Feb 15 2004
Instead of appearing
as one form of dysfunction (an uncontrollable anger, ulcers, colitis)
it now emerges as an apparently different symptom (depression, or
hypothyroid). Without going deeply within to bypass the conscious
gatekeeper that’s afraid to examine the painful memories it has shut
itself off from – only temporary releases are possible.”
“You’re both exciting and frightening me at the same time” Cynthia said, “ I am scared to think there is more trauma than I know about. I don’t want to re-experience any more pain then I already have nor do I want to give up control of my mind to someone else. Isn’t there another way?” she nervously related.
“Your concerns are understandable and I assure you that many people I have worked with have felt the same way before we began. Fortunately it is not necessary to have to experience any of the pain you had before – ever. That’s the benefit of working with today’s modern approaches to hypnotherapy. Let’s face it once was enough! And let’s acknowledge you survived it or you wouldn’t be sitting here before me today. All hypnosis is self-hypnosis, which really is just a deeply relaxed state of comfort and focused mind. You are aware of exactly what is happening at all times and can return to your regular state of mind anytime you like. With different modes of hypnotherapy like Neurolinguistic Programming or Core Transformation, there isn’t even any induction done. Every client I have worked with over the years has said how much easier it was then they ever thought and how peaceful and relaxed they felt afterwards.
The first thing we’ll do before we touch upon any deep issues, is to spend a session getting you comfortable with the different types of processes I use so you can feel at ease. This allows me to discover which techniques will work best for you.”
“I’m ready”, she exclaimed. “Let’s get the show on the road.”
Over the next 16 weeks we met 24 times for sessions – a total of 40 hours in all. Each week we incorporated a different approach depending upon what was presenting itself into her life. The mind is an amazing powerful instrument with a self-protecting mechanism. It only permits those issues, which the individual is ready to access to come into existence.
Within four weeks of working with Cynthia she communicated to me how much better she felt and she really could see” the forest through the trees.”
In one portion of our work we uncovered a dozen or more conditioned beliefs that she had learned in her early childhood from her parents that were sabotaging her relationships causing her to make unreasonable demands on her partner to protect and defend her insecurities. These were quickly replaced by new beliefs that were healthy and based on the knowledge she had gained over the many years of her life experience and study. ( As mentioned in more detail below this is called Miracle Re-Patterning)
In another portion of our regression work we discovered forgotten memories in her first three years of life that left such a deep impression we actually saw facial shifts in her body that thinned at her cheek line and lifted her head in a renewed feeling of self confidence. The actual incidences of abuse despite the years of talking about them could never clear as they gained their staying power from earlier events of observing others being abused that caused her to hold on to her pain for “protection. Twice during regressions she came upon unexplainable images and experiences that she felt were past life memories. This brought her much new clarity of the life lessons she was “asked” to learn and why it was she had the parents she did. Each time although still uncertain if real or not she had tremendous releases of negative energies and was incredibly vibrant in her day to day activities. ( I used some Breath Purification , Core Transformation and NLP to integrate these changes)
Cynthia was very determined not only to heal but also to learn how to think, feel and act in new ways that weren’t dependent on what behaviors she had modeled from her parents. Each week she came to meditation class to learn how to relax and learn a sense of detachment from her previous way of thinking as well as learning about her inner spiritual nature. She also regularly attended a class I facilitated called A Course in Miracles. As she told me, it gave her so many tools to deal with any ongoing situations she now encountered that instead of piling up resentment and unresolved grievances, she now felt peaceful and happy most of the time.
After seven weeks she noticed that she was no longer lethargic or depressed and decided to set an appointment with her medical doctor to have her thyroid retested. Cynthia returned with her physicians test results in week 9 and told me how amazed her doctor was that her thyroid now operated at near maximum efficiency.
