Practise Doesn't Make Perfect

The Richard Nicholls Mental Health Podcast

Richard Nicholls

Mental Health, Psychotherapy, Health & Fitness, Wellbeing, Education, Anxiety, Happiness, Self-improvement, Depression, Self Help, Psychology, Alternative Health, Counseling, Counselling

4.8 • 690 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Send us a text It's a new year! And for a hypnotherapist who specialises in helping people to make changes in their life people will often say to me things like "I bet you'll be busy at work in January then, all the New Years resolutions." Yet, it's nothing like February, when all those that have tried to make some changes are a month in and can feel themselves giving up and need help. Which raises questions doesn't it? Because if the changes you make are something you actua...

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0:00.0	And hello to you and welcome to the Richard Nichols podcast, the Personal Development
0:07.5	podcast series that's here to help inspire, educate and motivate you to be the best you
0:13.7	can be.
0:15.6	I'm psychotherapist Richard Nichols, and this is episode 165.
0:24.5	It's titled, Practice Doesn't Always Make Perfect.
0:28.3	And if you're ready, we'll start the show.
0:41.7	Hello, you beautiful people, and welcome to January, a new year, with new ideas, new prospects, and new you, if you like.
0:49.2	What I would say is what was wrong with the old you. Was there something inherently unpleasant about the 2018-U that the 2019-U can leave behind? Because maybe we don't really need a new,
0:57.8	and maybe not even an improved you. Just still, you, but a slightly different you. Long-term
1:05.4	listeners will have already heard me go on about New Year's resolutions, not always being a good
1:09.9	idea. They do help some, but on the whole, New Year's resolutions are famous for being just a temporary idea, a January fad. Often people will say to me things like, I bet you'll be busy at work in January then, all the New Year's resolutions. And yes,
1:29.8	January does start off quite busy, but that's because I've had two weeks off probably,
1:34.7	and all my existing clients are then crammed into the same weeks. And although I do get new
1:41.5	clients who are inspired by the line in the sand of a new year,
1:45.5	it's nothing like February when all those that have tried to make some changes are a month
1:50.3	in and can feel themselves giving up and need help. And it raises questions, doesn't it? Because
1:56.7	if the changes you make are something you actually want, then why would we feel like
2:02.9	giving up? And that's what we look at when someone comes in for private therapy. We need to
2:08.3	look at what motivates us, what drives us, the direction of it. Are we moving away from something
2:17.2	or towards something else? You know, away from pain. Are we moving away from something or towards something else?
2:19.6	You know, away from pain. Are we moving away from pain and towards pleasure? Or is it just
2:25.0	away from pain? Or is it just towards pleasure? Everyone's different. But one factor that's
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