Growing Your Mind, Body And Spirit
is said that a healthy mind resides in a healthy body, and a healthy body can only thrive in a positive and nourishing environment that cultivates our spirit. Our physical, mental, emotional, and sexual well-being are interconnected, and neglecting any one of them can lead to an imbalance in our overall health.
In ‘Build Your Digital Community’ Episode 54 with Alanna Banks, a hypnotherapist and coach who helps guide women to sexual freedom, we explore the benefits of hypnotherapy as a way to overcome various mental and emotional challenges. Whether you are seeking relief from a specific issue or simply looking to enhance your personal growth, hypnotherapy may be just what you need to achieve your goals.
The Subconscious Mind
Ninety-five percent of your mind is the subconscious part that fuels your emotions, behaviours, feelings, and familial patterns. Oftentimes, what's holding you back is that ninety-five percent. Through hypnotherapy, we can install positive, empowering thoughts, feelings, and behaviours that will push you forward and allow you to take that action free from fear, anxiety, and panic.
The realty is, the subconscious mind doesn't know the difference between what is real and what is imagined. This is why we refer to small children as sponges. Between the ages of zero and seven, your subconscious mind is wide open because you haven't yet established the critical part of the mind that filters everything. This is why kids easily believe in Santa or the Easter Bunny. They don't have any other reference point to reject the idea.
What Is Hypnosis?
Contrary to popular belief, hypnosis is not a mystical or magical process that results in mind control. You're not going to leak your deepest darkest secrets and the practitioner is not going to be able to control your thoughts and behaviours. In reality, hypnosis is about tuning in and going inward. It is similar to meditation, where you close your eyes and become present. It is an extreme sense of focus.
We’ve all experienced hypnosis in our lives. If you're in the middle of reading an absorbing book and someone makes you jump by tapping you on the shoulder, that's hypnosis. This happens because you are so focused on the content of the book. The subconscious has taken over, putting the conscious part of your mind to sleep.
Ultimately, hypnosis gives you an opportunity to access the subconscious and let the positive, empowering suggestions that you want to install wash over you. It is not a conscious exercise.
Subconscious Blocks:
If you're experiencing any kind of fear or anxiety within your business, it is likely a subconscious block that you will bump up against unless you go in and do the work. This can be done by picking apart these beliefs and re-framing or re-installing them with something that's more empowering.
Like a phone or a computer, if you're not going into your mind and upgrading the system once in a while, you won’t run properly. There are many adults going about their lives with programs that were installed by parents or caregivers when they were children. What they’re really doing is running a program that belongs to someone else.
Believe it or not, your parents' relationship with sex can also be following you into your bedroom. These beliefs directly have an impact on the frequency of sex that you're having and the quality of your orgasm. If you grew up in an environment where sex wasn’t talked about: it was shrouded in shame or guilt or you weren’t allowed to ask a lot of questions, then you may be bringing that energy into your own sex life.
Tackling Fear
If you are experiencing any kind of fear, you may want to look in the story that you’re telling yourself about this fear. What is the purpose of this fear and what are you learning from it? Why is it preventing you from doing what you want to do?
For example, perhaps you’re on the fence about leaving your secure 9-5 and leaping into entrepreneurship, and therefore the unknown. What exactly are you fearing? Perhaps, it is judgment from others. But are those fears resisting you to the point where you won’t go ahead with it?
To start, you must tackle what that judgment looks like and analyze where that fear is coming from. This could be, for example, worrying about what your parents think. But is that something that you're really worried about, or is it something that has been inherited? Is it more about what your parents' friends think? Is it your fear or is it their fear?
We then have to ask ourselves why this is preventing us from taking action and go directly to the root of it. Was there a time when you did take a leap and something happened? Did that install a deeper fear in you?
Sometimes, all it takes is being able to recognize that every time you've taken a leap, it’s actually worked out for the better. We always like to go to the worst case scenario. Until you dissect the feeling, you won’t understand why this is your reaction. A re-frame can be enough for someone to realize that they’re going to be okay - that they’re going to flourish!
Then, you can take it further and look into where these fears are showing up in other areas of your life. Where is fear coming up for you in your relationships, your health, or your finances? Perhaps this is part of your pattern that you can come to recognize. By letting things go you can open yourself up to more opportunities.
Shifting Feelings of Fear Into Excitement
Fear and excitement are similar feelings that produce equivalent effects in the body. We all know the sensation of butterflies in your stomach or that anxious, sweaty feeling. So, if you can shift your mindset from being fearful of letting something go to the idea that you're embarking on something really exciting, you can begin to re-frame those feelings from negative to positive ones.