Confidence and high self-esteem help you navigate life more easily. People who are happy and successful in their careers and relationships usually have confidence, high self-esteem and think positively naturally. They’ll also have a strong resilience to judgment, criticism and rejection and know that they can’t please everyone all of the time. They focus on what they can do rather than what they can’t.

Confidence and high self-esteem are learned behaviours. Think about where your parents learned their behaviour, values, coping strategies and parenting skills. They learned those behaviours from their parents who learned it from theirs and so on. Unfortunately, those learned behaviours can include criticism, fear and negativity. Parents can model this negative behaviour without realising it and young children normally do what their parents do of course. Generally, parents are just trying to do their best with the skills and resources they have available. But due to the lessons they learned from their parents, they may not know how to raise children in ways that promote good self-esteem and self-confidence.

Negative experiences at school can also impact on your confidence and self-esteem. Low marks or judgment, criticism and rejection from teachers and other students can erode self-esteem. Eight year old Kelly has difficulty doing maths but doesn’t realise the reason she can’t do a maths problem is because her brain is less developed than her classmate who is 11 months older. She just believes she is ‘dumb at maths’. She begins to hate doing maths and stops trying. She also continues to believe that she can’t do maths as an adult.

Ten year old Dylan has to read in front of the class. He says some words wrong and his friends laugh at him. He sits back down feeling embarrassed and humiliated. Twenty years later he still has a fear of public speaking.

These experiences growing up are experienced as painful attacks on self-identity. It’s the body’s natural ‘flight and fight’ response to run and hide from experiences which remind us of a time when we felt pain or hurt. Just as we remember and avoid situations that involve physical pain, we also do this with emotional pain. Consequently, many people live in fear of environments or situations, in which they could potentially be judged, criticised or rejected. People with low self-esteem often become mentally and physically exhausted trying to create an identity or lifestyle, which receives minimal negative judgment and maximum likelihood of praise. Perfectionism, avoidance and a wide variety of social phobias are often driven by these sorts of fears.

How can hypnosis improve confidence and self esteem?

Clinical hypnosis can help change limiting beliefs that stop you feeling good about yourself and reduce your fear of judgment and criticism. If you don’t care if people are noticing you blush, you tend to blush less often. If you don’t care what people think of you, it’s much easier to be confident in a crowd. If you’re comfortable about the possibility of mucking up a speech, it’s much easier to relax and connect with the audience. If you don’t mind a bit of rejection, it’s a lot easier to relax when you ask that attractive person out for a date.

Hypnotherapy can help you lose fears and inhibitions that stop you living the life you want. A good stage hypnotist can get volunteers to believe all sorts of funny things which aren’t true. They can also get them to behave in all sorts of funny ways while not seeming to care what the audience thinks. While a hypnotherapist will not make you behave in amusing ways like the stage hypnotist, a clinical hypnotherapist will help you think, feel and act in positive ways that enable you to live with confidence and have control over how you feel. This can provide a great sense of relief to those suffering low self-esteem or social phobias. Clients report that hypnosis helps them be much more at ease in situations, which in the past, have been very stressful and inhibiting.

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