Impostor Syndrome solution

Do you know where your Impostor Syndrome comes from?

I used to think it came from a series of past events and maybe it does, for the majority. But a recent client has got me to question whether I'm right. This client can pin point a moment in time that he believes has had a profoundly negative impact on him achieving in his life.

The result being that whenever he wants to go out of his comfort zone the usual suspects show up (procrastination, hesitation, self-doubt, overthinking, the inner critic etc) to pull him back from him achieving his own greatness.

As he described it "I'm the cork in my own bottle stopping my talent pouring forth."

Fortunately, a rather elegant NLP tool is available where you take a person back down their Timeline to an event where they are able to re-examine the event from different perspectives and gather new information and resources that can lead to a transformational shift in their mind. 

For my client the trip down his Timeline, and some Hypnotherapy work on relieving his ‘tension’, resulted in tears of relief, ‘acceptance’, a ‘lifting of the melancholy’ and ‘optimism for the future’.

Consequently, I’m now thinking it doesn't really matter where the Impostor Syndrome comes from. It’s more important to know how to overcome it.