Being Unique - The First Step to Quality Hypnotherapy Training

The more hypnotherapy training I encounter, and the more newly qualified hypnotherapists I meet, the more I get thoughtful about what is more of a philosophy that I believe to be very rewarding regardless of your take on any kind of personal development.

I love people sharing their work. Throughout our hypnotherapy training we get to read and understand the work of others... It is essential for our development in our field. Yet I think congruence and developing your own unique, tantalizing style within this field is the key to success. I utterly labor this point in my own hypnotherapy training... Utterly! Let me explain some more...

Which I why I often despair at others attempting to become clones of those they respect and admire instead of learning from them and adapting their own unique way. You'll be infinitely better at hypnotizing people if they trust you, and far better at therapy of course... I think having others detect you are being your true self enhances trust, it shows credibility and a belief in yourself... Heck, if you don't believe in yourself, then why should anyone else?

Let me share with you something that happened to me earlier this year...

Here in England - Shrove Tuesday in February, which is the beginning of Lent in religious terms and that is when people should use up the remains of their larder before they fast. Typically, this would be flour, eggs and milk - Pancakes!! Yay. I love eating pancakes.

So indeed, earlier this year, during pancake day I made pancakes with a variety of toppings. I have been to a great deal of pancake celebrations and I want to tell you about one particular occasion that serves as a very interesting metaphor for what I am writing about today.

I made a big load of pancake batter - I made it with wholemeal flour so the pancakes were not as they usually are. They were received well and eaten by all. In England one of the traditional ways to eat pancakes is with lemon juice and sugar. We had all kinds of toppings and things laid out - I mean lots and lots of choice.

One of my friends is very English and fanatically kept on saying how wonderful it was to have Lemon juice and sugar and everyone agreed and the vast majority of people there ate the pancakes I made to my recipe with the topping sold to them by one of my friends. Interesting. I piled on strawberry jam, natural yogurt and toasted almonds on to mine and scoffed the lot down. Yummy!

I wonder if you've ever read a brilliant book entitled "The Fountainhead" by a favorite author of mine, Ayn Rand?

The lead character has red hair, so I liked him instantly! The real reason I liked the main character is because of his sense of individualism. I am not going to get political here, I just want you to think about how much you think for yourself because this is important in so many aspects of our hypnosis skills developed throughout our hypnotherapy training.

How individual do you allow yourself to be?

I want to suggest that we can all make a unique contribution to the world and life - in the way we are and the way we allow ourselves to be. We do not have to invent anything other than our own existence with our own vision... That includes what we do and how we do it in relation to our hypnosis skills.

So many people that I work with in my therapy rooms, that I meet at hypnosis conferences, and audiences I speak to, are afraid of failure or success. Afraid of what others might think. Afraid to do things differently to their friends. Afraid of doing things that their parents would not have done and subsequently all have lived a life with a subtle taste of dissatisfaction.

We humans cannot survive except through our minds. Our brain is what we are armed with when we are born. Everything we are and everything we have comes from a single attribute - the function of our reasoning mind. So why not be in control of our minds and allow them to be free for us to use as we choose? I believe this is so important to find true happiness... And for others to find true happiness is our work as hypnotists and therapists.

Now the mind is an attribute of the individual. I bet my mind is different to yours and yours is different to everyone else you know. There is no such thing the as a collective brain. We are each unique. Our mind is unique, isn't it?

Many of us find safety and protection in numbers and I understand that, how about getting naked every now and then though? Please, not literally...

The next time you leave the house, or the office, have a very good look around you. How much of what you see would have existed if someone had not designed and built it? Wherever you are reading this now - look around you - all of that stuff was an idea in someone's mind once. Someone who thought their own thoughts.

How about the next time you use your hypnosis skills, you use them as you. Completely you. Ok, so you adapt facets of yourself, but you be congruent about who you are and how you are and be comfortable in the honesty and transparency of it?

So the stories you articulate your skills with are your own and resonate with reality.

How much of your creative, critical thinking faculty are you using today?

We are often taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. How many times did you go against the current today? I am not suggesting that you be different just for the sake of it, just that you do what fulfills and inspires you and those you work with.

We are often taught that it is a virtue to stand together. I guess the ethos of a forum such as this is inherently so, eh? When was the last time you stood alone? Metaphorically, when was the last time you chose not to have lemon and sugar on your pancakes and had your strawberry jam, natural yogurt and almonds?

I'd just love to see hypnotists trusting who they are a great deal more, regardless of foibles and idiosyncrasies, without worrying about what others think to such an extent that they attempt to be someone else... Because attempting to be too much like others waters down the original... And I think we are all so much better being authentic.

Ok, it's off my chest... :-)

My first key point in relation to good quality hypnotherapy training - be unique, be congruent and be yourself...

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