Adjust Your Mind to Transform Your Life, It’s That Easy

Have you ever wished there was an “easy button” for changing the way you experience life that would allow you to fully appreciate, enjoy, and participate in your life without guilt, shame, or self doubt? It sounds too good to be true, I know, but after experiencing Rapid Transformational Hypnotherapy with Melanie McCool Milletics, C.Ht. at Mindworx Hypnotherapy & Life Coaching (5831 Main Street) a few months ago, I have come to a new understanding of how the brain works.

Our emotional experiences create the patterns we follow every day of our lives whether we consciously realize it or not. Try as we might to change, ultimately we find themselves repeating the same destructive or self-defeating patterns. Eating things we know will make us feel miserable, buying things we can't afford, aligning ourselves with people who leave us feeling unhappy, etc.

What I discovered is that, yes, rational mind work is a necessary component, but there is still something squirreled away in the back of your mind that keeps tripping you up. It’s frustrating because you KNOW what to do and, by golly, you honestly believe you’re making different choices this time around but there you are, BAM! Right back where you began.

Do you remember the Winnie the Pooh story of the sand pit? It’s kind of like that.

RABBIT: It's a funny thing how everything looks the same in the mist.
WINNIE THE POOH: He's right, Piglet. It's the very same sand pit.
PIGLET: I think so too, Pooh.
RABBIT: Well, it's lucky I know the forest so well, or we might get lost. Well, come on. Follow me.
NARRATOR: Now, Pooh was getting tired of seeing the same sand pit and he suspected it of following them about. Because whichever direction they started in they always seemed to end up at it.
WINNIE THE POOH: Say, Rabbit, how would it be if as soon as we're out of sight of this old pit we just try to find it again?
RABBIT: What's the good of that?
WINNIE THE POOH: Well, you see, we keep looking for home but we keep finding this pit. So I just thought that if we looked for this pit we might find home.

Like Rabbit, we are so confident we know the way home that we continue marching along the path through the mist, only to find ourselves back at that darn sandpit again and again. Rapid Transformational Hypnotherapy is akin to looking for the pit instead, as wise Pooh suggested, and then releasing your need to come back to it.

The result is a subtle shift, and it’s full impact on your life unfolds over months, but it does change your perspective almost immediately and leads to noticeable long-term change that really “sticks”. RTT is different from traditional hypnosis and seems to be more effective. “RTT is a self-contained therapy that has a framework of hypnosis but includes several powerful tools, including Hypnotherapy, Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, that can result in breakthrough or transformation.” according to Melanie. “Whereas hypnosis can be used to make suggestions that if accepted will change behaviors , RTT can be used to find root causes of behaviors and then change limiting beliefs that eliminate unwanted behavior most effectively.”

Melanie provides her clients with a recording of their session and suggests you listen for at least 21 days to really embed your new thought patterns. I’m happy to say it has been a quite successful experiment and I’ve seen some big changes in my perspective. I find myself effortlessly making choices that lead me along a new, more beneficial, path than I would have chosen in the past.

If you are curious and would like a chance to meet Melanie to ask her about the process, she will be presenting a talk, Overcoming Mental Roadblocks to Healthy Habits, at Wright’s Natural Market (5800 Main Street) on Saturday, June 1 at 11:00 am. It’s free, so you have nothing to lose and, potentially, everything to gain!

Lia Gallegos is the Marketing Director for Wright's Natural Market and Partner at Rock the Boat Productions. She is passionate about promoting the community she lives and works in and the new small-town urban lifestyle developing in downtown New Port Richey.