Confidence

We are all born with confidence. Children are naturally confident, self-expressive and curious. A child will playfully pull a cat's tail or loudly ask questions without fear of judgement in public places. Children will run around like wild animals in the supermarket causing their parents havoc without a care in the world! Children have bountiful amounts of confidence for they were born with it.

From the first time a child becomes conscious up until the age of around six years old, they absorb influences and suggestions into their subconsious mind like a sponge, and this establishes their self esteem and habits. For example if a mother runs away from a spider, screaming in front of her child, the child will learn that behaviour and accept that a spider is something to be fearful of. Equally if someone tells a child it cannot sing, for example, they will accept that as a fact, without question.

From about the age of six years old children develop what hypnotherapists call a 'critical faculty'- this is the 'gatekeeper', if you like, which decides which conscious decisions are going to be accepted in the subconscious mind.

Unfortunately the 'gatekeeper' does not do a very good job at keeping the negative influences and suggestions out of the subconscious mind, which means knocks and setbacks in life have a detrimental effect on confidence levels. People judge, criticise and comdemn which can sometimes result in people losing their confidence all together.

As so many problems are a result of a lack of self confidence (notably over-eating, anxiety, stress and nervousness), in hypnotherapy, confidence boosting is something that needs to be worked on first of all.

Hypnotherapy helps to boost self confidence as it gets past the 'gatekeeper' and into the subconscious mind to put an end to, or change the negative way in which the person talks to themselves. Hypnotherapy helps to remove any negative beliefs which can hinder spiritual and mental growth so that they can finally accept themselves and exude the confidence that was always there anyway.