Releasing Emotional Impact With Hypnosis

By Rev. Debi Livingston, CI, CHT

Hypnotherapy sessions can be extremely beneficial in helping to resolve problems, alleviate phobias and release fears. Your subconscious mind is the storehouse of memory for everything that has ever happened to you; it's been like a video camera, constantly recording situations and events, not just in sight and sound, but also in smell, tactile experiences and emotions. On a conscious level we don't remember every incident and nuance in our life, but these are all stored within the subconscious mind.

If you were to picture your subconscious mind as a filing cabinet, it would be filled with many situations and experiences you've had. With each incident there was a certain level of emotional impact or intensity that came along with it. Let me explain.

To keep it simple, let's say your emotional files went from one to ten   >one being the least amount of emotions, ten being the highest. Now let's say you had an experience when you were a kid - your bike was stolen! Maybe that qualified as an eight on the emotional Richter scale, so it was filed, in your subconscious mind, as an eight. The same will be true for all the other experiences you have, be they positive or negative, they will all go in the appropriate "emotional file."

This doesn't mean that for each experience you go through, another emotional file is created. It means that all situations that rate the same level of emotional response are filed in that particular folder. For example, you are no longer a kid and you've long forgotten about your bike being stolen. You're on vacation and you discover you wallet is missing. The emotional impact is right up there as it was with the bike incident, so your subconscious mind places the situation in the number eight folder. See?

This is why utilizing the power of hypnosis to resolve issues in your life is so effective. When the subconscious mind is directed to find the source of the problem, it will retrieve the precise information as to what is causing the current situation in your life. If you want to know why you have such a fear of driving over bridges, your subconscious mind is going to go to the initial source, which is stored in one of those emotional files! Release that one, and with the proper directions, you can empty out all the other situations that were logged in with the same emotional intensity.

This is a highly effective way to help solve problems and release painful experiences from the past so you can live your life to the fullest, filled with confidence and certainty, focused on what you want to experience in the here and now, rather than be effected by everything that once was!