DLScott CH.t. / CDP / AASD
I have recently been reading the book “The Four Insights” by Alberto Villoldo PHD. In the book there are described three major roles that the EGO plays, The Victim, The Perpetrator, and The Savior. Each of these roles is designed to allow the EGO to be the star of your show, to be the center of your universe. As I mentioned in my last article, the biggest fear of the EGO is total annihilation. In other words when you die, it is the EGO that will die, you, the real you will continue on to the next step in your spiritual journey. The feelings, thoughts, emotions, and body that made up this present incarnation will cease to exist. The brain will stop functioning, the heart will stop beating, and eventually your physical body will turn to dust. This is what the EGO fears, and it is these fears, that cause us such great stress, and hardships.
When a client comes to me, and describes issues that include such things as stress relief, smoking cessation, weight loss, test anxiety, and pain management control, I am able to address these concerns by looking at the entire package. This includes the mental aspect, the emotional aspect, the physical aspect, and the spiritual aspect of counseling.
Most of the time spirituality is ignored when it comes to mental health therapy or chemical dependency therapy. In fact the last agency that I worked in had mandated that we could not address the idea of spirituality in anyway, (although 12 step programs have a rather large component of spirituality attached to them). This meant that a major portion of their lives was being ignored.
Now that my practice is centered more on my role as a hypnotherapist, I am able to directly address more spiritual questions, if that is what the client wants, and help the client explore that side of their life.
As I have stated in the past, you are not your thoughts, you are not your feelings, and you are not your body. I teach dynamic methods to let go attachments to thoughts, feelings, and the body. Sometimes it is necessary to have a conscious memory of what some of the ideas and beliefs are. Although using Emotional Release Therapy does not require that a client remember all of the details of a particular incident, they do need to embrace the fact that there are negative emotions, and feelings attached to ideas and memories from the past, and held in the deeper areas of the subconscious. Once the technique of Emotional Release Therapy has been applied, regression therapy will allow a client to recall incidences that they have consciously forgotten, and they can recall those incidences without the traumatic emotion once attached to them.
Many of my clients embrace the idea of past life regression, some do not. Neither belief system is required to access the power of Emotional Release Therapy, but then neither belief system will diminish the impact that this powerful tool has on the client.
Sometimes it is not necessary to uncover forgotten memories from childhood. My work with Emotional Release Therapy can help a client release the feelings attached to those thoughts and images, but often times just the uncovering of those memories helps the client move beyond fears, phobias, and anxieties that have been keeping them stuck. Once the memory is uncovered it is easier to forgive the event, or use emotional release therapy to help forgive the event.
As a final note, it has been researched by the Annals of Epidemiology that people who regularly attend religious services tend to be healthier than people who don’t. In fact it has been shown that people who attend weekly church services of some type have a lower risk of health issues than those who have never set foot inside of a church.
If you are ready to explore the entire spectrum of your life, the mental, the emotional, physical, and spiritual, then CALL NOW!!! (206) 417-4900, Foundations Hypnosis Seattle is located in the North Seattle, near Shoreline ~ Lynnwood, just a couple of minutes from the freeway.