How to make a new you
Even if you’re thinking ‘actually I am pretty happy with the old me’ we all have habits, attitudes and beliefs that need reviewing if not refreshing. We all have had experiences which have wired our body to react in a particular way to a stimulus. Then everytime we revisit the environment in which we had that experience our body reverts back to how it was at the time of the original experience.
Think back to visiting your parents home. Especially if you have siblings or they still live in the home you grew up in. The more common factors in the environment; the more we revert unconsciously back to our childhood selves, in our interactions, even in our resentments or behaviours. We have been conditioned by the strong emotional factors happening in childhood to lay down unconscious beliefs which our body-mind (our unconscious) reverts back to when we return to that environment.
This can also be seen with ex drug addicts. Who if they are reintroduced to the environment in which they used to do drugs, their body reacts as though they have actually ingested drugs even without them doing so. The same receptor sites in their cells that would have been excited by ingesting drugs are turned on, their bodies physiologically react to the environment.
Just as the childhood environment may excite emotional addictions. We subconsciously, autonomically, automatically and physiologically change when the environment stimulates us to do so. In the case of the drug addicts this increased cravings. An automatic unconscious response to the environment.
Most of us know this is true for Pavlov’s dogs whose digestion & salivary glands were excited by the sound of a bell that they had been conditioned to associate with food. However we don’t examine how that conditioning works for us.
So to change the conditioning we need to make it conscious, to change our unconscious response. We need to add a strong emotional link to a new response instead; one that washes away the old conditioning like a big wave washes away the seaweed & evidence left from previous smaller waves.
One amazingly effective way to do this is hypnotherapy. I am constantly amazed at how strong the effect of even one session of hypnotherapy can effect behaviours, habits and beliefs. I also often offer long meditation sessions knowing that encouraging our mind to associate emotion and visualisation is a Powerful means for positive change. Having just returned from another enjoyable yoga retreat I have refreshed my intention to work more with positive intention, hypnotherapy, NLP, meditation and educating people into how they can make positive changes. I love watching how a change of environment…an opportunity to ‘step of the world’ or take a look at our lives form a different viewpoint changes people. However many times in the past I have sadly watched much of the positive changes revert back to old habits after weeks or months in the persons familiar environment. This is what has inspired me to educate people on how hypnotherapy, NLP and meditation can all support us in making a change more permanent. I feel that the more people can understand how to change & the small ways they can change their environment, their thoughts & their unconscious mind, the more likely they are or do so. I want to encourage understanding to support big changes & steps in a positive direction. We also need to recognise how powerful what we do every day is with regards to our future. ‘If we do what we have always done, we will get what we have always got’!
