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Are you a procrastinator? We all are to some degree, putting things off such as paying the phone bill, doing laundry, filling out boring paperwork. But for some, procrastination becomes such that it affects our lives, and yet we do it again and again.
In order to fully understand why we procrastinate we can ask Freud. Freud recognised that we operate with no conscious effort under the “Pain/Pleasure” principle sometimes referred to as ‘human nature’. We seek out pleasure and we avoid pain. Tedious tasks that offer no pleasure fall under the banner of pain. We simply avoid pain, but what we don’t fully realise that in doing so we actually create or increase our own discomfort. The longer we avoid our tasks, the stronger our avoidance becomes.
Yet, we can overcome this behaviour; with hypnosis we can alter our perception of pain and fear.
Avoidance is usually the perception that a task will take too much time and too much energy to justify doing it. What we have to do is chip away at this procrastination and at time we may even have to force ourselves to do it. We need to be serious about it and take it in brief periods of time, fifteen minutes and then take a break. If we start perceiving that the task is not as painful as we think, we start doing more.
Where hypnosis plays a role is when we try to fix it ourselves and find it isn’t working, this is where a hypnotherapist can help. Hypnosis can make us more receptive to suggestions, thus making us less sensitive to the task, reducing the pain and discomfort that task represents.
Tags: hypnosis, Hypnotherapy
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