Get connected with your subconscious, the new normal fitness regime that challenges your body, mind, and soul, to the next level of well-health living.
Changes in the social economic world influences our everyday choices, making us question priorities between our values and humanistic needs. I became particularly fascinated by this change in consumer behaviours as a response to this global pandemic, investigating how we react when our usual hierarchy of needs gets disrupted by a new set of survival instincts, causing personalities and behaviours to change, as we learn to redefine our identities with regards to Rogers’ paradox of Self-acceptance.
Going onto three years of this global state of pandemic, we have all been forced to adapt to the most rigorous changes of all times, be it within our careers, our lifestyles, and most challenging of all, our mental state and attitude towards life itself. When put under pressure, our brains automatically kicks into combat mode by releasing all sorts of hormones within our bodies as a way to internally anticipate change in the external world. Some may group this reaction as stress, or anxiety, but really, what is deep rooted within us is that animal instinct heightening our senses for a “ fight or flight” situation. Those that are more connected with their bodies, more self-aware over their emotions would better understand this mechanism and know to regulate changes through mindfulness practices. However, only until recent years when psychological health awareness became a recognised movement within society, the topic of mindfulness was a far cry from being deemed appropriate within conversations.
Speaking about mental health and the practice of psychotherapy had always been received with bad stigma attached, mainly because growing up, we’re taught to be emotionally reserved, to refrain from showing signs of emotional outburst that may expose inner weakness, as vulnerability is frowned upon, and the inability to maintain our own sanity is almost an equivalent to a voluntary disease. As children, we’re often told “ weeping is for the weak” by authority figures in our lives as their way of managing our behaviours, and amongst friends, we may tease one another for being too sentimental so that we avoid getting too personal. Gradually, we learn to label emotional distress as “skeletons in our closet”, we all know that we experience them, but we hide them deep inside ourselves unaware of the strain they pull on our energy, our moods, and even our personality.
However, what we often fail to recognise is the fact that dissatisfaction and unease are inherent parts of human nature that are necessary to help us regulate health risks and strive for happiness. When we neglect to nurture our emotional wellbeing, denying negative emotions leads to experiencing deeper and more prolonged physical dysfunction. This is the same basis as to how depression is a real medical condition felt within our bodies as well as our emotions, because our brains do not register much difference between physical pain and psychological pain. What starts off as energy deficiency, frequent states of insomnia, or even hypersensitive irritation, could in fact lead to much bigger mental and physical issues when we encounter significant emotional events and fail to regulate our reactions all at once, resulting in mental breakdowns and unexpected panic attacks much like the metaphorical horror in opening a jar of worms.
We can dig a bit deeper in order to explain the mechanism behind how our actions and bodily functions are highly influenced by our emotions. No matter how logical a decision may seem, whether consciously structured or not, our brain undergoes an emotional assessment that plays a significant part in our decision making process, what we feel most sensible and fitting contributes to how we arrive with reason to combat each situation. This process of emotional assessment is governed by the subconscious part of our thinking process, which constitutes all the memories and emotions we have accumulated throughout our lifetime, like an internal knowledge bank. So what if there was a way to intercept this process and reassess all our memories and past emotions so that we can better regulate our state of mind as to help us avoid making abnormal biased judgements in our daily lives? There is much to explore when it comes to managing and enhancing our emotional intelligence, the advantages and potential yet to be unlocked the more access and control we have over our emotions, or better yet, our subconscious mind.
Given we have already touched base on how incredible the way our subconscious works, hypnosis is the answer to our questions. This heightened state of concentration in the mind when our bodies are at rest in complete relaxation, allows us to be in touch with our most authentic selves, without distractions or resistance to external influences that may disturb how we truly feel and think. Also known as the process of “ communication with our subconscious “, often quoted in meditation techniques. Hypnosis takes it further where the therapist guides us on a spiritual journey, allowing us to learn not only about our inner emotional state, but also to gain a better redefined perspective on our self identity. The well-known saying “ changes start from within” is a powerful message to inspire our self-awareness to better connect with our inner subconscious, to nurture that ‘inner child’, by fully understanding ourselves on a deeper emotional and spiritual level, because God created us to be our best regulators, protectors, and healers, in the form of his own. So why are we neglecting such power that we have been given all this while? A little self-love beats any worldly medicine, as you hold the key to your own happiness.
If there is one positive regard that has come out of this global pandemic, is the increasing health awareness and recognition to the matter of mental well-being. Vulnerability provides us the chance of growth and connection, to acknowledge and speak up when something doesn’t feel right, and take action to overcome our obstructions. In truly knowing and accepting ourselves is what self love really means, so whether it is simple meditation, or getting into a deep dive through Hypnotherapy, I would really urge anyone to start connecting with their inner selves, because our subconscious is our most loyal companion who’d stand by us for a lifetime. That, is the epitome of ‘self love’, not your average wine and bubble bath.
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