28/10/2025
🧠 Emotional Amnesia + The Subconscious Mind
When we go through something painful, especially as children or in long-term stressful relationships, the mind often uses a clever form of protection called emotional amnesia.
You might remember what happened, but feel strangely numb about it. It’s like the emotional charge has been switched off. That’s your subconscious saying: “Feeling that was too much at the time -let’s store it away so you can keep functioning.”
The subconscious mind doesn’t judge or rationalise, it simply prioritises survival.
If showing emotion once led to rejection, chaos, or danger, the subconscious learns:
“Don’t feel. Don’t react. Stay small, stay safe.”
Over time, this can look like:
• Feeling disconnected from your emotions
• Downplaying painful experiences (“it wasn’t that bad”)
• Struggling to access tears, joy, or anger
• People-pleasing or freezing under pressure
This isn’t weakness, it’s conditioning.
You adapted brilliantly to survive.
How Hypnotherapy Helps
Hypnotherapy works by guiding you into a relaxed, focused state where the conscious mind quiets down - and the subconscious mind becomes more open to healing.
In this state, we can gently revisit the patterns your mind created to keep you safe, without reliving the trauma. Through suggestion, imagery, and solution-focused dialogue, hypnotherapy helps your nervous system learn new associations:
“It’s safe now. I can feel and still be okay.”
Over time, the emotional walls start to soften. You reconnect with your authentic feelings, your intuition, and your sense of self - not from a place of pain, but from safety and control.
💛 You don’t need to remember every detail to heal, you just need to allow your subconscious the space to update its story.
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