Autotherapy is the initiative or ability to seek for yourself the help you need to overcome a difficulty or potentiate a result without necessarily being in the presence of a professional. Even if the content you are seeking for support has been produced by professionals and made available in the form of texts, books, videos, audios, lectures and many other ways of transmitting knowledge. It is like a therapeutic self-taught person who is already known in some measure or even who has already undergone a therapeutic process and has a comprehensive awareness of himself but has not yet achieved the results he would like.
Autotherapy has been gaining more and more space with the multiple digital platforms that facilitate the production and access to the new technologies, which offer a vast knowledge about the human being, providing innumerable mental solutions for all type of demand for the most varied problems emotions. We have available online today basically everything that you imagine and need. Whatever you want to learn and develop, you can find it easily and affordably. And specifically thinking about the therapeutic contents we can mention Guided Meditation, Yoga, Mindfulness, Hypnotherapy, Neuro-linguistic Programming, Self-Help, Psychology, Philosophy, and for truth all the content that serves to develop mental capacities or overcome emotional difficulties can be therapeutic and so they fall into the category of Autotherapy.
The human being has been evolving, seeking solutions increasingly easier and faster, more and more you want to have control, whether you have access when and where you want, or in your room, in the hall of the building, in the cafeteria, in the lobby airport or sitting in the square. The tools need to be available wherever you are, you no longer want to go to something, because you are one and it is difficult to be in several places at the same time, what you want is that the tools come to you, that are available in the palm of your hand, available when you need them. And this can be when you wake up in the morning, in the middle of the day, in the late afternoon, before bed and even at dawn if you need to. You want to have it readily all the time and this is possible in that you can access everything from your own cell phone.
This is to make technology work for you, to be open to new possibilities, to be open to change, to adapt to them, to take advantage of innovations, to embark on new mechanisms that will lead you much more easily and quickly to the places you want to go. There is no way to close your eyes to the force of an innovation when its moment has arrived, it is like spring, there is no way to avoid seeing all the flowers that bloom and there is no denying their existence, because everyone sees, everyone admires, everyone wants to be part of that moment, everyone wants to share the beauty of spring, the beauty that is the power to be in control of oneself, in the control of their choices, of their decisions. The power to tread for yourself the best way, for yourself to overcome. Nothing is better than the satisfaction of leading from pain to pleasure, from sadness to joy, from suffering to happiness. Do your part, you can, of course you can.
Dr. Odair Comin
Psychologist, Hypnotherapist and Writer
