How does Hypnosis Heal? Part 2
 
Effective hypnotherapy finds the ISE or the “Initial Synthesizing Event” of a problem - the one event from where the negative feeling stems. To find the ISE I’ll hypnotize the subject, rattle their cage a bit (build the negative feeling) and then regress off of that feeling directing them to go back to the first time they ever felt such a feeling. Let’s work through an example or two and you’ll fully understand the power of hypnotherapy!
 
Let’s take a case regarding the very common problem of depression. I solve depression in four sessions. In the first two I regress to cause and change the perceptions from negative to positive. The third session I go after what I call, “Offenders.” These are people who have hurt my client. These offenders could be childhood bullies or parents or both. Offenders can range from extreme acts of abuse to just someone that made you feel bad about you at some moment in your life. These people could be either living or dead, and yes, even dead people still have control over you if they were an offender. The goal of the third session is to release pent up emotion and to know that the person wasn’t being hurt because of who they are but that the offender was just acting out on their own programming and that programming had nothing to do with my client. We get forgiveness for everyone who has ever hurt them. This is the part of therapy where I sometimes speak to my client as the aborted baby they had to let go or a deceased person with whom they needed to converse. Regarding abortion, I’ve only had two women who didn’t cry profusely over the fact that they had to let that baby go. It may not affect the conscious mind but it is a showstopper to the subconscious mind. Once this is accomplished they then need to forgive themselves for anything they’ve ever done wrong.
 
It is very important to release any pent up emotion during this session as well. I’ll have my client imagine they are sitting in a chair and there is another chair about five feet in front of them. “When I snap my fingers I want you to imagine and put in the chair the one person who has hurt you more than any other, and Snap!” I have them speak to this person and tell them how they were hurt by them. Then I will speak as the “Offender” and converse back to my client. Other times I let them see through the offender’s eyes. Let’s say that mom is the offender. I will sometimes tap my client on the shoulder and say, “In a moment I will tap you on the shoulder, when I do, you are your mom, and tap.” Then my client can see it through mom’s eyes. The most interesting and important part of this process is to finally relieve whatever emotion that has been building up all this time. I’ll ask my client how they feel when they look at mom, what’s at the top of the list as far as emotions go? If they say they feel sad, I build this sad feeling and have them release that cry that’s been in there for so long. If they are angry I reach behind my chair and pull out a fairly thick pillow and place it under their hand. I tell them to place all the anger and hate into the fist of their right hand, as I grab their hand and bunch it up. “Make that fist so tight that it turns white and feel all the anger in it.” Then I have them beat the living daylights out of the pillow until all that anger is gone. Some people get into this more than others. With the ones that are timid, I simply grab their hand and help them beat that pillow up. You get the emotional release. It is important to have them understand that the reason they were hurt had nothing to do with them because that offender would have done this to anyone. It is important to then get forgiveness. The transformations in people’s lives after a session like this are astounding. Words can’t even describe the healing that takes place from this process. A rather funny side note here is that for the last few years my office has been in a building with many other offices. I’ve bumped into people in the hallway more than a few times and they react with, “What the hell is going on in there?”