Emotional Clearing with Hypnotherapy
By David Quigley One of the primary goals of psychotherapy has been the healingof depression, anxiety, chronic anger, and other emotionaldisorders, as well as the alleviation of psychosomaticdiseases whose source is in the client’s suppressed emotions.As hypnotherapists, we are constantly encountering ourclients’ childhood pain and trauma while attempting to assistthem in behavioral changes. Alchemical hypnotherapy offersrevolutionary new technologies for the rapid healing of thesechildhood memories. This process is “Emotional ClearingTherapy.” This article discusses how these new strategies ofhealing childhood traumas accelerates the solving of theseemotional problems. Psychological research has strongly indicated that ourpatterns of emotional health or weakness are often determinedby childhood factors. Sigmond Freud was the first modernpsychologist to suggest that trauma in the early years ofchildhood may be of supreme importance in determining anindividual’s emotional adjustment in later life. More recent research by behavioral psychologists hasindicated that the basic nurturing a child receives in itsfirst six years of life provides the critical foundation forhappiness, maturity and responsibility in later life. Serioustraumas occurring in this time period can permanently cripplethat child’s maturing process. The healing of these emotional traumas, however, has been anelusive goal for most psychotherapies. Freud used suchtechniques as free association and dream interpretation toreach an analysis of the client’s subconscious material after2-5 years of weekly therapy. The insight gained by the clientinto the childhood sources of his current neurosis would,theoretically, allow the client to let go of childish orirrational behavior. The client’s logic might be as follows:”Well, I can see that these feelings or behaviors might havebeen appropriate at age 3, but are obviously unnecessarynow!” Since Freud’s day, the science of insight therapy has come along way, but is still based on Freud’s basic principle thatinsight leads to recovery. However, a large percentage ofclients have discovered that insight alone is not sufficientto relieve the emotional symptoms caused by childhood trauma. More recently, therapy pioneers like Wilhelm Reich and ArthurJanov have developed a new form of therapy called “emotionalrelease” to deal with early trauma. By taking the client backto the scene of these childhood experiences and reliving themin gory detail, it is thought that a client could release theemotional charge from the experience, often by kicking andscreaming. This would relieve muscular tension, anxiety, andneurotic behavior. Wilhelm Reich’s work involved forcing theemotional release through deep pressure on the body’s musclesin which the repressed emotional charge had been stored. Janov created a powerful group experience through psychodramamethods. These therapies are based on the concept thatreleasing locked-in emotion through acting out buriedfeelings in the context of being regressed to a childhoodmemory presented the long-sought solution for childhoodtrauma. Therefore, I call these methods “emotional releasetherapy.” Recently, some problems have become evident in this form oftherapy as well. Many of my colleagues and students in thisfield have noticed that people who have done many months ofemotional release become very adept at expressing feelings,but aren’t necessarily feeling better. They often becomefixated on acting out negative emotions. One client of minewho had worked with Janov for six months stated thatasserting his feelings, crying, and being emotionally upsetbecame a pattern for him and others in his group. While getting in touch with his feelings felt good at first,getting stuck acting out his emotional pain all the time feltbad. His solution: he repressed his emotions and moved backinto his intellect. Another friend found that Reichiantherapy allowed her to open up all the anger inside, but herfrequent fits of rage didn’t make her very many friends ormake her life easier. Now a new style of therapy is emerging which utilizes anentirely new approach to dealing with childhood trauma. Thistherapy, which I call “emotional clearing”, focuses onproviding the client’s Inner Child with an experience ofbeing loved and nurtured by caring parents after beingrescued from the trauma of childhood. This mode of therapy isespecially effective because it provides the opportunity forthe client to experience, in a childlike state, thefulfillment of emotional needs and completion of theemotional maturation which was blocked by traumaticexperiences. Furthermore, while emotional release therapy mayfixate the client in the expression of negative emotions,emotional clearing allows the client to experience profoundstates of bliss and joy which the therapist can then anchor(through post-hypnotic suggestion) to the client’s dailystressful situations, replacing tension and fear with blissand joy even in difficult crisis. For example, one client who had a phobia of crowdedsupermarkets (”agoraphobia”) entered a childhood trauma whichconnected to this phobic response. During the course of thesession, we rescued her child from this traumatic scene byhaving the client visualize her adult self and other personsthat she trusted enter into the hypnotically-induced scene.After rescuing this “inner child”, I suggested that shebecome the rescued child. She felt this experience as wavesof bliss and relief in her body. I then used post-hypnoticsuggestion to anchor this bliss, stating, “Every time youenter a supermarket, you remember this wonderful feeling ofbeing rescued.” This linking process is simply a teaching the subconsciousmind to change its response pattern from (supermarket =childhood trauma = panic) to the new pattern (supermarket =childhood rescue = bliss). After one session in this case, a one-year follow-up revealeda complete remission of symptoms. About Alchemy Institute of Hypnosis: America’s oldestspiritually oriented hypnotherapy training program hastrained over 2000 hypnotherapists since 1983. The AlchemyInstitute is approved by the state of California Bureau ofPrivate Postsecondary Education (BPPVE) and American Councilof Hypnotists Examiners. Our website offers an extensivelibrary of articles about hypnotherapy. If you’re interestedin making changes in your life through the techniques ofhypnotherapy described here, call our office at1-800-950-4984 or visit our website atfountainofyouthhypnosis.com Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=David_Quigley http://EzineArticles.com/?Emotional-Clearing-with-Hypnotherapy&id=127892 private school loan lenders for students with bad-credit or without co-signer cash advance in georgia bad credit loan calculator paycheck tax modeler
