You might want to think cigarettes, bed wetting, fear
of dogs, etc.
For children who are very young, drawing a scary dream
and then putting it in prison
(or suitable concept) can be effective.
Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar
into four pieces
with your bare hands--and then just eat one of the
pieces. - Judith Viorst
Someone told me that a fellow
hypnotherapist suggested to his client that she put certain foods
into a prison
and that now she no longer buys those foods. Magic!
Yes, this is possible, if it is
right for that client at that time.
Neither you nor I can forcibly
incarcerate those foods/habits/attitude/pain etc.
The work we do together can bring
about the circumstances when this can be effective
suggestion therapy for you.
Let’s take chocolate. There is no
reason as to why you should never eat chocolate again in fact
The Montignac
Method of Eating regards 70% coca fat chocolate to be a beneficial food to eat.
You will not put on weight as there is hardly any sugar.
At one time I would eat chocolate
until it was finished even if I had to have a number of cups of tea
to help it
go down. A Snickers bar was my silent banner to the world that I was upset,
“Hey look world, I’m upset, see I can prove it, just look at this Snickers
bar,” unfortunately the world didn’t care.
Equally unfortunately, should I
be upset now I have to deal with it and let it go as I can wander up and down
the supermarket aisles, chocolate, biscuits, cakes, goodies and there is
nothing there
for me, nothing appeals.
Now, if someone offers me a
chocolate I can casually choose to accept one or more and move on. How did all
this come about? I don’t know because I haven’t specifically worked on
chocolate,
but I have worked on ‘letting go’ and I will show you how to do this
in your own home.
Two people have given themselves
one session on ‘chocolate’, this is not really fair to themselves
or to me; one
session might work but if
‘chocolate’ is tied in with a larger problem then we are only going to be able
to work with the ‘chocolate’ part of the problem. I would rather
work with the whole jigsaw, rather than just one piece and expect the rest of
the pieces to fall into place and complete the picture. When we do work on the
whole jigsaw, we don’t work on each individual piece as that would take far too
long, we connect big massive chunks together, actually it’s your subconscious
mind that works, we just undo the blocks to success.
One person chose to work with past
life therapy, she went into a past life which confused me until
we had finished
the session. She moved from that past life to an incident when she was a
teenager and we worked on that memory. Later I realised that the past
life or past life ‘story’ gave her the life experience that she desired and
could not have in this life. After this session she found that she had more
choice in whether or nor she ate sweets in general. This did not solve her
weight issue as it was only one piece in her jigsaw she titled ‘Weight’. This is possibly not the correct
title, as weight may be a piece for the jigsaw titled ‘self-esteem, confidence,
perceived destiny, protection, role model etc.’
The other person chose to work on
the emotional component in her life regarding chocolate.
In this particular
case she was using colours to represent the emotions surrounding chocolate
and
we worked together to balanced these colours/emotions. She did not eat
chocolate for two weeks and then decided to test herself and found herself
eating chocolate. I suggested that she had shown that she could live happily
without chocolate and that she do one of two things, a) deal with the rest of
her chocolate issue with myself in hypnotherapy or b) use the skills she had
learned
and work on it herself. She chose
the latter as she knew she had some time coming
up to concentrate on this and
other areas in her life without the current stresses.
I don’t know how she has
progressed, but we both know that she has the ability to succeed.
Why didn’t ‘it’ work? It did, it
worked for two weeks but something got in the way, the ‘something’ in a habit
situation occasionally takes a second session as you can only get rid of as
much as is good for you today. For example it may be too much for you to get rid of everything
in one fell swoop,
this may be emotionally more than you are able to cope with
(this is expanded upon in other areas) or those around you may become
subconsciously negative if you change too rapidly, even though they really want
this for you. All this sounds rather negative,
but once you’ve become the person that never did X again, there is really
nothing more to say. One person did not smoke for 29 years, and then she
started again, why? I think there were rather good reasons and once those reasons have gone
I expect that she will stop quite naturally.
If not she has proved to herself
that hypnotherapy is effective.
To recap, one lady put items in
prison and she no longer buys those foods.
I was a chocoholic. I used food to deal with emotions.
One lady always bought 3-4 chocolate bars from the vendor at the station, it
was suggested that she could not see the vendor; she no longer bought chocolate
on her way to work.
Chocolate can be a choice, an
enjoyable choice.
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