meet up with another friend who I hadn’t seen for ages, albeit for a quick hour.  Conversations again were allowing me to flow with idea after idea.  

I had also received positive news from a client who had had a hypnotherapy session with me in the previous August, it was such fabulous news!  I asked if they would kindly to do me a testimonial for my website, they gratefully offered, which I received it a couple of days later, which I will share on here in my next post.  So, this Friday evening I logged on to upload the new testimonial, to then be followed by asking myself ‘how do I create a Blog page?’  I continued working on my computer, researching, to then find I had successfully created the Blog page, set it up, and then shared my first blog, which of course had to be the story of my feather. That evening I didn’t get into bed until 2am.  I was really connecting with what had happened that week, the ideas were just bombarding me and continuing to do so. 

Final Thoughts

When we change how we look at something, the things we look at change.  We also change our frequency, so we attract the frequency we give out.

Think how you could apply an understanding when you choose to connect with your inner guidance.  What would it create for you? What would change? How would you respond differently?  

Learn that when you feel uncomfortable, address it right there, right NOW!  Learn to listen to that inner guidance that lies beyond your mind, your intuition.  If something doesn’t feel right, change it, choose a different path, choose what feels right. It may be something you have been meaning to have a go at just like me as above for quite a while, but keep putting it off for fear of failure.  

Trust that no one ever knew how to do anything until they focused on it, they learned the lessons along the journey, just like I am right now. Learn to enjoy the journey. We are here to live life to our fullest.  Aim to do something every day that puts you out of your comfort zone, that’s where your soul is developing.

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Welcome to my Blog and my Writing Journey

Welcome to my BLOG! I’m quite excited with this being my very first. It’s all very new to me, but I want to share my journey as a writer, my journey up to releasing my new book and of course the wonderful work I do as a Hypnotherapist.

Firstly I want to share a little snippet of me with what’s been going on recently……it will also give me chance to catch up with you all with my exciting news, and also processes I have been working through myself. If you want more information about me venture over to my about page, or have a little browse around my website. I welcome you 😊

So….I’ve been writing a book for years about my journey, the journey that bought me to being a Hypnotherapist 📖 📔📑📚 ✍️

It’s been on and off, I’ve doubted myself, I’ve had confidence in myself, I’ve procrastinated, asked myself ‘who am I to write a book!’ 

Well….in fact I’ve written quite a lot. 

As most writers will agree it’s quite a process, you have to address demons deep within yourself. This process I have to admit has been hard for me the last 6 to 12 months, but….I’m still ticking over….just about. 

It’s partly why you haven’t seen a lot of me on social media regarding ‘Harmony Life Balance’ recently. I had to take a step back from it. 

Even therapists have their sh*t that they have to work through! After all, we are only human! It’s been hard, extremely hard and I’ve been processing that sh*t lately. Realising that it’s strongly coming from aspects of a childhood of self doubt, not feeling good enough, and feelings of self sabotage. My subconscious programming and beliefs were just working in a way to keep me feeling safe, to protect me. 

So….why do we need to do this to ourselves? Why do we put things in place to create that protection for ourselves? We all do it in some way or form, even if we don’t realise we do. There’s a part of you (subconscious) that protects you to avoid something because it feels uncomfortable to you. The thought of it, whatever it may be makes you feel unsafe or brings feelings of fear forward, it comes from your beliefs and experiences. 

It started with a realisation Wednesday morning after watching something on my Writers Community . It made me realise there’s no need to wait for that right moment, there’s no need to be in the right place to do something, there’s no need to hold back from doing something you really want to do because you feel you are not good enough to do it! Cut those past beliefs, they no longer serve you, not one of them! There’s no need to wait for something to drop into place, address your demons, just placing your focus in the right way can give you that ‘inspired action’ that you need to move forward, a way will be shown to you. We get what we focus on! 

You only have NOW to move forward from, just NOW! It’s good to ask yourself what are you going to do with NOW? it’s your choice. We only fear or procrastinate because we worry who we are going to upset, risk negative comments or failure. What’s it to do with others what we do? So what if we fail! You learn from it! 

We are the only ones in the driving seat of our life, we are the only ones who can choose to create the life we want, and we do create it, every bit of it! 

I’m ready to step forward, to openly declare that I am a writer, an author, willing to share her story, share her journey, to share her experiences good and bad, to help people on their journey too….I feel newly inspired today. 

After Wednesday’s inspiration I stepped out of my front door…and there…I was faced with what’s in the photo 🪶 a white feather, right on my doorstep 🙏🏼 the feather then vanished, but by Thursday evening it returned right on my doorstep once again. I’m certain there is a positive message within that 🙏

Much love 💜

Feather of Inspiration

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