Have you ever wondered why some people get sick while others, who may
be exposed to the same stresses or source of infection don't seem to be
affected? Some people's immune system is strong, helping them recover
quickly while others may experience a prolonged, debilitating chronic
illness. What determines whether and why a person gets sick?
Practitioners of acupuncture, traditional Chinese medicine, Reiki, Kinesiology,
medical intuitives and other healers will often blame energy imbalances
-blocks or leakages along the meridians and chakras, the body's energy
channels. They will treat a condition by supplying a balancing energy
to the body through whatever modality they use. Sometimes this can produce
a dramatic improvement, but often it is only temporary because old emotional
and behavioral patterns reassert themselves.
How can the emotions cause the body to get out of balance In the first
place? Louise Hay, best-selling author of You Can Heal Your Live, states,
"When we create harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it
in our lives. She identifies the emotional states most commonly associated
with particular physical problems, and tries to change the emotional state
with affirmations. These affirmations are only a general guide, because,
while helpful, they are of necessity simplistic -one size fits all. Human
beings are complex and need to be able to identify their causes from within
their own experience .
That is easier said than done, as people undergoing years of psychotherapy
can attest. This is where hypnosis is so helpful.
Hypnotherapy employs the powerful technique of regression to go back to
find the root cause of the emotional problem that set off the dis-ease
in the first place. It might, for example, be a belief system that was
implanted a long time ago in childhood, mot likely bya parent, teacher
or other relative. Up to seventy five per cent of our beliefs are implanted
in our unconscious minds before the age of seven. We do form new belief
systems throughout the course of our lives, but after that young age,
many of these belief systems are formed by particular situations, or traumatic
events or lifestyles that are forced upon us or we fall into.
Often the emotional cause of dis-ease is because in our minds we are
playing over and over again a movie that is showing and telling us we
"deserve to be punished" or we feel "damnable guilt"
for an act we committed. These emotions of fear and guilt, often reinforced
by religious upbringing, can be twisted into powerful negative affirmations
that can create their own reality. But, the movie can be changed.
Where there is a willingness on the part of the suffering patient to change,
that movie can be quickly erased and a new movie, with positive new pictures
and sound track, can be produced and absorbed by the unconscious mind.
When you see and you hear an affirmation many times a day that is telling
you that you are healed, or you have overcome that affliction, or no longer
feel any pain and limitations, then it will happen. It may not bring about
a one hundred percent U-turn immediately, but it can be substantial and
alleviate a high percentage of that pain, or make that dis-ease far less
debilitating.
It is an aspect of human nature that it is more comfortable to blame something
or someone else for our problems than ourselves. Sometimes we may be getting
a secondary gain from our ill health; for example, if we are ill, then
we cannot go to work, and perhaps our partner then has to take care of
us. When we are able to accept responsibility for our own role in our
illnesses and recognize our reasons, it will be much easier to let go
of them and heal.
Hypnosis is one of the fastest ways to help the individual recognize
the issues he or she is dealing with. A skilled therapist will help a
person let go of those deeply embedded issues and chose a state of emotional
and physical wholeness. Whether you call it faith or the placebo effect,
remarkable healings can take place with just the power of the mind.