Today we’re chatting with hypnotherapist Jessica Boston, who believes doing a ‘trust adjust’ could change your life for the better.

Hey, Jessica. If you could recommend One Good Thing everyone can do to improve their mental health, what would it be?

My one good thing would be my ‘trust adjust’ technique. It’s a technique that offers a chance to explore what’s behind our anxiety rather than being floored by the discomfort of the feeling. Working with trust is at the very heart of hypnotherapy work; it’s the language of our nervous system, so building up awareness and curiosity around our experiences of anxiety can tell us a lot.

Why is this your One Good Thing?

Any time you are working on anxiety, you want to examine what it is your body is struggling to trust in that moment. It sounds too obvious to be plausible, but hear me out: any feedback from the body is only ever relevant to an interpretation your body has made around threat and your safety – when you feel anxious, you are essentially responding to something that you have perceived, for whatever reason, as untrustworthy. This may be a relationship that exists in the external world, as in a friend or a business opportunity you are uncertain about, but most often, what we are really feeling is that we are unable to trust ourselves.

One Good Thing: try the ‘trust adjust’ technique to deal with anxiety