Unlock your self improvement power
August 29, 2010 in Hypnotherapy by Noel
When we look at a certain object, a painting for example – we won’t be able to appreciate what’s in it, what is painted and what else goes with it if the painting is just an inch away from our face. But if we try to take it a little further, we’ll have a clearer vision of the whole art work.
We reach a point in our life when we are ready for change and a whole bunch of information that will help us unlock our self improvement power. Until then, something can be staring us right under our nose but we don’t see it. The only time we think of unlocking our self improvement power is when everything got worst. Take the frog principle for example –
Try placing Frog A in a pot of boiling water. What happens? He twerps! He jumps off! Why? Because he is not able to tolerate sudden change in his environment – the water’s temperature. Then try Frog B: place him in a luke warm water, then turn the gas stove on. Wait til the water reaches a certain boiling point. Frog B then thinks “Ooh… it’s a bit warm in here”.
People are like Frog B in general. Today, Anna thinks Carl hates her. Tomorrow, Patrick walks up to her and told her he hates her. Anna stays the same and doesn’t mind her what her friends says. The next day, she learned that Kim and John also abhors her. Anna doesn’t realize at once the importance and the need for self improvement until the entire community hates her.
We learn our lessons when we experience pain. We finally see the warning signs and signals when things get rough and tough. When do we realize that we need to change diets? When none of our jeans and shirts would fit us. When do we stop eating candies and chocolates? When all of our teeth has fallen off. When do we realize that we need to stop smoking? When our lungs have gone bad. When do we pray and ask for help? When we realize that we’re gonna die tomorrow.
The only time most of us ever learn about unlocking our self improvement power is when the whole world is crashing and falling apart. We think and feel this way because it is not easy to change. But change becomes more painful when we ignore it.
Change will happen, like it or hate it. At one point or another, we are all going to experience different turning points in our life – and we are all going to eventually unlock our self improvement power not because the world says so, not because our friends are nagging us, but because we realized its for our own good.
Happy people don’t just accept change, they embrace it. Now, you don’t have to feel a tremendous heat before realizing the need for self improvement. Unlocking your self improvement power means unlocking yourself up in the cage of thought that “its just the way I am”. It is such a poor excuse for people who fear and resist change. Most of us program our minds like computers.
Jen repeatedly tells everyone that she doesn’t have the guts to be around groups of people. She heard her mom, her dad, her sister, her teacher tell the same things about her to other people. Over the years, that is what Jen believes. She believes its her story. And what happens? Every time a great crowd would troop over their house, in school, and in the community – she tends to step back, shy away and lock herself up in a room. Jen didn’t only believed in her story, she lived it.
Jen has to realize that she is not what she is in her story. Instead of having her story post around her face for everyone to remember, she has to have the spirit and show people “I am an important person and I should be treated accordingly!”
Self improvement may not be everybody’s favorite word, but if we look at things in a different point of view, we might have greater chances of enjoying the whole process instead of counting the days until we are fully improved. Three sessions in a week at the gym would result to a healthier life, reading books instead of looking at porns will shape up a more profound knowledge, going out with friends and peers will help you take a step back from work and unwind. And just when you are enjoying the whole process of unlocking your self improvement power, you’ll realize that you’re beginning to take things light and become happy.
This article was originally published on www.HypnotherapyClinic.info by Consultant Clinical Hypnotherapist & Pyschotherapist Noel Bradford –
As a professional therapist Noel help people with everything that you would expect including giving up smoking, controlling their weight, dealing with fears and phobias. However his services go far beyond this and encompass things that affect everyone at some time in their life, such as depression, anxiety, panic attacks, stress, and low self esteem.
He also has detailed specialist training in several areas including but not limitted to Irrittable Bowel Syndrome and Pyschosexual matters that affect men such as Errectile Dysfunction and Premature Ejaculation as well as those affecting women such as Hyper Desire Disorder, Vaginisums, and Dyspareunia.
Originally posted 2009-03-23 18:16:04.
Think that’s a great idea, not sure how they fund it. But is money motivation enough to lose weight? I think losing weight and being healthy should be enough in itself. I could see you saving more money in the fact that you will eat less, most likely have less doctor appointments or health issues.
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Their FAQ explains how they fund it. There are corporate sponsors that are in the health industry and concerned with national health, and there are sponsors and products that HealthyWage promotes as well. They also keep all the money from people that invest but fail the challenge.
The thing is, on a weight rollercoaster like I have been on since…forever, it’s really hard to get started again, and once I start feeling good and healthy, I continue for some time..and then something happens that causes me to slip back into the red zone, but the money could help me get motivated initially and then the actual health will keep me going. Because the challenge is a year long, that’s a good enough amount of time to create good, long lasting habits.
Some people just need that extra push and $1000 plus saving on food is quite the push.
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Thanks for making me aware of this, I had already kicked off a biggest loser contest at work, this will go along nicely. Although me at 205lbs being 6′4″ sounds pretty dang skinny, I was at 207 in 2005, it would be nice to be back there again. I’m going to hold off on giving them $200 of my money but will definitely take them up on the offer to give me money.
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No prob Paul and thanks for stopping by!
I’m glad I found this as well. I have been teetering back and forth on my exercises and just needed some extra motivation to get me to stick with it. I am happy to say that I used our treadmill at home for almost an hour. Just a powerwalk but its better than sitting on my butt and wishing I was thinner.
I think the extra fear motivation will do me good on top of the cash. We’ll see in a year I guess
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