Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy for Healing Past Injuries, Pain and Mind-body Conditions. No. 3.
by Brian Green, CCHT
To continue, a female client in her late forties rapidly developed crippling arthritis in her hands. She saw an MD, and he took blood, and identified Sudden Onset Arthritis. I knew the huge feelings of helplessness she was dealing with regarding current events in her life. Subsequently processing them in trance, her arthritis diminished to insignificance. Informing her MD on her follow up visit, He frowned and looked confused, and said, "The lab results must be erroneous, you have the chemical markers for Arthritis in your blood." Later I said to her, "The blood test was probably correct, but I relieved the emotional stress that was producing the markers." Then I looked up the condition and found it was described as occurring following a prolonged period, or an acute episode, of stress! This female was also having severe Bronchial Asthmatic attacks. She was informed both conditions required lifetime medication. The attacks proved to be a secondary phobic cycle based on a fear response. Feeling helpless and powerless, she would become scared, and unconsciously depress her breathing. Consciously noticing this, she would become scared, (causing her to unconsciously hold her breath further while trying to force herself to breathe). Powerless to initiate a breath as her throat closed, she would panic, further increasing the intensity and rapidity of the cycle. Interestingly enough, this acted as an avoidance/deflection mechanism. The underlying issue feelings became displaced/projected onto the symptoms as an irresolvable loop, blocking awareness. A not uncommon defense in depressed and/or overloaded persons. Connection and resolution of the primary current issues in trance gives a partial healing. But usually the secondary cycle needs work too. In this case, teaching her in trance to visualize relaxing and breathing in when scared. Once the new sequence was initiated and established by repetition, this was followed by visualizing successful accomplishment in future, bringing up the fear feelings, and then using her new coping skills. Future Positive Rehearsal. No further difficulties, despite being a heavy smoker!
