DISCOVERING WHAT OUR BLOCKS ARE NAMED
You don’t have to know the specifics of your patterns and blocks when you come for a hypnosis session. I can help you to uncover what that resistance or those patterns actually are. Going into the subconscious to discover why we do the things that we do even when they don’t help us, even when they hurt us, even when we know better, is tricky to do on your own. In a hypnosis session I can guide you deeper into your subconscious in a way that feels good. That feels exciting. That feels familiar, that feels like reconnection, in order to make those discoveries about who you really are, why are you really do what you do, what you really want for yourself and how to be that version of yourself that you can be, once you know how to envision it.
Hypnosis is a pleasurable way to access your subconscious. We often bump up against a lot of resistance when we try to enter the subconscious, because our egos tell us that our subconscious is scary and dangerous and painful, when, in reality, the subconscious holds the keys to your own happiness. Using your own visual language, drawing upon images as they pop into your head, letting those images speak to you, whether they are based in fact or fiction, whether they are real or imagined —the images that you see in a hypnosis journey give shape to your blocks and give shape to your hopes and your true desires. When you see something and feel something so embodied in this way, it becomes more real, and so your mind can more easily work with it.
If we don’t know the shape or the name of our fears and blocks, we won’t know how to address them or how to heal them. If we only have an amorphous idea of how we don’t want to feel, it’s harder for us to step into how we do want to feel.
During a dip into my own subconscious, I found the word “UNPREPARED” as a name for a fear of mine. In the past I would have said that I was a perfectionist, or I would have said that I have a fear of being wrong or doing something wrong. But finding the word “unprepared” gives extra nuance to this block and gives me more insight into how this might manifest for me in my day. If the fear or block is about being unprepared, this is something different from a fear of being wrong, and it will inhibit me in a different way than a fear of being wrong will. So being able to dive deeper into myself, finding the name for the specific nuance of what my block is, gives me insight into how my resistance manifests throughout the day, and how I might hold myself back throughout my life.
When you gain this insight during a session that takes you into the subconscious versus just finding words using your conscious mind, the difference is that when that word comes to you through your subconscious, it comes to you attached to feelings, emotions, sensations, and memories. The word is an embodied word. So you understand not just the literal meaning of the word, but you understand how it resonates specifically for you. You understand what specific emotions this specific word carries for you specifically. And in this way, this one word or this one naming of your fear or your resistance can have a huge impact on how you experience yourself.
If my ideal self, or my higher self, wants to be feeling relaxed and excited, but my subconscious is scared of feeling unprepared, there is a clash or a conflict there, between what how I want to feel, and how I am able to feel. Because whatever part of me that feels unsafe is going to determine what I am able to do. If feeling unprepared makes me feel unsafe, then doing things that are new, unknown, refreshing — in other words, relaxing and exciting, will also make me feel unsafe, and I will be unable to be fully present in those feelings. If I can realize that my block or resistance or fear is around feeling unprepared, and that my sense of feeling unprepared makes me feel unsafe, then when I think about trying to feel relaxed and excited, and the resistance starts to come up, I can address it appropriately. Instead of addressing a fear that is not accurate, I can specifically calm the parts in my mind that have worries about being unprepared, and I can specifically address those fears in order to make that part of my mind feel safe.
Armed with the information of the specificity of the word — “unprepared” — I can now even look back at choices that I have made in my life and see when they were made to try to avoid feeling unprepared, or as a way to overcompensate for feeling unprepared. And I can look back at positive choices that I’ve made in my life and see how I made those in a state of feeling relaxed and excited and prepared, and so I can remind myself of the times that I was capable of making myself feel prepared, and I can use that information in the future to help myself. When I start to feel fear or resistance or limitations, I can stop and I can look at myself, and I can ask myself, what do I need in this moment to feel prepared so that I can feel relaxed and excited? And the answer will be inside of me.