Mindset Hypnotherapy: Lilydale

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This Christmas I caught up with an old friend in business. We have known each other for some years now and I’ve always admired his sensitive caring nature, although this has not served him well in running his small business.

This catchup was dominated by sadness however, when he told me about the young man who he had been trying to get to see me. He’d told me a year ago that he thought this troubled but talented young mechanic, could benefit from our counselling and hypnotherapy work and he was working on him to reach out for help and make an appointment.

As the story unfolded I became horrified to learn that during the year the anxiety and depression that this young man experienced, had become so overwhelming, that in the depths of winter he had committed suicide.

I was devestated. Another young life had been lost and their opportunity to make the most of that life gift was squandered in a moment of hopelessness and despair.

Had I done enough to reach out to him? How far do you go to show people a way out of their anxiety? Is it overstepping the mark to push people to get help when you know you can help but they don’t yet know that you can genuinely help them.

Perhaps if I had made more of an effort to meetup and explain how our minds can be used for the good of our existance and the things that bring us down can be managed with the right tools, perhaps he might still be with us, leading a productive well adjusted life.

These simple stories are being repeated over and over again in our crazy modern lifestyle. Anxiety seems to be the order of the day and yet we know how to change. We know how to help people to get back to a normal healthy experience of life. What we don’t know is what might have happened to the many hundreds of people that we have helped so far, if they had not taken the first step.

From now on, I am going to do everything in my power to encourage people to take that initial step to get help.

Mike Welsh

MindSet Hypnotherapy