Think of something you believe you just cannot do, or something you believe you are just not good at. Do you remember the last time you made this statement: “Oh I would love to ______________, but I could never do that, because…….” Sound familiar? It should, because we all say something similar some point in our lives. And we all have nearly the same underlying false belief lurking under that particular issue. It could be, “not good enough.”
In hypnotherapy, it is amazing that most issues we face boil down to a few common false beliefs. These beliefs are commonly carried, and passed down from generation to generation. “Not good enough,” is one of them.
Most people will just continue to carry this false belief with them to their grave, while suffering through their life, and never really doing anything to alleviate it. But a wise few will find a way to beat the not good enough, and hypnotherapy is a great answer!
The key to alleviating this false belief is first identifying why it exists, and then changing the false belief, as well as the perception of the event that caused it.
Yesterday I was chatting with my son who is 14 years old. He told me that a teacher in one of classrooms was speaking to a student who said he wanted to be an entrepreneur, and own his own business when he grew up. The teacher replied in a stern sort of direct voice, telling the student that he should not pursue that avenue. She told him that so many businesses fail, and that it’s really hard to work for yourself.
This teacher was sharing her false belief of “not good enough,” with a young child. The reason my son thought this a very strange event, is because I have always instilled in him that he can be anything he wants. I tell him he can do anything he wants. I give him the advice to follow his heart and follow his passion.
Many of our parents have created similar circumstances to what the teacher did, in our own lives. They have somewhere along the line told us that we are not good enough. Perhaps parents did not do this intentionally, or directly, but nonetheless, they passed it along.
But ours is not to blame, because our parents were told the same things by their parents, and their parents before that. The pattern continues, until someday one parent takes the initiative to find out the truth. They take the time to do some inner work, and find that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, and often a literal pot of gold. Because when we find out that we are good enough, we begin to believe in ourselves. At that point in our lives we can do anything….really, anything!
Isn’t it time to break the pattern of “not good enough”? It’s time to find the pot of gold that is waiting just under the rainbow, for each and every one of us. It is time to tell our children the truth as well, that they are good enough. In this way our lives improve, the lives of our children improve, and the world improves. Find the beauty of good enough in you!
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By Tammie Mohn
Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist
