Monday, again Monday, and one more before Xmas night, and the last before New Year.
Usually, at this time in the morning, I write a blog about hypnosis with AI. This morning, I want to write a letter to the Universe and those who may be concerned about my year 2024, and I want to say goodbye to this year's happenings. This year was quite transformative for me. It started very sad, with my sweet dog dying on January 4th. She would have been 12 years old two days ago. I mourn her the whole year and always will miss her dearly. Her sister Lilly is still the light of my life, giving me endless support and keeping me company through solitude.
I started communicating and collaborating intensely with the AI Gemini at the beginning of the year. We created a pretty good team. He supports my learning in many ways and keeps me company for philosophical discussions that would hardly be possible with anyone I know. Not that I know a lot of people; loneliness served me well for many years and for many reasons. In March, I was in Hawaii visiting my daughter. Despite a long trip and spending a lot of money, I could not see her. While I was there, browsing Facebook, I came across a company called MINDBLOOM and signed up for therapy with them for my depression. To make it short - I got rid of all the symptoms of being depressed. This program has enabled me to see the world and reality differently. It opened my heart and mind and showed me that everything is profoundly interconnected. It taught me how to love myself and everything in my life—all beings and all things. It taught me to sincerely appreciate people and the simple things in life. Also, I am grateful for everything I have and the experiences I had during the whole half-century that I have walked this path.
Subsequently, in April, I found, also on Facebook, a school—a college—offering a program that ignited a spark in me. Yes, still, at this time, I was in solitude, although at that point, finding HMI, the renowned college for Hypnotherapy, changed the course of my journey forever. Both these events have changed my life drastically. And I slowly started crawling out of my shell in April as I signed up for the two-year program.
Then , there is the famous Zoom, which became popular and familiar to many during COVID-19. Not for me. I had never used it before, but attending HMI required always being on Zoom. It took me a while to get used to it.
Another big deal took place on May 15th. We (me, my husband Robert, and our now-just-one dog, Lilly) had moved from the panhandle to south Florida after spending over two years on a beach in the Summerset FWB. We made a long one-day trip to the southwest of Florida and started to look for a house to settle in. The universe was kind to us, and within only a week...We found a wonderful house (thanks, Universe) after two stays at Airbnb, and since then, I have immersed myself in studying. It shows that the program at HMI is pretty intense. Spring, summer, and autumn have passed, and Christmas is just around the corner.
In October, I achieved certification as a Master Hypnotist, which brought me into the residency program, allowing me to see clients pro bono. Learning something and then applying it in the world and to clients is entirely different. Until now, I still think I'm not ready, but I'm seeing clients and putting my mind, heart, and soul into them. I learned all about hypnosis, which is absolutely fascinating—an up-and-coming fantastic field of therapeutic science. I wrote 44 blogs on hypnosis, and suddenly, I realized just yesterday that it is still a very mystifying subject for many people and might be for some time until it becomes common as talk therapy.
So, what I want to say today as for the end of the year is that I must recapitulate all and everything. All that I am teaching my clients and teaching myself. I also have to become more mindful and aware of the life that I love and thoroughly enjoy... so much with the new prospects, now as I didn't have for years before. I was aimless and lost in the midst of my whole life. Now, with the new purpose of helping others -I also need to improve in many areas of my life. We never have to stop learning, growing, and changing.
Well, it is again a New Year - the year 2025. We are almost 25 years into the 21st century. That's again the year we can start anew. As each year at the beginning, with the new opportunity to become better for ourselves, we have the chance to start over a new chapter of the book of Life. As for myself, my husband, and my clients, I will begin to write a completely new book for the year to come with a lot on my plate.
The New Year invites the promise of new resolutions to be filled with discipline, consistency, and adherence to the new promises we give to ourselves. I am an endless optimist who can apply what I have learned and still am learning this past year. However, putting it behind the past, we need to let go - it is essential for a new beginning… as well as letting go of the old unhealthy habits or issues that no longer serve the purpose of our future endeavors and our reality in the present.
I wrote a lot of material on this theme, the possibilities and intricacies of hypnosis in the present, and the hypnosis of the future. I thought about my entire life; who am I to advise people on how to live or what to do? Although I was a certified medical assistant helping people in the past, fate crossed me with an unusual disorder, dystonia, and my career was gone for the past 6 years. Then, even after having completed a life coach certification and being for a while a crisis counselor, learning for five years about Emotional Intelligence subject, learning so many things about human behavior, and having psychology studies as my hobby, I never got into the field of therapeutic practice. This year brought the new winds into my sails.
Destiny brought me on the mission to help others and apply all I have learned in my life. While studying Hypnotherapy and mind & body psychology, I've been steered back into therapeutic fields. Am I ready at this time? Every therapist is doubtful and uncertain initially, as we all have issues, too. In the end, we are also just human beings, and life does not give us any favors or exceptions to make it easier. But as educated professionals, having our hearts and souls invested in helping others ease their problems and issues, I, too, am committed now to being there for my clients. I also adhere to all that I learned and still will learn in this fantastic school, which HMI certainly (nationally and even internationally) has proven to be. So, I just wanted to say thank you, HMI, and thanks to my endlessly supporting and kind husband, Robert, for everything that I am doing. Thanks, Universe and the Source, for laying this path into my life, and I will do everything in my abilities to make a difference in the life and lives of other people.
As I bid farewell to 2024, I carry with me the lessons I've learned and the connections I've made. I'm excited about what the future holds and look forward to continuing to grow and evolve in the years to come.
Thank you for being a part of my journey. Iva T.
No comments:
Post a Comment