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!

The digestive tract has long been recognized as the destination of troubled emotions. From the throat tightening from fear, with its extreme, Globus Hystericus, (described in medicine as a physical condition, but I doubt it!) to diarrhea due to terror, and all parts between. I was working with a male, mid sixties, long-term sober alcoholic, who had Acid Reflux to the point he had to take medication every day. Each time in trance we uncovered and connected current out-of-awareness anger to his numbed out drinking years, which were extensions of deeply seated childhood resentments, he would belch or pass gas. He had the pained facial expression of those troubled by chronic indigestion. I said to him, "You used to hold it all down and get indigestion, but it accumulated until you could no longer do so, and it now comes back up as the Acid Reflux." He exclaimed, "That's it!" I suggested that if we continued the therapy of emotional integration and resolution, it would probably go away in reverse. And indeed, over the next sessions, as well as help with his other issues, the reflux has diminished to the point that it only re-appears occasionally, when some deep anger is triggered, as many long lost emotional patterns having been resolved.

Further down the gut, I have dealt with two cases of Irritable Bowel Syndrome, (IBS) which overlaps with Colitis, Spastic Colon etc.) Frequent very painful cramps and constant diarrhea. Both had exhausted all medical remedies. The first case had a deeply buried source that required detective work. Questioning and uncovering revealed the following history. This middle-aged female was the oldest of many siblings. She promised her dying mother that she would continue her role as their caretaker. Twenty years later she was attempting to do so, and they as adults, two alcoholic, (good luck controlling them), were not cooperating with her attempts to control, (protect them in her eyes), their lives. Her now full-blown martyrdom was producing the frustration and resentment that was disturbing her gut. You could say she was irritated with her siblings to the very bowels of her being! Clarification, connection and reeducation in trance created release and resolution. Her bulging waistline diminished two inches each session!

The second case was a young Iranian woman in her twenties. Her family had been forced to flee Iran in her mid teens due to the revolution there. Questioning revealed that each morning, on awakening, she was focusing on all the losses and distress the revolutionaries had caused her, and churning with the resentment of her victim consciousness, preserved in this area since adolescence. Demonstrating to her how she was victimizing herself by this was a major reeducative reframe to remove the self-inflammation. At the start of session four she said, "I have had the first solid bowel movement in nine years!" She needed a second revolution to remove the upset from her bowels!

Another female had severe stomach pain for years. She had had an early medical lap band procedure for weight loss that had gone wrong, to which she attributed the pain. In actuality, her first waking thoughts were regarding the distress the surgeon had inflicted on her, (she was suing), and churning her various victim resentments. Reeducation and reframing did the trick. Especially understanding she could continue to pursue damages without having to remain in an angry victim emotional state for motivation. Also regression to resolve both unhealed emotional and physical traumatic surgical events. So what might have been identified as a Post Operative Sequelae proved to be primarily psychological. Cameras inserted into the stomach reveal prolonged anger causes the stomach lining to become inflamed, and increases acid production, so a very real underlying physical process exists too.

Yet another mid-life female I was working with on unrelated issues came to a session complaining of severe menstrual cramps, a lifelong affliction. Again, Hypnoanalytic uncovering revealed three major sources. 1) Overhearing older women as a teen talking about their pain. 2) Psycho-sexual conflicts from around that age. 3) The secondary gain of invalidism, a claim for special compassion, being allowed a break from adult responsibilities, etc. Simple resolution of the conflicts with parts therapy, plus recognition of her own role in the pattern of the production of her pain, suggestions of cessation and relief sufficed for healing. She never again mentioned menstrual cramps, except to say they were now minimal.

To show a direct connection between the mid and body, one final case. A middle-aged male was seeing me for zombie level depression. He was much improved. He took some herbal products to keep his mildly elevated blood pressure in normal range. Then his twenty-year-old son informed him he was a homosexual. By that very evening he had to go to the emergency room for dangerously high blood pressure! It took months of work on his own issues vis-à-vis homosexuality, from the personal to the cultural, to move his blood pressure back down to near normal again.

It amazes me that in a society where medical cost increases are becoming an increasingly serious concern, that hypnotherapy has not been nurtured and facilitated as a cost effective treatment modality. I have reams of further information from studies on my website.

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