Psychotherapy

Regression

Age Regression is one of the most powerful tools available to the Medical Hypnoanalysst. But lately, it has come under fire for creating false memories. The truth of the matter is that it does work, but the Medical Hypnoanalyst must be very careful when directing the regression.

Many therapies involving hypnosis take advantage of the mind's ability to visualize. And this ability can be very useful when treating someone for overeating or helping them achieve athletic and career goals. But combining age regression and visualization must be done very carefully.

The subconscious mind retains every bit of information that it receives. If someone is having trouble retrieving a memory, the Medical Hypnoanalyst may suggest that they visualize something that will help them retrieve it. If the suggestion is not carefully worded the mind may confuse the image with the memory. For this reason, it is very important to use Non-Directive Medical Hypnoanalysis.

Regression: A Key tool of the Medical HypnoanalystDoor To The PastPerhaps you have a habit, a fear or phobia, a reaction or an attitude, which creates a problem in your life. It may be that you have no idea why this problem exists or where it came from. But problems tend to have had beginnings or causes. Quite often, simply knowing and understanding the cause is in itself sufficient to effect a cure. Medical Hypnanalytic regression can ferret out causes of problems even when the causing event, experience, or trauma has been suppressed, repressed, or forgotten, by the light of understanding, appropriate Medical Hypnoanalysis can be undertaken to resolve, explain or otherwise deal with the problem. And Medical Hypnoanalysis, by its nature, is short-term therapy. The treatments do not go on endlessly. Results are often rapid.

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Relationships

All human beings are involved in relationships, often several simultaneously. Whether such involves child-parent, husband-wife, employer-employee, teacher-student, lover-lover, friend-friend, or individual-group, relationships can and do develop problems, misunderstandings, differences, changes of feelings, or other disturbing elements. Relationship problems can affect home life, work, education, health, attitude, and motivation, even the desire to live. Symptoms may include anger, sadness, hurt, loss of self-esteem, depression, and even violence.

Medical Hypnoanalysis can ferret out the causes of such problems, bringing the healing power of understanding. Medical Hypnoanalytic therapy can eliminate feelings of rejection, hurt, frustration and resentment. Communications can be re-established the confidence required and creative solutions are developed.

Medical Hypnoanalysis can bring about an understanding of relationship communications, attentiveness to the promise of modifications of attitudes and suggestibility and sexualities, and the significance of and need for creating feelings of confidence and security in and concerning the relationship itself.

Rational Emotive Therapy

Rational emotive therapy (RET) is a type of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) developed by psychologist Albert Ellis. RET is an action-oriented approach that's focused on helping people deal with irrational beliefs and learn how to manage their emotions, thoughts, and behaviors in a healthier, more realistic way.

When people hold irrational beliefs about themselves or the world, problems can result. The goal of RET is to help people recognize and alter those beliefs and negative thinking patterns to overcome psychological problems and mental distress.

According to RET, our cognition, emotions, and behavior are connected. To understand the impact of events and situations that people encounter throughout life, it's essential to look at the beliefs people hold about these experiences and the emotions that arise as a result of those beliefs.

Insomnia

A small number of sessions of Medical Hypnoanalysis could transform your outlook, eradicate your worries and instruct you on a self-Medical Hypnoanalysis process, which may well eliminate the dilemma from your life and in the procedure allow you to handle troubles in a way less apt to manufacture sleep-destroying anxiety.

Those in search of fast, successful help may turn to Medical Hypnoanalysis. In addition to programming a client with suggestions favorable to soothing sleep and teaching Self-Hypnoanalysis, the Medical Hypnoanalyst can fashion a custom-made tape calculated to deal with individual problems. The tape can cleanly lead the client into profound, contented relaxation with directives at the end of the tape to take pleasure in peaceful sleep through the night and in the dawn wake up invigorated and excited about the new day.

The insomnia suggestions probably will involve permission given to the subconscious to take pleasure in relaxation, to be conscious of past accomplishments and the comfort of having practiced triumph jointly with the acknowledgment that success is communicable, generating feelings of comfort.

Your Medical Hypnoanalyst will be predisposed to substitute pessimistic thinking and attitudes with optimistic viewpoints, resulting in mental conditioning favorable to relaxation, tranquility and ease. Problems of import can be set to the side, as the conscious mind is in essence detached to permit sleep to take place.

Sexual Dysfunctions

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As in many other cases, discovering causes is important. Medical factors must be checked.

Non-medical causes may include childhood punishments, early religious background, and training, poor handling of childhood curiosities by parents or teachers, life experiences, trauma, etc. Therapy for the female may require the cooperation of a male partner, development of understanding of response, needs for attention, security, comfort, foreplay.

Male problems include impotence, premature ejaculation, fears about the physical structure, masculinity, and rejection. Suggestion therapy, de-sensitization, and re-education can prove effective. Medical Hypnoanalysis provides an ideal approach.

One Medical Hypnoanalysts commented that good sex is merely an erotic trance. When the similarities between hypnosis and gratifying sex are considered, he is quite right. Effective hypnosis involves high focus and concentration on the matter being dealt with. So does effective sex. In hypnosis, there is a strong response to suggestion. In sex, there is a strong response to verbal and physical stimulation. A sex therapist may not know much about hypnosis. But Medical Hypnoanalysts know about sex.

The basic effort, from any approach, is to liberate clients from reservations, distractions, emotions, or other conflicts to develop a focused state of awareness. Orgasm may well be the definitive trance-sensations are powerful, exceedingly intense to the point where all other thoughts, feelings, sensations, or emotions are obliterated from the psyche.

When troubles develop in sexual performance or enjoyment, a logical approach is (as in many other problem areas) to look for causes. What has happened? When did problems begin? How did they progress? Quite often Medical Hypnoanalytic regression may prove illuminating, locating sources of problems and indicating the appropriate therapeutic procedures to resolve them.

It is valuable at the outset to determine the client's dominant type of sexuality- active or passive. Normal people are a blend of both, though one is usually a bit stronger. Sexuality, as with suggestibility, can be measured to determine the dominant type and evaluate its relative factor of strength. The active sexual person is likely to be a bit more outgoing, even aggressive, sexually. To the passive sexual person, feelings are probably more internal.

For effective therapy, it is important to identify sexuality type to understand the response. While marital compatibility has been studied, reported, and written about in volumes, personality compatibility has received negligible attention. It has long been known that opposites attract-this feature is more often than not accountable for the “spark” that draws people together. Yet the same “opposite” element provides the breeding ground for potential clashes, communication problems, lack of understanding of intents and emotions, and other factors, which mature into insecurities. Understanding sexuality types, then, can smooth the progress of compatibility.

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Bill's article gives a good description of what it is, especially compared to regular hypnosis that does not include the psychological component by a trained, skilled practician.

The hypnotic state is not, necessarily, a state of suggestibility. It can be the least suggestible of states, while simultaneously being the most suggestible of states. The hypnotherapeutic state is distinctly different from pathological states and yet each are receptive to suggestions. Suggestions given in either state may maintain their influence for an extended period while being out of conscious awareness. It is the combining of the hypnotherapeutic state with the pathological that allows for the treatment of the causative factors in psychosomatic, psychoneurotic, and behavioral problems.

By combining the therapeutic state with the pathological, a meaningful search or age regression begins that can lead safely to the initial sensitizing event that has caused the client's problem. The hypnotic state provides the dual-level of consciousness that is so necessary for the client to fully grasp the emotions that led to his decisions and to have the ability to change those decisions at their roots. Without this dual mind, the return to the pathological state would only serve as its reinforcer. The therapeutic state not only allows for the understanding of the causes of pathology but its catharsis as well.

In the hypnotic state (therapeutic state) people will act in their own best interests on both mental and physical levels. It is for this reason that unrealistic positive suggestions will be rejected as readily as unrealistic negative ones because they are distortions of reality and cannot be accepted by a person operating in their own best interests both mentally and physically.

To conceptually understand all of hypnosis and the therapeutic hypnotic state, I have elected to use diagrams, for it is quite simple when visualized. See Diagram I.

Here, the total mind is represented by a big circle. The “total consists of memories, emotions, thoughts, in essence, anything that is possible to be in our awareness at any time. Within this big mind, there is the little mind or conscious mind, which is here represented by the little circle. The total mind is then, for convenience sake, divided into several emotional compartments, much like a color wheel. See Diagram II.

Rather than list all of the possible emotions there are to experience, like all the different colors that are possible, I will use the opposites in emotion like the opposites in color. For instance, red and green are opposites in color in that they represent the opposites of each other. The emotions of love and hate can also be viewed as mutually exclusive. They can be thought of as positive and negative emotions.

When a particular emotion is dominant the conscious mind is seemingly engulfed by it. See Diagram III. For simplicity's sake to avoid the multitude of definitions for love I will speak of “romantic love”. When the conscious mind is in this state it will accept suggestions that are consistent with romantic love and reject ideas that are inconsistent with it.

For instance, a girl experiencing romantic love will view her “romantic lover” as a knight in shining amour. If he were to dance on her feet she would think this to be “cute” and typical of such a “big handsome lug”. If others tell her that he is no good, she will not accept this. When he says “Hit”, she will attribute special and romantic meaning to these words. In essence, she will make everything fit her predisposition, that is the emotion of romantic love.

When the effort becomes too great to maintain this point of view the results appear as if she had been catapulted into the opposite emotion, that of hate. or “romantic hate”. See Diagram IV.

In “romantic hate” she will reject any concept that implies he was truly good after all, and accept ideas that he deceived and used her. In this state, she would be susceptible to suggestions that inspire active hate, like “Let's slice his tires,” but would reject, “Oh he may not be that bad.” It gives a good description of what it is, especially compared to regular hypnosis that does not include the psychological component by a trained, skilled practician.

Whatever the emotional state, our thinking will be consistent with that emotional state. It is often said, much to the chagrin of hypnotists, that Hitler hypnotized Germany. It may be more useful to say that he induced certain emotions, like patriotism, nationalism, religious righteousness, and the desire to feel superior. Once he achieved the proper emotional state, his influence was natural and easy. Today, many of the people who followed Hitler and regret it will find it difficult to talk about.

Pathological states, that is states of either positive or negative emotions, can become so painful that the person suffering from these emotions may not wish to discuss them nor to think about them. When this happens consciously, the conscious mind directs the unconscious mind to keep such thoughts from his/her awareness. This may be aided by drugs, hard work, and of course, avoiding the cues that would trigger the thought. For this reason, pathological memories and thoughts do not experience the wearing effect that other memories go through. Such memories are not paired with other neutral memories. Unfortunately, when such ideas do come into the suffering person's awareness they are received with the same amount, or more, of the negative emotions than when first encountered. Consequently, such memory can torture a person throughout life. To treat this thought, idea, or initial sensitizing event, it must be approached with caution. The best preparation I know of is to induce therapeutic hypnosis, that is, a relaxed, aware state of well-being, or a coming to the center, (see Diagram IV.), of the person's total mind.

Then it is possible to re-experience the pathological condition. and thinking, reevaluate it, and provide a catharsis if necessary. In the total mind, from this position, we have access to all of the emotions and subsequently to all of the memories associated with them. Plus there is a greater ability to deal with them due to the dual-level of consciousness provided by the therapeutic state. Under these conditions, even following “free association” techniques, the mind would quickly lead us to troubled spots.

The therapeutically receptive state is the state where beneficial work can be done that is consistent with the needs of the total person or total mind. Any journey into one emotion, or even all but one is a distortion of reality, although the latter is certainly less of a distortion in most cases. The therapeutic state must then incorporate all of the emotions. Each emotion serves a purpose no matter how vile or exalted it might be, and can provide for our psychological and physical well-being. Therefore, the therapeutic hypnotic state has aspects of all the emotions that one could feel, positive and negative, and the client can be relatively comfortable experiencing them. See Diagram V.

In this mental state, the suggestions given must be consistent with the person's overall well-being, taking into account the client's entire learning experiences and emotions. The hypnotic state, like meditative states, helps to ensure that the client is inwardly relaxed. This implies that the person is accepting himself both positively and negatively. Of the many varied hypnotic induction techniques, I am here referring to those that serve to increase self-awareness and turn their focus inward.

In this state, it rapidly becomes clear that “positive suggestions” can be as much s distortion of reality as “negative suggestions”. Romantic love, although it may feel good, sets one up for a crisis. Pure hate does not allow us to have access to other emotional states and consequently separates one from the other points of view. It is not that these states are bad, indeed we need them for survival. If we did not feel them we would be dead, or at least partially dead. And they can motivate us to affirmative action. Under these conditions, if suggestions art given that are consistent with the person's best interests, biologically and psychologically, they will be accepted, if not they will be rejected.

In conclusion, the mind and its emotions can be conceptually compared to a color wheel, with each color representing various emotions. Where all the colors come together they form a white light, the total of all colors. The total of all emotions forms likewise a pure emotional state. This would represent the ideal hypnotic or meditative state. In this state, like the one where all the colors form a white light, we can experience any of the emotions again. Just as the act of setting up a prism can retrieve all of the seemingly absent colors, so too with the multitude of emotions. Thus, the hypnotic state is not only a tool of therapy, but it is also the goal, just as the Zen meditator meditates to achieve total calm, peace, and harmony within himself and his world.

William J. Ronan