16 April 2024
“Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.” - Thich Nhat Hanh
I’ve been asked many times “how do you know for sure that what people experience about their past (especially past lives) during trance are indeed real?” The answer is I don’t know. What I do know is that anything which pops up in your mind means something to you. I have several clients with different religious backgrounds telling me they saw and talked to their own God. Who am I to judge whether that was real or not? Who could possibly verify it? Therefore, what matters most is to allow yourself to be in the moment during hypnotherapy and simply experience…
how does it make you feel?
what does it mean to you?
what do you learn from it?
My client Felisha (not her real name) came to see me with an estranged relationship with her parents and she was very upset with them. Lots of unhappy childhood memories surfaced during therapy. I worked with her to release all the negative energy (whether it was anger, sadness, disappointment or fear) that wasn’t yet processed properly and trapped in the past. Then she was able to “look” at those moments again from another perspective and she came up with her own new reality. Felisha told me a few months after the therapy that she started communicating with her parents again and she was pleased about it. Looking back at all those memories that she used to hold on to, Felisha said now she can’t even be so sure how real they were. She was amazed at how one’s own perspectives could make such a huge difference.
The thing is, reality is subjective. There’s no such thing as one core reality. We perceive what we believe as objective, and that it is absolutely true from our own perspectives. In hypnotherapy, we realize we create our own perspectives; hence we create our own realities.
*Note: Credible therapists will never tell you or ask you anything suggestive. Whatever comes to mind should be from your within instead of being told or manipulated by the therapists.
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