Hi and welcome to today's show, Love Bugs!! This is a fun and super compelling episode of The Heartbeat with Desi Ivanova about hypnotherapy, the monkey and higher minds, and how to examine and shift our many narratives. We cover a tremendous array of topics, here are a few highlights:

"We are a product of our environment, so just because you didn't have a serious, you know, 'abuse' - physical or sexual - doesn't mean that whatever you experienced wasn't traumatic, because if you lived in a fairly safe environment, anything little that happened to disturb that, would already be a trauma to that child. Something that is out of balance of its natural harmony will now be a trauma. And so, you have to go back and examine that - 'okay, when did this happen? when was that belief of 'I'm not being good enough' implemented?' And it usually starts as a child, and then it will reaffirm itself through a breakup, or through getting fired from your job."

"But if somebody actually comes and embraces you and says, 'It's okay - I hear you.' Suddenly, you just melt. Because you feel safe. Regardless of all that anger, which is actually fear. When the fear is dissolved by love, you melt that away. You're not gonna need those walls, so you just dissolve them."

"So it's working because you're seeing it; you're imagining yourself doing it; you're feeling it with all your senses; you're creating this world in your mind where things are working out, and you're seeing yourself with the new ways of thinking. And you're seeing yourself living your life with your new beliefs. And your brain starts to accept them as reality."

"I'm safe to release these now, and I'm going to imagine a new world. My new world, my new life, where I've re-framed these beliefs to serve me now. And in ten years those beliefs might change also because - guess what - life changes, and the world changes!""

We even talk about Harry Potter!!

Find Desi at @hypnosissymbiosis and hypnosis-symbiosis.com!