Sometimes being happy isn’t as complicated as you think. In fact, the way we think is almost always more complicated than it is making the choice to be happy!

The reason we end up needing hypnotherapy techniques to get free of limiting thoughts and beliefs is because we’re so deeply habituated to thinking them, that it seems as though we’re powerless to change them. But it really is possible to . . .

#2  Let Go of Limitations

Release the images, thought patterns and stories about yourself. You know the ones — those inner voices that tend to convince you that you’re small, hopeless, helpless, weak, unlovable and unimportant.

Try thinking well of yourself for a while. Every time you think of something kind or intelligent or reasonable that you’ve done, write it down. Begin collecting thoughts about yourself. (There’s more on creating workable affirmations and self-suggestions in my book.)

In the Finding True Magic course Distance Learning hypnotherapy certification course a good chunk of time is spent discussing the idea/trance of personality that causes us — and everyone else — to suffer from such painful thinking. It’s tragic to let it continue, because the pain only lasts as long as these limiting voices are allowed to run loose.

If you need help dissolving the limitations in your thinking (what the 12 Steppers call “stinking thinking”) consider a session in transpersonal hypnotherapy, which goes to the root of the problem, rather than just dealing with it on the surface.

Those thoughts of unworthiness aren’t as big and bad as they seem. As soon as we get a good look at them, as soon as we see our limitations for what they are — just mean old lies — they melt like the wicked witch in the Wizard of Oz! And remember what happened after that? Everybody danced. So they must have been pretty happy.

May all beings be happy and free! May our compassion for ourselves and for each other continue to increase!