Typically at the end of a course of hypnoanalysis, people make comments such as:

• "I feel like a huge weight has been lifted from my shoulders"
• "I feel more emotionally stable"
• "Many of the things that used to disturb me now dont bother me at all"
• "I feel much happier and more confident"
• "I never realised how much was in there that needed to come out"
• "Everyone would benefit from a course of this therapy, it should be taught in school"

The process of hypnoanalysis includes releasing pent up emotion and is an opportunity to share and offload to your therapist, all the emotional and painful experiences from your life, particularly childhood, some of which you may have forgotten all about.

Emotions are funny things, we try to consciously understand them and deal with our issues, yet emotions come from the unconscious and it is there that they must be released.

If emotion is not allowed to express itself at the appropriate time and gets bottled up, it WILL find a way to seep out sideways later, this is what causes the vast majority of anxious and nervous disorders.

A simple example:

A six year old girl who, after refusing to get dressed properly was made by her teacher to go into school assembly wearing only her knickers and vest.

Can this kind of thing really affect people in a serious way? And would a hypnoanalyst see children or adults for this kind of thing?

Hypnoanalyst's treat adult's for anxiety and trauma, predominantly seeing them for what is known as social phobia', or performance related anxiety and yes, this kind of event can have a lasting effect upon someone.

So how can something as trivial as this affect someone in later life?

Epictetus , the great philosopher stated that we are not affected by events but by how we perceive those events. So in th is case, imagine the emotion of this event is bottled up inside her. In later life she now has two children and has gained a few pounds and she is on holiday and about to go into the pool for the first time in a few years. Her mind may link by association (how she's dressed) and the emotion attached to that originating event and so she feels all those feelings again.

But would that really be so awful?

Certainly it could be. The important point is that the emotion attached, or bottle up with that memory is still 6 years old, it never grows up, so it still has the intensity of how that little six year old girl felt, all those years ago . Imagine how that would feel?

She would not be consciously aware of the link and may not even remember the incident at school but the emotion would be there and very real and felt very powerfully. Undoubtedly the woman would put this down to shyness or self consciousness (all variations of social phobia) yet it is simply bottled up emotion seeping out sideways.

A simpler example would be something most people can easily associate with, and that is, being asked to come to the front of the class and read out loud. Many people would find that quite traumatic and if so would quite easily link it in later life when the boss tells you that you have 10 minutes to prepare a Power Point Presentation for a host of executives.

How many times have you had £1 worth of situation here in the present yet you know what you are feeling about it is £10 worth? The other £9 worth is coming from somewhere the unconscious!

So it's all to do with how we feel things then?

Yes, and how we UNCONSCIOUSLY remember and re-act to them in later life. Just imagine for a moment that you and I are walking down the road and we both witness a minor car accident. You may totally lose the plot while I remain un-affected by it. This may be because you have been IN a car accident in the past and so your mind AND BODY remember it as a reference for what you're now witnessing. I've never been in an accident in my life, so I'm a little upset about it but that's all.

We are an animals driven by emotion. When those emotions get bottle up inside us, they cause us problems in later life as they seep out sideways.

So how does the hypnoanalyst get them out?

Actually he doesn't. The analyst simply provide a safe place for you to do that. The analyst will induce a light, lethargic state of hypnosis, something equivalent to you lazing on the couch on a Sunday afternoon. Then free association is used, allowing the client to link one thought to another with the emotional content of the memory as the link. Each link is like a stepping stone, leading back to the originating cause. Once there, the bottled up emotion is released. Just like a mach that is struck, it can only be burned once and so cannot now get back into the mind. Because there is now no emotional trigger the client is no longer affected by a similar event.

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