Overcoming the Roadblocks to Healing
Much of the work done in clinical hypnotherapy is clearing roadblocks to health and wellness – our natural state.
Are you or someone you love feeling blocked from health and wellness? If yes, here are some important factors to consider.
Is the Illness and Pain a Subconscious Connection to a Loved One?
We all naturally seek connection. Connection is one of our deeper needs, and we all have a desire to feel connected to the people in our lives that we look up to and love. One of the ways that people create a feeling of connection is by emulating certain characteristics of the person they wish to feel connected to. This is called “identification with a central figure,” and it usually happens subconsciously.
Occasionally, in order to create a feeling of connection, people will subconsciously emulate negative traits, including illness and pain. If, for example, a parent suffered from migraine headaches, a person may develop migraines as a subconscious means of identifying with the parent. The subconscious creation of real migraine headaches is a way to be like the central figure, and being like them creates connection. This is an example of secondary gain. While the migraines are painful and clearly unwanted, they do provide the person with a positive benefit—a feeling of connection.
In cases like this, I help my clients identify other traits or characteristics of the central figure that are positive or constructive. For instance, if the parent was always very patient with them, the client could focus on developing their own patience with themselves and others.
The key is to become consciously aware of the desire for connection, and then to intentionally fulfill that desire in a healthy way by identifying and emulating positive aspects of the person being identified with. When that happens, the illness and pain have no more positive value, so the subconscious can create health instead.
How Do You Tune In To Your Emotional Radio Station?
I teach my clients to listen to their emotions..to do the ‘tummy test’. Unfortunately, we haven’t been taught to do this – our culture, our society does not teach us to listen to our emotions. In fact, we do just the opposite.
Brandon Bays said as soon as we become aware of an uneasy emotion, we want to tune out of it. And we use anything this world offers to tune out.
Unfortunately, as we tune out we tune into dis-ease. If you are in a hurry then write this decree down and read it aloud once a day. I believe it can help you to tune into health when you listen to your emotions.
Debbie Ford:
Emotions can be trusted
Emotions are good
Emotions are safe
Emotions can take you somewhere
Emotions are beneficial
As I said: We tune out of our emotional radio stations. As soon as we feel the emotion becoming louder….we try to escape and we turn the volume down or we tune into another station. Read Article / Comment »
Overcoming the Roadblocks to Healing
Much of the work done in Clinical Hypnotherapy is clearing roadblocks to health and wellness – our natural state.
Are you or someone you love feeling blocked from health and wellness? If yes, here are some important factors to consider.
Is the Illness and Pain a Subconscious Connection to a Loved One?
We all naturally seek connection. Connection is one of our deeper needs, and we all have a desire to feel connected to the people in our lives that we look up to and love. One of the ways that people create a feeling of connection is by emulating certain characteristics of the person they wish to feel connected to. This is called “identification with a central figure,” and it usually happens subconsciously.
Occasionally, in order to create a feeling of connection, people will subconsciously emulate negative traits, including illness and pain. If, for example, a parent suffered from migraine headaches, a person may develop migraines as a subconscious means of identifying with the parent. The subconscious creation of real migraine headaches is a way to be like the central figure, and being like them creates connection. This is an example of secondary gain. While the migraines are painful and clearly unwanted, they do provide the person with a positive benefit—a feeling of connection.
In cases like this, I help my clients identify other traits or characteristics of the central figure that are positive or constructive. For instance, if the parent was always very patient with them, the client could focus on developing their own patience with themselves and others.
The key is to become consciously aware of the desire for connection, and then to intentionally fulfill that desire in a healthy way by identifying and emulating positive aspects of the person being identified with. When that happens, the illness and pain have no more positive value, so the subconscious can create health instead. Read Article / Comment »
Coping with Passive Aggression..
People who cannot express negative emotions may engage in passive-aggressive behaviours that provide a means of redirecting their feelings.
Many of us are taught from a young age to suppress feelings commonly regarded as negative and unsupportive – anger, resentment, fear, shame, sadness. Those who cannot or will not express these emotions tend to engage in passive-aggressive behaviours that provide them with a means of redirecting their feelings.
Passive aggression can take many forms: People who feel guilty saying “no” may continually break their promises because they couldn’t say no when they meant it. Others will substitute snide praise for a slur to distance themselves from the intense emotions they feel. More often than not, such behaviour is a cry for help uttered by those in need of compassion and gentle guidance. Read Article / Comment »
Shifting with the Tide…deliberately
Our lives are constantly in motion energetically so naturally, change is a constant element of our existence.
Energy is dynamic, yet, it is not random in nature—the shifts in energy that are constantly happening are the result of our choices. The formulation of intention, a change in perspective, or the creation of a goal can transform our lives in a flash. We think positive thoughts and the world becomes a brighter place. With each passing moment, we are given numerous opportunities to create change using nothing more than our awareness.
In the span of a single second, our lives can change immeasurably because energy moves at a pace more rapid than anything we can consciously fathom. Though we may not at first be sensitive to the vibrational shifts taking place, our choices are ultimately at the heart of these transformations. We can typically recognize the consequences of key decisions because we anticipate the resultant energetic shifts. Many of the choices we make daily are a product of instantaneous reactions, and these still have a significant impact on the energy of our existence. That’s why it is so important we learn to control these shifts. If we bear in mind that all we think and all we do will shape the existence we know, we can deliberately direct the energetic motion of our lives.
Each day, you make an infinite array of decisions that cause energy shifts in the world around you. In many cases, these transitions are almost imperceptible, while in others the change that takes place is palpable not only to you but also to those in your sphere of influence. Your awareness of the immediate energetic consequences of your thoughts and actions can guide you as you endeavour to make the most of the autonomy that defines you as an individual. The myriad choices you make from moment to moment, however inconsequential they may seem, represent your personal power, which sanctions you to transform the energetic tide of your existence with nothing more than your will.