This issue spotlights our feature article on Agency—a liberating exploration of how reclaiming agency breaks the cycle of underestimating oneself and opens the way to living with clarity and empowerment. At the close of the article, be sure to click on the headphone icon to experience a guided hypnosis treatment designed to deepen and lock in your mind’s absorption of the article’s substance.

I also encourage all new, existing, and returning clients to review the powerful client testimonials following the article in this issue, and take advantage of the discounted hypnotherapy session packages now available—sessions can convene virtually or in-office depending on your preference, making this an excellent opportunity to invest in your own progress and transformation.

Utmost regards,

Hypnotherapist Isaiah

Stop Chasing, Start Living

How Recognizing Agency Transforms Everything

We all desire to master our destiny and not be at the mercy of circumstance. And we all search for the key to that mastery. What if that key was not an elusive method to be found, but a recognition to be made?

A recognition regarding agency. The term agency means exercising the power and wherewithal to satisfy an end. Agency is a dynamic that requires understanding if we’re to master our destiny. To understand agency is to understand your true nature.

Identity Distortion: The Hidden Barrier

Understanding agency dissolves the habit of underestimating yourself—a disorder I call identity distortion. Most underestimate themselves because of the mistaken belief that identity is forged from experience.

If this were true, then no experience could be judged as unsatisfactory. If you are your suffering, it could never appear to you as suffering. Clearly, there is a deeper reality: an innate capacity not bound by past experience or its narratives. This is how anyone can recognize dissatisfaction—and the impulse to change.

From Pursuit to True Expression

You don’t “have” agency, as the common view suggests—you are agency. Your essential identity is the power to express and fulfill. The desire to live a satisfying life is not a wish or goal, but your true nature seeking expression.

Yet identity distortion flips expression into pursuit. We chase love, abundance, health, success, joy, and peace as if they are external prizes rather than inherent expressions. This distortion turns life into a pathology—a normalized chase instead of authentic expression.

You are not your experience. You don’t deny them—you stop letting them define identity.

From Distortion to Recognition

Agency becomes empowered the moment you realize your identity is agency itself. Though that idea seems abstract, it is closer than your breath. The distorted perception that life’s best must be pursued is like a fish in the ocean searching for water. You already are the capacity you think you lack.

This is what it means to recognize you are Agency. This recognition makes your senses servants, not illusory masters.

The Three-Step Protocol

How do you initiate this journey of no distance? Here’s your effective protocol:

1. Constantly remind yourself:
“I am not my experience, I am pure capacity itself.” The key to this emancipating declaration of your true identity is to become relentless with this reminder after the novelty of it has worn off (brain novelty wears off anywhere from a day to a month).

You are essentially rewiring mentally from distortion identity to Agency identity.

2. Begin each day with forgiveness.
Intentionally forgive yourself and anything experienced as frustrating or disappointing—all dismay stems from operating from a distorted identity perception rather than Agency identity. You will be amazed at how much conscious and unconscious guilt is released from this daily practice.

The guilt release psychologically frees you to recognize your Agency identity.

3. Dissolve limiting assumptions.
See all limiting assumptions as a target that your awareness of Agency squarely hits and dissolves. Limiting assumptions about your health (a particular prognosis, diagnosis, aging, or past limiting lifestyle choices)—all land in the bullseye of Agency awareness. The same goes for limiting assumptions about relationships, wealth, success, or self-esteem. Recognize each perceived limitation as a target your Agency identity vanquishes.

By relentlessly engaging in this three-step protocol, identity distortion transforms into Agency identity. You are not what has happened to you—you are the means of transforming it.

Be your own salvation.

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