| How comfortable are you in this world of yours? Do | | | | you have been imprinted with the energy of the |
| you have over brimming self-confidence, living life | | | | message, "You are unwelcome." "You are a problem |
| with the attitude that possibilities and potentials are | | | | just being." |
| infinite? You might be self-confident in certain | | | | This message can infiltrate every area of your life. |
| situations, but not in others. Still yet, you might | | | | You may have been a "clingy" child because you felt |
| appear self-confident because you have developed | | | | unsafe anywhere but with your mom or dad, and |
| the ability to move through your fear. Or, you might | | | | you weren't sure about them. New experiences, a |
| be so terrified of life that you can barely look people | | | | babysitter, going to pre-school, joining sports' teams |
| in the eye. | | | | or Scouts, was terrifying. They still may be. |
| With confidence that comes from within, you present | | | | At the other extreme, you may have kept to |
| a powerful image to the world. You know you have | | | | yourself, avoiding interacting with people. You may |
| gifts and talents people enjoy. Others may even | | | | have kept your fear at bay by hiding in your room. |
| gravitate to you. You know you will be accepted into | | | | Perhaps you still do. Then again, you may have |
| any arena you decide to enter. And if, on the rare | | | | swallowed your fear and moved into the world |
| occasion people don't accept you, you shake off | | | | fooling everyone but yourself, terrified "they" will |
| their rejection with little difficulty and move on to a | | | | discover the terrible truth about you. |
| more welcoming group. Confidence is all about being | | | | There is no reason to stay in such pain the rest of |
| comfortable in your own skin and, thus, comfortable | | | | your life. |
| in the world. | | | | If you are willing to take just two minutes before |
| Are you now saying, "I want that!" | | | | you sleep for the next 9 months, you can begin to |
| How self-confident you are and how comfortable | | | | truly heal the pain of feeling unaccepted. Your |
| you are in your environment began in your first | | | | confidence will grow. |
| home, your birthmother's womb. | | | | How? |
| As a practitioner of hypnotherapy, and one who has | | | | Become pregnant with yourself. |
| experienced healing through hypnotherapy, I am | | | | Yes, even you guys out there. Become pregnant |
| continually awed by how many of life's issues begin in | | | | with yourself. |
| those first few months of life, from conception to | | | | Let today be your conception date. Mark 9 months |
| birth. Comfortableness in your skin and expectation | | | | from today on your calendar as your "birth date." |
| of acceptance can be one of those "womb issues." | | | | Imagine you are pregnant with yourself. You are |
| Here is a typical pattern of what is discovered in a | | | | carrying in your womb, or "womb" for the guys, your |
| hypnotherapy session in which someone's lack of | | | | infinitesimal self. Every night before you go to sleep, |
| self-confidence originated through birth issues. You, | | | | place your hands over your womb, or "womb," and |
| the darling little zygote, quickly moving into embryo | | | | say, "I'm so glad you are here." Send love to |
| stage, are floating happily taking great delight in what | | | | yourself. Ask God, Spirit, your Higher Power, to fill |
| you are experiencing. The warmth and coziness of | | | | this growing little person (use your name) with all the |
| the womb is wonderful and the steady "thub ... thub | | | | love needed that day. Ask that this love, which is |
| ... thub" of your mother's heartbeat is soothing. | | | | coming from your hands into the developing you, |
| Suddenly, "Oooooh ... myyyyy ... God! I think I'm | | | | wash away all wounds that occurred from any |
| pregnant!" The energy of strong emotion assaults | | | | thoughts, feelings or events encountered in the |
| you. And this is not the emotion of delight. It is the | | | | world. Send loving energy for 2 whole entire minutes. |
| emotion of pure horror. | | | | It may seem longer, but it really is just 120 seconds. |
| Suddenly your joy is gone. You haven't done | | | | If you do this every day for 9 months, you will be |
| anything but just be there. The most important | | | | sending yourself loving healing energy and |
| person in your life is not excited you are present. She | | | | re-programming those messages of being unwanted, |
| is terrified you are there. You take on your mother's | | | | not accepted. |
| horror that you exist. | | | | Go ahead. I know you might be self-conscious. Do it |
| No matter what happens later, as in Mom adjusting | | | | anyway. |
| and being happy and delighted you are on your way, | | | | |