The healing
The goal of medicine is to heal - which may include remission of disease, control of the disease, relief of symptoms, or comfort.
One of the premises of Somatic Hypnotherapy is that the mind and body have an innate ability to heal themselves. The mind knows how to find spiritual and emotional balance and achieve serenity. The body knows how to rebuild broken bones, heal wounds, repair or eliminate diseased cells, restore physiological processes, fight infections, and preserve vitality.
The goal of this approach is to trigger these inborn healing processes. But here's the catch! Although these healing processes are natural self-healing mechanisms, they are energy intensive and, therefore, cannot occur while you are so emotionally drained that all you can do is fight for survival. However, you regain vitality by releasing stress, anxiety, traumas, and pain. Thus, the body creates a positive feedback loop through the autonomic nervous system, which can trigger a healing process that can significantly improve the state of mind and symptoms of various medical conditions.
Even though healing is a self-healing process triggered by removing or correcting the causes of your problems, healing cannot go against your will or beliefs. Whether it is healing bones or your mind, you'll have to understand, make sense of, and nurture your ongoing healing process, or at least welcome and protect it. When it comes to a broken bone, once the fracture has been assessed, the best your orthopedist can do is line up and immobilize the fractured parts of the bone in a cast and let it heal. Wanting to heal and understanding that you must avoid straining the limb with the broken bone while it heals is your job!
When it comes to emotional and behavioral issues, rather than having - as for the fractured bones, a one size fits all model - we are dealing with 82 different scientific models. According to my approach, the harsh emotional reality you face is likely due to an unintentional projection of your negative emotional buildup into the background of your daily life emotional reality. Therefore, this approach aims to help you uproot your piled-up stress, anxiety, traumas, pains, and other disturbing feelings you accumulated. Unfortunately, living with negative emotional patterns is like walking with stones in your shoes. It will likely hurt your feet in the long term, and healing those deep wounds cannot happen overnight!
The above assumptions were the guiding philosophy behind identifying and uprooting the top layer of negative emotional buildup made up of your worst memories, a process we completed during your first therapy session. Not only did we remove the unpleasant emotional feelings associated with your worst nightmares, but we tested twice near the end of our meeting to make sure all those disturbing feelings were gone for good. Right after your session, when you mentally review the once stressful, anxious, or traumatic events we worked on, you will be surprised to find that your emotional reality has already shifted.
Although you can still think whatever you want, the pattern of your emotional reactions and the feelings you experience when reviewing the once unpleasant memories is a new reality! When you check your once troubling experiences we have worked on, you'll feel as if your heart has significantly eased or even completely forgotten the stressful, anxious,