Author: effectiveoutcomes20

WORKING FROM HOME AND RETURNING TO WORK

The Rules of the Mind:

• Our minds like what is familiar and dislike the unfamiliar. A change in routine often feels like a threat, or feels uncomfortable because it is unfamiliar.
• Our thoughts and self-talk influence our emotions, so if we have a negative thought about working from home, we are going to feel negative about the experience. And the opposite is true.
• These influences determine our focus – are we focusing on the negative or the positive?
• Nothing in life has meaning or significance – only the meaning or significance that we place on it. We get to choose whether this is going to be a disaster for us or an opportunity to do things differently, or better!

How Does This Impact Working from Home During Lockdown and Beyond?

At the start and during Lockdown, many people were worried about working from home. It forced a huge change to the normal way of working.

However, some adapted better than others, probably the folk who enjoy working alone, without interruption because they can get more done. Others – who enjoy the sense of belonging that working with a team brings, will have found it more difficult to adapt to the change. They will be more likely to feel isolated and alone and may be susceptible to giving into the games their minds will play. Negative thoughts and emotions will lead to increased anxiety and feelings of helplessness.
Which comes back to point 4). We can decide whether it’s a good or a bad thing, understanding that we are influencing ourselves every day.

How Does This Impact the Eventual Return to Work? Will we be able to return to old routines and perform as well as before?

Again – these are natural fears but they are only thoughts in our head. We are responding to our internal noise & chatter – not a tested reality.

REMEMBER – in only 3-4 months, we adapted to a new way of working – without colleagues unless via a virtual technology. We will adapt again – to being together and we WILL be able to perform as we once did. We just have to get used to it again.

WE MUST TRUST OURSELVES and BELIEVE in ourselves. We did it before, we will do it again!

REMEMBER: EVERYTHING IS A CHOICE. We can choose to view the return to the office as an exciting time of re-connecting with colleagues and the support network and a greater sense of the FAMILIAR

Or we can choose to view this next change as something to fear.

 The most fundamental point of all is that it is merely another CHANGE and we can adapt to CHANGE easily and cope with it. We did it in March and we can do it now!

TOP TIPS:

MAKE FRIENDS WITH CHANGE – IT IS THE ONLY CONSTANT IN LIFE;

BE AWARE OF YOUR SELF-TALK – ARE YOU FOCUSING ON THE NEGATIVE OR THE POSITIVE?

NOTHING IN LIFE HAS MEANING – ONLY THE MEANING YOU GIVE IT

So CHOOSE to feel excited! CHOOSE to feel confident! DECIDE that you can cope/behave/perform in your role just as well as you did before.

TRUST YOURSELF.

• I will lose control;
• I will fall asleep;
• I won’t wake up;
• I will be tricked into doing things I don’t want to;

Thankfully, none of these things are true!  As all hypnosis is self-hypnosis, you remain in control at all times. It’s important to understand that the state of hypnosis is a naturally occurring one that you enter yourself many times a day! I call it day-dreaming with your eyes closed! The only difference in a formal session is that the state of hypnosis is induced deliberately, rather than waiting for you to drift off naturally. My job is to guide you into the hypnotic state but you will be doing it yourself.

You do not fall asleep. Instead, you access a different state of awareness, one that is very narrowly focused and directed towards your internal world, rather than the world going on around you. Generally, people report that they feel deeply relaxed, which is a happy by-product of hypnosis.

If, by some remote chance, you did fall asleep, you would wake up naturally, after a few minutes. Similarly, you will always come out of hypnosis, because you will either respond to the instruction you have been given, or, on the very rare occasion you did not respond to the instruction, you would emerge from hypnosis naturally, after a few minutes. As you are not asleep, there is no waking up. You will simply “come to” from your day-dream state.

Remember: because you are always in control, there is no chance that you could be tricked into doing something you don’t want or agree with.  You can and will reject any suggestion that you don’t like. No power can be exerted over you against your will.

Hypnosis is a wonderful, powerful, way of changing your thinking and transforming your life.