Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume -3, Issue - 9, 1 March 2019 | Page 20

button with the wire". Then for a week he CONSISTENTLY practiced
the exercises and self-hypnosis tools I taught as the homework.
At session 2 through age regression we discovered that Dan had been
seeking the pleasant, joyful, exciting, and adventurous feelings through
drinking since he had the first beer in life. Using the informed child
technique, he gained the insights that the similar feelings he had as a
child but without alcohol were more truthful, real and lasting. After the
self integration work, at future pacing Dan was able to enjoy the
tranquility and peace from nature without a beer in hand.
At the end of session 2, Dan came up with this insight: "I have changed
because now I know better about what I am and what I'm really able to
do, so I feel free, so I can live life fully." After session 2 he texted the
next morning, "I had another trance-like sleep. I woke up and my brain
and body seemed parked in neutral. Checked my blood pressure...low,
and heart beat was only 60" (he takes medications for high blood
pressure).
Sessions 3 and 4 focused on forgiveness of others and self. Dan
revealed some long, suppressed feelings of
hurtful feelings from addiction not being understood (feeling weak and
ashamed), his giving support to others unappreciated (feeling angry
and frustrated), and others’ self-deserving attitudes (feeling unimportant
and unfair). After implementing 10 keys of forgiveness and reiterating
that forgiveness is for Dan himself as a way to release the negative
feelings, he said, "I forgive you because it's past. We must forgive to
move on. I need to forgive myself too so I'm not holding back".
This led to the forgiveness work to himself for the same and anger. Dan
called his mistake making part a sneaky attacker, taking advantage of
any situations, lying, not telling the whole picture, and creating the
source of suffering. The mistake making part admitted the loss of
control and path to addiction but revealed that the original intent was
just helping with temporary escape from all the stress. So we assigned
the mistake making part a new helper role and then the body guard.
Dan said, “I've changed because now I know that we can work together
and forgive each other, so I feel stronger so I can transform without
pulled to wrong directions because I have someone supporting me.”
In the final session I employed the informing soul technique to regress
all the way to the day before Dan came to this world. At every interval