As we continue to age, and as the months roll into years, along the way we saddle ourselves with a great many burdens. Burdens common to many of us include those associated with personal and professional relationships, finances, health, and a wide range of inner emotional turmoils. You may even find yourself taking on the worries and concerns associated with other people’s burdens, all of which have a negative compounding effect on our wellbeing.
Peculiarly it’s not easy for most of us to truly take the time to appreciate the immediate ‘here and now’, or to use the old cliché ‘to stop and smell the roses’. We tend to get caught up in the incredibly busy business of living our lives, without ever really embracing the wonderful gift we have all been blessed with, and that is life itself. As I near that magical mid-way mark in my life (fifty years old – yikes!), it seems to become more apparent to me that I tend to reflect on my past more than before. And with this past reflecting going on, I then tend to inevitably begin worrying about the future. I ask myself the questions ‘have I done enough to secure my family’s future?, What do I need to do?, If I had my youth over again what would I do different?, What do I want to still do before I die?’ and so on and so on. But what I’ve begun to realise is that although all this past and future reflection is ok, what is really important is to reflect, regularly, on the here and now.
We are all going to leave this earth at some point, and for the vast majority of us it will happen when we least expect it – bummer! The harsh reality is when we go it will happen at the present moment in time. It won’t have happened in the past, and it won’t happen in the future – it’s going to happen at that ‘here and now’ moment. So here’s a question I pose to you – If you were to find out that today is going to be the last day of your life, could you honestly say that you are truly happy within yourself right now? Are you able to say that you are not harbouring a bunch of regrets, or that you wouldn’t say ‘no no no, not now, I’ve still got so much I want to do’! Not many of us are prepared to die, and I’m not for a minute suggesting that this is what we should be doing. What I am suggesting is that we should be prepared to live! We should learn how to embrace the day. We need to let go of regrets and unwanted elements of our past. We need to be able to plan for the future, but all the while live our lives in the here and now. If we do this, we are more likely to be able to answer that question I posed earlier with the response, yes! – and although I would prefer not to be leaving just yet, I am happy within myself, happy with who I am, and am happy with my here and now.
As our world continuously becomes more connected with the progressive advancement in technologies, information distribution, social-media, and so on, it seems that as individuals we are becoming more disconnected, to the detriment of our wellbeing and the wellbeing of those in our lives. We do however have a trump card, or an ‘ace up our sleeve’ that we can play to help ensure we win the battle for our wellbeing. And that ace is our subconscious mind. Through hypnosis, be it guided hypnotherapy or self conducted, our subconscious minds have the power and capacity to make incredible and wonderful change occur. We can make things happen in our lives that we otherwise wouldn’t have thought possible. We can allow our subconscious minds to drive our thoughts and elicit our desired responses. And, most importantly, we are able to maintain a consciously happy and healthy here and now!
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