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HEALING AND HYPNOSIS: A SeriesKevin Hogan
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You often hear of remarkable healings using hypnosis. How is this healing accomplished?
Definition of hypnosis: (1) A Field and Discipline that includes the study and understanding and artful manipulation of altered states of consciousness.Hypnotic technique can be used to heal, improve general health, and reduce pain in most people. The model that seems to best effect healing is that of regression. In regression, the hypnotherapist returns a client, in a trance state (2), to the initial cause of an event at which time the client will re-experience, in a vivid fashion, the circumstances that caused an illness. (Learning how to know if you have an initial cause or a secondary cause will be the subject of the next months article.) The event is then examined in detail to bring into account as many seemingly insignificant elements as is humanly possible. The event is described by the client as it is happening, in a careful step by step method until the event is completed. The emotional and/or physical pain that was experienced is re-lived.
Definition of trance state: (2) A directed altered state of consciousness.Upon the conclusion of the first re-running of the event, the client then is told to return to the beginning of the event again and take in all the additional details of the event that were left out on the first running. The client is not given any suggestions as to what might be present or felt. The therapists job is to help the client re-create a complete and vivid account of the event causing the presenting symptoms. This complete revivification will allow the client to experience all of the possible triggers of the presenting symptoms. This can be something as seemingly insignificant as a child's toy, the color of a carpet, the intensity of light in a room, the sounds that are in the memory. The first time an event is run through, there will normal be a great deal of emotional and often physical pain re-experienced by the individual. If you have the true initial cause of a present time symptom, you will have a great deal of emotional display on the part of the client. Each time a causal event is run through, you will notice changes in the client on a number of levels. The first level is the actual representation of the event. The first time through an event is normally the least accurate description of the event. However, each additional re-experiencing of the event normally enhances the memory, simply by the new information being recalled through association. A smell recalled in the first memory can easily trigger other associated elements of the original event. This continues until the event includes a consistent description of the event on two continuous revivifications with at least four of the five senses represented. The second level is the emotional "output" on the part of the client. If a client is truly re-living the experience, the original pain, both emotiona and physical will be experienced. This will be obvious by the tears and strained tone of voice of the client going through the event. The second time through an event is normally equally as emotionally and physically painful. As each re-running of the event is accomplished the emotions observed tend to change from deep sadness, grief, and tears of sadness toward a bored state. The continual re-running eventually becomes boring for the individual. This is an acceptable place to cease the revivifications. The bored state is very important to the healing of the inidividual for reasons you may have already guessed. The old stimuli and triggers of the current symptomology are no longer triggers of fear, anxiety and illness. Now, these triggers have either been eliminated or trigger a bored response. Triggers for many illnesses, phobias, and pains now trigger only a bored response. The symptomology often completely disappears because the cause has been erased. In a sense what we have done is taken our memory of the cause of illness or pain complete with the frame of anxiety, depression, frustration and other negative emotions, and we have re-framed the entire memory in a complete sense to one of neutrality, much like a memory of yesterday's breakfast. At this point the illness, pain, phobia; the effect is said to have been abreacted. Abreaction is the eliminations of the psychogenic cause of an undesirable symptomology. What was a stimulus for illness is now erased. All of the components of the stimulus have been cleared away so the client has an opportunity to enjoy the maximum health potential possible, both physical and mental. A session to eliminate one psychosomatic response can take several hours. The returning to, and retelling of a single event seven or eight times can be very time consuming. The benefits of the releasement are obvious. When the person is returned to the present time, they feel tired, exhausted, but normally much, much better, if not completely healed from the abreaction. Discovering the initial cause, however, is not as easy as might be expected. In future articles, we will discuss how to discover the original cause of any specific symptom. We will discuss how to determine whether you are re-running non-initial events. You will learn how to differentiate between an accurate representation of an actual event and that of an imaginary event. You will also know when NOT to use regression therapy with clients. There are many instances when regression can do more harm than good. Do you know when not to use regression? You will discover all this and much more right here, at this web site. Please direct your comments or questions to the author at: kevin@kevinhogan.com
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