Hypnotes March ~ Adapting
This month, I want to focus on the importance of thinking differently. During uncertain times our confidence and self esteem can be eroded. Our belief systems are often challenged and we sometimes or often feel uncomfortable with external events, with other people and ourselves. Regular readers will be familiar with the phrase, ‘each thought creates a physical response’ and this is important to remember.
What we also have to remember is unfamiliar is not necessarily wrong, it’s simply unfamiliar. But we adapt and we can learn to think differently, and as we think differently we eventually feel more comfortable and unfamiliar then become familiar.
How many of us who walked past Woolworths the day after it closed and felt those feelings of unfamiliarity? It has always been there. Generations of Warringtonians have met outside the Woolworth shop on a Saturday to meet our friends before ‘going around town’. And yet a few walks past it and how quickly we become familiar to seeing it closed. We adapt, and we do it well if we allow ourselves too.
Over recent months, we have become familiar with bailouts, company closures; we have also become familiar with massive numbers, a billion, 20 billions sometimes hundreds of billions. When we first thought about billions it was a mind numbing number, now we’re all familiar with the huge numbers and we now don’t give them a second thought (though we will when we have to pay them back!) so again we adapt.
And that is one of the many great things about being human, we are adaptable, we can make the best of a bad job, we can learn to think differently, we can learn to think better, we can learn new skills, new attitudes and new outlooks.
Every single person who reads this article is capable of changing their thoughts and outcomes. My self help audio recordings and my services at Guardian Medical Centre are about helping people to make changes in their lives. More recently I have been busy focussing on helping those who have been made redundant to speed up their emotional recovery, restore confidence levels develop self motivation and determination amongst other things and therefore to move on again.
Anyone who has ever been made involuntarily redundant will know the impact it has on their lives and their emotions, the silent fears as well as those shared with loved ones. And it takes time to recover, but we do eventually, but in my view the sooner the better, because there is lots of competition out there, and we need to learn and adapt even more.
What we thought were dependable institutions and companies are vanishing or taking on new forms, and yet change always brings opportunity. It is up to us to take advantage of the times. However no-one will say it is an easy thing to do, but I believe it is those who are prepared to adapt and learn and think differently who will be the winners when all this is over. And it will pass and things will get better again for the majority. For some it will literally be starting from scratch again, but everyone does have the ability to adapt and change and move on. Sometimes we have no choice, so the more comfortable we feel in and about ourselves and our abilities the better our outlook, and subsequently what we eventually achieve.
