| The concept of oneness of self and environment | | | | In this way we can show our clients by our |
| is deeply embedded in Buddhist Philosophy. That is | | | | behavior how they can become aware of their |
| that whatever we feel is happening out there, is | | | | own deeper drivers. If we have not yet seen |
| actually a more truer reflection of what is | | | | what drives us, we will find it impossible to see |
| happening in our hearts and minds. | | | | what drives others: We will be left with theory |
| The illusion that we are separate: that things are | | | | and constructs but no real experience of what |
| being done to us, is reinforced and upheld by the | | | | causes people to be who they are. And whats |
| whole way in which society operates. We are | | | | more, if we are not at peace with ourselves, our |
| victims of circumstance, the recession, floods, | | | | choices and our career, then we cannot conceive |
| divorce, childhood abuse, and a myriad other | | | | of the peace that others so desperately desire in |
| obstacles and difficulties that we feel we have not | | | | their lives. |
| only not created, but categorically never wanted. | | | | What makes it easy for me to offer insight is the |
| As a Hypnotherapist, we know that our | | | | depth to which I have looked into my own life. |
| subconscious motivations are often completely | | | | Everything we see in our clients is something that |
| clouded by the conscious mind. We know that | | | | exists in our own lives. If we feel frustrated or |
| what subterranean currents drive us, can be far | | | | annoyed or helpless with our clients, it is because |
| away from our consciousness. And when a whole | | | | we feel the same about issues of our own that |
| people or land becomes unconscious of its deeper | | | | we haven't yet solved. |
| drivers, what collective effect is that having on | | | | So next time you find you are scratching your |
| our recession, our environment, our children and | | | | head about a client, ask yourself "Where in my life |
| on our conception of our life in today's time and | | | | is this reflecting my own block?" or "What feeling |
| place? Just like dominoes end up irrevocably | | | | do I have with this client and how long has that |
| pushing the next one over: are we conforming to | | | | feeling been in my life?". This is at times more |
| some unconscious groundswell of cultural opinion? | | | | important a question to ask of ourselves than it is |
| As people in the vanguard of personal | | | | to compound a client's issue by introducing yet |
| development, we should strive ever more to | | | | another technique. |
| become aware of what subconsciously drives us. | | | | |