CONFIDENCE AND SELF ESTEEM

CONFIDENCE AND SELF ESTEEM

Self esteem or self worth can be understood as the extent to which we appreciate and respect ourselves. It is our personal evaluation, dependent on which our subconscious mind sets boundaries. We establish a critical inner voice that reminds us of our perceived limitations and influences our current behaviour. If our limitations are low, we develop negative inner talk such as "I am not clever enough" or "not good enough". As this inner voice develops early on in our lives, we come to accept what it tells us. If our esteem is low, we may feel that we are not good enough to do something and we justify this to ourselves and set out to prove to others and ourselves that this is so, perhaps a bit of self-sabotage. It our subconscious mind keeping us safe and preventing us from taking risks, reminding us of our perceived limitations.

Poor self image and low self esteem can affect you in different ways. Of course, we can be supremely confident in one area, perhaps intellectually, but find it difficult to socialise or relate to others. You may feel better staying in the background (in both situations). It can hold you back from achieving within your sphere of work; you may feel other people are far more capable than you, far more qualified. The negative inner voice reminds us to remain within our boundaries and we lack confidence to do those things we want to do.

So self esteem plays a big part in our self confidence. Self esteem is your considered assessment of yourself, self confidence is your belief in what you can achieve, what goals you can aspire to. If you have high self esteem you have a respect for yourself and an acceptance of who you are and confidence in your abilities.

Hypnotherapy can help you make the necessary changes in your life, it can help you to stop that negative inner chatter and feel much more positive about yourself. It can help lift your self esteem and boost your self confidence. You will have confidence to make plans for your future. Learning to value yourself and accept yourself so that you can move forward and change those things that need to be changed in order to achieve your full potential.

UNWANTED HABITS

We may struggle to overcome unwanted habits and our conscious mind will tell us that we should stop but somehow we continue with that old habit.

During hypnosis we bypass the conscious part of the mind that tells us that things are too difficult or that it is quite impossible to stop, and we talk to the subconscious part of our mind and update it. We let it know that it is now time to make changes in our life, that we are now ready to make change happen.

It is well known that hypnotherapy is useful to help stop smoking. However, it is extremely important that you want to stop smoking. You will stop smoking because you want to stop not because someone else thinks you should stop. You will become a non smoker when you have made the decision to stop.

Habits may be learned behaviour or develop as a result of coping with stress. They are often irrational and can cause a great deal of distress, such as trichotillomania (hair pulling) and bruxism (grinding teeth).
Maybe you suffer with blushing unnecessarily.
Biting nails can be a learned behaviour. Maybe a parent or sibling bites their nails. Hypnotherapy can help you make the change and stop biting your nails.
Habits can be addictive.
Hypnotherapy can help you with over eating. Are you addicted to eating that chocolate bar every day?

STOP SMOKING

Once you have taken the decision to stop smoking, hypnotherapy can help to:-

Build your confidence to stop
Boost your motivation to stop
Increase your determination to stop

I take two sessions to help you to stop smoking.
The first session aims to build your confidence and your determination to stop smoking.

There is a CD to help renew your determination to stop.

There is a free return session if you should find yourself tempted to light up.