The Bag of Identity

Truly strip back the layers of who you might think you are…

When I was out at dinner recently with some of my friends, someone joked about the fact that whenever we are out to dinner, someone always asks me about my work and then I end up spending hours politely answering questions about it.

They were laughing because I had made a fun comment to Katie that when she meets my friends, I was going to sit her with one of the less interesting ones, ask her questions about her work, and then leave her to it… Of course I wouldn’t do such a thing in reality.

However, someone said to me, “I’m sure that Adam doesn’t mind, because that is who he is…”

Hmmm… Interesting. My brain clicked in.

When I first started seeing clients in my individual therapy practice, I used to think of myself as a knight in shining armour, helping people to win battles of life and succeed more. I have also seen myself as many other things as time has gone by. However, who actually am I? Big question, eh? I have spent hours and hours working on my own identity and I find it a fascinating and enlightening topic.

I have found that so many people do not really consider themselves to have much of an identity or they keep the same identity that they may have had as a child and it may not be serving them well. This identity may not be conscious, it may well be firmly lodged beneath the surface.

When I was younger, I was lucky to watch a talk by a brilliant shaman and teacher. He gave an enthralling talk about myths and stories, topics I have written about myself in the past. At a similar time, I read the book by Joseph Campbell entitled, ‘The Hero with a Thousand Faces’, and found that many individuals do adopt identities from stories, films and books.

Our minds are saturated with input from these sources, so maybe we should not be surprised that we tend to adopt the identities of others from time to time.

How many people do you know have become victims of a sad story as a way of seeking more love?
How many people do you know that have adopted a certain identity to attempt to be more appealing to another?
How many people do you know that have overcome great odds to triumph, as so many heroes do?

I am not suggesting for one moment that you need to adopt the identity of someone other than yourself, though it can be very useful at times… At least, I have found it to be so. However, what I think is important is just how aware we are of our identity and how it affects our lives.

This hypnosis session is here for you to actually start to discover more of the essence of who you actually are. This is often clouded and veiled — we tend to think we are our actions, or our behaviours, or that we are the things we have… when of course we are not those things at all.

I am delighted to offer you this hypnosis session that allows you to truly strip back the layers of who you might think you are. How to let go of many of the things in which you may have defined yourself by and get to the real you behind it all, so that you can have a place from which you can choose to create your identity as you think is best for you, or to simply found out more of who and how your identity manifests itself in your life today.

I came across this technique and use it with many of my clients. I do not know where it originated and so cannot take credit for the idea — only the adaptation of the technique.

It is a fabulously liberating hypnosis session. I know you are going to find it powerful and profound in your own way, and hope you enjoy it as much as I did or as much as all the people that tell me about their experiences with this session.