Written by: Christine Deschemin, Executive Contributor
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Hypnotherapy can help you flip the script and change your narrative, which allows you to better control the outcome, change your habits, and transform your life.
Flip the Script with Hypnotherapy
Who are you at your core? What do you believe about yourself? Do you have mostly kind, supportive things to tell the person staring back at you in the mirror, or do you find that you spend a lot of time criticizing your appearance, your choices, or even your emotions?
We like to believe that we are the writers and narrators of our own stories, but that might not be the entire truth. Research indicates that our personal narratives, or the stories we tell about ourselves, shape our lives more than we realize. If you harbor negative beliefs about yourself, you could be creating negative self-fulfilling prophecies. It is time to stop leading yourself down a dark pathway towards an unhappy life. Hypnosis can help you flip the script and take control of your personal narrative. Are you ready to get started?
Change Your Narrative, Change Your Habits
Humans are natural storytellers, and the stories we tell help us make sense of the world around us. They help us make sense of ourselves, too, and while our stories might contain some facts, those facts are not necessarily unbiased. By flipping the script and changing the narrative, we can better control the outcome, change our habits, and transform our lives.
Like all stories, your story was not written overnight. You began learning little details about yourself from others early in life. Perhaps you heard an adult introducing you as “shy” or “chatty,” and that became a part of your identity. Each time after that, when you were quiet around a new person or talkative with a friend, you confirmed the other person’s judgment of yourself. This is called confirmation bias.
As you grew older, you began to incorporate some of your own ideas about who you were and what you did and did not like. Eventually, your narrative felt as much as part of you and unchangeable as your height or shoe size. You begin acting and behaving in ways that confirm your beliefs about yourself.
With hypnotherapy, you can change what you believe about yourself, transform your deepest beliefs about your abilities, and take control of your habits. Once you change your narrative, behavior change is inevitable.
Small Changes Yield Big Benefits
Breaking bad habits is hard. Creating a new habit can be just as hard. Why? Habits often come down both to subconscious routine and personal narrative, and hypnosis can help with both.
Many people start with a big goal they want to achieve and then discover they are unable to sustain the effort or motivation necessary to achieve their goal. They slip back into their comfortable routine. It is a common outcome, but instead of understanding how it came to be, many people believe they failed and incorporate that idea into their personal narrative. Their ideas of failure can become a self-fulfilling prophecy over time, and every new project or habit they try to incorporate is quickly abandoned.
If you are caught up in this cycle, you can break it with the power of hypnosis and your own subconscious mind. Hypnotherapy helps you change your mindset by giving you not just the tools to make the changes but also the mindset to incorporate the changes you want.
You can start by breaking down those big changes into smaller, manageable changes. With each victory, you will be changing your narrative and building motivation and momentum to change your life. Each little habit will snowball into a bigger habit, rolling you closer to your goals and a brand-new narrative about your life and you.
Can a few changed habits really transform your life? The simple answer is “yes,” and with hypnosis, you can be well on your way to developing the habits you want faster than you imagined. Once you change your narrative, you might be surprised to discover how naturally everything else simply falls into place.
Taking Control of Your Narrative and Transforming Your Potential with Hypnosis
As you developed your story over the years, you drew from many sources, other people, and other perspectives. Your story was not yours alone, but now, with hypnosis, it can be. When you take back the reins of your narrative, you take back the reins of your life.
When you learn to partner with your mind with hypnosis, you focus deeply, which allows you to “update” the way you think and perceive the world around you. Hypnotherapy can help free you from the limiting effects of a negative or unhealthy personal narrative. As you rewrite your personal narrative from a more balanced, healthy perspective, you naturally reframe past experiences and develop a healthier mindset. When it comes to leadership, mindset conditions your thought processes. When your narrative generates too much stress, anxiety and burnout can knock at the door. The good news is that you can choose your guests by creating an empowering story. You can even do so on your couch with the help of a hypnosis app.
Christine Deschemin, Executive Contributor Brainz Magazine
Christine Deschemin is a certified hypnotherapist and founder of the Renewed Edge Hypnotherapy Centre in Hong Kong. With a keen interest in resilience, she leverages her experience as an athlete and as a former engineer and banker in high-stress environments with her executive and sports clients. In March 2020, she released the UpNow hypnosis app to bring the benefits of self-hypnosis to the fingertips of anyone in need. The self-hypnosis downloads can be accessed online and offline to make mental health aids very affordable.
In addition to her many scholastic achievements, Christine Deschemin has a Master of Science from the Ecole Polytechnique (France) and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She is fluent in four languages.
