Habit #5 – Answer to Someone Else
You want to have someone in your life that you’re accountable to. Make time to meet with someone who can help keep you on track for reaching your success. You want this person to be someone who can tell you when you’re driving yourself too hard and someone who can help steer you around pitfalls.
Sometimes you won’t have a specific person in your life capable of doing that. You can turn to a paid life coach or even join a forum of like-minded, positive individuals all striving for their own success.
Habit #6 – Learn to Trust Yourself
When you go after what you want in life, there will always be someone waiting to tell you that something is either a good idea or a bad idea. Everyone has a built-in alarm that will sound if something is off.
You’ll feel it as knots in the pit of your stomach or as a sense of unease. When you begin trusting yourself in these situations, it helps you develop a sense of self-confidence and strength.
Habit #7 – Understand that Roadblocks are Going to Happen
You have to determine ahead of time that you won’t give up - you won’t surrender a growth mindset to a fixed one. Roadblocks can often be used as character builders.
They can strengthen your resolve and help you learn to become more resourceful as you find another way to do what you want to get done. If you become too comfortable with your efforts, you often don’t achieve the ultimate success that you’re after.
Having a strong mindset in life, whether for your personal or professional satisfaction, requires a combination of positive thoughts and verifiable action steps.
Whenever you do something that you start to feel a bit of shame over (like quitting on a project), ask yourself if you’re doing it because you don’t believe enough in yourself to succeed.
If that ends up being the case, take the task and break it up into micro-sized mini goals that you can work on to see if you’re capable of making progress that way. Sometimes, it’s the simple fact that a project seems too big that ruins many of the best plans.
It’s also a good idea to surround yourself with action-taking, positive people. Take inventory of the kinds of people you’re currently surrounded with. Do they always complain about everything?
Do you find yourself commiserating with people stuck in the same boat as you? If so, jump out and swim to shore – because that boat is sinking fast, and you don’t want to be swallowed up by the pity party they’re throwing for themselves.
Seek out motivational experts whose thoughts align with what you find inspiring. Tune in to their messages or read their books daily as if you’re taking a vitamin designed to prevent illness.
Over time, you’re going to become someone who others look to for support, and you’ll notice they come to you with fixed mindsets. They’ll be attracted to the positivity you project. Make sure you turn their mind around, rather than letting their limited thoughts infect you.
Self-Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy
What is Hypnotherapy?
We all daydream. We all drift off into another world at times. Hypnosis is just like daydreaming – your concentration is fixed; you are, for a while, unaware of your surroundings and you are able to relax or concentrate your mind on other things.
It may be that a noise or other interruption will bring you back to your senses or, if you want to be sure about coming out of it at a particular time, look first at your watch and tell yourself that you will perform this exercise for x number of minutes, and you can be sure that you will wake up in time.
Do you set an alarm clock to wake you up in the morning like most people do? Do you find yourself regularly waking a minute or two before the alarm is due to go off?
Why do you think that is? It is perhaps a form of self-hypnotism. You have given your unconscious a command to wake you up at a particular time and your brain knows how to do just that.
Hypnotherapy, or trance work, is a set of techniques that allow practitioners and patients to take advantage of the mind-body connection to foster healing.
Essentially, trance, or daydream, is an altered state of consciousness marked by decreased breadth and increased concentration of awareness. Hypnotherapy involves a deliberate choice to enter this state of consciousness for a goal beyond relaxation – to focus concentration and use suggestion to promote health and healing. The only person who can hypnotize you is you, since trance is a hidden potential of your own mind. Therefore, all hypnosis is really self-hypnosis.
The word hypnosis comes from the Greek word ‘hypos’ which means sleep. It is an abbreviation of the term neuro-hypnotism which means sleep of the nervous system. However, hypnosis is not a sleep state. In fact, when in hypnosis a person is awake and usually aware of everything that is said and done.
When, for instance, a therapist induces hypnosis in a person it is called ‘hetero hypnosis,’ or hypnotherapy. When hypnosis is self-induced it is called ‘autohypnosis’ or ‘self-hypnosis.’
Hypnotherapy is basically a way of reprogramming how we think. Hypnotism has been accepted by conventional medicine as a way to treat a number of problems including relieving stress and hence high-blood pressure, migraines, sleep disorders and helping people to beat addictions, such as smoking. Moreover, hypnosis and hypnotherapy can be used to help boost self-esteem and personal confidence as well as to overcome related problems, such as a fear of public speaking.
Self-hypnosis can modify behaviour, emotions and attitudes. It can be used to increase confidence and develop new skills. It can help to reduce stress and anxiety, and overcome habits such as smoking and overeating. It is also used by sportspeople to enhance their athletic performance. If you’re experiencing medical or psychological problems, then you should seek the advice of a doctor or competent therapist before using self-hypnosis.
Self-hypnosis or hypnotherapy can reduce stress and open the mind to new ideas or thought processes, especially when dealing with problems such as addictions. But if you are worried about your stress levels then you should seek help from a doctor or counselor. Untreated stress can be dangerous to your health and wellbeing.
Hypnosis is not a type of psychotherapy or a treatment in and of itself; rather, it is a procedure than can be used to facilitate other types of therapies and treatments.
Hypnosis is not mind control, brainwashing, sleep, unconsciousness, or such like. Hypnosis is in fact, a serious therapeutic tool that can help people overcome many psychological, emotional and even some physical problems. When in hypnosis, you are aware, in control, in a natural and harmless state, and able to come out of hypnosis when you wish to.
Practice self-hypnosis on a regular basis. Relax and take your time. Accept the pace at which you achieve results, even if they seem small at beginning. Believe in yourself and you will go achieve the success you desire.
What Can Hypnosis be Used for
Some of the applications include:
•The treatment of chronic pain conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis.
•The treatment and reduction of pain during childbirth.
•The reduction of the symptoms of dementia.
•Hypnotherapy may be helpful for certain symptoms of ADHD.
•The reduction of nausea and vomiting in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.
•Control of pain during dental procedures.
•Elimination or reduction of skin conditions including warts and psoriasis.
•Alleviation of symptoms association with