Is overcoming adversity an opportunity for growth?

I am a great believer that  life is for learning and personal growth, I know that I have faced many challenges both personally and professionally which have led me to deep dive, soul search, reflect and grow.  I smile wryly as the lessons keep coming, this thrilling journey of self-discovery is not without tears of sorrow and joy!  It keeps on giving that is for sure.  My Lifelong learning is not yet done and complete anytime soon.   How to overcome adversity in life with hypnotherapy, I personally use self-hypnosis NLP anchoring, along with walking and journalling.     

When facing adversity, we can become completely overwhelmed as our biggest fears and insecurities rise to the surface.  It is from this place that we are challenged to find the courage and strength to face our fears, learn from them, overcome and grow.  If we can just calm the mind, the body will calm too, and from a calm and quite place we can take time to use the opportunity to grow, understand and nourish our souls with an inner appreciation that:

  “having weathered a crisis, we can expect to discover.

• A stronger you
• A different you
• A more evolved you 

You are changing and growing into

• A happier you
• A more joyful you
• An independent you” Melba Colgrove

Our adversaries are our greatest teachers

Adversity comes in many guises, personal, professional, emotional, financial, physical, regardless of its guise it affects all our senses to varying degrees.  Adversity generally involves loss of some kind or other, it may be an obvious loss or perhaps one that’s not-so-obvious, a loss related to age, a limbo loss, the loss of an opportunity; the loss of a job; the loss of a fantasy; a loss of a future you’d had mapped out, loss of what might have been; loss of a loved one.   Hypnotherapy can help you overcome adversity in life, deal with the emotional and physical fallout, enabling you to work through the various stages of loss that you are experiencing.    

Other than natural disasters, if we acknowledge and accept that our adversaries are our greatest teachers, the path to enlightenment and forgiveness of self and of those who we perceive to have wronged us will enable us to step into our power and move forward. 

I always do a little soul searching before writing my blogs, my inspiration comes either intuitively or having read something that moves me to share another’s wise words of wisdom.  This blog has been inspired by Dr Wayne Dyer.  I am a great fan of his, he is my number one Guru whom I go to when I need to do a little soul searching myself.   Hence, I hope that what I share next may help to view our adversaries from a different perspective and lighten any burdens you may be currently facing or historically.

101 Ways to Transform your Life

“Be aware of the fact that everyone who comes into your life in any capacity are valuable, the petty tyrants are just as divine as those who provide you with encouragement and support.  Those whom we judge to be unfortunate, or evil can teach us our greatest lessons.  Petty tyrants may appear to us as being petty and tyrannical, but they may be divine masters just disguised as petty tyrants to teach you something you didn’t know you need to learn.”    68  101 Ways to transform your life [Dr Wayne Dyer]”  Top Tip:  Looking for inspiration Listen to Wayne Dyer 

Overcome adversity with hypnotherapy

If you are facing adversity, the likelihood is that you are experiencing a wide range of heightened emotions.  Recycling past hurts, frustrations, memories, grief, blaming others, denial, searching for answers, over-analysing, storytelling.  You may find yourself free falling into an abyss of confusion and struggling to overcome the challenges currently being faced.

Overcome adversity with hypnotherapy as it enable you to manage the associated stress, anxiety, sleepless nights, irrational and negative thinking, anger, disappointment, loss, rejection, fear, victimisation, loneliness a sense of hopelessness, humiliation etc etc.  Hypnotherapy can help you overcome adversity enabling you to bounce back like never before. 

Decades of research has shown that  

“Each of us has a distinct, consistent pattern of thinking about life’s twists and turns—a pattern of which most of us are unaware.”  How to Bounce Back from Adversity (hbr.org)  

Overcome Adversity with Hypnotherapy 

Hypnotherapy can help you overcome adversity in life as it works to calm the mind, which in turn calms the physiological symptoms associated with the fight or flight response.  Deep dive into the subconscious to explore and overcome those disempowering beliefs, feelings and unhelpful ways of thinking.  Perhaps regressing to the root cause and unconscious reflexes,, exploring deeply held core beliefs which have disempowerd you up until now.

“Independent studies in psychology and our own observations suggest that the ability to bounce back from adversity hinges on uncovering and untangling one’s implicit beliefs about it—and shifting how one responds.” How to Bounce Back from Adversity (hbr.org).

We can always choose how we respond to a situation, however when in a heightened state of anxiety and stress we are less able to respond rationally and objectively.  That’s where hypnotherapy can help you to overcome adversity in life as it helps to reduce stress and anxiety, when you are calm and relaxed you see things more clearly.   TOP TIP:  when faced with a problem, you have three options:-

1. 1. 1. walk away from it
      2. change it
      3. or change your response to it

      Hypnotherapy can help you overcome adversity in life as you learn at a subconscious level what is required to be gained from the experience, enabling you to bounce back and reframe with clarity and objectivity.  Achieving a greater sense of opportunity, an excitement and optimism about the future, leaving you feeling more enlightened, and hopeful.

A perfect reframe for you to consider:-

“Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.” Joseph Campbell

Give up on your personal history – Your past need not define your tomorrows

On a final note I want to share and leave you with an extract of a Podcast by Dr Wayne Dyer.  “Give up on your personal history … if you don’t have a story, you don’t have to live up to it, attach to it.  Just accept that you had to go through what you’ve been through to get to this place where you are today…”

Taken from the words of Carlos Castenada:  “ One day I finally realised that I no longer needed a personal history and just like drinking I gave it up and that and only that has made all the difference… If you don’t have a story, you don’t have to live up to it. “

 

“All of us have these bags of manure we carry around with us, called our past, and the people who have done things to us and the events and circumstances.  All of this stuff that we bond to and we identify ourselves on the basis of these wounds and every once in a while we smear this on us and we wonder why our lives smell so bad. When in fact now merging yourself in the now … give up your personal history merge yourself here now … into this moment, you embrace it, understand it, accept it. 

 

Acknowledge I had to go through these things to get to this place, where I am today.  You don’t need any more evidence … you merge into the now by giving up your attachment.”

 

He goes on to quote  Alan Watts “Like the wake of the boat it’s left behind, it’s an allusion to believe that it’s the cause for your current situation and your struggles or your difficulty, give it up, embrace it, let it go and move into the now”.  The wake does not drive the boat it’s just a trail that’s left behind… it doesn’t make the boat go … the wake is a trail that is left behind.”  

 

… Alan Watts ” The course of time is very much like a ship in the ocean and it leaves behind it a wake, the wake fades out and that tells us where the ship has been, in just the same way as the past and our memory of the past tells us what we have done..  But when we go back into the past, we eventually reach a point where all records of the past fade away… the important thing to remember is the wake doesn’t drive the ship, any more than the tail wags the dog! “  Top Tip:  Watch the full podcast Give Up Your Personal History 

Hypnotherapy can help you overcome adversity as we explore your subconscious story telling, we bring unconscious to consciousness, take on new learnings, uninstall old thoughts, feelings and beliefs.  Uncover unconscious payoffs and the positive intention behind behaviour which either helps us to achieve  or avoid situations.  Install and strengthen new thoughts, feelings, beliefs and new strategies and behaviours.  Thereby creating new neurological pathways empowering transformation and life enhancing changes, and I’m privileged to be able to share some of clients’ experiences and success stories in Testimonials.   

Top 10 Quotes on Overcoming Adversity

1. “Nothing’s every good or bad but thinking makes it so.” William Shakespeare
2. “Adversity introduces a man to himself.” Albert Einstein
3. ““In times of adversity and change, we really discover who we are and what we’re made of.”” (“Quote by Howard Schultz: “
4. “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” Mahatma Gandhi
5. ““Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.”” (“When Life Knocks you onto your Knees – Happiness”) Marianne Williamson
6. “Adversity, similar to lava, appears to destroy everything in its way. But out of the ashes and smoke, new, better, and stronger things emerge that may have not been born in any other way.” Zoe V
7. “Adversity is the first path to truth” Lord Bryon
8. ““Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” Francis of Assisi
9. “The journey is never ending. There’s always gonna be growth, improvement, adversity; you just gotta take it all in and do what’s right, continue to grow, continue to live in the moment.” Antonio Brown
10. “And once the storm is over, you will not remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” Haruki Murakami 

If you are currently struggling to overcome adversity and find answers and solutions to life’s problems, or you’re stuck ruminating on the past, just imagine how different your life could be with the help of Hypnotherapy.  Hypnotherapy can help you overcome adversity in life.  It’s transformative, it’s powerful, it’s truly life changing.  Why not try it for yourself?  I’d love the opportunity to journey with you towards an empowered enlightened future. 

It would be a privilege to be given the opportunity to work with you to manifest greater harmony in your life.   

I would also love to hear your thoughts on my blog and answer any questions you may have.  

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For more on adversity see:-

10 proven ways on how to overcome adversity in life (tonyrobbins.com)

Best Quotes From Man’s Search For Meaning By Viktor Frankl | The Stoic Sage

Feel the Fear and do it anyway Susan Jeffers – “Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway”

5 Tips for Overcoming Adversity From the Experts – BigSpeak Motivational Speakers Bureau: Keynote Speakers, Business Speakers and Celebrity Speakers

Dale Carnegie Reduce Worry by Living in ‘Day-tight Compartments’ – Dale Carnegie Training of Central & Southern New Jersey (dalecarnegiewaynj.com)

How to Bounce Back from Adversity (hbr.org)