Even in the middle of the 20th century, hypnosis began to be considered as an effective tool for the treatment of psychological problems and physiological diseases. But after the books of regressive hypnosis practitioners Michael Newton, Dolores Cannon and others were published, the method of regressive hypnosis reached a new level and gained even more fans around the world.

Regressive hypnosis - altered state

The topic of this article may be unusual for people who think that hypnosis is something mystical and almost related to the shamanic practice of inducing a trance, leading to a transformation of the human psyche, to an altered state of consciousness and, as a result, to unconscious actions. Hypnosis can be understood in this way, although this would be a somewhat superficial definition.

Hypnosis is often associated with esoteric knowledge, and this is no coincidence. After all, what is esoteric knowledge? This is knowledge that is available only to initiates, it is hidden from prying eyes, inaccessible to the crowd, but with the help of certain techniques and techniques, initiation into tradition, previously hidden knowledge becomes accessible, and hypnosis plays an important role in obtaining this knowledge. Having immersed yourself in this state, you can come to discoveries that you did not expect, learn new things not only about yourself and your past, but sometimes about the future, become familiar with previously unknown events and gain knowledge that will allow you to advance on the path of self-improvement and knowledge true world order.

Although some analysts are inclined to compare hypnosis with sleep, this opinion is erroneous. Hypnosis is different in that during it a person’s memory and will are completely preserved. By the way, the latter is an extremely important factor. A person cannot be hypnotized against his own will. Even during the session itself, it often happens that a person refuses to follow the instructions, directions that the hypnotist gives him, thus showing resistance and thereby once again demonstrating the presence of will during the hypnosis session.

The main thing in hypnosis is suggestion, which is why there is such a thing as “hypnotizability.” A person who is easily hypnotized is called hypnotizable. Firstly, this is not characteristic of all people, therefore, practicing hypnosis is not a panacea that is indicated for everyone. Secondly, the depth of immersion and the quality of the hypnosis session itself directly depend on the other side - on the hypnotist. Often a psychologist plays the role of a hypnotist.

The direction practiced by psychologists is called “hypnotherapy”. This is a fairly broad area in modern psychology, and its origins lead us to the distant past. Ancient healers and oriental healers have long known about the therapeutic power of hypnosis and used it successfully. As for modern times, starting from the 18th century, European doctors began to call this condition animal magnetism.

Nowadays, there are several of the most influential areas of hypnotherapy, among which are:

• Ericksonian hypnosis,
• regressive hypnosis,
• hypnodrama,
• gestalt therapy,

Problems solved with regression hypnosis

Why are regression hypnosis methods so popular? Because a huge number of physical ailments, diseases of the organs of the body and psyche are not caused by somatic reasons, but by psychosomatic ones, i.e. the root of the problem lies not in the dysfunction of this or that organ itself due to its deterioration, but in the human psyche. By putting a person into a hypnotic state, it is much easier to find the cause of the problem and neutralize it. Having been eliminated at the mental level, it automatically disappears from the physical level, and thereby a person’s health returns to normal.

Naturally, not all deviations in physical condition are psychosomatic in nature, but such disorders as

• depression,
• sleep disorders,
• digestive problems,
• weight problems,
• phobias,
• skin problems,
• neuroses,
• stuttering,
• some forms of addictions,
• allergy

can be resolved through hypnosis. What’s even more interesting is that with the help of hypnosis, these problems can be solved faster and more effectively than in the case when a person resorts to the methods of allopathic medicine with its pills and miracle capsules, which, unfortunately, can never completely rid a person of the problem, because their main goal is to “relieve”, level out the symptoms. This is the so-called “symptomatic treatment”, very common, but in reality it is not very effective. Therefore, if a person really wants to get rid of the problem once and for all, then hypnosis provides such an opportunity.

Much has been said about the fact that during regressive hypnosis, just as during normal hypnosis, the brain goes into an altered state, but for now this question remains open among professionals, since in an altered state the activity indicators of the cerebral cortex differ significantly from those that a person demonstrates while in a normal state, and from that which manifests itself in a state of hypnosis.

Regression hypnosis and past life

Regressive hypnosis is in many ways similar to regular hypnosis, with the only difference being that the hypnotist, using verbal instructions and suggestions, sends a person to the past. Deeper layers of memory are activated, those unconscious knowledge that a person definitely has come to the surface, and the person remembers past lives, his reincarnations.

A specialist hypnotist who practices regressive hypnosis must himself believe in the theory of reincarnation, that is, in the reincarnation of a person, rebirth in different bodies, in which his essence does not change. According to the testimony of people who have been subjected to hypnotic influence, as well as the hypnotists themselves, a person’s rebirth most often occurs in the same area and even surrounded by the same close people with whom he interacted in a past life. Why is this happening? The fact is that a person is given another chance to continue building relationships, as well as to reassess what was done in a past life.

What he understood from past experience will be applied in present life, thus the evolution of man takes place, bringing him closer to the Ideal. The average person lives hundreds and often thousands of lives on earth, but unless he turns to regressive hypnosis, there is practically no chance of remembering these lives, because this knowledge lies deep in the subconscious. Ordinary reality with its cycle of events does not sometimes give a person the opportunity to even think about the existence of previous experience of life on Earth, while regressive hypnosis, with the help of settings given by the hypnotist, resolves this issue quite easily. If you are a truly hypnotizable person, then after just one session conducted under the guidance of an experienced hypnotist, you will regain the memory of your past incarnations, and it is possible that this knowledge will help you overcome the problems that you encountered in your present incarnation.

Regressive hypnosis technique effectiveness

By the way, it is necessary to note the effectiveness of the method of regressive hypnosis. When it comes to psychological problems or those intractable issues that you face regularly, many of them can be stopped by resorting to the method of regression hypnosis. Some apologists of official medicine are inclined not only to be skeptical about this method, but even consider it dangerous for humans. However, what can they say in response to the many positive reviews from people who have undergone a hypnosis session? That the fragile psyche of some clients may allegedly not be able to cope with the influx of vivid memories from the past? Sometimes what happened in past incarnations can cause a painful reaction in a person, make him angry or make him cry.

But you need to understand that this is only an outwardly manifested effect of a person recovering the memory of events that happened long ago, and it is no wonder that his reaction to them will be violent. Often, in addition to the events that happened to a person on Earth in other eras or even in other countries, he remembers his prenatal experience. All this, taken together, makes even orthodox-minded hypnotists think that past lives really exist, that a person’s memory is by no means limited to the present incarnation, and even more so does not begin to function at the age of 2 - 3 years. There is much more stored in memory than we suspect, and this knowledge has something to offer us.

The only caution regarding conducting sessions of regressive hypnosis can be made for those people who have mental disorders. Therefore, regressive hypnosis is still indicated for people with a normal, strong psyche.

The choice of hypnotist is also very important. It often happens that it is difficult to find a good, experienced and tactful hypnotist-psychologist who believes in the phenomenon of reincarnation itself. On the contrary, you may find that there are many offers from, to put it mildly, less qualified specialists, but who position themselves as regressive hypnotists. Ideally, it is best to conduct a session with a psychologist-hypnotist who is aware of the existence of past life experience, but if this is not possible, then it is better to choose a truly qualified person than to rely on a practitioner, albeit knowledgeable in past lives, but who is not able to conduct high-quality session.

The fact is that some people believe that all hypnotists believe in reincarnation. This is far from true. But when conducting deep hypnosis sessions, these psychologists are faced with a phenomenon when their client has entered into a state of hypnosis so strongly that even without special suggestions, without instructions to go further into their past lives, these people, nevertheless, themselves remember past lives, or at least the prenatal period of their life, when they were still in the womb.

This kind of experience, when the hypnotist is not a follower of the theory of reincarnation, all the more evidence that it exists objectively. After all, when they immersed a person in hypnosis, their goal was not to guide the person through past lives, however, in reality this happened, regardless of their conscious desire.

How to prepare for regression hypnosis. Regressive hypnosis method

There are several options for preparing for a regressive hypnosis session, but here we will describe one of the most effective, which will prepare you to solve both health problems and psychological issues.

So, first you need to meet with a specialist who will conduct a hypnosis session and discuss the goals that you want to achieve. Then, during the process of hypnosis, the psychologist-hypnotist will place emphasis in the work in such a way that your attention and memories find those periods of life in your past, or rather even something that happened in this life, where the problem that is blocking your further development comes from. Usually these problems are emotional blocks formed in early childhood, but due to the fact that consciousness and memory have repressed them and now they have become part of the subconscious, access to them using conventional methods is closed, while hypnosis bypasses the prohibitions of the conscious mind and directly opens access to what is stored in the subconscious, so that a person remembers it, experiences it again and realizes it.

Thus, in the second part, already during the hypnosis session, the problem is often solved the first time, since emotional unblocking occurs at the moment of EXPERIENCE, and then full awareness of what happened, which leads to rapid changes in real life. And if the problem was related to physical ailments, then after hypnosis the patient’s condition improves sharply, and after some time the person finally restores health. Again, we must remember that here we are talking about diseases that are based on psychosomatic causes. Let us emphasize once again that there are problems whose causes are purely physiological, and then hypnosis cannot serve as a means of healing.

You need to look at the situation maturely and evaluate all the pros and cons. On the other hand, after the first hypnosis session, an experienced specialist will understand whether it is worth continuing the therapy further and immersing the person in deeper states of hypnosis, leading him to memories of past lives, or not. That is, a truly highly qualified specialist will understand for himself whether it is possible to solve the client’s problems using hypnosis alone, or whether it is necessary to resort to other methods. Regressive hypnosis, while not a panacea, has nevertheless established itself as a powerful tool in the practice of restoring the physical and mental state of the human body.

from the editors of the site: let us remind you once again that before you decide to let a stranger (a hypnotist) into your inner world, it is better to observe his lifestyle. If you are completely satisfied with the format of life he has chosen, then proceed further, but if even one aspect of his life contradicts your worldview, it is better to think it over carefully.

Hypnosis is one of the most popular methods of combating psychotrauma, phobias, and negative attitudes. Its popularity is explained by the high effectiveness and safety of treatment. But at the same time, the methods of regressive hypnosis have become overgrown with speculation, myths, and outright false information. This is largely due to the unprofessional activities of some “specialists”, as well as the lack of awareness of people about this technique.

Differences between age regression and regression hypnosis

The concepts of age regression and regressive hypnosis are similar, but not identical. Age regression is recognized by traditional science and medicine. It is practiced by most psychologists and hypnotherapists. It involves immersing a person in a light hypnotic trance, during which the patient returns and re-experiences the traumatic event for him.

Since most of our complexes are formed before the age of 5, when visiting a specialist, patients regress to childhood. For example, a girl suffers from excessive touchiness. It seems to her that her other half does not pay enough attention to her. At an appointment with a hypnotherapist, it will most likely turn out that the feeling of resentment first appeared in childhood. It is provoked by a lack of attention from both or one of the parents.

The regressive hypnosis technique also involves putting a person into a hypnotic trance. But unlike age regression, it is not youth or childhood that is viewed, but past lives. The patient is transported to a moment that is associated with a specific problem.

For example, a person is terribly afraid of water; he shudders even at the sight of the sea, river or other body of water. There were no events in this life that activated fear, so it is not possible to find logical explanations for the phobia. When recapitulating past lives, it turns out that the person was a sailor. His ship crashed and he and his entire crew died. This is the explanation of the phobia that affects the patient already in this life.

Age regression or regressive hypnosis?

Both techniques are effective, but their areas of influence are different. Experts who adhere to the traditional approach praise the age regression method. They say it is safe for the patient, effective and humane. During hypnosis, a person will experience emotional suffering, but will get rid of complexes.

As for regressive hypnosis, it has not yet been recognized by science. The technique is subject to comprehensive criticism, which is more related to ignorance of all its principles. Regressive hypnosis is deception, quackery, inventions of esotericists. This opinion is held by many traditional experts who do not support the idea of ​​reincarnation. Films and books by science fiction writers, who inadequately represent the process of revising past incarnations, add fuel to the fire.

Despite all the attacks, past life regression is gaining more and more fans every year. If the technology is working, it will not be possible to hide it from people, no matter how hard its opponents try. Many people have already become aware of the regressive hypnosis of Michael Newton. Largely thanks to two books by this great researcher. Hypnotherapist Dolores Cannon also made a major contribution to this field. These people devoted not 1-2 years, but decades of their lives to studying the method of viewing past lives. And this says something.

Which method is better?

Both age regression and regression hypnosis are good in their own ways. The main advantage of age regression is the simplicity of the procedure. Any psychotherapist can put you into a light trance and ask leading questions. Even if you happen to see an inexperienced specialist, there will be no dire consequences. Maximum - it will not be possible to solve the psychological problem.

Regressive hypnosis transports you to a past life. At this time, the patient is vulnerable and is in the complete power of the hypnotherapist. It is the skill and experience of a specialist that determines whether a person will get rid of psychotrauma or acquire a new one. Since there are many charlatans out there today, it is important to take your search for a good hypnotherapist seriously.

Even though age regression is praised by traditional experts, we should not forget about its limitations. This method allows you to study exclusively events that happened in this life. If the complex comes from childhood, you are lucky. In a state of light trance, you will return to the right moment and understand what the root of evil is. What if the phobia comes from a past life? What then?

Regressive hypnosis allows you to view the period of early childhood, conception, past lives, moments of body choice and much more. In this case, the scope of research is wider. Regressive hypnosis allows you to connect to the Akashic Chronicles and find out the answer to any disturbing question.

A Safe Alternative to Regressive Hypnosis

Not every city, and not every country, will have specialists of such a level as Michael Newton and Dolores Cannon. But not everyone wants to risk their health and test the reliability of this or that hypnotherapist. Fortunately, humanity does not stand still, any methods are improved, new approaches are invented.

The Institute of Reincarnation offers many practices and techniques. Experts in the field of past life viewing have developed methods through which people travel to any period of the current or past life. At the same time, no one puts anyone into a trance or influences anyone with hypnosis. The person is conscious, remembers everything, and can interrupt the session at any moment. Unlike regressive hypnosis, the client is in control here, not the hypnotherapist.

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The most important, most important areas of human life are covered here. It is very important for all of us to find a common language with children, husbands/wives, and parents. We all want to be healthy, successful, independent of phobias, opinions, and complexes. This may seem surprising, but you can achieve harmony and prosperity by exploring past lives and dealing with traumatic situations. Everyone can do this. Don't miss your chance for a happy future.

Regressive hypnosis is the study of one’s past life experiences while in a state of trance through gaining access to our memory, those layers of it stored in the area of ​​the Unconscious and cannot be accessed by a person on a conscious level.

Since 1979, when I first began my research, hundreds and hundreds of people have passed through my hands, whom I have immersed in a state of visualization of their own death. These people died in every imaginable way: as a result of an accident, from a bullet, from tripping or tripping over something, during a fire, etc.; some of them were executed - they were hanged or beheaded, many drowned... They also died naturally: from a heart attack, illness, old age, or simply in a dream, peacefully and serenely passed on to the afterlife.

Although death took different forms, there were certain similarities between them. The guises in which death appears to a person may be different, but what happens after death always looks the same. I have come to the conclusion that there is no real reason to fear death.

Subconsciously, we know in advance what will happen to us and what awaits us on the other side of life. We should know this because we have experienced death and lived through this process countless times. In short, while studying death, I constantly found myself in a celebration of life. In fact, there is nothing terrible or disgusting about death; on the contrary, it reveals to us a completely different, new and truly amazing world.

With death comes wisdom. Having lost our physical body, we enter a completely new dimension - the dimension of wisdom. It is obvious that the framework of the physical body limits and constrains the human being. But individuality (or spirit), when it goes beyond these limits, is not constrained by anything and is capable of learning much more than we could imagine.

So, talking with people after they “died,” I was able to find answers to many complex and confusing questions - questions that have haunted humanity throughout the history of its existence. What a spirit can report largely depends on the level of its spiritual development. Some of them have a much greater store of knowledge than others, and therefore express their thoughts more clearly and more accessiblely, in a language more understandable to us mortals.

I will try to describe their experiences and experiences, allowing them to speak for themselves.

In general terms, the moment of death can be described as follows: a person suddenly becomes cold, suddenly he finds himself near the bed and looks from the side at his dead body. At the beginning, he usually does not understand why the people in the room look so sad and dejected, since he himself feels great. At this moment, he is possessed by a feeling of fun and joy, and not fear and horror.

Below is a description of the release process, compiled from the words of an 80-year-old woman who was dying of old age. This example is very typical for cases of this kind and can be called indicative.

Dolores (D): You've lived a long life, haven't you?

Subject (S.): Oh yes... I'm floating somewhere slowly. Everything is so long, so tiring... (Sighs.) No joy... I'm so tired.

Since she apparently experienced some discomfort, I transported her in time to the stage when the dying process had already ended and death had occurred. Having finished mentally counting down the time, I saw that the body of the woman lying on the bed was twitching convulsively.

D: Do you see your body?
S.: (with disgust) Oh! Is that old stuff lying over there? God! I never thought that I looked so terrible! That I am so wrinkled and withered... I feel too good for such a wrinkled old woman. Quite old!.. (She lets out a joyful exclamation.) Lord, how happy I am that I’m here!

I almost laughed - the expression on her face and the tone of her voice were so inconsistent with each other.

D: It’s not surprising that your body looks so old, because it has lived a long life. That’s probably why it died... You just said: “I’m here.” What does this mean here? Where are you?

S.: I am among the Light and... Oh, how great it is! I finally feel so smart and all-knowing... I feel at peace... I feel at peace. I don't need anything else.

D: What are you going to do?
S.: They told me that I should go and rest. Oh, I hate holidays when there is so much to do!

D.: Do you really need to rest? Even when you don't want it?

S.: No, not necessarily. I just feel so free and I don't want to feel constrained again. I want to learn and develop. After that, I couldn’t get any coherent answer from her, except that she was swimming somewhere. From her facial expression and the frequency of her breathing, I could tell that she was in a resting place. When the subject is in this location, it appears as if he is in a deep sleep and does not wish to be disturbed. At this point, it is useless to try to ask him questions, because his answers (if they are answers) sound ridiculous and incoherent.

In another case, a woman in a state of regressive hypnosis recalled the process of childbirth. Physical symptoms such as breathing and body convulsions clearly showed that she was experiencing prenatal contractions, because the human body, like the brain, also retains the memory of physical suffering. To save her from painful experiences, I moved her forward in time a little, to the moment when the birth was supposed to have ended.

D: Did you give birth to a child?
S.: No. It was incredibly difficult for me. The child did not want to go out. I was so exhausted that I simply left my body.

D.: You still don’t know who your child should be?
S.: No, but now it doesn’t matter to me.
D: Do you see your body?
S.: Yes. And those around you too. But for some reason everyone looks so dejected...
D: What do you want to do?
S.: I think I’ll rest a little. Since I have to go back anyway, I want to stay here for a while. I am among the Light. I feel so good and calm.

D: And where does this Light come from?
S.: From there, where is the source of all knowledge, from where everything is clear and obvious, where everything seems so simple and pure. Even the truth seems purer here. And the outside world is out there somewhere and doesn’t bother you at all. Truth exists on Earth, but you simply don’t see it.

D: You said that you would have to return. How do you know this?

S.: In life I was too weak. I had to learn to live with pain, learn to endure and endure it... If I had not been so weak, I would have stayed here. I'm glad that I no longer feel pain and can't even remember it. But I know that I need to go back - to become more whole, more perfect. I must overcome pain - not only my own, but also the pain of the whole world.

D: But it is so human to feel pain. Although, when you are in the physical body, it is actually difficult and sometimes even unbearable. From that side things seem different, simpler or something. So do you think that's the lesson you're going to learn from this?

S.: Yes, and I will extract it. It may take a lot of time, but I'm ready for anything. I needed to be stronger, firmer and more determined. But there was fear in me... It settled in me after the illnesses that I suffered in childhood. And I was afraid that I would again feel as bad as then. And... and I gave up... Pain...

When you reach a higher level of consciousness, when you immerse yourself in this bright heavenly light, in this world of pure thought, the pain disappears. Pain is a lesson that simply needs to be learned. When pain takes hold of us there, in earthly life, on a purely human level, we literally go blind and become like crazy, splash it out and infect those around us with it. But if we can step away from it, we can concentrate, we can penetrate into it, and we can be patient, we can rise above the pain, rise above it.

D: So pain is needed? For what?
S.: Pain is science, it is the belt with which we are taught to be wise. They teach meekness and humility. If the spirit is too arrogant, then sometimes it is useful for it to put on matter, so that, having experienced torment and suffering, it learns to be more tolerant and forgiving. People learn through pain to overcome it, to be above pain. Sometimes it is enough to understand what pain is and why it hurts, and this alone will make it easier.

D: But, as you said, when people are overcome by pain, they become crazy, and in this state they are unlikely to be able to understand what pain is and cope with it.

S.: Because they are too selfish. Pain makes them selfish. They need to rise above their own emotions, rise above their own interests, raise their consciousness to a higher spiritual level - and then they will be able to overcome pain. True, there are those for whom pain is simply a convenient excuse or screen. They use pain as a loophole, as a reason to escape responsibility, or, on the contrary, as a way to assert themselves and attract attention, and this is the meaning of pain. Their pain, of course.

It all depends on the person. After all, what is the essence of pain? Pain can take over you if you allow it to come to you, if you are initially determined that you will be hurt. Once you allow this, it will have power over you. If you don’t allow it, there won’t be any pain. It simply won't touch you. So don't give her power! The feeling of pain is not a very necessary feeling. But, I repeat, everything depends on the person himself. If he ascends in spirit, if he rises to a higher level of consciousness, pain will lose its power over him.

D: So, people are able to suppress the feeling of pain, to distance themselves from it?
S.: Naturally. If only they want it. However, they don't always want this. People are funny creatures. They want self-pity, they want compassion, and sometimes they just want to somehow punish themselves. These things are familiar to everyone, and if people had time, they would indulge in just this.

Each person has his own path, and everyone must find it himself, because, as you know, if you come and say that it is better to follow this path, because it is shorter and easier, then people will still not believe you. That is why they must find their own path themselves. This is one of those lessons that people need to learn in earthly life. This is why they come to Earth.

D: But most of all a person is afraid of death. Can you tell me what death is and what it is like?

S.: When a person is in a physical body, death is actually a difficult feeling for him. Painful and frightening. And it takes possession of him to such an extent that he cannot think about death without shuddering. But when you die, death loses its power and no longer seems frightening, and the only thing that remains is a feeling of complete freedom and peace. However, people are always running around with problems...

Living is like carrying a heavy burden on your shoulders, which not only becomes more unbearable every day, but also becomes overgrown with a load of problems that make it heavier. And when you die, you seem to throw them out the window and feel incredibly light and free. This is what the transition from life to death looks like.

D: It seems to me that people are afraid of death mainly because they do not know what awaits them there.

S.: Yes, a person is always afraid of the unknown. That is why they need faith and trust. At least a little.

D: What happens when a person dies?
S.: He simply leaves his body, goes to where the Light is, and ends up here - in the same place as I am.

D.: What are you doing there?
S.: I’m improving.
D.: And when you leave the Light, where will you go?
S.: Back to Earth.
D.: Honestly, it’s a little strange for me to talk to you like this, across time.

S.: Time has no meaning. There is no concept of time here. Or rather, it is here and not here, everywhere and nowhere, it is always the same.

D: So, it doesn’t bother you at all that I’m talking to you from another time or from another plane?

S.: Why should this bother me?
D.:. Well, I just thought, what if it bothers you... I really wouldn’t want to bother you.

S.: You don’t bother me. At least you worry yourself more than me.

Here's another case. This time I talked with a girl who lived at the end of the 19th century and died at the age of 9 years. When we first started talking to each other, she and her classmates were riding on a hay cart to a school picnic. A stream flowed next to the place chosen for the picnic, so the schoolchildren decided to swim.

The girl didn’t know how to swim well, in fact, she almost couldn’t swim at all, she was afraid of water, but she didn’t want her classmates to know about it, because she was afraid that they would laugh at her. And since some of them had fishing rods with them, the girl decided to pretend that she was busy catching fish, and thereby hide from everyone that she could not swim.

This thought tormented her so much and gave her no peace that she did not feel any joy from the picnic. In order not to bother her unnecessarily, I asked her to move forward in time several years ahead and some other important day for her. Before I could finish the countdown, I suddenly heard a joyful exclamation: “I’m not there anymore! I am among the Light!” Surprised by such an unusual beginning, I naturally asked what happened.

S.: (sadly) I said that I didn’t know how to swim. I fell into the water and darkness surrounded me on all sides. Everything in my chest was on fire. And then I simply went out into the Light, and everything went away.

D.: So the stream turned out to be deeper than you thought?
S.: No, I don’t think it was very deep. I was just scared. I was scared of the water. My legs cramped and I went to the bottom. Yes, it all happened because I was just terribly scared.

D: Can you tell me where you are now?
S.: In the middle of eternity. (There is still a childish note in her voice.)
D: Is there someone next to you?
S.: Yes, there are a lot of people, but they are all busy. They are working... or rather, thinking about what needs to be done. I also try to keep up.

D: Have you ever been to this place before?
S.: I had to. It is very quiet, peaceful and calm here. But I will have to go back. I must conquer my fear. Fear that enters you and paralyzes you. (Her voice has become more mature now.) Fear is a monster that inhabits the human mind, attacking those who live on Earth. However, it affects only the sensory consciousness. But the spirit is not subject to him.

D: To put it another way, when people are afraid of something, they bring upon themselves exactly what they are afraid of? Is that what you mean?

S.: Exactly! They bring upon themselves the very thing they fear. Thought is energy; thought creates, creates, accomplishes. Everything that happens is the result of the work of thought. True, from here everything looks much clearer and simpler. When you see how stupid, empty and insignificant the fears that take hold of people are, you wonder: “It’s strange, why are they afraid of this?” But when fear takes possession of you, it is so deep, so individual and inseparable from you that it literally penetrates you and enslaves your will. So, by trying to help people understand and understand the cause of their fears, I think I am beginning to understand mine better.

D: Well, that's logical. Do you know what a person fears more than anything in the world? He is afraid of death.

S.: But there is nothing bad in death. Why be afraid of her? In reality, death is easy. I don't know anything easier. Death puts an end to all worries and problems, until you start all over again and plunge headlong into even greater problems.

D: Then why do people come back?
S.: To complete the cycle. They must study. They must learn everything, and first of all, how to deal with problems and overcome them, because only in this way can they achieve perfection and gain eternal life.

D: However, it is a difficult task to learn everything.
S.: Yes. Sometimes it's very tiring.
D.: And how long will it take!
S.: Well, from here everything doesn’t seem so difficult. Here I can easily control all my feelings. For example, I can easily understand the reason for my fear, understand why I experience it. And at the same time I know that it will not affect me in any way. It's a little different with people. There on Earth it is very difficult to get rid of fear. It literally sucks you in. That is, it becomes a part of you, takes possession of you, and it is not so easy to shake it off, move away and remain objective.

D: That's because you are in the grip of emotions. You say yourself that you know better from the outside. When you look at everything from the outside, you think: “Lord, how simple everything is!”

S.: Yes, and this fully applies to fears. Especially to strangers. I need to learn patience, I need to learn to live, suffer and endure until I learn to take everything I can from life. I think it would be much easier for me if, instead of a whole series of short lives, I could live a long, rich life, full of worries and trials. This way I will spend less time.

Therefore, before returning to Earth, I have to thoroughly look around and choose just such a life, a life full of events and experiences, because this will shorten the period of my further returns to Earth. True, this is unlikely to make it any easier for me. Relationships with other people are an irreplaceable thing, because they help you understand and learn a lot. First of all, understand what you are like.

*The author of this article does not claim that all sessions
regressive hypnosis lead to the emergence
adverse consequences. However, he believes
it is necessary to point out the possible dangers of such
practitioner, and strongly recommends carefully
check a specialist to whom a person trusts his

subconscious, and perhaps even your life.
Recently, more and more secret knowledge and practices,

Aimed at expanding consciousness, it becomes
accessible to a wide range of people. However, along with these

With knowledge comes to light the dangers that they can

Bring to an unprepared person.
If earlier in Buddhist monasteries and yogic
Ashrams for people to achieve special states
studied for years under the supervision of teachers, now

It is offered to everyone who wants it easily, for a small
fee, learn to perform very complex exercises

To expand consciousness.
And if in the case of meditation aimed at development

Awareness, a person only wins, then, in the case of

Deep immersion practices aimed at
subconscious and unconscious - turns out to be in
indescribable danger.
One of these practices is immersion in the past -

Regressive hypnosis, which has a new name

"reincarnationism".
This practice is aimed at immersing a person in
a state of trance similar to meditation, however
directed rather “downwards”, into the depths - not into awareness, but

Into the unconscious. Which in itself is very
dangerous. Then he is invited to go to any

Interesting moment in the past.
Even in relation to the past of a given life one cannot be
confident that such a dive will not cause harm
human psyche. After all, much of what man receives

Information and experience are specifically sent to very

Deep levels of memory so as not to traumatize the psyche

Human.
But now it has become popular to travel to the past

Life - and such a journey in semi-consciousness
condition carries great danger. After all, a person

He doesn't know where it will lead him.
In a state of trance, a person sees pictures, and completely

Identifies himself with what is happening. He starts to believe

That exactly he is involved in the action. And all the emotions and
he also tries on his feelings. And all these feelings and

Feelings are deposited deep in the subconscious and
are taken on faith.
After all, the trance state is a deep alpha state, in

Which lays our beliefs. Therefore in
In this state we can accept anything on faith. AND

Therefore, it is very important that the hypnologist does not provide
influence on a person, forcing him to make decisions on

Based on what you saw in the past and change your present

Life according to them.
This can deteriorate relationships with loved ones. The whole world

Can suddenly become hostile, and those little things that

He had not paid attention before, suddenly they will become extremely
an unpleasant meaning for him. A friend's laughter will now be
be perceived as a mockery, because in a past life he

He laughed the same way when he betrayed or deceived. So

A person may begin to get angry with others because of
seen the story in which they took part in

Past life.
The person who decides to experience this experience can
completely unexpectedly discover a whole treasure trove

Emotions. But he never knows what exactly he will discover.

This may be an irreconcilable enmity, unbearable
pain and melancholy, resentment towards the whole world, anger and hatred,

Despair.
He may also experience something new, not always pleasant.

Even a sinner if he did something in a past life

Wrong. And may also feel bitter resentment,
if he was treated unfairly.
This condition can be very difficult to experience. However

There is another, even more dangerous, attitude towards

To what he saw.
Some experts have an answer to the questions of Conscience:

Our soul came to gain experience, and we owe it to it
give. But she, like a small child, does not know what is good, but

What is wrong. And he doesn’t understand if he hurts someone.

She just wanted it that way. And we are not to blame for anything.

They say she just gets this experience, and in the next

Life is the opposite.
But isn't that how Adam and Eve were divided? Is not it

They began to receive experiences from opposite poles?
Many people know about the Buddhist Wheel of Samsara, but not everyone

What does the Wheel hold in its evil claws and teeth?

Demon Mara. It is he who tells the person: “Do you want
to be a killer? And the person agrees, lives this

Life, enjoying "gaining experience" and then Mara

He tells him: “Now go get
the opposite experience - become a victim.” And in
in the next life a person does not understand why he deserves such

Suffering. This is how Mara binds people to the Cycle

Existence - through the inability and unwillingness to distinguish

The bad from the good. The Bible indicates that this
Only small children are deprived of abilities.
Nowadays it is customary to say: “don’t reason, get it.”

Experience". But do we need every experience? As they say in

A letter from one of the Apostles: “Everything is possible, but not everything is possible.”

Benefit."
Isn't Reason given to us so that we can learn

Distinguish right from wrong, good from
unseelie? We live now in a certain life

situations as a result of one's own actions and
mistakes made in the past and continue
continue to carry them out thoughtlessly, instead of

Be aware of yourself. After all, we are not that person in
past, and not even this, now. We are something more. AND

This is what we need to strive for - this beautiful

Timeless, Unconditioned, which is in
each of us. Everything else is distortion of Light.

Regressive hypnosis also uses the practice
changes in what is seen - when a person is offered
mentally change the course of events in the past. But this one
practice is even more dangerous, because a person believes in
what happens and changes are also carried out through

This faith.
When a person returns to normal life, he
feels this change: his past seems to
begins to argue with the present. After all, such a real

With such a change, the past might not have existed.
This is especially dangerous with regard to torque changes
death. If a person saves one or the other, perhaps even

Fictional, in the past, how it will affect
real life? Wouldn't he want to die like this?

The same way as the one he just saved? After all, according to

The law of equilibrium may require an exchange. And this
really scary.
However, there is no guarantee that this is actually
this person's past life.
The fact is that a person, obeying the voice and influence

The guide may try subconsciously
complete the small one seen at the beginning of the session,
picture, so as not to embarrass the hypnologist with long silence.

Moments that a person experiences in his life. This

Can be called a reflection, an attempt to capture
your experiences in a different form - just like this
happens in a dream.
In fact, time is not linear. Events take place in

One moment - all our lives are within us. Changing your

Real life for the better and learning from your mistakes.
we change the past one too. And for this we don't need
go into trance. Everything happens here and now in
consciousness and everything is interconnected.
Isn't that why we forget our past, so that it
no longer affected us? It is worth noting that Buddhist

Monks have been meditating for many years in order to
to expand your consciousness and be able to
travel to past lives. Buddha himself achieved this

Opportunities thanks to Enlightenment, years later
meditation and ascetic practices.
After all, only a completely awakened one, in whom there is no fear,

Pain, anger and resentment that can interfere with the process

And throw him out of balance, he can commit

Such dangerous journeys. And definitely do it in
conscious, not half asleep.
Perfectly balanced, calm and complete
psychic powers.
It is not just that it is said: “Try to enter through narrow

The gate...for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to

Destruction" (Matthew 7:13). It is always more difficult to develop the ability

Conscious movement in time and space -

After all, it requires hard training and practice - than

Yourself into the unknown. If you take this step, then choose

A specialist as thoroughly as possible, because not everyone is like that,

Even though they call themselves professionals. Especially this
applies to those who do not have psychological education,

And I received my diploma from the courses.
Only while conscious, through long training,

You can come to an increase in awareness. With awareness
an understanding of your experience will also come. There won't be such a shock

As with immersion through hypnosis - after all, the person will

Study yourself and your psyche for a long time. He will have more

Time to become aware of yourself
He will not be thrown into heat or cold, as is the case with

Hypnosis - after all, what can be seen in a past life

It can change a person's life. And not always

For the better.
Practices of expanding consciousness are not leisure, but very

Serious job . When a person is under someone else's

By influence, he reveals the vision as if “from below”, that is

Goes to the depths of his being, the subconscious and

Unconscious, and not height, as is the case with conscious

Practitioners.
Engaging in such practices is for the unprepared
a person is like jumping from a springboard without
pre-workout. After all, when a person
plunges into the past, he opens himself to
the impact of those negative feelings and emotions that

They could have guided him in a past life. And that's the influence
will begin to spread to real life.
Only a pure person, in whose consciousness there is no interference and

Obstacles in the form of negative thoughts and feelings may

Start practicing consciousness expansion practices. AND
It’s better to do this while in a conscious state, rather than

Under hypnosis. After all, hypnosis is always an influence
someone else's consciousness. Can he be trusted? Is it enough

Is that other person clean?
Cleansing your consciousness, working on yourself - that’s
the beginning of any journey. Good thoughts, good words and good

Actions - that's what the Zoroastrians say. And this idea

Justified by thousands of years of experience of spiritual seekers.
Balance, harmony, integrity are the main conditions

For successful practice and a happy life.
What we are and what happens to us in this life

What happens is a consequence of our past actions, and

We can't always change this. But we can always

Try to change our future and what happens to us
will be.
We always have here and now to fix
situation. Say: “I don’t want this, I want to live
Right". And change for the better.
Finding awareness in the present moment is
the key to knowing the Truth. After all, the present moment is

The future will also open up.

Regressive hypnosis and hypnotherapy as the main tool for finding traumatic events. Review of hypnotization techniques and basic principles of hypnoanalysis.

REGRESSIVE HYPNOTHERAPY

Regressive hypnoanalysis: treatment of psychosomatic disorders by the method of relieving amnesic memories.

Among the first theorists of regressive hypnotherapy is Joseph Breuer, who substantiated the method of catharsis. He suggested that most diseases are formed on the basis of psycho-traumatic events in our lives. Later, already at the level of physiology, this theory was confirmed by the domestic physiologist A.A. Ukhtomsky, putting forward his concept of dominant. A dominant is a complex of excitations in our brain that arises in response to a particular need. In the process of the dominant, we select objects from the external environment and a certain type of behavior that would help us satisfy our need. As a result, an association of need, object and behavior occurs - a conditioned reflex according to I.P. is formed. Pavlova. In traumatic situations, a conditioned reflex can form extremely quickly (literally as a result of one incident), which is explained by D. Goleman’s theory of the emotional brain: it is evolutionarily important to remember the most emotionally intense events.

The mechanism described by these researchers allows a person to form adaptive patterns of behavior. The problem is only one: traumatic situations lead to a loss of self-awareness and self-control. This process was substantiated by many hypnotists, but the main contribution was made by Pierre Janet with his theory of dissociation, automatisms and fixed ideas. At the present stage, loss of self-control is also explained by the theory of learning associated with emotional states. This behavior is recorded in the subject’s memory, but he continues to act as if isolated from his consciousness. As a result, behavior manifests itself either under the influence of a constantly replenished need, and then we have diseases such as panic attacks, skin rashes, logoneuroses, perhaps even oncology (although this is a controversial issue), or under the influence of external stimuli that trigger one or another conditioned reflex and then we have phobias, allergies, maladaptive emotional reactions, etc. In this case, the person does not remember the root cause of the disorder. In some cases, the reason is explained by the fact that psychotrauma occurred in early childhood, or in connection with a situation of severe stress, so J. Breer and P. Janet suggested looking for and seeking a response to a psychotraumatic situation hidden in memory. At the physiological level, such healing can be explained by two mechanisms, which are essentially two sides of the same thing: the extinction of a conditioned reflex (an emotion disappears in the absence of real reinforcement, when, for example, a person experiences a traumatic situation only in his imagination). On the other hand, the completion of the dominant occurs (realization of a once unrealized action (completion of the gestalt), which triggers inhibitory mechanisms in the cerebral cortex, stopping the neurotic reaction).

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Age regression procedure

Regressive hypnotherapy includes a number of basic steps that allow you to successfully work with the disorder.

1. Diagnostics. At the diagnostic stage, the hypnotherapist examines the symptoms of the disorder and the stimulus situations that trigger them. The main tasks of diagnosis are: to determine whether the disease really has psychological causes (otherwise, refer to a doctor); to find out whether hypnotherapy will really be effective for this particular client, for which tests are carried out for suggestibility, hypnotizability and cooperation; determine the degree of motivation for further work and establish objective criteria for verifying the result (this, by the way, distinguishes regressive hypnotherapy from most psychodynamic and humanistic areas of therapy, like psychoanalysis, Gestalt therapy, client-centered therapy, etc.). If symptoms-activating stimuli cannot be identified during the diagnostic session, then the client is given the task of analyzing how he reacts in real stressful situations, which is accompanied by an entry in the questionnaire. If no connection is found between psychological stimuli and symptoms or the client does not pass the test, then the work is stopped. If the client passes all the tests successfully and clearly demonstrates that the symptom is conditioned by the psychological situation, then the work can have a result.

2. Hypnotization. After the diagnosis, the hypnotherapist hypnotizes the client. The therapist’s task is to immerse the client to the maximum possible depth of hypnosis, which will allow him to gain much wider access to controlling body functions and editing the psyche than in the usual state. It is important for the therapist to dispel all myths and fears about hypnosis from the client (“hypnosis is the absolute control of the hypnotist,” “hypnosis is an unconscious state,” “after hypnosis I will forget everything and will not know what they did to me,” “I won’t succeed.” enter into hypnosis”, etc.) and select the most suitable hypnotic induction for a given person. However, in most cases, standardized Elman induction is used, which allows achieving results with most clients.

3. Regression. Hypnosis allows you to update the client’s imagination, remove criticism and launch an associative series, which will allow you to find the original traumatic situation faster than with any other method. This does not happen right away. First, a certain chain of psychotraumatic situations is discovered, united by one feeling. Then the client must be guided along an “affective bridge” - from one event to another. The supporting event at the beginning of the chain of psychotraumas is usually called the core.

4. Catharsis. The therapist helps the client to re-associate the dissociated material, that is, to unite both “I” (painful and healthy) into a single personality. This happens by the method of complete immersion in the traumatic plot through the feeling that marks it. The therapist performs emotion facilitation in a variety of ways so that the client acts out the feelings that have been stored in memory as fully as possible. Resolution leads either to the extinction of the conditioned reflex, or to the completion of an unfulfilled need.

5. Change in perception. After catharsis, a prophylactic treatment of accentuations resulting from psychotrauma is usually carried out. Early forms of therapy did not involve such elaboration, which is why the client, having experienced even very strong emotions, could continue to behave as before. Today, regression therapy seeks to guide the client through the process of his own growing up, but with different - actual conclusions and reactions.

6. Checking changes. At the end of treatment, the therapist strives to immediately check the result. The first test is a test in the imagination, when the client, having already matured, imagines himself in a provoking situation. Upon successful completion of this test, the client is sent “out into the field” to evaluate the results of therapy directly in practice. If the symptom no longer occurs, then the work can be considered successful. If the symptom has decreased, then it makes sense to continue the work: in most cases, a new chain of psychotraumas associated with a different feeling and another event is discovered, and sometimes a simply missed case is found. Testing in the “field” allows not only to evaluate the results of therapy, but also to work out the problem at the behavioral level (in addition to the levels of emotions and thinking), since a person immediately after a hypnosis session allows himself to implement new patterns of behavior.

The effectiveness of regression hypnotherapy

Today, hypnotherapy is considered one of the most substantiated methods of psychotherapy along with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), which is the merit, first of all, of domestic scientists. According to Alfred Barrios, who in 1970 published statistics on the effectiveness of various methods of psychotherapy, psychoanalysis helps in 38% of cases after 600 sessions, behavioral psychotherapy in 72% of cases after 22 sessions, hypnotherapy in 93% of cases after 6 sessions. It is generally accepted that the combination of CBT with hypnotherapy or short-term psychodynamic therapy shows maximum effectiveness.

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WE CONDUCT HYPNOANALYSIS. THEORY

Treatment of phobias and psychosomatics using regressive hypnosis

In the life of every person, stressful situations can be repeated, which means that several stressful records can be stored simultaneously in our subconscious memory bank, giving the same program of action. If we imagine our life as a timeline on which a diagram of nerve impulses is depicted, then the peaks of the most severe stress are what our subconscious identifies as a model for the formation of a unified program of action. In some cases, these are psychosomatic reactions based on emotional disturbance, such as:

• , vegetative-vascular dystonia (VSD).
• Phobias (including fear of transport, open spaces, death, performances, certain people, etc.).
• Inappropriate feelings of resentment, guilt, anger or fear that torment you, despite your understanding of the futility or groundlessness of suffering
• A feeling of anxiety, guilt, fear that occurs when communicating with certain people or in certain circumstances ().
• Functional sexual disorders - impotence, anorgasmia, frigidity, vaginismus, fear of communication and dating the opposite sex, “unhappy love”
• Feelings of inferiority, indecisiveness, shyness, inadequate sense of shame
• Psychosomatic disorders: bronchial asthma, nervous diseases, rhinitis, irritable bowel and bladder syndrome, gastritis, psoriasis, exacerbations of which are associated with any stressful situations, are successfully treated
• Hypochondriacal disorders

In the fight against psychosomatics, the method of hypnoanalysis is considered the most effective among all the means available to modern medicine. Thanks to regressive hypnosis, it is possible to establish communication with the patient on a subconscious level; hypnoanalysis allows you to detect and erase in his memory scenes marked by peak impulses of emotions - the same ones that feed a psychosomatic disorder or. Just as a plant loses its root system and dries out, so the disease melts and ceases to make itself felt if the hypnotherapist-patient tandem successfully eliminates all amnesic memories that feed the disease.

It must be remembered that the nature of the problems with which the patient turned to the hypnotherapist may be purely somatic in nature (diseases of the flesh), therefore in some cases additional examination is necessary. In particular, preliminary examination by specialists is required if the patient has:

• Depression
• Substance use disorder
• Serious personality disorder
• Somatic illness that gives symptoms similar to those of mental disorders: hallucination, anemia, diabetes mellitus, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, etc.

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Regression hypnosis and hypnotherapy

Introduction

Using the example of the method of regressive hypnosis, which is used all over the world, we will show how the process of hypnoanalysis occurs in practice. Due to the fact that the memories or emotional trauma that the hypnologist is trying to eliminate most often occur in childhood, return (regression) is carried out between childhood and adult years of life. In this case, the patient dissociates into two personalities: “adult” and “child”. However, it should be taken into account that traumatic memories are not always associated with childhood.

As each step is completed, which should be done very quickly, it is important to constantly praise and encourage the client. Tell him that he is doing a great job. Such words of approval create confidence in a person’s own capabilities and bring the success of therapy closer.

Step 1. Induce trance and establish rapport (trusting contact).

Typically, during a preliminary conversation with a client, when he talks about an existing problem, you decide whether regression (or reactivation) is really the best form of therapy in this case? So at this stage, what you are looking for is the identification of a strong emotional connection in the person's past that points to an event that you may need to address your efforts to.

If you decide to use regression hypnosis, the first thing you need to do is prepare. You are confident that you have created a strong connection with the client. He trusts you so much that he is ready to entrust this work. If so, let the patient know that you have the appropriate skills. It is very important for the person to feel safe around you. Then ask him to demonstrate a simple act of consent. For example: a person’s eyes and his attention should be focused on you. Once you have received confirmation of consent, your next task is to create a coping mechanism for abreaction (re-experiencing the traumatic event) in case this happens.

Tell the patient to feel the chair in which he is sitting. This will make the person feel that he is safe. And you will thus create a safety trigger, which will be indispensable if a person experiences a state of abreaction. In addition to this symbol, another safety signal should be prepared. This could be a touch on the person's wrist or another conventional sign that will be perceived by the person as confirmation of his safety.

Then tell the client that any sounds he hears during hypnosis are more than sounds, so he should focus on your voice and not on the sounds made by the worker who is repairing the road. Otherwise, it will not get the desired effect. Point out that it is just a matter of concentration.

Your voice will guide the patient throughout the session, and you will always be with him. This instruction is necessary to ensure that the patient does not lose interaction with you. You give him the direction of his subsequent life path. No matter how immersed he is in his memories, he will not stop listening to you during the session.

Once the patient is relaxed and ready to work, begin trance induction. You can use whichever induction method you prefer. For example you can use new version of Elman induction. Deepen the trance until the client is completely relaxed and begins to easily follow your commands/suggestions.

Say out loud that in a moment you will touch his shoulder, and he will have emotions about the event that was discussed in the preliminary conversation. Point out that the experiences that arise will be intense enough for him to feel them. But these irrational emotions will at the same time be quite weak so as not to shake him again.

After this, you need to make sure that the client’s condition is normal. Of course, the verification method depends on the approach used. For some people, a soft, sensitive democratic approach is required. For others, an authoritarian (directive) style of influence is suitable.

If a democratic style of communication is required, it is necessary to create conditions so that the client feels that he is truly cared for. So that he knows that he is not under pressure, he has a choice. When instructing such a client to return to the very first experience of painful emotions, it is imperative to ask whether he feels normal? If a person indicates poor health, you need to clarify: in his opinion, is he ready to feel the experience, or does he need something else to resurrect forgotten emotions? Such a proposal gives a person the right to choose, which brings the success of therapy closer.

The authoritarian approach involves the use of orders and directives. Despite the fact that the authoritarian style implies direct command of the patient, in some situations this style of communication helps to achieve maximum results.

So, tell the client that you will count from three to one. When the countdown is complete, he will return to the time when he first experienced destructive emotions. Convince the person that as soon as he gets back to the original event and experiences the experience during regressive hypnosis, you will return him to the present. Point out that he will only be tense for a moment, but that the discomfort will soon subside. Make sure the client is okay. Then ask them if he is ready to start.

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Step 2. Complete immersion in a stressful situation with regressive hypnosis

Touch your client on the shoulder and ask him to go back to the time when he first experienced the emotion he is trying to change. It is likely that on the first attempt a person will not be able to return to the period when the original event (psychotrauma) occurred. Don't stop trying to push him back into the past until he reaches the starting event. Some helpful questions to ask the person when this happens:

• Are you indoors or outdoors?
• What time is it day or night?
• Roughly estimate your age?
• Alone or does someone feel nearby?
• What's going on/how are you feeling?

When asking such questions during regression hypnotherapy, it is important to ensure that they do not lead to false memories. In particular, one cannot ask questions that may accidentally limit a certain interval of the past. For example, if you ask, “How old are you?” and assume "you're around 7" you run the risk of greatly altering the entire memory. Questions should be neutral and alternative questions that give the person the opportunity to make a choice and reconstruct the true experience. For example, when you ask, “Are you in or out?”, you give the client the opportunity to answer based on what they remember and think, rather than relying on suggestions. Question: “Are you inside?” is a sentence implying a specific answer. Likewise, if you ask, “Do you have an abuser?” some people may say “no,” but others will consider the possibility of such an abuser because you have explicitly pointed it out. Any assumption you make can change a person's memories. Therefore, ask your patients succinct questions. Take full control of the process of formulating questions and mention only the information provided by the client.

Wait for the answer to each question to determine if the person is back at the time of the original event? If not, gently touch their shoulder and repeat the three-two-one count and again ask the person to go back to the moment the initial emotion arose. Ask him the above guiding questions again to help him track down his true memories.

It is important to ask the client about his age, especially if you are sure that the person is suffering due to childhood trauma. This allows us to determine whether a rollback to an even more distant past is necessary.

Many people have a question: is it important to return to the original event? The answer is: the initial situation in this case is a product of imagination, and not a reflection of reality. Because people get stuck in the idea that it was this event that caused the trauma. If you take them back in time and fix the traumatic situation, they will think that everything is fixed. Faith shapes reality.

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Step 3. Dissociation in hypnosis (separation)

When a client in regression hypnosis reaches the point where he experienced a painful emotion for the first time, you need to immediately bring him back so that the experience does not traumatize him. Allow the person to feel the past emotions very quickly and briefly, but then be sure to bring him back to the present so that he remains confident that he is 100 percent protected. So, count one-two-three and tell the client that he is back to his “adult” self. Emphasize that he is safe in his chair. Tell him he can let the unpleasant scene fade away. It's as if he's watching what's happening from afar.

There are two important points to consider at this point. Firstly, the phenomenon. The problem with trauma is that people experience the wrong feelings, such as fear or anger. Too much anger causes them to lose themselves in the emotion, so they lose all their mental resources. They become so consumed by anger that they lose situational control and then act in ways that are harmful to themselves.

Likewise, fear becomes a problem when it takes control of you and forces you to change your behavior. For example, you climb forty flights of stairs to avoid ending up in an elevator. After all, you assume that it may break and you will fall into a trap.

Fear is a useful thing that protects you. But when you're constantly afraid, your body releases chemicals like cortisol in excess. The body begins to fight with itself and destroy itself, because some emotions are destructive.

Fear and anger are short-term “correctors” that act when it is advisable to pay such a price in order to avoid more serious consequences. For example, can a father run into a burning house to save his child? Of course he will do this because the result is worth it. Likewise, would someone slam on their brakes and use the handbrake to avoid a collision? Certainly. These measures will ruin the car, but the alternative is much worse.

The problem arises when these self-destructive emotions become chronic. Especially when the emergency of the event clearly does not correspond to the mental and physical reaction - constant fear or anger eats you up from the inside. To prevent this from happening, you need a way to protect yourself from them, to prevent the mental suffering that fear and anger create.

According to researchers, the chemical trace of emotions lasts from 5 to 90 seconds. The 90-second version has the most confirmations, so we will use this option as a benchmark. This suggests that any emotion that lasts longer than 90 seconds must be recreated and corrected.

A good image used to describe dissociation in hypnosis is the soap dispenser in the bathroom. Every time you press the button, soap flows out of the container. A state where people are overwhelmed with emotions, reminiscent of their finger being jammed. They just keep pressing the button until the sink is overflowing with soap leaking out. The only way to disable the mental apparatus that is mentally pressing this button is to put the cap on the dispenser dispenser so that pressing the button no longer works. This is dissociation.

The best way is to use symbolism. Let's say you come face to face with a tiger. How big will it appear? Probably very big. Are you in danger? Surely yes. Now suppose the tiger is a mile away from you. How big is it now? Are you exposed to the same degree of danger? Definitely not.

Therefore, the ideas of size and distance can be used to teach what does safety mean? When you tell a client to move the entire scene away or let it disappear, it means that it is possible to move away enough so that the person can concentrate the resources necessary to get rid of such a picture.

Secondly, why is counting necessary? When you count 3-2-1 (or 1-2-3 depending on the chosen hypnotization ritual) and tell the client to return to the earliest experience of experiencing emotions, you give him a trigger (a memory element with two or more stable states) - This is a classic method of regressive hypnosis.

Note.To monitor the client's condition, pay special attention to trance cues such as changes in skin tone, eye twitching, or stillness. Other signals include dilation of the pupil, slowing of the heart rate, changes in breathing patterns, fixed gaze, glassy eyes, changes in the blink reflex, changes in their swallowing mechanisms, tiredness or closing of the eyes, involuntary muscle cramps, stiffness of the limbs, changes in voice, increased passive reactions.

Step 4. Reconstruction in regression hypnotherapy

This step is very important to relieve anxiety during regression. The state when the client has experienced strong emotions is a nervous shock, so it is important that you find words that can convince him that there is no danger, despite the intensity of his experiences. For example, in the voice of a woman suffering from a fear of snakes, when returning to the moment of the initial experience, panic horror was clearly heard. She was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. The hypnotist asked her if she was alone in that situation or with someone else. He then asked a question about her age. Afterwards, he encouraged her, pointing out that her old self was convinced that she couldn’t handle the situation, but everything turned out great. She lived through it and now knows it's true. Her younger self didn't think she could survive, but her real adult self knows that everything worked out for the best.

Step 5: Find two security points

The idea behind this step is to ensure that both the “adult” and the “child” remember the experience and feel safe. The stress-initiating event refers to a dangerous situation, and it is not necessary to return to it. You can use any memory, because you are dealing with a play of the imagination on themes of the past. Another thing is the question of faith. The reason for the desire for a triggering event is the person's belief that it started there and then. This means that he will believe that it will end there. In other words, you might be able to work with a person's most recent memory and release it, but if they have other memories of the same feeling, they may recreate the problem by accidentally thinking about them. Returning and clearing all memories creates the illusion that a person has only mastered this event here and now, but this can also create a problem. The only thing that really matters is the person’s attitude towards the work done during a regressive hypnosis session. He should feel that the problem is completely resolved.

The second aspect that needs to be taken into account: inside the client there is neither an adult nor a child, but there is only one whole personality. The "child" avatar is a mind game, a symbol that helps change a person's attitude towards painful memories.

Third. The most necessary action is to clearly define the safety point before and after the event. There was a time before the event when the subject was safe, and there was a time after the event when he already felt protected. You need to obtain this information from the client.

If your patient tells you that he once got lost as a child while playing with his friend in the park, then this is your first reference point. This is the point at which a person's fun and excitement will turn into fear and trauma. The second rapper is after a traumatic event, when his parents are already hugging him, and he will again feel protected.

Helping the client find these points of safety during a regression hypnosis session is very important as it helps to contextualize the traumatic event and the emotions associated with it, making it more bearable.

Note.In some rare cases, when the trauma was significant or recent, the person no longer felt safe. However, after a traumatic event, you can use the scenario of him being in the same room as you as a safe place for him.

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Step 6. Protection circuit

Explain to the person that you are asking him to transport himself to the place where he was before the initial sensitizing event (essentially the earliest psychotrauma) occurred. Then ask your client to accelerate forward through the active area of ​​the event to a point of safety after the traumatic event. It is important to explain that his emotions will not be as intense as he experienced the first time. By doing this, you are preparing him for what to expect when he goes through a situation of discomfort again.

The defense circuit is a way of rephrasing memories to give them a different meaning. We are talking about a symbolic context. For example, if someone asks you if he can burn your hand, you will probably give a negative answer. However, if they make it clear to you: either they will burn your hand or the hand of your child, you, of course, choose your hand yourself, because now symbolically the situation has a completely different meaning.

Another point to keep in mind is that a person may be constantly trapped in memories of a traumatic experience, making it extremely difficult for them to move from one “safe place” to another. Therefore, as soon as you notice changes in facial expression and tone of voice, you must immediately return the client to reality. It is necessary to constantly monitor him and respond to any such changes, otherwise you risk worsening the condition of your ward.

With each subsequent session of regressive hypnosis, the transition to psychotrauma can be faster and emotions less severe, because the client will gradually realize that everything that happens to him is absolutely safe.

Step 7. The hypnologist teaches the “adult” and the “adult” teaches the “child”

The next step is for the hypnotist to explain to the “adult” that while the “child” does not know that he has survived the experience, the “adult” is aware of this. The “adult” is here in this room today. This should be done while the client is in trance. In this state, you can ask the “adult”: how will the younger “I” react to the fact that he will soon be able to go through a very unpleasant experience, after which he will be safe again? Ask the person how such a message would affect the “child” within him. Thus, the hypnotist trains the “adult”, and the “adult”, in turn, trains the “child”, and then everything is repeated again. And the “child” already knows that after the experience he will be safe again. You might even say, “What if you told your younger self that it will be safe again once the ordeal is over? Wouldn't that be good? Go ahead and tell the “child” everything up front to help him prepare.” Then ask the adult to go through the cycle again from safety to the traumatic event, through it to the point where he feels safe again, and back to the present. Moving along such a trajectory at a very fast pace leads to the fact that everything that happens merges into one memory. When I use regression hypnosis sessions, it is necessary to return to repeating this cycle until the person’s emotions are noticeably reduced.

Step 8. Reconstruction (modeling of processes that occurred in the past) of the “adult”

While the trance continues, return the “adult” to the “safe room.” Your goal is to instruct him, who has experienced a traumatic event, how to transfer this experience to the “child”, since such a resource does not exist in childhood. You must explain to the “adult” that he must return to the moment of the event and make up a conversation with the “child”. He must understand what will happen to him, and that he will, as always, be safe.

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Step 9. “Adult” teaches “child”

Following the reconstruction, go through the “time loop” again and ask the “adult” to teach the “child” again. The “adult” must help the “child” understand that before the event everything was safe and good, and after the event everything will be just as safe and good. The “child” must understand that in any case he will be fine - after all, the “adult” is alive and well sitting in front of him right now.

This is what cognitive hypnotherapy looks like, which relies heavily on illusory empowerment to achieve success. After all, when an “adult” talks to a “child,” he is actually talking to himself. By teaching the symbolic “child”, he assumes the role of leader, whose powers are transferred to the “child”. It turns out that the “adult,” collecting resources “in the future,” communicates them to the “child,” as he becomes a role model. And the “child,” indeed, uses the “adult” resource, more easily experiencing the event that once traumatized him, which in the end makes him stronger, opening up new opportunities for him.

Step 10. Repeat the cycles many times

When conducting sessions of regressive hypnosis, run through the “time loop” until the painful emotion is completely depleted. This will be noticeable in the calm behavior of the “child”. You must ensure that the client

• feels safe;
• knows that everything worked out;
• copes with the task perfectly.

By repeating the cycle many times, you form and adjust new human reactions, increasing the patient’s positive experience, and therefore his confidence that he no longer has problems. The cycle should continue until you no longer have any doubt that the new memories have become part of his personality.

Step 11. Forgiveness procedure in hypnotherapy

This step assumes that the “adult” will forgive everyone whom he considered guilty of his psychotrauma. Forgiveness is necessary for the patient to free himself from the burden of painful experiences that have not allowed him to live in peace all this time. Perhaps there were people at that time who should have known what to do - siblings, parents or other adults. They had to protect or make the situation less frightening, or even completely eliminate the factors that caused it. Any situation could lead to the “child” feeling resentment or anger towards other people. Therefore, it is important that the “adult” forgives each of them out loud. If necessary, he can do this in privacy, but it is important that he addresses each person individually and expresses in words:

• how he experienced this event;
• how angry or afraid he was;
• what he thought the other person should have done but did not do.

Finally, the “adult” must forgive himself—the “child”—because the event was not his “mistake.” It will not be superfluous if the “adult” expresses to himself - the “child” - pride in him, since during the sessions he behaved courageously and boldly at a critical moment.

Note.When an “adult” talks to a “child” about an event, it is important that he does so kindly. If there are problems with this, you need to spend extra time until everything works out so that you can move on.

Step 12. Reunification / restoration of personal integrity

The final step of a regressive hypnosis session in this process is to bring the “child” and the “adult” together, allowing the “child” to grow and develop with the new resources that the “adult” has acquired throughout his life and as a result of the hypnotherapy process.

To begin the reconnection, ask the client to imagine walking directly into the child's body so that he becomes the child and feels oneness. It is important not to rush this process: it should take as long as necessary. The mental fusion of “child” and “adult” must be complete.

The next action involves managing the "integrated" child/adult through all stages of the person's life, starting with the age they were when the event occurred. At the same time, do not forget to proclaim out loud all the stages of development that you are carrying out. Once you are finished, you need to bring the person out of the trance in a way that makes them feel rested, relaxed and energized. It is important not to rush into this, but to allow him to return to his normal waking state without problems. This may take either a few seconds or a few minutes - it doesn’t matter. As always, check your work when the person comes out of trance! The check should confirm that the client does not have symptomatic emotions or other signs of what you were struggling with during the session.

Conclusion

Regression hypnotherapy can be incredibly powerful. People can get “stuck” in their past, especially at the moment when a strong emotion arose, so you should always remember: memories are not memories, but a mind game. This seems incredible because the images may look absolutely real, but in fact we are dealing with a process more similar to how a story written by a writer turns out to be different from the account of an eyewitness. Although he also remembered what happened one-sidedly - only from the point of view of his own feelings, which the writer overcame. The writer's vision, in turn, is corrected by the director, who stages a performance based on this literary work. Moreover, from now on, each new production will have new lighting, scenery, actors' costumes, etc. Hence the conclusion: hypnotic influence should not stimulate false memories. It must be taken into account that no one knows whether a person’s memories are based on real events or not. It doesn't matter. The main thing is that the patient believes that they occurred. If a person believes that a tragedy has occurred, then its consequences will always be visible in reality.

Where does psychotrauma actually come from? Two people experience the same terrible incident. One of them emerges from a dramatic situation, feeling joy and relief that everything is over. The other one looks around all the time, remembers the details of what happened, each time filled with fear. Hence the conclusion: the cause of emotional trauma is not the event, but its excessively intense experience. If you calm down your emotions, the trauma will disappear.

Access to someone's memories lies through the sphere of the unconscious in each of us, which covers the repository of all information about our personal lives. Memory is also a living, dynamic substance, changing every second like a river. It is customary to define three states of this “river” according to the level of intensity of the “flow” - hypermnesia, reactivation and regression.

• Hypermnesia is an increased ability to remember and reproduce information.
• Memory reactivation – memories “triggered” by an external stimulus or event.
• Regression is the return of memories or restoration of forgotten details and details of long-ago events.

What is the difference between regression and reactivation? The state of modern science suggests a skeptical view of the differences between memory reactivation and regression. Memory reactivation allows you to revive a person's memories here and now. Thanks to this phenomenon, a person feels all the emotions, as if everything was happening now, but he is not a participant in the events, but watches the film, worrying about the main character, as we do in the cinema. During reactivation, the person describes the events happening to him in the third person: “He gets on his new bicycle.” Regression provides the effect of presence. A person plunges into the past and acts there, considering himself to be who he was at that time. However, he is not aware that he is in hypnosis and accepts everything that happens at face value. A person in a state of regression says: “I’m getting on my new bike.” Both methods are the conditions under which hypnotherapy works. It is believed that only the fact of the revival of emotions and experience matters. They begin to come to life, and the hypnologist can work to change the experience. Hence the conclusion: achieving regression is not an end in itself. Moreover, it is up to the hypnologist, as a professional, to achieve commercial results in the simplest possible ways with the least cost.

Note:In cases where the patient has extremely severe mental trauma (physical, mental or sexual abuse), the hypnologist should not put the client into a state that goes beyond memory reactivation. Regressive hypnosis can cause excessively intense experiences and excessively strong abreaction (reaction).

Regressive hypnosis session diagram

Standard regressive induction scheme:

1. Hypnotization
2. Immersion in a trance through provoking a psychosomatic attack
3. Regression to the starting episode with the aim of rethinking and abreaction (re-experiencing) the traumatic event
4. Return to reality
5. Change control

• Hypnosis session: a journey into pleasant events of the past (preparation for hypnotherapy)

• Immersion in trance through provoking a psychosomatic attack

  Trance (French transe - numbness) is a state that has nothing in common with hypnosis, as it represents a short-term clouding of consciousness with loss of self-control. Trance requires a large amount of nervous energy, which can be obtained from the focus of the patient's psychosomatic illness. Using hypnosis, we induce the closest memory marked by an attack, immerse the patient inside and provoke a state of passion in him. Instead of an emotional explosion, we will see a deep trance. A patient in this state will be able to use the uncomfortable sensations that he experiences during a psychosomatic attack as the “smell” of the illness. By this “smell” he, like a dog, will find in his memory the starting event with which he himself associates the onset of the disease.

  A special position among the varieties of hypnotic techniques is given to methods that were formed on the basis of the spiritual culture of eastern countries and absorbed the features of European medical practice. One such method is regressive hypnosis. The technique, literally called “regression (movement back, repetition, return) to a past life,” is based on the postulates of the philosophical doctrine of reincarnation. The theory of reincarnation is the basic doctrine of Eastern religions, in particular: in Indian spiritual practice, it is based on the fact that the immortal essence of any living individual is invariably reincarnated after physical death into another body.

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  Nowadays, regression hypnosis is used to establish real key points related to the client's problem. The technique involves addressing a specially compiled series of questions to the sphere of a person’s subconscious. During a session of regressive hypnosis, the regression hypnologist conducts a conversation with the client through his higher “I”, that is, he addresses directly the unconscious mind. The state of hypnotic trance allows one to detect and identify events that supposedly took place in supposed previous incarnations. According to modern official medicine, such memories, extracted from the memory of clients during a deep trance during regressive hypnosis, are only partially or completely forgotten information about real situations that occurred in a person’s own life.

  However, no matter how the information extracted from the depths of the subconscious during regressive hypnosis is interpreted, this information makes it possible to establish the true circumstances that provoked mental abnormalities or somatoform disorders. Thanks to this technique, a person receives genuine data about the nature of his poor health, learns about the origins of the problems that have arisen, and finds an explanation for the causes of diseases. This natural “insight” allows you to activate the body’s hidden resources for the process of self-healing. “Returning to the past” during a session of regressive hypnosis gives a person an understanding of how to adjust their behavior pattern in order to overcome a difficult situation, strengthens self-confidence and motivates them to succeed.

  Regressive hypnosis is a natural and safe method of healing, which is based on the client’s knowledge of his own “I”. The technique is recognized by official medicine as a very effective therapeutic technique that allows one to establish the true causes.

  With the help of regressive hypnosis, a person gains open access to those unconscious areas where a program is hidden that prevents one from living a full, happy life. In a state of trance, the subconscious comes to the fore, which quickly responds to requests and is ready to be reprogrammed into a new productive scheme. While in a drowsy state, the client relives an important situation for him, however, such a “return to the past” is comfortable and safe due to complete control over the event. Thanks to a session of regressive hypnosis, a person is able to look at, understand and evaluate the problem from the other side, which gives a chance to discover new, more effective ways to solve it.

  Regressive hypnosis is a powerful weapon for therapeutic changes, and, most importantly, it gives a reliable shield to a person, allowing him to face any surprises of tomorrow without fear, anxiety, or doubt.

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