Good Enough and Getting Better

In this episode, we use hypnosis to explore a common misperception about our capacity to change things in the future is much less than the amount of growth we have experienced in the past. Go on a hypnosis journey with me to experience how for you have come, and how far you will be able to go in the near future as well.  

I'd love to hear your thoughts and questions! Connect at www.facebook.com/goodenoughandgettingbetter , or at www.instagram.com/lenorehypnosis/ . You can also find me at www.lenorehypnosis.com and subscribe to my monthly newsletter at https://mailchi.mp/f9ea374ba759/newsletter-sign-up.

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Disclaimer: This podcast, and this episode, are not intended to treat, diagnose, cure, or prevent any disease, mental or physical, and is not a substitute for professional help.

This episode is basically some helpful steps that I use to move through moments of feeling overwhelmed, rather than getting stuck in that negative place longer than I really need to. 

1. Actually feel your feelings, physically, like where do you feel that in your body? Thoughts ABOUT the feeling will pop in, but do your best to release them instead of engaging with them.
2. Once the physically feelings calm down, then we examine what these feelings are trying to tell us. Write a list of the tasks or thoughts that are overwhelming you, and get them out of your head and onto the page. 
3. Examine the items on the list, asking questions like  these:
   Is this expectation actually within my control?
   Does the really need to be done and what are the consequences if it does not get done? 
  Is this something that needs to be done now, or done by me?
   Is this thought actually true, and what evidence can I think of that it is NOT true? 
  Is this emotions really about my past patterns rather than actually happening right now in my life? 
4. Use tools like hypnosis, EFT tapping, and NLP submodality shifts to release stuck patterns that aren't serving you. 
5. Practice moments of mindful meditation throughout your day, just 30 seconds or a minute at a time, where you observe your thoughts, and let them come and go rather than engaging with them. When you notice yourself engaging again, just step back into observation mode each time. The noticing and bringing awareness back IS the practice, and not failure in this exercise. 

I'd love to hear your thoughts and questions! Connect at www.facebook.com/goodenoughandgettingbetter , or at www.instagram.com/lenorehypnosis/ . You can also find me at www.lenorehypnosis.com and subscribe to my monthly newsletter at https://mailchi.mp/f9ea374ba759/newsletter-sign-up.

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Disclaimer: This podcast, and this episode, are not intended to treat, diagnose, cure, or prevent any disease, mental or physical, and is not a substitute for professional help.

The hypnosis session in this episode is inspired by an episode of the show Hoarders, which popped up in my youtube feed. We'll use the metaphor of cleaning out a house, taking all the old stuff, clearing space to live now, rather than letting all our old things rob of us the ability to move comfortably through our homes and through our lives, as a way for your unconscious mind to clear out some of the mental and emotional "clutter" we all carry. Let your imagination run wild, as you hunt through drawers, closets and cupboards, looking for whatever symbolic mental junk your unconscious mind is ready to help you clear up today. 

As this episode is a hypnosis journey, please listen in a time and place where you can get comfortable, close your eyes, and safely shut out the world for a little while. 

I'd love to hear your thoughts and questions! Connect at www.facebook.com/goodenoughandgettingbetter , or at www.instagram.com/lenorehypnosis/ . You can also find me at www.lenorehypnosis.com and subscribe to my monthly newsletter at https://mailchi.mp/f9ea374ba759/newsletter-sign-up.

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Disclaimer: This podcast, and this episode, are not intended to treat, diagnose, cure, or prevent any disease, mental or physical, and is not a substitute for professional help.

In this episode, we walk through some steps together that help us to more easily forgive ourselves for past mistakes, in order to take the lessons and learning from them, and move forward with greater self compassion.  Beating ourselves up over the same things over and over doesn't change the past, and it doesn't help us really embrace the growth that can come from facing those things we regret, or feel shame or guilt about. Use these steps, these questions and processes to help yourself move forward. 

I'd love to hear your thoughts and questions! Connect at www.facebook.com/goodenoughandgettingbetter , or at www.instagram.com/lenorehypnosis/ . You can also find me at www.lenorehypnosis.com and subscribe to my monthly newsletter at https://mailchi.mp/f9ea374ba759/newsletter-sign-up.

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Disclaimer: This podcast, and this episode, are not intended to treat, diagnose, cure, or prevent any disease, mental or physical, and is not a substitute for professional help.

In this episode, we go into hypnosis to travel into the past and access those empowering states that came so naturally to us as children: playfulness, curiosity, a sense of wonder, and bring these back into our day to day lives. 

Listen to this track at a time and place where it is safe for you to close your eyes and relax. 

I'd love to hear your thoughts and questions! Connect at www.facebook.com/goodenoughandgettingbetter , or at www.instagram.com/lenorehypnosis/ . You can also find me at www.lenorehypnosis.com and subscribe to my monthly newsletter at https://mailchi.mp/f9ea374ba759/newsletter-sign-up.

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Disclaimer: This podcast, and this episode, are not intended to treat, diagnose, cure, or prevent any disease, mental or physical, and is not a substitute for professional help.

In this episode, I talk about approaching changes in out lives more playfully, by experimenting with them.  This helps us bypass the resistance that  comes from trying to create structure in our lives in more rigid ways, and gives us a chance to be really in  tune with the benefits and best approaches  that are best suited to each of us as individuals. 

Here are the points I cover in this episode to make the best of this approach to achieving your goals: 

1. Pick an area that is important to YOU personally, rather than something you "should" do, according to others. Ideally, start with something that feels exciting the first time at least, to build confidence in your ability to use this process, before tackling the worst or hardest thing in your life. 
 
2. Pick a specific time window that feels long enough to be challenging in a good way,  but not so long that it's daunting. 

3. Pick a big enough piece of the issue to feel challenging, again in a good way, but not overwhelming. 

4. Add in enjoyment to the process in whatever large and small ways you possibly can. 

5. Be very clear on your parameters from the start, including what you will do when you face obstacles, and specifically what you will (or will not) do during the experiment time frame. 

6. Find a way to bring awareness and/or accountability into the process, a way to check in during or at the end to evaluate your results and decide how you want to proceed now that you have that information.  

Let me know about how you are using this process! 

I'd love to hear your thoughts and questions! Connect at www.facebook.com/goodenoughandgettingbetter , or at www.instagram.com/lenorehypnosis/ . You can also find me at www.lenorehypnosis.com and subscribe to my monthly newsletter at https://mailchi.mp/f9ea374ba759/newsletter-sign-up.

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Disclaimer: This podcast, and this episode, are not intended to treat, diagnose, cure, or prevent any disease, mental or physical, and is not a substitute for professional help.

This episode is a guided hypnosis journey into the various areas of life,  to gain insight and perspective, including relationships, work/career, money/finances, inner/spiritual life, fun, learning/creativity, living environment, and an extra category for whatever else is really important for you.  Go into this process  with an open mind to just notice whatever information your unconscious mind has to share with you. 

 Make sure you are in a safe place to close your eyes and focus on an internal exploration for the duration of this recording.

I'd love to hear your thoughts and questions! Connect at www.facebook.com/goodenoughandgettingbetter , or at www.instagram.com/lenorehypnosis/ . You can also find me at www.lenorehypnosis.com and subscribe to my monthly newsletter at https://mailchi.mp/f9ea374ba759/newsletter-sign-up.

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Disclaimer: This podcast, and this episode, are not intended to treat, diagnose, cure, or prevent any disease, mental or physical, and is not a substitute for professional help.

In this episode, I suggest some questions to consider, in order to bring more balance into your perspectives on your life, especially in terms of what feels like it needs to change. 

Some of the questions from this episode to consider: 
1) For my life as a whole, or specifically some of the more challenging areas, what is working well for me? What do I enjoy about this area? What can I be grateful for right now? 

2) For the specific problems areas I am really focused on in my life right now, what are some of the hidden positive aspects of this issue? What is this problem doing for me that is actually helpful in some way, and what are some other ways I can get that benefit that might work better for my life as a whole? 

3) What areas have I been neglecting, where I have been saying things are just fine, where things are not actually going the way I would ideally like them to, and what is it that I really want instead? What are some small doable steps I can begin taking in this area? 

I'd love to hear your thoughts and questions! Connect at www.facebook.com/goodenoughandgettingbetter , or at www.instagram.com/lenorehypnosis/ . You can also find me at www.lenorehypnosis.com and subscribe to my monthly newsletter at https://mailchi.mp/f9ea374ba759/newsletter-sign-up.

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Disclaimer: This podcast, and this episode, are not intended to treat, diagnose, cure, or prevent any disease, mental or physical, and is not a substitute for professional help.

In this episode, we use hypnosis to explore our sense of self, beneath all the layers of programming, of other peoples opinions and expectations, to get a felt sense of our deepest being beyond all that baggage, and to bring that sense back into our present moment, in order to more easily keep all the surface concerns in perspective, and to love and appreciate ourselves more fully right here and now. 

I'd love to hear your thoughts and questions! Connect at www.facebook.com/goodenoughandgettingbetter , or at www.instagram.com/lenorehypnosis/ . You can also find me at www.lenorehypnosis.com and subscribe to my monthly newsletter at https://mailchi.mp/f9ea374ba759/newsletter-sign-up.

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Disclaimer: This podcast, and this episode, are not intended to treat, diagnose, cure, or prevent any disease, mental or physical, and is not a substitute for professional help.

This episode discusses the difference between self esteem and self worth, and offers ideas for how to deepen our sense of self worth, through recognizing that we are more than the sum of our labels, more than what we do, and more than others opinions of us, and our comparisons to others. 

I'd love to hear your thoughts and questions! Connect at www.facebook.com/goodenoughandgettingbetter , or at www.instagram.com/lenorehypnosis/ . You can also find me at www.lenorehypnosis.com and subscribe to my monthly newsletter at https://mailchi.mp/f9ea374ba759/newsletter-sign-up.

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Disclaimer: This podcast, and this episode, are not intended to treat, diagnose, cure, or prevent any disease, mental or physical, and is not a substitute for professional help.