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Thought Compass

@thoughtcompass.bsky.social

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Navigate your thoughts to embrace your full potential. I specialise in helping you overcome performance anxiety, limiting beliefs, and shame. Let’s rewrite the script and unlock your best self. www.thoughtcompass.co.uk #Hypnotherapy

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Thought Compass @thoughtcompass.bsky.social · 2h

Creativity doesn't require talent.
It requires curiosity and the willingness to make something that might not work.

Thought Compass @thoughtcompass.bsky.social · 18h

Your thoughts are the preview, not the main feature.
CBT helps you choose which previews to watch.

Thought Compass @thoughtcompass.bsky.social · 1d

The scripts you inherited about what's possible – they were written by people with different limitations than yours.
Time for a revision.

Thought Compass @thoughtcompass.bsky.social · 1d

That voice saying you need permission?
You are the permission. You always have been.

Thought Compass @thoughtcompass.bsky.social · 2d

Cognitive behavioural hypnotherapy: like having a conversation with the part of your mind that's been making decisions without consulting you.

Thought Compass @thoughtcompass.bsky.social · 2d

The difference between confidence and presence: confidence performs.
Presence just breathes and lets what's real show up.

Thought Compass @thoughtcompass.bsky.social · 3d

Your nervous system has been trying to keep you safe using information from situations that ended years ago.
Time for an update.

Thought Compass @thoughtcompass.bsky.social · 3d

Therapy isn't about becoming fearless.
It's about becoming intimate with your fears so they don't run your life from the shadows.

Thought Compass @thoughtcompass.bsky.social · 4d

The part of you that feels like an imposter?
It's usually the part that's closest to who you really are underneath all the adaptations.

Thought Compass @thoughtcompass.bsky.social · 4d

Your relationship with creativity is your relationship with possibility.
What if this?
What if that?
What if now?

Thought Compass @thoughtcompass.bsky.social · 5d

CBT teaches you that between stimulus and response, there's a choice.
That gap is where your power lives.

Thought Compass @thoughtcompass.bsky.social · 5d

Performance anxiety assumes that showing who you are is dangerous.
Sometimes the most rebellious act is just revealing who you are.

Thought Compass @thoughtcompass.bsky.social · 6d

Take a moment.
Feel the weight of the cup in your hand.
The cool water on your tongue.
You don’t need all the answers right now.
Just this breath. Just this sip.
Who will you become, one quiet moment at a time?

You don’t need to fix everything today.
Let’s just begin.

A person viewed from behind, sitting by a window with soft natural light. They’re holding a glass of water in both hands, pausing before they drink. The mood is calm, reflective. and a haiku: life held in your hands | the cool water you’re drinking | who will you become

Thought Compass @thoughtcompass.bsky.social · 6d

The stories about what you're allowed to want – check who authored them.
Might be time for a rewrite.

Thought Compass @thoughtcompass.bsky.social · 6d

Here's the real question: is it the doing of the thing that appeals, or the idea of doing the thing?

Recognising the gap between those two states is the first step to real change.

#actorslife #exploretocreate #changeyourmindset

Thought Compass @thoughtcompass.bsky.social · 6d

Then just do the first thing that comes into your head. Just start.

Nothing has to be brilliant from the first moment. The best work comes when you have to drag it out of yourself, kicking and screaming.

Thought Compass @thoughtcompass.bsky.social · 6d

Notice what happens to your breath when you think that way. It gets short. Limited. Tight.

If your thoughts come between the breaths, slow down your breathing. Make room for different thoughts to arrive.

The ones that whisper about opportunities for starting.

Thought Compass @thoughtcompass.bsky.social · 6d

Sometimes it's the enormity of the blank page. What you could do feels so much bigger than what you feel able to do right now.
And when that happens, the "shoulds" pile on: "I should be creative", "I should be successful", "I should be better at this"

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Thought Compass @thoughtcompass.bsky.social · 6d

Hypnosis isn't unconsciousness or trance.
It's focused consciousness.
Like meditation with a purpose.

Thought Compass @thoughtcompass.bsky.social · 7d

How would it be if you trusted that your timing is perfect – even when it doesn't feel like it?

Thought Compass @thoughtcompass.bsky.social · 7d

The nervous system speaks in sensations before words.
That tightness in your chest is trying to tell you something.

Thought Compass @thoughtcompass.bsky.social · 8d

Your inner critic has been rehearsing the same lines since childhood.
Time to give it some new material, or better yet, a different role.

Thought Compass @thoughtcompass.bsky.social · 8d

Creative shame tells you that making art is indulgent.
Making art is how you remember you exist beyond your problems.

Thought Compass @thoughtcompass.bsky.social · 9d

The green room before your life begins – you've been waiting there longer than necessary.
The show can start whenever you're ready.

Thought Compass @thoughtcompass.bsky.social · 9d

Cognitive behavioural hypnotherapy combines insight with access.
Understanding why you're stuck and gentle ways to get unstuck.