Healing Past Trauma with Regression Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy is not for me. I don’t want to rehash the past! For many people, hypnotherapy challenges them to press the rewind button and reflect on an experience that shaped them and triggered specific issues, emotions, feelings, behaviors, thoughts, and belief systems that have followed them into adulthood.
Exploring the past can be uncomfortable and terrifying. As a result, some would prefer to forget about the memory altogether and close that chapter.
What’s the point of revisiting the past? Isn’t it going to reopen old wounds and re-traumatize you?
You’re ready to move on and cut ties to the memory. But to do this, you must address the past first. This is the first step on your transformational healing journey.
The necessity of revisiting a past traumatic event
Ignoring your pain doesn’t numb a memory. Instead, it creates a belief system that triggers symptoms which lead to emotions that attempt to push the pain away, like anxiety, depression, or fear. An example could be if a child is involved in a car accident, they may become anxious anytime they sit behind the wheel as an adult.
To dive further into what may occur inside someone who faces trauma, in the example above, the individual may have anxiety stemming from a limiting belief that they’re not safe in a car. That same individual may feel helplessness, lack of control, or develop a fear of driving in fearing that something terrible could happen while driving on a freeway or stopping at a red light.
Note: Two people in the same situation can have drastically different issues, emotions, and beliefs associated with an event. (This is an example from a client session).
With limiting beliefs triggering you, it can feel impossible to leave the past behind. But you can empower yourself to release and process through the pain in order to move forward.
The goal of exploring a traumatic event is to heal. It’s about understanding the role it’s played in your life, shifting your current beliefs to new powerful beliefs, forgiving the whole self, and putting a memory to rest so you can live in peace, love, and joy.
Healing with Regression Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapists use regression to help clients move through issues, emotions, and beliefs related to a past event. As we ease into a regression session, sometimes referred to as age regression, your mind will take you on a journey back to the most impactful memory from your past.
Once we arrive in the memory, we explore your experience, emotions, and beliefs. As we enter this memory and look at it through the eyes of your younger self, we do some inner child work. Often one’s higher self is also brought in to support your inner child.
During hypnosis, we also have you speak with the parental figure and share what the child needed at the moment but didn’t receive. For instance, if a parent ignored you, we offer attention and love to the child.
From there, we engage in a back-and-forth conversation with the adult in the memory to allow the client to get everything off their chest and gain some closure from the situation.
Regression aims to desensitize a traumatic experience so it won’t carry the same intensity and weight anymore. The raw emotions will slowly fade as we continue on the road to healing.
Creating a new belief system with forgiveness
Regression goes beyond altering your perception of a traumatic event and allows you to forgive yourself and others. Forgiveness is not about pardoning the involved party but rather letting go of the feelings of being wronged and moving towards a place of compassion as well as separating the antagonist from one’s behavior.
You don’t need to hold onto the old, stagnant energy anymore because it doesn’t serve you. Instead, it’s time to welcome new energy that meets you where you are today.
As we move into hypnotic programming, we reframe limiting beliefs once associated with the memory. We replace them with a new, positive, powerful belief system that supports how you want to be and feel:
Some examples may be:
- I am safe, and I’m in control.
- I’m capable of creating a happy life.
- I know I’m enough.
The results: How will I feel after a regression session?
Following a regression session, the experience will still exist in your memory bank, but its impact on you will be different. The intense emotions linked to it will fade, and you will no longer fully embrace them with the support of hypnotic programming and beginning the healing process.
For example, an individual diagnosed with cancer won’t experience the same emotional rollercoaster if the topic comes up in conversation. Revisiting the memory, processing through emotions/beliefs, as well as practicing forgiveness will provide a new perspective, where the client won’t carry the weight of the past on their shoulders anymore. Instead, they’ll experience a sense of peace and self-acceptance, allowing them to move forward.
While the memory may still be present, it won’t have the same power over you. After planting and reinforcing a new belief system, you can close that chapter and embrace the future.
Beginning your healing journey today
No matter where you are in life or what symptoms, emotions, and beliefs you may live by in your daily life, you can take the first step towards healing. It doesn’t matter how big or small the initial sensitizing incident may be. You can achieve peace in your life.
Hypnotherapy is a powerful method for moving through trauma, understanding your experiences, and empowering yourself to move forward with love, peace, and joy. However, it’s not an overnight process. True healing requires time, self-compassion, patience, and understanding.
While you may prefer to avoid rehashing a traumatic event, revisiting the past can help you gain the closure you need to heal and move on.
You can break free from the chains of the past and begin carving a path for yourself today. Because ultimately, the past doesn’t need to dictate how you want to be and feel.
If you need a guide on your healing voyage and are ready to put your past to rest, schedule a virtual hypnotherapy session with me today!
I look forward to helping you attain peace, joy, and love.
