Severe Body Pains and Anxiety & Interesting Amalgamation of Techniques to achieve Health
How many techniques are necessary to help a client ? The answer will always be the same : " it depends ". I think three tools are enough to find patterns that indicate when something is more useful .
I am a curious person . My main area of interest is in efficient brief interventions , not because there necessarily is a hurry , rather because ; I find that the interventions that work best are the ones that help the client create a change that affects their future actions , thoughts and behaviors - creating a path of healing for themselves . This does not rely on my presence and rarely needs to take a lot of time - hence a brief intervention can create lasting changes long into the future . As soon as I run into a new technique , I try to learn it as well as possible so that I can grab it out of my toolbox without second thoughts , depending on what happens during a session . Like practicing scales so they can be used in a jazz improvisation .
Sometimes a session is straightforward hypnotherapy or NLP or Havening or Tapping or Clean Language ( or …). Sometimes it ' s a mixture . When it happens in a state of flow where intuition is the guide instead of rational thinking , it can become quite interesting . I ' ve had clients sit for a debriefing before a session , and a simple intervention during these first 10 minutes has resolved the issues before we intended to move to the hypnotherapy chair and " start the session ". I ' ve also had sessions take over 3 hours , however , rarely .
One client came to me after experiencing severe body pains and anxiety for over 18 years . In a single session I went through the largest number of different interventions I can remember - and it all flowed naturally . These are my reflections .
We did a pre-talk where I did my best to get the client in a mindset of being prepared for a magical change , wanting it and eager to allow it to happen . From here we did a brief hypnotic induction ( rarely longer than 5-10 minutes ) where we explored the structure and sub-modalities ( direction , strength , texture , color , odor etc ) of her body pains and anxiety in a relaxed state of mind .
Sometimes this direct and curious approach can be enough to change the perception of the pains and emotions involved since most clients tend to run away from or push back all symptoms instead of facing them . The relaxed state of hypnotic trance allows them to be spectators along with me .