Age regression is a hypnotherapeutic method for clients to retrieve memories of past events that explain certain behaviors, emotions and beliefs that they have today. Disorders, addictions, phobias, fears, anxieties and dysfunction in interpersonal relationships can be addressed, and frequently resolved, with age regression therapy, according to the Wellness Institute of the Americas (n.d., para….
Category: Hypnosis
Being busy can feel glamorous. Entrepreneurs love being busy and seen going places, and breathlessly working (perhaps because it signals success). Stay-at-home parents haven’t any time for rest, what with the spouse, the kids, the pets and everyone else’s needs. Employees in developing economies appear busier than their counterparts in more developed cities. One reason…
I have been reading Search Inside Yourself, which is no surprise since I wrote about its author Chade-Meng Tan last Sunday. In the book, he advocates mindfulness through meditation and other techniques, and self-awareness as its reward. Among the techniques he recommends is envisioning: we are asked to speak about the life we will lead…
Mindfulness is what we achieve when we become able to identify both our emotional shape of the moment and the traits we use to run our lives. It’s this ability that helps us stay focused, react after thinking (not before), know where pain and joy or any other feeling hover in our bodies, and reduce…
Yes, even hypno-trainees get mellow. Sometimes. That’s counting trainees such as I who haven’t begun the formal clinical hours (but soon!). Hours of hypnotherapy helping people quit smoking, lose weight, sleep better and cure insomnia. All the positive stuff that qualifies us as bleeding hearts. Yet there is the casual therapy, minus the hypno, which…
Professor Kathy Sykes, a physicist, found some compelling evidence that hypnosis works to reduce pain and physical suffering. Still she couldn’t dispel all her skepticism. What do you think of hypnosis? Take a poll.
Tone-deaf, color-blind, polio-stricken and born in Aurum, Nevada, a hometown that no longer exists, Milton H. Erickson makes for an unlikely iconoclast. His beliefs in therapy, his practice and his life-story have been contrarian to the Establishment. His views were as unconventional as his habits: due to color-blindness, he could see a very limited color…
Let’s face it. If you are ever asked if you have experienced hypnosis, you may ask three questions back: 1) What is hypnosis? 2) Is it dangerous? 3) Why would I do it? These are fair queries – exactly the ones you should ask your counselor if ever hypnotherapy were offered to you. At first…