PART 1

Trusting yourself is very important if you want to be able to live a happy, healthy, and meaningful life. 

What Does it Mean to Trust Yourself?

Trusting yourself means that you are confident in your decisions and ability to count on yourself in all situations. You are clear about your goals and confident in your ability to achieve your goals.

This does not mean you expect yourself to be perfect all the time.  Trusting yourself is about believing in yourself even after you have made a mistake. You trust in your ability to stand up after you fall and recover from your mistakes.  You view losses or failures as lessons and use them to thrive and improve yourself for the future. 

A huge part of self-trust is self-acceptance and self-love.  Accepting yourself with all your strengths and all your weaknesses. 

Benefits of Trusting Yourself

If you learn to trust yourself, your quality of life will improve in various ways.

• With more trust in yourself comes more confidence in yourself – You become confident in your abilities and decisions. You know what suits you well and what doesn’t so you feel more confident about what choices you go for (or don’t go for).
  
• You become more self-aware – When you become more self-aware, you know who you are. Once you know who you are, you stop listening to other people’s opinions blindly. No one has lived your life, walked in your shoes, lived through every single time period, events, or changes of your life the way you have. Therefore, no one knows you as well as you know yourself. When you become self-aware, you live authentically and stop trying to needlessly please everyone around you.
  
• You take criticism well – Since you have gotten to know yourself better and trust yourself, you respond to criticism from others much better. Constructive criticism can be a productive and useful thing that helps you improve and thrive. However, other kinds of criticism is only another person’s opinion of you. Also, what people think and say is only the result of their own internal world. You learn to take nothing personally because you realize that sometimes other people’s opinions are projections of their own reality. Oftentimes, people are only trying to compensate for their own insecurity or discontent. That is why you don’t let other people’s opinion define who you are. 
  

Drawbacks of Not Trusting Yourself

Not trusting yourself can have several negative effects on your life. You will miss golden opportunities because you thought you were not good enough, when in reality, you were more than good enough. Over time, your quality of life can really suffer if you don’t learn how to trust yourself. Here are some of the most harmful consequences of not trusting yourself. 

• You constantly feel fearful and negative emotions
• You self-sabotage and see yourself as less than others.
• You live an unauthentic life. 

Recognizing Signs That You Don’t Trust Yourself 

If you want to be able to trust yourself, you will need to know what not trusting yourself looks like.  Here are some common signs and symptoms that you may not trust yourself.

• You have an overly critical inner voice. 
• Your quality of life (personal, work, social, hobbies etc) is suffering on a constant basis; you feel like a victim all the time.
• You have a hard time making decisions.
• You are generally afraid to be judged by others if you share what’s on your mind.

If you struggle with low self-confidence and trusting yourself, hypnotherapy has a high success record to help improve your self-trust, self-love, and self-acceptance. 

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