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Sam – Mummy Conquering Anxiety
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Let’s think back to my hypnotherapy course
My hypnotherapy course ended in November 2022. At the time, I needed some self-development. But I knew that standard counselling or therapy wasn’t the option I needed. When you experience a lot of life-changing events in quick succession, it’s about reprogramming your subconscious mind, with the new life goals and patterns of behaviour you want to adopt. Kind of like a computer update.
You wouldn’t just keep a computer for 10 years, without regularly updating it, deleting files and giving it a refresh. The brain is the computer which rules our whole body – why wouldn’t we keep up with the maintenance of it?
A brief overview of what hypnotherapy does
The idea behind hypnotherapy is that it can be used to reprogram the unconscious or primal parts of the brain that function to avoid pain and seek pleasure.
EveryDay Health
5 of the main lessons I took away from my hypnotherapy course
We largely live our lives on autopilot, paying attention to our logical brain.
Hypnotherapy allows us to switch off the automatic brain, which allows us to reprogram our subconscious.
Reprogramming our subconscious can allow us to get rid of old habits, which no longer serve us.
Due to the primal parts of our brains, still ruling a lot of the daily decision-making, we can react with snap decisions, which don’t always serve us.
Practising meditation and listening to hypnotherapy recordings can empty your overall stress bucket. Making you more able to deal with the daily stresses we all face.
What hypnotherapy taught me about human behaviour
I’ve written posts on my blog about toddler emotions and gentle parenting:
IS GENTLE PARENTING EFFECTIVE? READ OUR STORY
5 THINGS THAT HAPPENED WHEN WE STARTED GENTLE PARENTING
HELPING LITTLE KIDS MANAGE BIG EMOTIONS
14 AGE-APPROPRIATE CHORES TO ENCOURAGE INDEPENDENCE
However, I was surprised to learn that ALL humans can react quickly and sometimes with anger. The way our brain processes situations is largely automatic and it will often produce a default response to situations.
If your default response is outdated because you haven’t reprogrammed your unconscious in a while. Your behaviours in daily life might not be in line with how you want to respond to certain situations. This is a simplistic overview, the mechanics of the brain are much more complicated.
The initial relaxation element of hypnotherapy starts by dampening down the activity of the frontal cortex. Limiting the effectiveness of this area of the brain, central to attention, planning, and making decisions, increases activity in other areas engaged in filtering and integrating information.
Positive Psychology
We become more open to information, more suggestible, and capable of creating more intense sensations in our minds (Thomson, 2019).
Hypnotherapy & how it changed the way I think
Completing training in the workplace and the fact I love to learn – meant I was already aware of the fight or flight reflex. But understanding it fully, helped me understand a lot about my struggles with anxiety. And the reason I reacted the way I did in certain, stressful life situations.
How hypnotherapy helped me become a better parent
Hypnotherapy alone cannot allow you to know everything about the emotional health of a child. And how to employ emotional intelligence when faced with tough situations. But it can open your mind to the science behind our behaviour. Essentially a child is unable to regulate their emotions and they need an adult to do this for them. Their outbursts, and meltdowns (however you refer to it) are nothing personal and they don’t have any control over them.
This allows me to understand that emotional meltdowns are simply a sign of communication – or a way to ask for help from the adult closest to you. If we think about times when we, as adults, have been so angry we cannot verbally put into words what is happening. Sometimes toddlers don’t have the words, but they express the emotion in other ways. To signal help is needed.
Discussions with our toddler
Hypnotherapy made me realise that toddlers and adults sometimes react without thinking. If we don’t understand something, our default response could be anger or frustration.
Whenever there is a disagreement in the house, or adults don’t agree on something, we use this as an example. To explain that in life, not everyone thinks the same. People will annoy each other, disagree, and argue. And that is completely okay. It’s what makes us all human.
Wonderful books about toddler emotions
I was recently struggling, to go further than this and say – mummy and daddy love you regardless of behaviour. Nothing changes our love for you. Then I came across this amazing book. See the TikTok video.
If you want to do some further reading on this subject, I have included some books below:
Summary
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Have you tried hypnotherapy?
Is it something you would like to try?
Let me know in the comments – I would love to hear from you.
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This was a really interesting read. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you.
I haven’t tried hypnotherapy, but I have thought about it. I would love to find something that could help me with productivity so that I don’t waste so much of my time sitting on my bum doing nothing!
It is great that it has helped you, that is very encouraging.
It’s definitely worth a try – I still use my hypnotherapy recordings to this day.
Definitely interesting. Never gave much thought to it. Thanks for sharing
The science behind it is very interesting and I loved learning about this during my course.
It’s not something I’d try. But if it works for you, then why not. I’m not sure we need it to understand some of the things you’ve found though. Most is common sense, or just takes a little researching.
This is not something I have tried, but I can see how beneficial it would be for so many people. I like the idea that we need to give ourselves a mental update and how it could improve things for us. I will have to look into it!
The mental update is great. With how busy I am in life, I literally need to plug into my subconscious mind to relax. And I feel miles better after I have meditated and listened to a hypnotherapy recording.
This is a great look at hypnotherapy! It’s good to see that it’s helped your health and you feel you can provide greater understanding as a parent. Thank you for sharing 🙂
Thank you – it really was what I needed at the time and still benefits me to this day.