The Hypnotherapist Gets Hypnotherapy!
Just like everyone else even therapists experience and need help with their emotional “stuff” from time to time and this is the situation I found myself in recently.
It is a part of life that we are continually having stuff that we have not fully resolved bubble to the surface and impact our lives in some negative way.
A few years ago my own Pandora’s Box of life’s icky stuff sprang open and I was bombarded with emotional stuff that was no longer going to stay nice and quiet and hidden. I was forced to face it and deal with it accordingly. It wasn’t pretty…. I was so angry with the world that I literally pushed everyone who loved me away and was so destructive with my self-sabotage that I even got to the point of homelessness…
Fortunately some amazing people emerged at the right time and gave me the support and the space to help me work through my “stuff” when I stopped fighting and realised it was time to get help.
And whilst I have definitely cleared and healed so much of that stuff and was back functioning in the real world and enjoying life again, it turns out that there were still some residual emotions that still needed healing.
My biggest issue from that time is the weight that I gained. As a therapist I completely understand the complex issues attached to weight problems including emotional eating and putting on a “layer of protection”. I also understand that some weight issues can be linked to past life circumstances.
But even knowing this I knew that I couldn’t do it on my own. You see your subconscious mind is so powerful and so protective that it is impossible to break through the self-protective illusions on your own.
The Universe is pretty clever and is the absolute master of “divine timing” if we just learn to trust! I experienced the most wonderful therapy session – she got to all of the deep, dark places I had been hiding from myself – and helped me to gain a deep level of understanding and healing. All of the hurt and betrayal feelings were out on the open and were being worked through.
Many weeks before this session I had booked into some business development training for hypnotherapists – just 2 days after my heavy duty healing session. I was in a room full of other hypnotherapists and our trainer asked for a volunteer to demonstrate a hypnosis technique. She literally asked “Who needs to release some anger?”
Well… to be perfectly honest I am generally a very private person – especially when it comes to my personal emotional state… yet my hand was the first up!! I was selected to sit in the seat out in the front of the class to be the one to be hypnotised … to be VULNERABLE… eeeekkkkk!!!
So… I am an experienced hypnotherapist and the technique she used is one that I use with my own clients…so to be honest I didn’t think it would work…but it did!!!!!!
Most people think that when you are hypnotised that you go into some kind of unconscious state…with no awareness of what is going on... but that is not true at all. I was completely conscious of my surroundings however the answers were just popping into my mind and I experienced a deep shift where all of the anger that I had been trying to release was... well… released. It was so subtle yet natural.
I can honestly say that I am so grateful for all of this experience because not only did I receive healing by having my anger released, but I gained even more confidence over the power of the service that I provide for my clients.
