Why hypnosis? It’s about healing. Whether food, or smoking, fears or anxiety, stress or confidence, we all need to occasionally tap into that great source of infinite possibility, which lies within each and every one of us.
Once upon a time and not too long ago a lovely lady came and asked if I could help her to overcome a life long battle of over eating. She was tired of feeling tired. She was sick of feeling sick. She was disgusted with never fitting into her clothes. She was angry with herself for knowing better than her behavior would suggest.
Why can’t I eat healthy balanced meals?
Why do I eat junk food?
Why do I stick my head into the refrigerator five minutes after I finish my dinner?
Why do I keep on eating even after I am full?
Why do I eat so much sugar?
Why don’t I exercise?
Why don’t I meditate?
Why don’t I make myself the same priority I give to everyone else in my life?
Why don’t I drink more water?
What is the matter with me?
I am not stupid. I know what is good for me and what is not good for me and yet I continue to do what is literally killing me.
Am I crazy?
Am I self-destructive?
I need help now!
So we began the process of understanding her individual issues and spent about an hour just talking about what she wanted for herself and how she would like to see her new behavior developing and growing.
She said the four things she wanted to do more than anything else were the following:
1. Stop eating after seven pm
2. Exercise for forty five minutes every day
3. Eat healthy portion controlled meals
4. Snack seldom but on healthy food only
Her most important motivation was to feel strong and healthy as she had felt many years ago when she was slim and fit.
Since these were the most important issues to her, we were certain to include these items as her special suggestions made while she was in the state of hypnosis.
When it was time for her to experience hypnosis I spent about twenty minutes just speaking to her softly and getting her into the very relaxed and peaceful place we all have available within us.
When she was fully at ease I did several tests just to make certain she was deep enough to continue. She passed the tests with flying colors and we went on to take her back to the origin of her over eating habits.
Now here is where it really became interesting.
I asked her to return to the origin of the behavior of over eating and
Instead of going back to her early childhood, which seems to be where most of my clients go, she went back even further. She went back so far that some would say she went all the way back to yet another lifetime.
No one was as surprised as I was when she began to describe a different place and time.
I must admit it was the first time this happened during weight loss hypnosis and I was as excited as a kid in a candy shop to see where this was all going.
Well she proceeded to tell me about the place where she lived as a little girl in another country. She spoke in detail of the rooms and what they looked like and the composition of the floor and walls. She spoke of her mother and her illness and the feeling she had watching all of this as though she were truly there observing the surroundings. The description, lead me to believe this took place a couple of hundred years ago and the language was probably Spanish.
What she learned from the experience was that the reason she was over eating now was connected to her trauma in the past and so it no longer had any relevance to the present.
With that she was able to release it and forgive the people and herself for any transgressions and move forward free from the debilitating burden of the past.
I continued to work with her and prepared an audiotape for her of the session so that she could use it every day as a way of reinforcing all of the work she had done.
I saw her just a couple of weeks ago and was so happy to see her still losing weight.
There can be a spiritual healing which can takes place as we visit our past and forgive.
As all great traditions teach us, the power of forgiveness is life affirming and life altering.
In this particular case it spanned the course of centuries.
It is never too late to begin again. It is never too late to renew and give birth to a new self.
Some people ask me if I believe in past lives. My answer is simply this. I believe that the experience people have during regression can be life saving. Whether the experience is real or imagined is kind of irrelevant.
What is most important is that the healing occurs. That is what matters to me. Let us heal ourselves in whatever manner we are able to heal ourselves and not get too caught up in the mystery of life we all share and all stand in awe of no matter what our beliefs.
Susan George: Certified HynoCounselor in the State of NJ; Author of Book LIFE IS SHORT: DON’T BLOW IT; Counselor of ‘SOUL-utions’ a course in self-discovery; Facilitator of ‘Women’s Wisdom’, a spiritual self-awareness seminar, practicing at SenseAbilities, 260 Rte 71 at Sea Girt Ave, Manasquan NJ 732-449-2244.
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