Doubting our skills and abilities comes from a dark space of mind. It forces us to confront major anxieties and reservations about our capabilities. Lack of self-belief is a confidence killer. It makes you question your potential. Self-doubt can lead to depression and anxiety, which in turn, leads to other health ailments that hinder your lifestyle. It slowly and silently disrupts your life and can lead to destructive behavior and feelings.

An attitude adjustment is needed if we want to bring some positive changes and counteract the negative aspects self-doubt.

Hypnotherapy offers a means to convert our self-doubt into self-belief. Let’s look at some of the common reasons why people indulge in self-doubt and learn how hypnosis can play in regaining our self-confidence.

Why Do People Doubt Themselves?

Past Mistakes

Our life experiences have a tendency to define who we are as person. This in effect has a direct impact on our actions and how we perceive ourselves.

If our experiences were positive and affirmative, then our self esteem would be high. If our past self has made many mistakes, then our opinion about our self also turns negative and destructive.

Childhood upbringing

A child is a product of the secondary socialization that they experience at their households. If you have been brought up in a negative space, then those destructive and harmful values follow you till your adulthood.

We cannot unlearn all the habits that were acquired in our childhood that made us have self esteem issues. It requires time and a genuine will.

Comparing ourselves with others

We will only find fault with ourselves if we start comparing ourselves to every other person—this hold true in instances of self-doubt. We are surrounded by people and have social interaction every day of our lives. It would be impossible to reach all the supposed better standards of every person you ever encountered.

Managing Expectations

Once we achieve a certain high, it’s intimidating to try and meet the same standards again. Trying to best ourselves at every new occasion is exhausting and challenging. Managing the high expectations of others around you is another hurdle that’s difficult to cross and puts a dent on your self-worth.

Hypnosis as a Means to Improve Confidence

Self-esteem issues can be solved if we try to change the way we think. The perception that we have about our self resides deep in our consciousness. We have certain sets of beliefs regarding our self-worth and our capabilities that are difficult to manipulate and influence. Even when other people try to counteract your way of thinking, it is difficult to reason with it.

Hypnosis offers a way to change your behavior through a dedicated and professional intervention that allows the hypnotist to challenge your views.

Hypnotherapy can help increase your self-esteem and minimize self-doubt. It allows you to get familiar with your own thoughts, recognize signs of self-doubt and offers different methods to eliminate those negative and persistent ideas.

If you’re interested in changing your behavior through hypnosis, contact Rekha Shrivastava from Blossom Hypnosis located in Pittsford, NY.

Sources:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5869760/

https://www.webmd.com/balance/stress-management/stress-anxiety-depression

https://www.hypnotherapy-directory.org.uk/articles/selfconfidence.html

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/43176022.pdf