Regression: What Is It?

There’s a feeling you have. It’s a feeling that’s been bothering you a long time. Months, years, decades maybe. You’re angry, frightened, worried. You feel sad and low. You feel anxious, trapped, lonely. You feel unworthy. Whatever you do is never good enough.

You feel these feelings in your gut. There’s a pain, a tightness, a quivering in the trunk of your body. Your heart hurts. Your stomach is tied in knots. You’re short of breath. These feeling and discomforts have been with you for a while. Sometimes they go away. But they always come back.

In hypnotherapy we say: “events lead to beliefs; beliefs lead to emotions; emotions lead to physical symptoms.”

If you’ve had a pain or discomfort a long time. And you’ve been to a medical doctor but haven’t been able to find a physical cause. A suppressed memory of some traumatic event may be the source of the issue. This suppressed memory of a traumatic event has led to a belief about yourself—unworthiness, for example. This belief, in turn, has led to an emotion—sadness or loneliness, perhaps. Over a number of years, these negative beliefs and emotions can lead to physical symptoms, such as chest pains or stomach cramps or a fluttering in the organs.

But what’s their cause? Medical doctors can’t find anything. What to do?

That’s where regression comes in.

In hypnosis, a client recovers a forgotten memory, usually a traumatic event from childhood. Once uncovered, this traumatic event can be explored and understood. This is a good beginning, but it’s not enough. The newly uncovered memory also needs to be healed. It’s here that a skilled hypnotherapist can work wonders. Applying proven therapeutic techniques, a skilled hypnotherapist can help clients release negative emotions and transform unhealthy beliefs. In this way, clients can heal their traumatic memories and thus find relief from self-destructive behaviors and/or physical discomforts that may have been bothering them for many years.

Thomas C. Williams

Clinical Hypnotherapist

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