Hypnotherapeutic Counseling
We all have baggage from the past, generally from our interactions with others, that affects us in the
here-and-now.
We make conscious determinations for change.
Often we are successful. But sometimes, that success is short-lived because of an underlying code
that has been damaged (i.e. baggage).
Our minds are powerful.
Determination and will power are powerful forces.
So is self-analysis and self-understanding.
Yet, much, perhaps the greater part, of our minds lies just below our daily conscious awareness.
Freud called it the unconscious, but most people call it the subconscious, because that is how it
feels. We sense it there, just below the surface. Every so often, something scratches that surface,
and we get a glimmer of revelation about our own subconscious motivations.
As powerful as the conscious mind is, we see its limitations in each new year's rash of New Year's
resolutions. The unconscious wins year after year.
Often, we are driven, and we are not quite sure by what. We make a determination, and go out, and
do the opposite. We enact self-defeating behaviors, despite the best intentions of our conscious
minds.
We pick up another muffin, another cigarette.
We go back to the partner we know is not good for us, sometimes without rational justification.
We are immobilized by fears we know defy sense.
We strategize the steps to work toward a goal we avidly desire, but procrastinate and remain mired in
inaction.
These behaviors, that directly undercut our conscious decisions, are not without reason.
While illogical to the conscious mind—
while their motivations are hidden from sight—
in the realm of the unconscious, they are eminently logical.
The unconscious is steering you by an internalization of the past—overriding your conscious mind
and the needs of the present—inserting self-protective behaviors, appropriate in the past, into a
present where they are no longer adaptive, where they have outlived their usefulness.
But you don’t have to stay stuck with counterproductive and self-defeating behaviors.
The unconscious can be reprogrammed.
Hypnosis is a powerful tool for accessing your own subconscious mind, reading that programming,
and then rewriting the code.
A sensitive hypnotherapist functions as a respectful guide in the terrain of your own unconscious (for
a fuller explanation of your safety in the hypnotherapeutic relationship, click on my article, Is
Hypnosis Mind Control?).
Hypnosis is a tool we use—together.
In hypnotherapy, we can plant therapeutic suggestions for change.
We use hypnotic suggestion to help you bring your conscious and unconscious into agreement, both
on your attitudes and your behaviors, enabling you to conquer undesirable habits and undertake
new ventures.
We can also, as you desire and as you are ready, explore more deeply the ways baggage holds you
back.
We can unpack the old bags AND repack them in ways that help bring your subconscious motivations
and desires into line with your present-day conscious motivations and desires. Together, we can use
time regression to explore the past connections of present-day behaviors and self-evaluations.
As human beings, we construct our self-esteem out of pictures (self-image). Social science shows
that we create these pictures out of what others have [often wrongly] reflected back to us across our
lifetimes. We call this “the looking glass self.”
We can reassess negative imaginations you might hold about yourself and help you come to see
your own value and worth.
It is not necessary to continue to live—in the present—with an image of your self that was damaged
by the negative assessments of others in childhood. Neither is it necessary to live with the wounds to
your self esteem that others may have created more recently.
Rather than letting others tell you who you are, you can “speak into” your own life and self-evaluation.
With hypnosis, we can erase, redraw, and redefine your self-image
The hypnotic imagination can be used to clarify your vision of a future different from your lived
experience today. It can be used to empower you to take action. It can be used to help you become
your own best friend.
Nadine Rosechild, CHT is a certified clinical hypnotherapist and age regression therapist.
Hypnotherapy is an effective modality for goals, including but not limited to: phobia reduction, pain
management, weight loss, and smoking cessation. It is also useful for building bridges between your
unconscious and conscious awarenesses. It is an effective tool for getting to the root of habits, fears
and self-defeating patterns of thought, and creating change at the subconscious level. Hypnotherapy
is neither frightening nor spooky. In hypnotherapy, you are never vulnerable. You remain in control at
all times. The experience is much like guided meditation. It is an effective tool on the path to
becoming the you that you would like to be.
here-and-now.
We make conscious determinations for change.
Often we are successful. But sometimes, that success is short-lived because of an underlying code
that has been damaged (i.e. baggage).
Our minds are powerful.
Determination and will power are powerful forces.
So is self-analysis and self-understanding.
Yet, much, perhaps the greater part, of our minds lies just below our daily conscious awareness.
Freud called it the unconscious, but most people call it the subconscious, because that is how it
feels. We sense it there, just below the surface. Every so often, something scratches that surface,
and we get a glimmer of revelation about our own subconscious motivations.
As powerful as the conscious mind is, we see its limitations in each new year's rash of New Year's
resolutions. The unconscious wins year after year.
Often, we are driven, and we are not quite sure by what. We make a determination, and go out, and
do the opposite. We enact self-defeating behaviors, despite the best intentions of our conscious
minds.
We pick up another muffin, another cigarette.
We go back to the partner we know is not good for us, sometimes without rational justification.
We are immobilized by fears we know defy sense.
We strategize the steps to work toward a goal we avidly desire, but procrastinate and remain mired in
inaction.
These behaviors, that directly undercut our conscious decisions, are not without reason.
While illogical to the conscious mind—
while their motivations are hidden from sight—
in the realm of the unconscious, they are eminently logical.
The unconscious is steering you by an internalization of the past—overriding your conscious mind
and the needs of the present—inserting self-protective behaviors, appropriate in the past, into a
present where they are no longer adaptive, where they have outlived their usefulness.
But you don’t have to stay stuck with counterproductive and self-defeating behaviors.
The unconscious can be reprogrammed.
Hypnosis is a powerful tool for accessing your own subconscious mind, reading that programming,
and then rewriting the code.
A sensitive hypnotherapist functions as a respectful guide in the terrain of your own unconscious (for
a fuller explanation of your safety in the hypnotherapeutic relationship, click on my article, Is
Hypnosis Mind Control?).
Hypnosis is a tool we use—together.
In hypnotherapy, we can plant therapeutic suggestions for change.
We use hypnotic suggestion to help you bring your conscious and unconscious into agreement, both
on your attitudes and your behaviors, enabling you to conquer undesirable habits and undertake
new ventures.
We can also, as you desire and as you are ready, explore more deeply the ways baggage holds you
back.
We can unpack the old bags AND repack them in ways that help bring your subconscious motivations
and desires into line with your present-day conscious motivations and desires. Together, we can use
time regression to explore the past connections of present-day behaviors and self-evaluations.
As human beings, we construct our self-esteem out of pictures (self-image). Social science shows
that we create these pictures out of what others have [often wrongly] reflected back to us across our
lifetimes. We call this “the looking glass self.”
We can reassess negative imaginations you might hold about yourself and help you come to see
your own value and worth.
It is not necessary to continue to live—in the present—with an image of your self that was damaged
by the negative assessments of others in childhood. Neither is it necessary to live with the wounds to
your self esteem that others may have created more recently.
Rather than letting others tell you who you are, you can “speak into” your own life and self-evaluation.
With hypnosis, we can erase, redraw, and redefine your self-image
The hypnotic imagination can be used to clarify your vision of a future different from your lived
experience today. It can be used to empower you to take action. It can be used to help you become
your own best friend.
Nadine Rosechild, CHT is a certified clinical hypnotherapist and age regression therapist.
Hypnotherapy is an effective modality for goals, including but not limited to: phobia reduction, pain
management, weight loss, and smoking cessation. It is also useful for building bridges between your
unconscious and conscious awarenesses. It is an effective tool for getting to the root of habits, fears
and self-defeating patterns of thought, and creating change at the subconscious level. Hypnotherapy
is neither frightening nor spooky. In hypnotherapy, you are never vulnerable. You remain in control at
all times. The experience is much like guided meditation. It is an effective tool on the path to
becoming the you that you would like to be.
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