What is a mindset first of all?
It is a summary of your opinions and beliefs. Your habit of thinking. It determines your mental attitude towards everything.
The way you usually think creates the way you usually feel, which dictates your action or non-action and determines your results.
So, mindset is important, because you act as you think. As you think, so you become. What you think about, you bring around.
If you want success, you need a mindset associated with success. Yet, how to form the right one?
How does mindset get formed?
The way you think is based on your beliefs. You form beliefs as you grow up observing the world around you.
How mum and dad behaved, how they saw the world, how they treated you, it all becomes a kind of blueprint for you. In psychology, this is called an “imprint”.
When a child goes through a life experience that has an emotional impact on it and then forms a belief because of this experience, we say the child has got an “imprint” on his mindset.
The Story of John
An example of an “imprint”: Little Johny is at home. It is Sunday and it is snowing outside. His father is a construction worker and can not go to work when it is snowing. When his father is not working, there is no money for Mcdonald’s. The family stays at home and eats potato stew. Johny is sad and disappointed. He forms a belief: Money, work, business is nothing you can rely upon and you can not control. Just like you can not control snowing. Johny gets an imprint of scarcity and mistrust towards financial flow.
As a grown-up Johny is the managing director of a small food delivery chain. He has in his mindset the imprint of scarcity. So he feels insecure when he gets a business offer for a franchise with a bigger food chain. Can he rely on this offer? He fails to act on time and his competitors on the market get the deal. Johny is sad and disappointed again, just like he was as a child when he did not get the McDonalds. His beliefs about money, work, and business being hard to control and unreliable are now confirmed and deepened. Next time when quick action is required he will be even more hesitant and insecure. He doesn’t trust himself anymore when compared to competitors. Sadness and disappointment deepen, so do the belief about scarcity. The circle is closing.
The reason why these childhood programs run so deep and act as subjective glasses is that our brains learn through repetition and get conditioned.
Your mindset is the result of your childhood conditioning
Whether you are aware or not, the long repeated patterns and imprints, create an identity for you. They create the way you define yourself. They form your mindset.
If your self-definition is: “I am shy”. If you have an imprint saying: ” I am not outspoken.”, you will find a way to get yourself to a place where you coward back from bold self-expression and speaking up for yourself. What you believe in, you act accordingly. This is the job of the subconscious mind. To keep you consistent with your mindset.
This process runs automatically and unconsciously …..until you notice it.
Hypnotherapy helps you to do exactly this. To notice and get an “AHA” moment. This is an understanding. To let the not-conscious come to the surface and become known to you.
As Carl Jung has stated long before: “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
Psychology uses the term “the inner child” to refer to all childhood imprints of a person. The inner child is at the base of every mindset. The negative imprints of the inner child cause all the difficulties in the adult’s life and sabotage a person’s success.
The wounds of your inner child are in the way of your success. And you are not aware of them.
On a conscious level, you are an independent adult. However, on a subconscious level, your inner child influences your perception, feeling, thinking, and acting. Even much stronger than your conscious mind. 80% of subconscious mind/ your beliefs, emotions, memories/ will always overrule the 20% of conscious mind / your logical decisions, critical thinking, willpower, decision-making ability/.
This means your problems unless they are strokes of fate, result from your inner child’s subjective perception of you and your environment.
Hypnotherapy helps you to speak directly to your subconscious mind where all imprints are active. The hypnotherapy process helps you to identify and then erase, eradicate, extinguish the old, well-set highways of old imprints, and broaden the newly chosen narrow sideways of new beliefs so long as they become a new highway.
The fastest way to change your imprint is to replace it with a new one and to begin repeating and strengthening it until it outshines, overwrites, and overrides the old one.
Your mindset is yours to change.
Unless you exit the negative template of your inner child imprinting, you can not have the mindset for success.
When you make acquaintance with your inner child and see the deep longings and injuries it carries, you can then accept this wounded part of yourself, heal it, and become free to shape your perception, your thoughts, and your feelings yourself.
After you have dropped out of the childhood template, you can build the mindset you prefer.
When you exit from your childhood program template, you can consciously shape your mindset for success, much to your liking.
In the case of Johny, this new mindset would include beliefs like: “Just because my father had money issues, doesn’t mean money is hard to get or unpredictable in general. The universe is generous and full of resources. I am not my father. And I am not that helpless little Johnny anymore. I am no longer as helpless as a 3-year-old .”
Your can set your mind for success
Your mindset, the summary of all your beliefs, and highway- pathways are yours to shape. But first, you need to become aware of your very own imprinting.
It is important to find out where, when, how, why you formed beliefs that are NOT driving you towards success today? What do you believe, that doesn’t serve you anymore? What do you give your power away to? Hypno-Regression does the inquiry fast and deep. It helps you gain your power back.
If there is one thing you must do for success, it is to figure out where your imprints demolished your success mindset, your power base. And reconstruct it.
If you have become aware for yourself that there is some inner inventory you need to make in order to upgrade your mindset and therefore your business?
You can reach out to me. Let us have a short get-acquainted call. Once I get to know your situation, we will come out with a plan about how you can finally get rid of the sticky limiting beliefs blocking you from the success you are.
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