The Quest for your Authentic Self: A Dive into Self-Discovery

Ever found yourself asking, "Who am I beneath all these shifting emotions?"
This year, my own query into authenticity led me to the most critical revelation of my life—finding congruence in who I am.

 Through my own experiences, including the struggles of writing a book and navigating a transformative coaching course, I unearthed the power of flipping challenges into opportunities for growth.

As the year winds down, it's natural to reflect on our paths and who we've inspired or been inspired by.
This session is more than a year-end contemplation; it's a guide to self-appreciation and discovering the core of your being. I'll share how selecting a 'Word of the Year' has been a game-changer and encourage you to explore this practice.
So let's embark on a Mindful Hypnosis journey together to uncover your most congruent self and set the stage for a year that outshines the last.

Resources & Links Mentioned:

• Decrease anxiety fast!! 
• Work with Cheryl 
• Choose a word of the year 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The one lesson I learned from 2023.
Let's get started.
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I am Cheryl, your hypnotist andpodcast host, and I welcome you
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Hey, it's Cheryl here.

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more people like you.
Thank you so much.
I really appreciate youlistening.
Welcome to Mindful Hypnosis.
My name is Cheryl and I am yourhost.
I was going to do an episode onthree lessons I learned in 2023
and you know a wrap up of 2023and I decided to keep it simple

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because I really wanted tostretch myself and to come up
with the strongest message thatI have from 2023.
And it all comes down to beingcongruent, to stepping into who
you really are as a person.
This isn't the anxious person,the fearful person, this isn't

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the argumentative person or thenegative person, because those
are emotional states, andemotional states change.
You can wake up in the morningand be happy, you can go to bed,
piss, to shit the emotionalstates.
But underneath all thoseemotional states is the person
you are.
It is your highest intention,your highest ideal.

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It is the person who risesabove all of these difficulties,
who rides the wave of all thesedifficulties.
And when you become congruent,you know who you are and you
learn to look at your faults orquote unquote defects or
difficulties, not as a crux tobear but as part of your journey

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, and you learn how to takethose situations and flip them
over.
I'll give you an example.
Part of who I was for so manyyears was my anxiety general
anxiety Anxious going to work,anxious coming home from work.
I mean I would be anxious to goto visit family members, even
anxious driving.

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I learned and conquered allthat.
But then I also took theunderstanding of being anxious
and how it felt and I was ableto turn it into something
positive, and that's where mycoaching comes in.
So I would suggest for you justto sit down and to really look
underneath of all of theemotions that you have and all

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of the difficulties, and eventhe winds and the good things.
But look underneath all thatand who are you when you are at
your most congruent?
Who are you when you are atyour best?
Who are you?
Who do you inspire and whoinspires you?
And I found this past year thatI was looking at that.

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You know, when I was writing mybook, I was looking for the
inspiration of others and how tonavigate something I've never
done before.
And then, earlier in this year,I also took a powerful coaching
course that upleveled mycoaching beyond infinity and
that taught me a lot about who Iwas as well, because I had to
step into that program withuncomfortableness.

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I wasn't comfortable to be in aprogram where, all of a sudden,
I'm the newbie again.
That's uncomfortable, but I hadto step into that and I learned
a lot about myself.
I learned what presses mybuttons and what I'm good at and
what I'm bad at, and in the endit all comes down to who am I
Like?
Why am I here?

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I'm not trying to get allwoo-woo, but the question pops
up especially when it comes tothe end of the year, because
we're doing a lot of evaluation,we're looking at what we've
done this past year, we'rematching this past year to our
previous years and we're alwaysevaluating and judging ourselves
.
And I want you to step out ofthat for a minute and, instead
of judging yourself, appreciateyourself and ask this question

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what is beneath all of that, allof that emotion, all of that
face you put out to others?
What is the real you and whatdo you need to make your next
year better than this year?
Now I'll also share with youthat a couple years ago I did a
Word of the Year.

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That podcast is episode 10.
If you want to create your Wordof the Year for intention for
next year, go check it out.
I want you to have a wonderful2024 and I want you to step into
it with the intention of reallycoming out, so to speak, to who
you really are and to embracethat part of you, to embrace the

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ability to be authentic.
It is easy to just go about ourlife, kind of going along and
getting along, and sometimes weneed to just step out and say
who we are and what we believein and what our values are and
what our motivations are andwhat we desire, and it's not
selfish.

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If anything, it is raising yourplatform and that allows other
people to see you as theirmotivation and their inspiration
.
It all circles back aroundagain.
All right, that's all for thisepisode.
I hope you have a wonderful dayand a wonderful New Year and I
will see you next year.

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