First, let’s look at the major tools of hypnotherapy and then below the
key issues that will likely to be best dealt with with these kinds of
therapy.
You should know that my expertise lies in reducing emotional and physical
symptoms of tinnitus, bulimia, environmental illness, chronic fatigue,
fibromyalgia, anxiety, panic, depression, ptsd, and panic disorder.
You should also know that I have not worked with more than a handful of
cigarette smokers for the purpose of getting them to kick the habit. I
have not worked with more than a handful of people with cancer. I have not
worked with more than a handful of people who were terminally ill.
You should know that my model of hypnotherapy revolves around helping
people that present symptoms. It is essentially this model:
Case Analysis
Regression Therapy
Ego State Therapy
Time Track Therapy
(not to be confused with Tad James Time Line
Therapy)
Suggestive Therapy
Except in cases of PTSD and DID’s I almost always use the above model.
Suggestive Therapeutics - You suggest it they believe it, it’s installed,
it happens.
Someone having their first baby. (second baby? Regress, release emotions,
then do suggestive work.)
Someone having a surgery they have not had before.
Someone wanting to improve concentration.
Someone in great shape physically who wants to get into peak condition.
Someone who is in great shape mentally who wants to be even better.
Someone who is in need of immediate relief of pain.
Anything that currently doesn’t have a negative emotional component will
likely benefit greatly from suggestive therapeutics from the right
therapist.
In suggestive therapy I include NLP.
Ego State Therapy- The various ego states of a person are communicated
with and negotiated with to eliminate secondary gain issues and encourage
healing.
Post traumatic Stress Disorder (Boy did I learn this the hard way when I
tried using regression to Vietnam. Never regress to Vietnam without
parts
therapy first!)
Dissociative disorders of all kinds (Send MPD to licensed professionals,
please)
In Ego state therapy, I include forgiveness work.
Regression therapy- Find the roots of the symptom, return the client
there, discharge emotional difficulties, let client see why he is sick,
encourage healing.
Anything that is symptomatic. If there is a physical or emotional symptom
there is almost certainly an underlying set of emotions that should be
discharged. So tinnitus, bulimia, anorexia, depression, anxiety, stress,
panic disorder, emotional and physical problems should all be regressed
through SSE’s and eventually to the ISE. Pay particular attention to
anything that has recently been restimulated in the last several weeks.
Metaphors and other Tales of Enchantment
Self Hypnosis - Individual uses autosuggestion or audio tapes to acheive
some benefit.
Anything that needs to be distracted from like pain or any symptom that
has not yet been optimially dealt with in one of the other modes above.
Usually self hypnosis will not heal anything but can provide much needed
temporary symptomatic relief of most presenting symptoms. In self hypnosis
I include meditation and consciousness expanding experiences.
Coma/Esdalie/Ultra Depth- Though James Ramey who has written
extensively with his mentor and expertWalt Sichort (and I’m now writing
the forward to his book) list numerous benefits of these states, I will
share with you that I am convinced that these states are optimal for
surgical situations as was originally discovered by Esdalie circa 1840’s.
I do not use these states. I know very little from first hand experience.
Only have had a couple of people in 10 years actually spontaneously go to
a state that I can’t get them out of easily.
PLR- I’ve had no spontaneous PLR’s with people who were not already
believers in past life. But, I have had some good results with the handful
of people who were believers in past life that then pseudospontaneously
moved into a past life. PLR work has research that I accept that shows it
can be useful in symptom alleviation/elimination as seen in regression
therapy.
Ideomotor Signals/Pendulum work. When I need to find data and the
unconscious mind isn’t talking I set up ideomotor fingers on the right
hand of left handed people and the left hand of right handed people.
We could go on and talk about automatic writing, hypnoplasty, hypnography,
future pacing, etc. but we have the basics above.
This is just a thumbnail sketch, and that is all this is. It should give
the person who is early in our profession of what will likely be most
effective in most situations. There are always exceptions to the rules.
To learn regression therapy: I recommend the Hypnotherapy Handbook by Hogan, with contributors Nahum, Sumner, Hastings, and LaBay. Train with
someone who teaches regression. (Roy Hunter, Jerry Kein, Devin Hastings)
Ego state therapy: You can learn the basics from Roy Hunter’s books esp.
Art of Hypnotherapy; Phillips and Frederick’s, Healing the Divided Self;
Watkins books: Hypnoanalytic Techniques and Ego States.
To learn suggestive therapy: Train with an NGH instructor. They rely
heavily on suggestive therapy.
To learn PLR: Read Winafred Blake Lucas Books: Regression Therapy.
Absolutely brilliant stuff.
To learn about Coma/Esdaile/UltraDepth: Jerry Kein has a couple of videos on
this.
To learn about Ideomotor signals read Rossi’s Psychobiology of Healing and
Cheek’s, Hypnosis, 1994.
To learn about metaphors: Stephen Gilligan’s Therapeutic Trances is pretty
good. Or see Hypnotic Metaphors.
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