Hypnotherapy
Is one of the safest therapies available as it involves no drugs
or physical manipulation and once completed is so effective that
people forget they ever had a problem in the first place. It is
most effective with emotional illnesses that present as an anxiety
about something, and of course most anxieties are really repressed
fears.
How they occur
Children form opinions about themselves and how they fit into
their world during the first seven years of their life. This is
held as a template within their subconscious all their adult life.
The subconscious represents 88% of the mind and is very powerful,
it holds every thought, emotion and feeling we have ever had in
this life (and past lives) much like the hard drive of a computer.
Now efficient though this may be, the subconscious is not intelligent,
is incapable of lying and cannot discern the difference between
good or bad data.
That is the job of the conscious mind which is reasoning, logical
and judging yet only represents 12% of our mind. In children the
conscious mind is not developed enough to rationalise what is
being stored.
We have only just begun to realise how vulnerable children are
in their early years to suggestion. If an authority figure repeatedly
tells a child he is stupid, silly, or hopeless that belief is
stored in the subconscious irrespective of whether it is true,
for life. Not surprisingly the child as an adult will find it
difficult to succeed in life, sometimes not even bothering to
try in the first place.
Our adult conscious mind logically argues that our stored fears
are irrational and has no idea what is being repressed, which
is why some people never seek help.
Hypnosis
Is the gateway to the subconscious and is a natural state. It
requires only two things, relaxation and focus and is incredibly
easy to achieve. It is not possible to get stuck, turn into a
zombie, lose your personality, or be made to do something you
don’t want to. Once in Hypnosis the therapist guides the
client to identify the originating event and/or compounding events
that caused the fear. The memory remains intact but the emotions
around it are released. All that is left to do is to install some
positive suggestions and the healing is done.
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