How we perceive our actions and the actions of others towards us, influences how we think and act. It is why when two people experience a similar situation they can both act and feel quite differently. The experience is the same, the perception of the experience is different.

If you could imagine wearing a pair of  binoculars strapped over your eyes since the day you were born. Everything you have experienced in life has come through those binoculars.  Because the binoculars have been there every second of your life you can see everything about the world except the binoculars themselves.  You know nothing about them . Are  they zoomed in or out? What colour are they? If the binoculars had a darker tint over the lenses, you would never have known , you would simple assume the world was a darker place.  Even though those binoculars have been with you all your life a person watching you for a few minutes can tell a lot more about those binoculars than you can ever know yourself.

Our perceptions are a lot like those binoculars. Everything we sense about the world comes through them, but at the same time we know virtually nothing about the perceptions ourselves.  Faulty perceptions are easy to see in others, yet next to impossible to see in ourselves. We are not aware of them filtering everything around us and yet they are constantly there.

Our perceptions are naturally tinted by early life expirences. However, sometimes how we interpreted these experiences were wrong, and so since the interpretation was wrong so are our current perceptions of life. As we grow up the perception remains, tinting our view of the word, which affects our quality of life and what we think about ourselves and the types of interactions we have with others.
A skilled hypnotherapist  can help give you a sense of your own perceptions, where  they are holding you back, and at the same time help change them. Much like taking away the tinted view of the world through the binoculars, a hypnotherapist can give you a clearer outlook on life and in doing so a better quality of life.