Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 3, Issue 11, 1 May 2019 | Page 16

Start speaking to that voice again. Ask it what you need to do to overcome the challenges you are facing now. Rekindle that relationship with yourself.   #3 Practice compassion There’s a secret key to unlocking a lifetime of peace and prosperity. It’s totally counter-intuitive. You’ve heard people talking about it… but maybe it never made sense to you as a strategy. So, I’m going to explain exactly how it works: Firstly – It’s not all about you. Maybe you’ve gotten so used to replaying your mistakes over and over again. You beat yourself up over every little slip-up; every minuscule faux-pas. You forget that other people are conscious too… THEY are beating themselves up too. They’re not thinking about YOUR mistakes. Why would they! Do you spend all day re-living the slip-ups that everyone else is making? No!  Of course you don’t. I hate to say it but no-one really cares if you might have said something foolish, stupid or inconsiderate.  Everyone else is too busy worrying if THEY have said something like that. So be kind to people.  Understand that other people are putting themselves through hell just like you. And maybe, just maybe, you’ll find yourself becoming a lot kinder to yourself too.   #4 Think in terms of evolution Who are you? When your job, your possessions and your social media is taken out of the equation… who are you at the core level of your identity? It’s an important question. In fact, it’s vital. The material circumstances of your life and the manicured social appearance we ALL present are NOT you.