Hypnotist, Heal Thyself

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Permalink Reply by Antonio on April 1, 2011 at 5:22am

You could probably do some ideomotor work (finger signals, pendulum work, etc.)

Permalink Reply by Hypnoblonde on April 1, 2011 at 6:03am

Bill,

 

Perhaps “hypnotist, heal thyself” is not about just doing techniques on ourself.. perhaps it is allowing us to heal due to the happenings/interactions with people being put on our path. So many people are what I call “human doings” because they feel that it is up to them to do all the time... Maybe learning to be more “human beings” will allow synchronicities into our lives to help us heal.

 

Pardon the oblique answer to your question “How do you do parts work on yourself?”

 

Interesting post. In the research I have done for my book I focus on this in a couple chapters. We may be able to do work on ourself in the sense of the symptoms we see in our life.. These are things we are conscious of. The real but hidden “life trauma” we do not see, it is in the subconcious mind. Brent Baum has done work with this, as well as others. As they say we are hardwired with this between birth and seven and have the rest of our lives to heal from this. This programming is in our subconcious and we see the symptoms.

I believe there are many ways to move thru these “blocks”, hypnosis being one of them. Significant emotional events causing us to change are another and there are many other modalities to assist us. Before I had my own intervention I suffered the symptoms and it was a friend that saw clearly and moved me along on this path of healing. I had tried all kinds of ways to get past the symptoms to no avail.

I also found that once past the major blocks then the learning and growing became more conscious and a lot easier to move forward.

Years ago a mentor once said we are all here to help each other work thru “karmas”. Stephen Covey mentions in his works that we go from dependent to independent and finally to interdependence

We are beginning to realize our total connectedness. We are also moving more into the Age of Aquarius and the veil between this side and the other is getting thinner perhaps those who are a bit more evolved are able to do this changing on their own.

There are many around me in the “healing arts”, that is hypnosis, reiki, various energy work and we all have our limitations due to how far along we are in our own healing.

 

Alice Stacionis

Permalink Reply by Bill Kennedy on April 1, 2011 at 6:10am

@ Antonio - I use a pendulum.  The responses have been really interesting and not always consistent.  I find that my mood affects the results.  That made me think, because I had always pictured the subconscious as being deep enough that it is not affected by the storm on the surface.

 

@ Alice - Thank you for your answer.  I see the wisdom in it.  We don't see what we don't see.

Permalink Reply by Roy Hunter on April 1, 2011 at 6:27am

I have time to make one last posting before leaving for three days to see my sister...

I wrote a book on self-hypnosis (MASTERING THE POWER OF SELF-HYPNOSIS, Crown House Publishing), and strongly believe in it. However, when I need parts or regression work, it is best for someone else to facilitate that for me.

The reason is that the facilitator must remain objective and not emotionally attached to the process. While I am aware of some of my own parts, I cannot be an objective mediator when I have an inner conflict...so I choose someone else who is competent with parts therapy to facilitate the process.

The same would hold true for regression therapy, because abreactions should be facilitated by someone who can remain objective and help the client release any emotional connection to the ISE.

Roy

Permalink Reply by Aline Hoffman on April 1, 2011 at 6:52am

Agreed!  Several years ago I was experiencing a past-life regression with a facilitator and had a tremendous life-changing aha moment.  Not sure I would have been able to experience 'getting there' on my own.  

Roy Hunter said:

 

...facilitator must remain objective and not emotionally attached to the process. While I am aware of some of my own parts, I cannot be an objective mediator when I have an inner conflict...so I choose someone else who is competent with parts therapy to facilitate the process.

The same would hold true for regression therapy, because abreactions should be facilitated by someone who can remain objective and help the client release any emotional connection to the ISE.

Roy

Permalink Reply by Bill Kennedy on April 1, 2011 at 8:20am

@ Roy - Thank you so much for the tip.  I'm ordering the book.

Permalink Reply by Bill Kennedy on April 3, 2011 at 10:23am

How does the subconscious experience conflict?  I have a conflict that I feel consciously, but I was surprised that when I used an ideomotor pendulum to ask whether my subconscious felt a conflict I got a strong No response.  This surprised me.  Did I ask the wrong question? 

 

By the way, thank you to everyone for your kind advice.  I have an appointment this week with a hypnotherapist. 

Permalink Reply by Stephanie Conkle on April 5, 2011 at 7:27pm

I like Roy's answer. I would also add, try extending your meditation time and give yourself permission to allow whatever needs to bubble to the surface to come up in its own time in its own way. Tell yourself that you won't judge or try to fix anything that comes up at that moment. You will just be aware of it (perhaps write it down whatever comes up). You can "fix" things later. Now, you are the observer, and when you start to feel emotional just stay with it until you get it "out of your system" so to speak. (Cry, scream, laugh, bang on the wall, whatever.) Once you've gotten past the emotion, I bet you will have absolute clarity and abounding "aha moments."  That's what works for me anyway! 

 

Trance out!

Steph

Permalink Reply by Bill Kennedy on April 6, 2011 at 3:15am

Thank you Steph.  My goal is to be supportive of all the voices inside.  They are the source of my writing.  At the beginning, my goal was to "fix," but I have since come to appreciate the truth of the saying that all the parts are working for the good of the client.  But I take your point.  I need to be more explicit and actually say "Talk to me.  I just want to listen."

Stephanie Conkle said:

I like Roy's answer. I would also add, try extending your meditation time and give yourself permission to allow whatever needs to bubble to the surface to come up in its own time in its own way. Tell yourself that you won't judge or try to fix anything that comes up at that moment. You will just be aware of it (perhaps write it down whatever comes up). You can "fix" things later. Now, you are the observer, and when you start to feel emotional just stay with it until you get it "out of your system" so to speak. (Cry, scream, laugh, bang on the wall, whatever.) Once you've gotten past the emotion, I bet you will have absolute clarity and abounding "aha moments."  That's what works for me anyway! 

 

Trance out!

Steph