Is it important to have any particular life experiences?

Is it important to have any particular life experiences?

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I think it's important that you are passionate about your work to become a hypnotherapist. I think whatever field of work you go into, if you have passion, then you're going to be able to do that work well, to the best of your ability. So, there's not specific life experiences which I would recommend that you have in order to be a hypnotherapist. I can only tell you my own personal experiences, and that when I was studying to be a hypnotherapist, towards the end of my training, my mother was diagnosed with a very rare form of cancer, and anybody who's experienced a close family member becoming ill in that way will know that often family members feel useless; they don't know what to do when somebody close to them is in that situation. I found myself automatically using the new skills I'd been learning as a hypnotherapist with her, to help her to relax, to build up her confidence, to help her get through the treatment. She found enormous benefit from the hypnotherapy, and it was in that moment, in that experience that I realized that the training and the experience that I'd had learning to be a hypnotherapist was like gold dust, and I could use it to help many people, and hypnotherapy ended up being my speciality for many years. I volunteered to work as a hypnotherapist in a cancer support center, they ended up offering me a paid job, because they were so pleased with the hypnotherapy work, and it was because my heart was really in it. So, certainly whatever it is that you do, I would recommend that it's something that you feel passionate about.