personal development

Every human being has an ultimate goal.  The ultimate goal is "Self-Actualization": achieving what sports people call a "personal best".  Regardless of background, education, financial standing or other factors, every individual is subconsciously induce to move onward and upward, to be the best possible in relation to beliefs and values.

Progress toward the ultimate goal, and necessary intermediate objectives is affected by experiential factors - the hand of cards dealt out by heredity, opportunity and life in general.  There are three factors essential to positive progress:  self-esteem, confidence and motivation.  During the course of a lifetime, virtually everyone experiences problems involving one or more of these elements.

Resolving such problems is one of the most important and valuable capabilities of hypnosis. Through hypnosis, negative programming from the past, the source of troubled feelings, fears, self-doubt and damaging attitudes is identified, reframed and reprogrammed. 

The establishment of self-confidence must follow, eliminating from self-perception any labels such as bad, wrong, stupid, clumsy, dumb, inept, untalented, ignorant, etc.  Hypnosis can become the source of self-discovery, revealing unrecognized capabilities that lead to an acceptance of self worth.

With self-esteem and confidence enhanced, improved motivation comes into the spotlight. Essential to generating positive motivation is elimination of any fear of failure (or its often hidden counterpart, fear of success).  First, it is important to recognize motivations and subsequent successes of the past.  Second, a sense of direction is needed.  Then comes the all important factor of "goal-setting".  Not the ultimate goal, but a short term, quickly achievable goal - a first step to provide convincing proof that forward movement is established.  Finally, an achievement of this goal, self reward.  This constitutes self-recognition, a powerful motivating factor.

The purpose of establishing short-term, successive goals is important to understand.  A small success generates additional confidence.  It creates a sense of completion, readiness and eagerness for the next step.  The end result:  MOTIVATION and CONTINUED SUCCESS!