Yoga or Hypnotherapy

Hello Deborah 😊

As regards Yoga, I do it as a hobby for exercise and relaxation. I started doing it after I had a baby 10 years ago, because it is suitable exercise for somebody who just had a baby, and it is also so flexible as it can fit into any amount of time throughout the day from 5 minutes at a time to more. It is also great for dealing with stress and pressure in life, because there is a whole philosophy that goes with it, so you can practice a mentality for dealing with stressful situations, while getting into shape at the same time. At first, I wasnt keen to do yoga, because I didnt believe that something so gentle could get me in shape, but it works better than all that sweating I used to do at the gym, before my daughter came along.

I dont know either how viable it would be full time, but I can imagine a market of people who want to learn stress management techniques, and also for those who want to exercise but time is an issue for them. You probably could build up some kind of client base over time. Maybe it could start as part time, or you could try getting slots at gyms to teach it.

I tried hypnotherapy too. My friend who is a counsellor does it as part of her counselling. I think, those 2 things work well together, because they boost a persons ability to change or improve their attitude, behaviour... I am not keen on hypnotherapy by itself, because even though I believe it works, I dont think the effects are lasting, unless they go with some kind of psycotherapy.

I guess what I'm stuck on is that I am afraid to spend years studying for something that is unrealistic when it come to making a living and not being broke! (I studied 3 years part time for a BA Interior Design and Architecture and the economy went bang so no jobs for me.... am okay with that as i am glad I have done it but am now aware that not what i want to do).

Yeah, I know what you mean. There was a time I considered working in the travel industry, but I realised pretty quickly that this would mean jobs would be difficult to find, and I would likely have little money to travel and little job security. Instead, I studied information technology. After I got my City and Guilds and National Certificates in Information technology, I got a job quickly and was never out of a job until I actually decided myself to quit, in personal preferance of spending lots of time with my baby. I say, get a marketable skill and do what you love as a hobby. You can become pretty skilled with a hobby when you do it for a long time and because you love it. You might even make some money on the side from it too, but your main job would be what pays for everything. When I was working, I was able to afford to travel for 1 to 3 weeks every 2 to 3 months. My job allowed for the time off, in return for me doing endless overtime, but I didnt mind because it earned me the money and time to do the travelling I love.

Mel

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Hi Guys,

Thank you so much for your replies.... and really great ones at that!! I am back to work doing admin/ sales and earning a crap wage, however I hope that when I have settled into this position a little more that I might try to get my lazy ass into action and just bite the bullet and start studying again.

I discovered something very interesting the other night. I was in my room and started to write in an A4 notebook I have. I used to keep a diary when I was younger and just decided to write a page about my day (nothing interesting had happened in my day and I felt very silly as I started to write) low and behold... 6 pages later (front and back) I had just waffled and waffled on the pages! I was ranting about study and what I wanted to do with my life, how I wanted to get moving into the direction of a career that I can build and mould and learn more and more and become the best in my field at what I do. Saying how I would love to meet an amazing man who will love me, treat me well, hold me in as high regard as I hold him, who can be both together and independant, who can support me as I support him and yada yada yada.... This is called free association I believe, in the realm of therapy, and what I discovered was that I was afraid of wasting time again (like I did with my BA) and I wanted to make the 'correct' decision..... which I am aware there are none!

Also I discovered that part of what is holding me back is that I am afraid if I make a decision to do one or the other , for example Hypnotherapy, and discover that I am crap at it, or perhaps the fantasy was indeed a fantasy and maybe I wasn't being realistic, then it would leave me with only one other decision and one other dream, yoga..... then panic would set in and if I was to go do that, the fear would be that the same would happen again and then I am left with no dreams and working forever for somebody else doing something that I don't want to do!!! Deep Eh??!!!

However it was in my writing that 6 page essay, that I have realised that I need to just make a decision to (in the words of Susan Jeffers) Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway! I cannot live my life on 'what ifs' and 'maybes'... life stays stagnant then and boring. So I am going to try to gte my confidence up and make a decision to start studying for the Hypnotherapy. My Dad has a Hypnotherapy/ Psychotherapy practise running already and therefore I have somewhere to practice at the weekends if I want to take on clients, and he is making a reasonable living from it. I just need to suck it up, and part opf me really believes that I would make a great hypnotherapist/ psychotherapist!! Any maybe later in a few years down the road when i have become comfortable with that, them I can doa yoga training course.

I guess another reason for procrastination would be that unfortunately I am at the ending of a 6 year relationship. We have essentially turned in to friends, and the time is coming where we need to have that realistic chat about moving on with our lives.... which is difficult because I will miss him as my other half, but he has long forgotten how this relationship works and I am emotionally tired of being the one who is bothered about us and trying to make the effort for both of us. I am renting his apartment from him and cannot think of any other place to go... so that will be hard also. I would love to start gearing for study now, however with this looming I feel that it will take up so much of my emotional time that concentrating on study in the start or middle of a break up would not be a good idea.

So that my friends is my very uninteresting update on my movements. I hope that when and if I speak with you again that I will have progressed and moved on a little bit further again.

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Awww!! You're so sweet and I really do believe what you are saying. The majority of the time that is how I feel, although some times I forget to feel it!! Ha ha ha!!

I look forward to updating you all in the near future when the sun has shone through the claggy sky and beams colourful rainbows and sunshine into my future!!!

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