The Hypnotizer

Connie Brannan, CHt. & Licensed Trainer of NLP

Well, I woke up in the middle of the night thinking about sequins.  About the girl I saw the other day.  She was a barista, a coffee-maker.  And she was working in a little kiosk-type coffee stand smack dab in the middle of a whole foods market.  Kind of a drab setting.  And she was wearing the most flashy, beautiful, black sequinned sweater.  We’re talkin’ Vegas-style evening-out-on-the-town sequins.  Elegant.  Fancy.  Fun.  And playful.  I looked at her and thought:  She knows how to have fun, how to live and squeeze enjoyment out of life.  Making coffee in sequins is more fun than making coffee in a cotton apron, I’ll bet.  I could see that, in her face and in her movements!

And then, a quick mental morph/segue to my own closet.  I have sequins, too.  Silk jackets and shirts massively decorated and sequinned.  Red with roses and trellises, black with textured clusters.  Royal blue.  I love them!  But I wear them SO RARELY.  Once in a blue moon.  I’m “saving them for special.”  They’re sitting there, gathering dust, as I wait for an “occasion” suitable for them.  Always waiting.  That has been (past tense) one of my limiting beliefs.  “You need a special occasion to justify wearing sequins.”  I just popped it–that belief.  It just hit me.  I could wear one of my sequinned jackets today!  Why not?  I could walk into that hotel, into that seminar room (I’m attending a training this weekend) wearing one of my flashy jackets.  And that would be FUN.

Limiting beliefs.  Those things that hold us back, make us catch our breath and feel LESS, less alive, less powerful, less fun.  The “I can’ts.”  Oh, I can’t do that!  Pop them.  Why not?  What would happen if you could and did do this “I can’t do” thing??  Hmmm?  Think about it.  Imagine beyond the boundaries.  That coffee-girl sure can!  I wonder what unexpected coffee combinations/flavors she comes up with?  I can tell, her life is rich and full-bodied.

Life should be fun.  Massively fun.  And it is.  Make it more so.  What’s holding you back?   How much joy can you stand?  It all comes down to running your own mind, and feeling what you want to feel.  Hypnosis and NLP teach us how to do that.  I’ve decided to feel good today.  I’m wearing my sequins. 

Warm Regards,
Connie

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