We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Suchita Sanjay a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Suchita, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. We’re complete cheeseballs and so we love asking folks to share the most heartwarming moment from their career – do you have a touching moment you can share with us?
It was in 2011 that my health was shaken. I was partially bedridden for almost 6 months. I had herniated discs, and this had impacted some of my nerves. I could not even sit and eat a meal without pain. If I had to have a meal I had to get up more than 30 times as I could not sit, I could barely manage to sit or stand for more than a few seconds. It was at this point that I kept thinking, “Why me?” for the first 3 months, and the next 3 months were about my inner journey. A cousin of mine gave me a book that her friend had recommended “Many Masters Many Lives” written by Brian Weiss, who is a very popular psychologist and past life regression expert. This was my first revelation of how hypnotherapy can be useful in healing the mind and body. I also became an avid follower of Lousie L. Hay, who has written the book Heal Your Body, which helped me understand the mental causes of physical illness and the metaphysical way to overcome them. During this phase, where I spent most of my time on my bed, I started watching many videos on spirituality, about Brian Weiss & Louise L. Hay. I started following the regime of passing the right messages that I am healed, and all is well to my body. Consultations with surgeons revealed that it was a tricky condition, and even on the day of surgery, I was not given any assurance of getting back to normal. They hinted that I could be partially bedridden or lose neurological control to some extent, and a consent form stating the risks involved had to be signed.
Surprisingly, deep inside, I felt that I would return to normal. Thanks to all the books I had read regarding healing self and understanding the power of the mind. After the surgery, I was told not to do Yoga at all or lift any heavy weight beyond 5 kilos. Today, I am thankfully able to do Yoga and can also lift more than 10 kilos without any issues.
After having healed myself, I was happy. Now and then, I would have some thoughts that I should start helping people, but I had not considered it to make it my forte. At times, I would also feel as if I was drilling a hole in my soul by not pursuing it. All the signs were popping up time and again to remind me. Right from my childhood, I would have many people come and feel very comfortable talking to me. They would find solace or solutions to the issues they were going through.
My gift of being empathetic from my childhood was rekindled by a friend I met after 33 years when she said I had helped her gain her confidence when we were just 10 years old. I did not even remember any of what she said. This was a slap on my face moment where I was wondering, “What am I doing with my life?” I ignored this sign also for a few days. At times when the calling would come that I have to help people with happy minds and healthy lives, I would feel like fish gasping for breath outside water. Because I was not able to find anything that I felt I could do. I came from a commerce background and had no formal education in psychology. These thoughts would again dampen my spirit to look further to study.
Then came another sign where I met a person and instantly felt there was a lot of suppression in the face, and I just could not stop thinking, “My god! This person has so much suppression in the face, and I hope this person is not struggling with cancer.” In fact at this point I had no control over the wave of thought that came to me and felt a sense of guilt for having this thought. Within 3 days, I got to know this person was struggling with cancer. That was another slap-on-the-face moment for me, reminding me of another stronger voice in my head saying, “What am I doing with my life?”
That night, when the voice was much stronger, I was feeling restless and had tears rolling down my eyes. I asked my spiritual master, Maha Avatar Babaji, “You have given me this ability, but I am feeling helpless now as I have no clue how to do it. You have to show me a path.”
I still remember vividly how I accidentally happened to click on Marisa Peer’s link and, after watching her video, I was convinced that’s exactly what I wanted to do! Marisa Peer is the founder of The School of Rapid Transformational Therapy, where I enrolled and pursued for 18 months and I ended up being certified by her school! Further on I trained under Paul Mckenna and certified from Mindvalley as a Certified Hypnotherapist.
It is often said that when the intent is pure and the desire is intense, the universe has a way of showing the path, and that’s exactly what happened that day. I still can’t forget that day. It does not matter at what point of life we are in, if we just accept the change and follow our inner calling things will flow.
I am glad to have taken the cues the universe was giving me and gathered the courage to go ahead with my path. Right from the time I graduated in 2020, I have been able to transform more than 300 lives from 8 plus countries.
There is a deep sense of satisfaction when I see my clients give phenomenal testimonials of the powerful transformations they have had, post the sessions. I have even had some of the relatives of the clients who have expressed that they are also much more at peace ever since the clients have gone through the transformation. This journey also taught me that if I could change one person to live a better life more lives around them also can live better.
Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.
In the last three-plus years as a clinical hypnotherapist, I have positively impacted over 300 lives spanning more than 8 countries in one-on-one sessions. I specialize in personalized sessions, aiding clients in overcoming stress, anxiety, depression, and mindset issues. Together, dispelling limiting beliefs, fostering self-esteem, confidence, and self-belief. I employ a blend of approaches, drawing from my training in Clinical Hypnotherapy from The School of Rapid Transformational Therapy and Certification in the MindValley Hypnotherapy Program. My Mission and Vision is to help as many people with happy minds and abundant lives.
I have globally, touched lives across the USA, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Cape Verde, Indonesia, Dubai, Cameroon, England, and India. Through a holistic approach, I have led clients to enduring happiness, health, and joy.
Beyond my hypnotherapy practice, I am an entrepreneur and a partner in an events company. However, my primary passion lies in hypnotherapy, driven by a profound calling.
I have also published a few articles in Newspapers and have been interviewed on podcasts and YouTube channels.
I have published my first book called Miracle “Trance”formations a self simple
help book directing one to rewire for success, which is available on Amazon.
I have also conducted online classes in collaboration with JP Health & Wellness, USA on anxiety and stress.
I believe “A happy mind is an abundant life made visible.”
The areas of concern I have attend to :
Breaking free from :
# Anxiety
# Stress
# Depression
# Fears
# Phobias
# Guilt
# Panic Attacks
# Weight & Eating problems
# Procrastination
Mind-set matters :
# Self Confidence
# Self esteem
# Self love
# Motivation
# Concentration
# Relationships
# Abundance Mindset & Wealth Wiring
#Self belief
# Imposter Syndrome
Links to some of the articles published the local daily Star of Mysore:
https://epaper.starofmysore.com/epaper/edition/2170/star-mysore/page/6
https://epaper.starofmysore.com/epaper/edition/2094/star-mysore/page/8
https://epaper.starofmysore.com/epaper/edition/2325/star-mysore/page/8
Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?
It was at a point in my life where I had identified that I would be studying hypnotherapy. I had all the self-doubt that started making its guest appearance. At an age where I had not attended school for a gazillion years, was I ready to even take this new journey? I also had to question myself, to help another person, had I overcome all the limiting beliefs that I was holding on to? I was mostly a person who would keep off social media and only use it occasionally. I would not even post much. I was also not used to many things that I am doing today. Was I ready to even start studying something new? How will I go about it? I did not even know how to set up a zoom meet.
Apart from being an empath, I had no background in psychology or hypnotherapy, so how would I, in my late forties, even get into this field? A slow fear started creeping up, yet the urge did not die. I had so many small signs which kept showing up now and then telling me to follow my calling. It was like the universe was listening to me again and decided to reveal “spot on” at all the right moments. This gave me a double confirmation that the universe is always listening when your calling is deep. It has beautiful ways of showing you the path, and fast forward to that, I finally completed the course.
Then came another big challenge.
I completed the course, but there was more mind-chatter cropping up. “Ifs and buts” started playing their role too. What if people are not open to hypnotherapy? I had the tools, but would people come to me? Even if they do come, what if I am not able to get it right? Self-doubt again started making a guest appearance. Luckily, during our training, it was mandatory to have practice sessions, and that’s when I got my issue of self-doubt attended to.
The session revealed that I was holding on to the feeling that this field is rather new and unfamiliar as I come from a business community. Nobody in my family circle is into the profession of counseling or therapy. There was also the fear of facing something unfamiliar. All these concerns were attended to. Yippee! A few more self-limiting beliefs were erased, deleted, crushed, shattered, and eradicated from my mind, body, and psyche.
The therapy helped me to embrace what was unfamiliar and accept the fact that making things familiar and working towards it every day will make it familiar and erase self-doubt.
Along the journey, I learned 2 most important things, and they are:
1. “What if” is only a probability and does not become a reality unless I give power to it. “What if” will only lead to more negative mind chatter.
2. Show up for yourself every single day.
Working on my self-doubt helped me become more resilient. What also majorly helped me through the journey was what my husband always filled me with what he believes in, and that is to – perform our duties and actions i.e., Karma righteously without any expectation, and the fruits of the same will flow.
Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?
Coming from a culture scape where I was conditioned to believe that once a woman is married she loses her freedom, it took me about 2 years after marriage, to ask my husband if I had the freedom to do a certain thing. To which my husband replied, “Who am I to give you the freedom, you are born free”.
This came as a complete surprise to me and I had to unlearn so many things about living in a very restricted mindset. The first thing I had to learn was I was free to do what I wanted to do. This itself was a tough journey because all along I was conditioned to just go with the norms of being there to be a homemaker and support the family. This is what I had observed all around me as long as I grew up.
I had to start identifying what I could do with myself. Till then I had just led my life without any direction and without identifying my strengths and ability. Post this stage I have worn many hats and explored many things right from running a home-bound business, to helping my husband in his work, to starting another business, to involving in social service activities, and finally understanding my mojo in my late forties to qualify as a Clinical Hypnotherapist and making a difference in peoples lives.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://suchitasanjay.com/
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