spring cleaning your thinking
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http://positivetranceformations.com.au/blog/spring-cleaning-your-thinking/ Journaling or talking to a close friend can help in cleaning your mental, spiritual and emotional. Some of these beliefs may not be true, and may include “Nothing good will ever happen to me,” “I will never forgive X,” and “I’m no good at Y.” If left unaddressed, these faulty thoughts can develop into other problems such as anxiety, depression and phobias.TRANSCRIPT
Spring Cleaning Your Thinking
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One of the basic principles of hypnosis and hypnotherapy – and,
indeed, of a lot of styles of counseling – is that what we
believe deep down inside ourselves shapes our behaviour in
a range of ways.
And often, we aren’t aware of the wrong or faulty thoughts and
beliefs that we have buried down inside our psyches – down in the
place known as the unconscious/subconscious or the
spirit.
One of the things that hypnotherapy aims to do is to
replace these deep beliefs with new ones that produce different behaviour, as a hypnotic trance makes it easy to access this part
of a person’s psyche.
It’s good to evaluate what your beliefs and thoughts are and to
have a sort of inner spring cleaning. In many ways, getting rid of toxic thoughts and beliefs could be better for you than a
physical detox session.
In the old days, such as in the Middle Ages, they used to have regular periods set aside where
you did both – cleansing your body via fasting and avoiding rich food,
and examining one’s soul.
In the Middle Ages (and some people still do it today), this was done twice a year, usually in the
lead up to the big festivals of Christmas and Easter.
You may or may not want to follow this pattern but now that the
winter is more or less behind us, you might want to take time to
examine what you think and believe about the world around
you and about yourself.
You may or may not want to do this with the help of a counsellor.
Often, talking something out without censorship can help.
Or you can find a very, very good friend who will provide a listening ear (make sure that you do the
same for them, of course!).
The ancient Celts had a word for the sort of friend you could go to
for this sort of support and a listening ear without judgement or criticism – they called this sort of
friend a “soul friend” or “anmchara”, and they had a
saying that “A person without a soul-friend is like a body without a
head.”
If you haven’t got a friend you can trust in this way and you don’t feel comfortable going to a counsellor
– at least at this stage – then journaling can often help – getting your thoughts down freely without
censorship.
If you’re not much of a writer or a typist, you can try journaling in
pictures or even into an audio file of some type (don’t you miss the
old tape recorders and Dictaphones?).
Just remember that Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are not your
journal!
The important thing here is to identify your self-talk. We all talk to ourselves all the time, whether
we’re aware of this or not.
I’m talking to myself right now as I type this article out.
And if we constantly repeat things that stem from faulty or incorrect thinking or beliefs, this will shape our behaviour and our attitudes.