(This blog was originally posted on January 18, 2017)
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| Photo by Rick Hustead |
People often
come in for hypnotherapy to change or adopt a behavior that will help them
achieve a specific goal or succeed at a particular endeavor. Contrary to
popular belief (and the stories we tell ourselves), Hypnosis Motivation Institute founder John Kappas, Ph.D. asserted that such
success had nothing to do with intelligence, working hard, being nice or
deserving, etc. Rather, success (or lack thereof) boiled down to the mental
“programming” a person received and how that program was reinforced in daily
life (behaviors).
Dr. Kappas
attributed the difficulty to change or re-program these behaviors to
homeostasis, whereby a person tends to only go so high before hitting a
metaphoric “ceiling” to this success. Silently, suddenly self-sabotaging
behaviors start to happen to keep the individual stuck in the same (comfortable
and familiar) life patterns he or she is trying to change or improve. It is
easier and oftentimes more socially rewarding) to stay the same or resist
change (see Systems
Approach in Hypnotherapy). Fortunately, there is also a metaphoric “floor”
to this resistance, at which time the person goes so low that he or she is motivated to make a positive change and
break out of this negative or limited cycle.
In Part 2 of
this blog I will describe the Recipe for Success to help you stop the
self-limiting script and help you achieve your self-improvement goals.
Sara R. Fogan, C.Ht. is a certified hypnotherapist based in
Southern California. She graduated with honors from the Hypnosis Motivation Institute in
2005. For more information about Calminsense Hypnotherapy®
and to set up an appointment, please
visit http://www.calminsensehypnotherapy.com/.
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