Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 1 Issue 6, (I December2016) | Page 8

During the hypnotic spoken induction she started panicking just like she said
she would, so I switched to trauma tapping technique (TTT) as an induction
which put the panic to rest and allowed her to go into a hypnotic state.
Then I simply spoke directly to her parts, asking her the age of the part that
started the panic every time: 8 years she said. So I asked her how she would
console an 8 year old and she said "I would hug her". I asked her to that part
and then if the 8 year old felt better. She said "yes".
I then asked the 8 year old to grow up to it's right age now that the fear was
gone - and it did - and became much older than the woman herself. This may
or may not be logical, but regardless I was working metaphorically and decided
to treat it as something that was no longer needed as part of her current life
now that the fear was resolved.
I suggested a bus with a bright warm light full of friends of the now old part
stopping, and if it would consider getting on this bus, which it did happily.
Then I asked for the next part of her responsible for creating fear - and she
confirms she has found one. I ask her if it's part of herself she says "no, it's
around 30, it's a man and his name is Eric and he doesn't want to leave".
Again, this is all metaphorical and was just how the session evolved inspired by
the methods of Zinser. After some negotiation and a promise he could come
back and visit if he needed to he got on the bus as well.
This left us with one more fear. 12 years old. She hugs it to console it so it can
grow up and I ask what age it turns out to be: "my age" she says with a smile.
"This is part of me".
I ask her to integrate the now grown 12 year old part, and then how it feels. "It
is like the hole in the chest has finally been filled" then she starts laughing the
sweetest laugh for a long while. After this we deepened her trance and make
an ecology check by allowing her to visualize and experience any situation that
previously scared her or brought panic - in the past or in the future. There was
complete peace. After this I brought her to full consciousness and ask her if
she would mind coming back in two weeks. Her answer "Yes, but I can't
imagine what are we going to do then?"
In a session like this I am in a trance state myself, following the client as one
musician follows the playing of another. It is not a validation of the book of
Thomas, his methods or any theory of our soul, past lives and entities. It is also
not the opposite. It is an example of a client finding peace.
Reflections are welcome.