Can people really change? I know a great many people who don't believe this is possible either with regard to themselves or to people that they know. Rather bizarrely and seemingly by way of explanation they comment about Leopards not being able to change their spots. This of course has been scientifically proved to be the case but what relevance does it have to people and their ability to change.
A human being even with exceptional levels of motivation is not going to turn into another animal. We are genetically stuck being a member of the human race and I for one think this is a good thing. Plus even with today's technology we can only alter our appearance so far.
So in reality we can't change who we are? Or can we? Well we can't stop being human and there are limits to what we can do with our appearance. However does being human and they way we look define us as people? What about our personality? What about our behaviour? What about intelligence? What about what we do for a living? What about our hobbies and interests? In fact there are so many things that could actually define who we are in our own eyes and in the eyes of others and most of them are subject to change.
Everyone reading this article will have changed considerably from the person they once were. In fact change for most of us occurred very rapidly as we grew from being infants into children then into young adults. It would appear that for many change slowed or appeared to stop as we reached adulthood. Is this when we become fully formed? Again I know a great many people who believe that when we reach a certain age that we "are too old to change" and that people can't change because they have become "too set in their ways".
Well the bad news or perhaps the good new depending on your perceptual position is as follows: It is impossible not to change. That's right! It is impossible for us to stay the same. So why don't people change when sometimes they are obviously so unhappy with their lives? Perhaps they like so many people believe that they can't change or simply don't know how to.
Here at Merseyside Hypnotherapy a leading Liverpool based Hypnotherapy practise we focus on "change work". Using a unique combination of Psychotherapy, NLP and Hypnotherapy we work with clients to enable them to change in a way that is right for them.
As human beings we are amazingly adaptable and are ability to learn is infinite unlike the beautiful, graceful but basically really rather limited leopard.