How does Hypnosis Heal? Part 1 
How does hypnosis heal? Where is the problem and how do you find it? Before diving into a hypnosis session you must first ask some rather personal questions to gain insight into your clients past. Questions like: Have you ever had an abortion? Are you gay? Did anyone ever die who was close to you at an early age? When did you have your first sexual experience and was it consensual? These questions give you clues regarding your subject. Does this person have underlying guilt? Who do we need to deal with in our therapy later? If the person had an abortion you MUST address this later even if the person says it with a “Matter of fact” kind of tone in her voice. If you discover sexual abuse you’ll want to know who did it. Again you’ll have to deal with this offender later. If a woman tells you that they have cheated for an “Extended period of time” on their husband or long-term relationship this always means that they were sexually abused as a child.
  But here’s the thing. You don’t need a lot of information. In fact I don’t want a whole history on them. If they start yammering on and on I basically shut them up. Why don’t I want to listen too much? Because their conscious mind is telling you this information and the conscious mind doesn’t know the real answers! “I’m depressed because my husband fed me up to six other guys who raped me and my daughter later shot herself in the head and died.” Ya know, that is depressing but it’s not why you’re depressed! In fact, in the case I just mentioned, her mind took her back to being two years old all alone and in a crib. She began to cry and cry, the tears just rolling down her face. I asked what was wrong. She had a strong feeling that her parents abandoned her and that they were never coming back! Of course these were just misguided feelings coming from the mind of a child, her parents were actually right in the next room. We quickly changed the perception of this event and she was off the anti-depression meds by our next appointment. So did those other terrible events add to her depression? I’m sure they didn’t make her feel any better but that wasn’t why her depression was present to begin with, she was triggering off of the feelings of the abandoned child.
  The only time I’ve ever seen a person’s conscious mind target the real cause, the real event of why they came to see me have been in cases regarding fear. Once in a great while they will know what event started the fearful feeling. This is so rare though. Out of the thousands of sessions I’ve done I can only recall about three or four people who said, “I think I have this problem because …” and they were right! Other than those few I have never had anyone consciously tell me the real and true cause of his or her problem. And let’s say the person tells you the event that caused this fear. How do you fix it without using hypnosis? I know that talk therapists deal with this using a series of conditioning steps, steps to desensitize the person. If the subject is afraid of snakes they will talk a lot about snakes. Then they will bring a snake into the room. Once the subject is better with this they will eventually have the person touch the snake and then hold the snake. This takes many sessions and it does not take away the fear. Why not just get rid of the fear? This only takes about a half hour or so and the fear is gone, completely gone like they never had the problem to begin with!