What is your Biggest question as a Hypno?

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Permalink Reply by Susan French on January 24, 2010 at 7:00am

Hi Jim,

You pose a great suggestion and a great forum.

Here are a couple I've posed over the years. I don't know that I ever received an "answer" but I certainly ended up with a lot of directions to explore.

When doing pain interventions with clients, how can you determine that none of the pain is coming from unresolved medical problems that keep the pain/irritation/whatever the problem is going?

When doing pain interventions, how long should one expect the pain intervention to last? It seems that it is so often taught as a "one set of sessions should eliminate the pain" and that doesn't seem correct. If not, what is a good protocol to suggest to clients with ongoing pain, with or without discoverable physical etiology? Are there rules of the road for when the treatment doesn't last? When should you send them back to demand that their MDs, chiros, etc. take a closer look for additional damage? How should you advise them when medical treatment isn't coming through or may not have long-term answers?

Regression: when I learned age regression and applied it, I found that clients were often worse, left before I could help them to resolve their issue, left before I could help them to find peace from the issue and resolution. I kept asking about that but got few good responses. I've recently made connection with the good folks at Uncommon Knowledge and was advised that if regression is not handled properly, you can retraumatize the client.

This is exactly what I had been finding but none of the regressionists would ever address that concern so I gave up using it. I also came to realise that far too many of our ideas about the use of regression towards resolution are based on very out-dated therapeutic ideas, such as you have to revivify the event and abreact, puke out the poison, cry and beat the pillows and that was the way to resolution. I just never found it to be so, at least most of the time. I find, in the hypnotherapeutic community, as in life, most people resist change and resist challenges to their sacred cows.

I'm learning better ways of using "regression" that avoids that. However, I still think that there is a lot of value to taking a "feeling that you don't like" or a "feeling that distresses you" and linking it to thinking/feeling patterns for the purpose of discovery. I'm just still wondering about the best and safest ways to examine old, out-moded, no-longer-needed beliefs and behaviors. I would appreciate it if all answers are tendered in the most respectful way and that this does not degenerate into personal attacks. Please.

I've been hot on the trail of learning about constructing suggestions. I've found some wonderful, wonderful resources and breakdowns (specifically Trevor Silvester of the Quest Institute in the UK, Wordweaving 1 and 2 and a practitioner course which I'm am going to take. I've read a lot about transitioning from script to "off the top of my head" but never before was I able to find anyone who addressed the structure of suggestions and how to get from A to Z. I'd love to hear some other ideas, really GOOD classes and books, etc.

Well, that's a start. I'm really looking forward to answers here. Respectful and informative answers that don't assume that there is only one way to skin a cat...their way.

Thanks,

Susan

Permalink Reply by RevLindsay G. King on January 8, 2011 at 4:40am

Susan, you posed your question nearly a year ago. I wonder why there are no responses. Over the decades, I have worked with MD's more than once and have referred people, my wife included, to them.