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Many positive changes can happen in a person after a solid hypnotherapy session. Hypnosis transforms how the mind processes old emotions and beliefs.
In a handful of cases, they experience immediate results. Sometimes they immediately feel lighter and notice a spring in their steps, almost like a heavy burden has been lifted off their shoulders.
Most of the time, people will notice a shift in their perspective within a week. That’s why I normally space the sessions a week apart for them to observe. If the presenting problem is “fear of public speaking” or similar, I ask them to wait till their next speech or presentation.
The next part explains why this happens.
Mental Healing VS Emotional Healing
In my clinical hypnotherapy practice, I have observed that healing happens on 2 levels: mental healing and emotional healing. Emotional healing is the deepest.
Mental healing occurs when the individual pinpoints the root cause of their problem. It’s like a eureka moment where they finally understand, at a profound level, why they feel terrible today.
Emotional healing happens when the person deeply associates with their younger self when reliving the past adverse event. It’s a re-experiencing of the adverse event in first-person, thinking their younger self’s thoughts and feeling their feelings. This can be uncomfortable especially if the event was traumatic, but it confers the deepest healing.
Not everyone can associate with their younger self during hypnosis. During the session, some individuals observe the past as a 3rd-party and dissociate. They therefore experience mostly mental healing. Those who relive the past associated, which is more ideal, experience deep emotional healing, and mental healing too, when the sorrows of their inner child pour out.
Why I Check In One Week after a Session
A week after a session, I always check in on my client to ask if they’ve experienced a shift in their thoughts and mood.
Rena, my client, gave her feedback a week after the session. She had associated with young Rena very well under hypnosis.
The past week has been profound in some sense. A lot of feelings have been surfacing. A lot of, lot of feelings where. And every time I would do the tapping, I would cry more because I think there was a lot more left within me to heal.
Rena’s emotions poured out during the session and even after the session. This is rare and can be uncomfortable for some but it’s deep emotional healing. Once the emotions are detoxed, you’ll feel lighthearted.
I teach clients EFT Tapping to help them cope with emotions that rear their heads in between sessions.
Can Hypnosis Change Your Thoughts?
I feel like my sense of identity is changing and I’m finally understanding who I am and it’s feeling very, very real.
Our identity is shaped by our experiences from childhood till today. After all, we’re a product of our upbringing and life experiences, especially childhood ones.
People harbour negative beliefs such as “I’m not good enough” or “I will forever be alone”. They let these beliefs run their lives at a subconscious level. A handful of clients are aware but they don’t know why.
Understanding why they are what they are today is incredibly healing. The knowledge (mental healing) of this immediately arrests the problem. Clients tell me they can catch themselves thinking this way and stop it in its tracks.
If emotional healing takes place, like in Rena’s case, the belief loses its grip on the person’s life. Complete emotional healing, which is rare, means the negative belief is zeroed out and becomes a thing of the past.
And I’m kind of learning to separate from who it is that I thought I was supposed to be and who it is that I want to be and who it is that I am. Know my likes, my dislikes, what do. What is it that I expect out of life, all of these things.
Knowing what you have been in the past, with clarity, offers the opportunity for the person to change. They see that they’re not their past. They’re not their beliefs and not their emotions either. They see that their behaviour and preferences today is a product of their subconscious programming.
Your thoughts can change in a flash if you know how to reprogram this part of the mind. Hypnosis transforms your thoughts rapidly through mental reprogramming.
I’ve been suddenly starting to think, I think look at things more objectively with a fresh perspective.
The therapy session cleared the emotions that clouded her mind. With the newfound clarity, Rena gains a new perspective of life and begins to think objectively rather than emotionally.
How Emotions are Stored in The Body
So I’m feeling emotional. I think in the past week I’ve cried a lot. And I. And I remember much like what you shared. I was having stomach aches, maybe because of built up acidity of stress. And this one day in the middle of work, I just couldn’t function anymore and I just started crying hopelessly, knowing that some. Knowing that things are changing and probably they are changing for the better. And I started profusely doing the tapping and I felt so much better. And I don’t remember having stomach aches after that. And this just happened like on Friday.
Emotions become feelings when they manifest physically. Think of what happens when you’re angry – muscles tense, blood pressure goes up, heart races.
Everyone stores emotions in a part of the body. The common advice “let it off your chest” tells us many people harbour emotions there. Oftentimes it’s near the heart. In one of my sessions, a client pounded her heart hard as she recounted her painful childhood.
I’ve met people who kept their emotions in their shoulders, neck, stomach and other places.
Rena had stomachaches likely because that’s where her emotions lie. By practicing EFT Tapping, those emotions dissipated as soon as they came.
So, yeah, I already feel a lot, lot better. Been introspecting a lot more than usual.
Concluding Words
From what Rena shared, we can conclude that the hypnotherapy session has brought about a complete shift in her.
Not everyone sees this level of recovery in one session but this can be the positive effects of a good hypnotherapy session.
If you’re experiencing depression, anxiety or any kind of mental turmoil, consider hypnosis as a therapy.
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