Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume - 4, Issue - 5, 1 November 2019 | Page 11

1. Rewrite your core beliefs through a mantra
Mantras are statements that are repeated over and over again. In the West,
mantras are often referred to as ‘affirmations.’
To discover your core beliefs, I encourage you to pay attention to the little
voice in your head. What does it chatter about during the day? What fears
emerge? What unhealthy patterns of behavior do you keep repeating? Write
your observations down in a journal. Eventually, you’ll notice certain themes
and insecurities arising.
Once you’ve pinpointed the core beliefs you have about yourself (e.g., “I’m a
loser,” “I always hurt people,” “I deserve to be punished,” “I’m boring” etc.),
you can then counteract them through a mantra.
Try choosing or creating a mantra that is the exact opposite of your core
wound. For example, if you discover that one of your core beliefs is “I am
worthless,” you may like to deprogram that belief and replace it with “I am
worthy and I love who I am.”
At first, you’ll feel a bit cheesy or skeptical of this mantra, but that’s only
because your mind has been conditioned to believe the opposite. After a
while (I’m talking about three months or so), you’ll start to see significant
changes arise in your thinking patterns, behaviours, and feelings.
Alternatively, you could search for some affirmations on the internet or in your
favourite self-help book. Choose one that gives you goosebumps (in a good
way) or which makes you feel a hint of empowerment. Stick with that mantra
and repeat it every day.
Try this practice every day for at least ten minutes (ideally during a meditation
practice – but even better all throughout the day) for three months. Try to
infuse your mantra with as much heartfelt sincerity as possible because the
unconscious mind pays more attention to emotion than words (and the
unconscious mind is where all the magic happens).
2. Reclaim what has been repressed (aka. your power)
As philosopher and scholar, Ken Wilber writes:
Maslow called the fear of our own greatness “the Jonah complex,” and many
of us have some degree of that—so give yourself permission to discover, re-
own, and step into, your own authentic greatness!
How can we possibly feel good or worthy when we’re living a version of
ourselves that is not real or authentic?
Our interactions, our feelings about ourselves, indeed, our very lives will
always feel false when we are hiding behind the fearful masks that we’ve
adopted as children.