Procrastination: What is it?
Procrastination is a means of dealing with difficult feelings and negative moods brought on by some jobs, including boredom, worry, insecurity, irritation, resentment, and more. It is not a special weakness in your personality or a mystifying curse on your capacity to manage time. Dr. Tim Pychyl, a psychology professor at Carleton University in Ottawa and a member of the Procrastination Research Group, asserted that procrastination is an emotional regulation issue rather than a time management one.
What are the signs of procrastination?
Signs you are procrastinating.
- Waiting till the very last minute to begin before deadlines.
- Completing chores that you had planned to undertake days earlier.
- Putting off accomplishing things needlessly, despite their importance.
- Putting off doing something you don't enjoy doing.
- You make a promise to yourself that you'll accomplish something, but you end up putting it off.
Is procrastination related to fear?
Managing Emotions
We must understand that procrastination is fundamentally about emotions, not productivity. The solution does not entail installing a time management app or adopting new self-control skills. It is related to finding new ways to control our emotions. By learning to control emotions we can control and conquer procrastination.
Reward VS Avoidance
We have to find a better reward than avoidance — one that can relieve our challenging feelings in the present moment without causing harm to our future selves. The difficulty with breaking the addiction to procrastination is rewarding the completed action. Hypnotherapy can help re-wire how we think about rewards vs avoidance.
Long Term Costs
Chronic procrastination has measurable detrimental effects on our mental and physical health over time, including chronic stress, general psychological distress, low life satisfaction, symptoms of anxiety and depression, poor health behaviors, chronic illness, chronic pain, hypertension, and even cardiovascular disease.
Can hypnosis help with procrastination?
Yes! Hypnosis is a highly effective solution for procrastination.
Poor thinking is the root of procrastination. We haven't developed a supporting, focused, or self-assured mentality that motivates us to get going and finish what we start. Negative thoughts confuse our thinking, leading us to procrastinate and divert our attention from the task at hand.
Through hypnosis, we have direct communication with the subconscious mind's deepest levels. In hypnosis, we turn off the important part of the mind by relaxing and concentrating intensely. To put it another way, hypnosis enables us to give the subconscious fresh information, get rid of the limiting beliefs that are keeping us back, and teach the mind the tools it needs to sharpen its concentration.
Procrastination & Perfection
In our work and personal life, we all aspire to perform a good job. But occasionally, we irrationally raise the bar for success to the point where it is unreachable. And that effectively eliminates all motivation to begin or complete a task. Once more, the unconscious begins to sway our behavior, persuading us to stop and slow down. Similar to that fear of failure, we decide not to do something unless it is absolutely perfect, which causes us to give up.
Procrastination & Self Criticalness
When we’re overly critical, or when we lack compassion for ourselves, we become stressed and frustrated. Our mind tells us we’re not making progress, or that it’s too hard, and next thing you know, you’re putting off tasks. This occurs in the subconscious; our minds get stuck in negative thinking loops, and we tell ourselves over and over again that we’re good enough. We need to be more forgiving of ourselves so that we can be okay with failure.
Procrastination & Irrational Fear
Lack of confidence is a fear that keeps us from starting, an unjustified concern. You have no faith in yourself. You don't believe you possess the skills. Motivation can be significantly impacted by a lack of confidence. We'd prefer not to begin when we're prone to believe that we're not skilled or competent enough. Building bulletproof levels of confidence is something that Hypnotherapy does effectively. Book your free 15-minute call today.
Can hypnosis cure procrastination?
Hypnotherapy is an effective solution to help you build a new mental state that allows you to control procrastination. The work you put in to develop new skills in how you approach your daily life will ultimately place the ability to cure procrastination in your hands. Hypnotherapy is effective across a wide variety of issues that many people struggle with including helping stop smoking, stress, and anxiety management, nail-biting and low self-esteem.
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