The Adventures of a Hypnotherapist
Steve Burgess (www.o-books.com))
Outside June 1st
Confrontation with death sentence
In early 1994, a new client with a life-threatening illness tried desperately to seek help in my consulting room. Emma, ​​an attractive woman in her early 30s, had to help her by her mother and friends as she went up the stairs to my office. She was so thin that she looked like a human stick insect. She stepped into the reclining chair I used for my hypnosis session and said she was given six months to live in a local hospital specialist. She suffered from a rare disease called local nodular hyperplasia (no, I hadn’t heard of it until that day). Local nodular hyperplasia is a disease in which non-cancerous tumors grow in the liver. Emma’s FNH was unusually aggressive in terms of the rapid growth of the tumor. The resulting pain was immeasurable, not only due to the diseased liver, but especially the pressure that the tumor was placed on her internal organs. She was mostly suffering and doped her morphine eyeballs. This meant she had little knowledge of which day of the week it was (why do I actually need to know that it is beyond me). She had undergone two surgeries when Medic tried to help her. In both cases it’s miserable.
Emma lived alone with her 5-year-old daughter, but for the past few months she was unable to take care of her daughter and was unable to spend quality time due to the chronic pain she was suffering. She was so allergic to painkillers that aspirin could kill just one person (in that case I told her not to take it just to be on the safe side!). She was so sick that she was in pain in bed for most of the time every day. She had no appetite most of the time because she got sick (if she ate, she would often spit it out again). In the weight loss world, this is known as a “close diet” and is not the diet that weight watchers usually recommend.
Emma sat in front of me, clasped in pain and a threat of tears on her face. She felt exhausted by the fight to survive, constant, debilitating pain, and the side effects of various medications given to her by doctors and hospital specialists.
My heart came out to her as I listened to her. She had almost lost all hope that she could survive the illness. Continuous pain dragged her in, and the National Health Service consultant assigned to her gave up completely. It was he who sentenced her to death. She told me with an unbearable expression of sadness on her face ‘You are my last resort, my last hope.” So there’s no pressure there!
Did you wonder how you could help her? Yes, I knew the incredible power of the subconscious. I also often read about people close to death who were suffering from obviously unbearable illnesses and who had been given up by doctors. Somehow, they found the miracle they were looking for and were back in health again. Sometimes they visited a healer or a complementary therapist and were healed of their complaints. Sometimes they have discovered that lifestyle and diet have changed, and that affirmation and meditation have brought it back to life. I was reading about one woman who only had a short time to live, as most of her internal organs stopped working. She had begun to send love over and over again to every organ of her body, and over time she recovered and was fully energized again.
But here I was on a clearly downward slope, meeting people at the end of my booking that might not survive the walk down my stairs. I felt totally daunted by the challenge. Did I seriously think I could help her? And what if I can’t do it? There was a very serious situation here. This was completely different to what I had faced as a hypnotherapist in the last two years.
I was used to treating trauma, phobia and anxiety. It helped people stop smoking and lose weight, but nothing more serious. I was well trained and did a lot of research into the different ways of using hypnosis, so I knew the theory of what could help Emma, ​​but knowing the theory and practicing it in real life are two completely different things. But something inside me drove me to accept the challenge. I might have unconsciously rescued some typical knights by shining their armor. Or I might have been obsessed with my abilities as a therapist, but I would like to believe that it was my higher self, my subconscious, and that I already knew that working with Emma was the right thing to do. I know from experience that my subconscious knows what happens to us before it happens, as I have facilitated thousands of therapy sessions. Before continuing with Emma, ​​let me share an example of this phenomenon with you.
The “father” of modern hypnotherapy was called Milton Erickson. The American psychiatrist became interested in hypnosis and later used hypnosis therapy in a very creative way with many of his patients. He always believed that the patient’s subconscious knows best, and has revolutionized the way hypnotherapy is used. An example of how the subconscious knows the future is illustrated when Ericson demonstrated the therapy technique known as “automatic writing” in the American university’s psychology department.
This technique is said to cause people who are hypnotized to open their eyes and write something on paper. They don’t need to know what it is writing, but they just find the word or when some words are given a paper and a pen by their therapist, they only come into their own minds. They are then instructed to open their eyes and are given a paper and a pen. They write down words and some words, put the paper and pen back into the therapist, close their eyes and return to hypnosis. This technique can be used to uncover clues and to gain insights that can be used to solve problems you are working on in your treatment. You may remember writing the words when they came out of the trance at the end of the session.
In this case, Ericson demonstrated to a woman called Peggy. In front of a group of students, he suggested taking her to a trance, writing something on paper and then going back to the trance. She did this, but after writing something she automatically folded the paper and put it in her bag. She then closed her eyes and returned to the trance. Later, when he took her out of hypnosis, Erickson didn’t mention this to her, she didn’t talk about it, and she left with everyone else at the end of the meeting. This was April.
Five months later, in September, Peggy called him in his office and said he had found a piece of paper in his bag, and Ericsson thought it was somehow connected to it. She had no idea how the paper had got there, but (in a strange handwriting) said, “Would you marry Harold?”
Erickson confessed that it had something to do with his lecture a few months ago in college. He asked her at the time of his lecture that she was engaged to anyone and that she said she was, but she was engaged to Bill. He asks her more questions, telling him in April that she has no doubts about her engagement to Bill, but in June Bill then parted ways, and in July she married a man called Harold!
In April, she only saw Harold in college, but she never met him or spoke to him. She knew him in her vision. Her subconscious already knew that she was about to break up with Bill, as Harold was the man who truly appealed to her. Erickson felt that the reason she folded the paper and put it in her bag was that she was consciously unable to bear to face that fact in April. But the surprising fact was that her subconscious already knew what was going to happen.
So I call it gut instincts and intuition, but my subconscious pushed me into working with Emma, ​​so I turned her down because of the seriousness of her problems. And I’m so happy because it happened very quickly. First, Emma was a fighter, determined to run into courage and illness. Secondly, she was good at trans. This means that she had the natural ability to be hypnotized. This means that from our first hypnosis session, her subconscious was able to do the work we needed to do and do it effectively.
When she was ready to hypnotize, I asked Emma to stare at her fingers and offered her a suggestion that her eyelids began to feel heavy. Soon her eyes were closed and she was placed in a state of deep relaxation in my reclining chair. Her breathing was calm and regular, her body stood up and quite still. I told me that the speed at which she entered the trance was one of 25-30% of people who were naturally hypnotized (I call them “number one” for reasons I’ll explain later). This meant that it was easy for her to enter a hypnotic state, and that she could harness the power of the subconscious in a deeper way than most people. At the time we knew there was a good chance to work together to help her stay alive.
In that first session, I simply took Emma into the trance and after the session, she made the post-hypnotic suggestion that her subconscious helps her to let go of the pain and helps her body and mind heal her so that she can feel calm and peaceful. Most importantly, I asked her to visualize her completely healed self. To run the film in her mind about how she wanted to be in the future and experience the emotions of how it felt. This type of visualization, known as positive future image rehearsal (also known as Future Pacing), plant the subconscious with seeds of health and gives something towards it. If a person continues to imagine themselves how they want to be in the future and they regularly experience feelings of how they want to be, their subconscious creates a journey that will bring them to that future state. Today, this concept is popularized through books and films secret.
When Emma came out of her trance, she looked different than what she looked like 30 minutes ago. She looked lighter and she told me she felt more calm than she had felt for months. She also felt optimistic that hypnosis might help her. I gave her one of my hypnosis recordings to play at home, she made an appointment to meet me a week later, and she left and could not walk down the stairs.
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