Two Roads for Hypnosis - Direct Suggestion or Regression
A hypnotist has two major roads he or she can choose to go down. One is to regress the person to the cause of their problem and the other is to use direct suggestion or therapies that incorporate direct suggestion. With direct suggestion you are talking directly to them. They are sitting there listening and you’re reading patter or creating the patter as you proceed. I used to do direct suggestion for smoking, improving memory, ending insomnia but I don’t any longer, well that’s not all I do anyway... Remember that I want to find out why the person is having a particular problem. I do this by regressing them to the cause. Your subconscious mind knows why, it really does. It knows the feeling, it knows the event, it knows exactly the first time you ever had that feeling. Some hypnotists do not use regression therapy, most likely because it is difficult for the hypnotist, but for me regression is my best tool. I use it for everything. It finds the cause of the problem. If you’re not finding the cause all you are doing is placing a band-aid over a symptom, which then is no different than a lot of other modalities of healing.
The subconscious mind is like a computer, it’s literal, and runs on programming. If you sit someone down for an hour and just talk to them, tell them how well they will sleep at night, if that is the problem, “You’ll find that night after night you sleep like a baby, every single night you fall fast asleep, blah, blah, blah…”, without finding the cause of why they aren’t sleeping to begin with, their problem will return. The program calling for sleep disruption in their subconscious mind has not been disabled. Direct suggestion will work for a while but eventually will fail because the program calling for disrupted sleep patterns is still running.
I should also point out that direct suggestion is used in regression therapy. When you find the event that caused the problem you clear the feeling up by using direct suggestion. For example if the event was a child who heard a noise outside and it scared them, you would take them from this event to the present time and back - back and fourth with suggestions of feeling good. “Before we go back to this event where you heard noises outside your window tell me something. Did anything bad happen that night? (no) Oh, so no one came in through your window? (no) Did you see anything out there? (no) Did anyone get hurt? (no) So you see you survived that event didn’t you, it really was just a scared child at night hearing something wasn’t it? (yes) Okay you and I as adults know this, of course we do but that child doesn’t know it does she? (no) Okay in a moment I will count from three down to one and snap my fingers, when I do you’ll be right back there and you will take all of this knowledge with you so that little girl feels instantly better. She survived this event and at the count of one notice how good she feels...”
There are other therapies I use as I have stated such as: Parts therapy, Timeline therapy, regression using imagery, Universal therapy or Gestalt theapy and other techniques that are powerful tools. Why I have primarily told you about regression therapy is that it works so well with every issue. We are creatures of feeling and our actions or behaviors correspond to these feelings. Through regression we can clean so many problems up.
