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Emotions
Emotions: Freeing the Energy of Life
From Finding True Magic: Transpersonal Hypnotherapy/NLP© by Jack Elias, CHT
The word "emotion" has been analyzed usefully in the following way: "E" stands for energy, and "motion" stands for movement.
Emotions are movements of energy, life force. Emotions are temporary patterns of our inherently pure and dynamically formless life force energy, swirling and playing, responding and communicating with all the "other" energy patterns it encounters.
Our life force is not separate from our intelligence, and, while our life force is supremely intelligent at a certain level, at another level it is extremely gullible—a real sucker for the trance-forming logic of the thinking mind (both the conscious and subconscious). This gullibility originates when we are still caught in a state of ignorance and are susceptible to any number of negative influences.
As we build up the storyline of "who we are" and "what is going on" in our lives, we learn to contract and tense up in response to challenges that intimidate us. This "freezing up" occurs at the physical level. We learn we can "hold" our emotions by holding our musculature. This holding reaction is most often learned under duress: Stop crying or I'll give you something to cry about! This intelligent and powerful capacity involves a complex process of modulating and coordinating the breath, the muscles, the posture, perceptions, and emotions—and in this way we acquire the habit of blocking the natural, joyful movement of our life force. Out of fear for survival and out of fear of pain, we relinquish the right and freedom to use this intelligent and powerful capacity to nourish the joyful, spontaneous expression of just being ourselves.
Generally, therapy of any kind only produces dynamic results to the degree that the client remembers and relives the experience during which freezing of the emotions occurred, releasing the spontaneous flow of emotions from the holding patterns, and building enough faith and self-trust to beneficially redirect the habitual use of their own power.
Our energy is the energy of the universe: it is very powerful! As long as we are in the trance of believing that we are a limited being, we feel we have only a little of this energy available. However, we have much more than we think. The illusion of having "no energy" is just a skillful ruse of our internal holding patterns. It's not that we have no energy. What's really happening is that most of our energy is bound up in a process of inhibiting its own joyful, creative flow. The "conscious" self interprets this as a lack of energy. In fact, the energy is there within us in abundance. But that energy is not available to play or enjoy, or to work or study, or to do much of anything else. It has its hands full holding onto itself!
This holding and freezing of our energy is so demanding that, if we had to stay conscious of it, we would never be able to maintain it! We can manage to hold energy frozen for five,10, 20 years, or a lifetime only by handing the task over to the part of us that never tires and never runs out of energy: our subconscious mind. In hypnotherapy, we use this to our advantage. If we bring a holding pattern to consciousness, it's too hard to hold it, and thus we naturally let go of it. The energy is freed, and we feel alive again!
Fears & Phobias
People can be incapacitated by mysterious fears and by phobias, even though they may believe these fears and phobias are foolish. "Why should I be afraid to step into a perfectly reliable elevator?" There's a prevailing belief that it can take months to years of therapy to free someone from unreasonable fears or phobias. But as outlandish as it may sound, with proper hypnotherapeutic technique such fears can be released in as little as three to five minutes—even if the person has been afflicted with the fear for 20 years or more!
People often spend thousands of dollars to get free of a fear or phobia. In our work with hundreds of clients, both in person and over the phone, we have facilitated their quick and lasting freedom from fear with our Fast Phobia Fix. Let us save you time and money, as we help you easily release the fear that has been controlling your life and decisions.
We have helped our clients overcome all manner of fears, including:
Fear of Public Speaking (Stage Fright)
Fear of Flying
Fear of Heights
Fear of Spiders & Insects
Fear of Dogs, Animals
Claustrophobia
Agoraphobia
Depression & Anxiety
With hypnotherapy it is possible to expose the root causes of most forms of depression, anxiety, and panic attacks. The root cause may be an unresolved, emotionally traumatic experience and/or an unfortunate habit of destructive thinking. In either case, once the nature of the problem is revealed in trance, it can be corrected through hypnotic communication with the subconscious mind.
Anger Management
The energy we access when we're angry has tremendous creative potential. The problem occurs when we channel this energy into toxic thought forms and destructive behaviors. The basic capacity to access such powerful energy, however, is potentially a great gift. With hypnotherapy we can ensure that you realize the creative and constructive potential of your own emotional energy. Guilt and blame both inhibit the healing process of realizing the positive potential that exists within the energy of your anger. Utilizing hypnotherapy, you can quickly and easily change your subconscious programs of self-condemnation into programs of tolerance and forgiveness of yourself and others. In this way you can realize the power and skill of communicating nonviolently.
Trauma
Our subconscious mind has the capacity to reproduce anything that deeply impresses it—and it will do exactly that, unless it is given instructions to the contrary. A traumatic event creates a powerful impression on the subconscious. Once it has experienced a trauma, the subconscious mind then creates its own version of that trauma, and replays it over and over again. When we say we are traumatized, we are speaking of this tendency of our subconscious to keep reproducing a traumatic event in the sophisticated virtual reality theater of our mind. Therefore, the cause of ongoing (chronic) trauma or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is not the traumatic event itself. If it were, there would be no hope of healing that trauma. The true cause of ongoing trauma, or PTSD, lies within the activity of our subconscious mind. It's as if our subconscious grabs us against our will, straps us down in a virtual reality theater, puts goggles on our head, hooks it all up to our central nervous system, and then replays its memory of the traumatic event. When this happens, we experience our subconscious mind's version—our memory of the frightening event—as if it were real, right now. This is what commonly happens with soldiers, victims of abuse, and survivors of any kind of catastrophic experience.
With Transpersonal Hypnotherapy/NLP©, you can quickly instruct the subconscious mind to store the traumatic memory in an informative, but harmless, way. Then you're able to keep the wisdom of your life experience, without experiencing ongoing trauma to your nervous system.
Loss & Grief
Loss is inevitable and therefore unavoidable. Each of us will eventually lose everyone and everything, including our own bodies. There is a natural emotional response to loss that we call grief, and this is normal and healthy to feel. This healthy grief inspires us to move forward with a deeper appreciation for the rich gift that is life. Healthy grief also bestows on us a tender heart of compassion for all beings, because our loss makes us vividly aware of their (and our) fragility.
There is another mental process that is also mistakenly labeled as grief. This kind of grief, however, hardens our hearts and makes us bitter. This is not true grief, and it is not healthy. When we experience such "bitter grief" we suffer unnecessarily. We create needless pain for ourselves when we replay the memories of our loss again and again, and continue to review these memories with thoughts of hopelessness and despair. Such unhealthy grief is very much akin to the activity of the subconscious mind when it creates Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The force of habit of thinking in this destructive way is too powerful for the conscious mind to change. However, with the skillful use of hypnotic trance states, one can eliminate this tendency to produce the needless suffering of bitter grief. This healing shift restores your capacity to feel a healthy sadness for your loss, and at the same time, a joyful gratitude for the ongoing gift of your life.
Transpersonal Hypnotherapy/NLP© has helped our clients to navigate the emotional challenges of loss and grief. We address such issues as:
Family Grief Work
Death & Dying with Hypnosis
Hypnosis & Hospice Care
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