01/04/2016
Hypnotherapy is perhaps the most life changing journey you may ever take.
So what is it? We are forever told to ‘know thyself’. There are many ways to do that – this is one of the more powerful ones.
What if there is a way for you to enter the great library of your mind where all the books are YOUR stories…all the journeys that brought you here. Lots of these stories you don’t even remember…because your unconscious mind stores all of our memories for us and hypnotherapy is the doorway to enter that library.
Think about it. How could we possibly consciously remember everything we’ve experienced? Our brain takes in hundreds of bits of information per second, sorts them, and then stores but a few of them. It’s the sorting of them that sets up our beliefs and we then rely on those beliefs for the foreseeable future – unless we choose to unearth them, re-examine why we settled on them, and then make new choices in line with who we are now. The choices we made in the past were good choices given the circumstances at the time, and now we no longer need to hold on so tightly to that knee jerk reaction – we just don’t know how to jettison the old beliefs.
These things that are holding us back got locked into our memoires in our unconscious mind for a good reason. They kept us safe. They served us in some way. When they don’t serve us anymore, our unconscious mind doesn’t know that because it’s been hanging onto that negative emotion or limiting belief for us – as a service to keep us safe – whether that’s still true or not.
In hypnotherapy you go into a light trance – think daydreaming – and your unconscious mind has a chance to talk to your conscious mind and sort all of this out. When the two communicate – magic happens. Change happens. Your conscious mind is always present during the trance (unlike hypnosis where the conscious mind is put to sleep).
What’s different is your unconscious mind is wide awake and telling you the stories you need to hear to bring about that change.
Sometimes your unconscious mind can get pushy. Thing’s been in your face lately? It could well be your unconscious mind telling you it’s time. It’s time to take a look at this. It no longer serves you.
It might go something like this…….you find yourself experiencing a negative emotion – like anger – much more strongly than situations warrant. You decide it’s time to change this. In trance, the question is put to your unconscious mind – ‘when did you first lock in anger?’ To the surprise of your conscious mind (which at first blush wants to doubt) your unconscious mind will tell you when and then take your there and show you what happened. Together you can release that which you no longer need.
When emotions aren’t allowed to process naturally through the body, they form a functional boundary in our neurology. It’s like a balloon is formed, containing all of the emotion inside. This balloon then tends to interfere with the natural flow of energy throughout our body, thus causing emotional and physical turmoil. The result is that we may feel drained of energy, tired or burdened, and may have a number of physical symptoms. Since our mind profoundly affects our body, it is essential to release our emotions and limiting beliefs as part of our healing journey. Along with more physical interventions, Hypnotherapy is an essential part of the healing journey bringing Body, Mind and Spirit into harmony.
