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Bonnie King

Hypnotherapy

PERSONAL GROWTH  ·  25 September 2026

There's a Word for That?

I came across a word recently that I don't think I'd ever heard before. Meliorism. It means the belief that we can contribute to positive change and improve the world through what we do.

There's a Word for That?

I came across a word recently that I don't think I'd ever heard before.

Meliorism.

It means the belief that we can contribute to positive change and improve the world through what we do.

And I thought:

There's a word for that?

Because, without knowing it had a name, I think it's something I've believed for a very long time.

Do we have to change the world?

We're surrounded by enormous problems.

And when the problems are enormous, it's very easy to feel that whatever we might do is simply too small to make much difference.

But perhaps we've got the scale wrong.

Making something better doesn't necessarily mean changing the world.

Sometimes it means changing someone's experience of it.

A conversation, an opportunity, an act of kindness or simply believing in somebody at a point when they're struggling to believe in themselves.

It might not change the whole world.

But it might change theirs.

Small doesn't mean insignificant

I think we sometimes underestimate the ripple effect we can have on other people.

Something relatively small to us can arrive at exactly the right moment for somebody else.

And we don't necessarily get to see what happens afterwards.

The person you encouraged goes on to encourage somebody else. The opportunity you shared leads somewhere unexpected. Someone remembers the kindness they received and offers it when another person needs it.

Positive change doesn't always arrive with a fanfare.

Sometimes it just quietly continues.

Maybe we're not as powerless as we think

I rather like the idea of meliorism because it doesn't require us to believe we can fix everything.

We can't.

It simply leaves room for the possibility that what we do still matters.

We can contribute something.

We can make something a little better than we found it.

And perhaps that's enough reason to keep doing it.

The funny thing is, when I started Bonnie King Hypnotherapy, I chose the words:

Helping you create positive change.

Turns out there was a word sitting behind it all along.

I just didn't know what it was. 😂

Meliorism.

And now that I know it exists, I rather like it. 💛✨

Bonnie King Hypnotherapy

Helping you create positive change. 💛✨

Bonnie King Hypnotherapy

Dorking · Surrey Hills · Online

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