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'Why do I have such poor self confidence?'

Sufferers of poor self confidence lose the ability to identify any of their good points. They become very 'half empty'  and self critical, feeling unworthy and incompetent. They become less and less able to handle criticism in either their professional or private lives. They find that errors made in the past cannot be forgotten and this will prevent them from risk-taking in the future, whether it be socially, financially or professionally. They find it more and more difficult to meet new people, interviews for a job become almost impossible with a constant fear of 'messing it up', and the outlook for the future becomes very bleak. They set themselves up as perfectionists with targets that are extremely hard to achieve and even if these targets are met they are still unsatisfied and want to do better. They feel constantly under pressure to achieve, having a fear of failure and continually assessing what other people think of them.

'What causes a person to have poor self esteem?'

 When a child is born, they are pretty much perfect...then the adults come along and seeds of negativity are sown in a their mind. Whether it was years of 'putting down' by a parent, relative or teacher, those seeds develop into an adult with low self-image.

 Whatever happened to you when young cannot be changed but what can be altered is your reaction in the present day to situations that cause you to be fearful of your performance. A course of regression hypnotherapy will allow the subconscious to be accessed and reveal the root cause of your poor self confidence. For example, you may have been called 'stupid' or told that you would 'never make anything of your life' . Seeing these scenes again as an adult allows you to process them as an adult rather than a scared and confused five year old. This will then allow you to reprogram your beliefs and goals in a more productive useful way, thus increasing your self-confidence. You will also be taken through a series of visualisation exercises to see the 'new you' and how good you appear and these images are then firmly planted in your mind. Hypnotherapy can help you overcome any future negative self talk by this improving of your self-image and preventing any negative input.