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My journey from misery
to healing using Hypnotherapy
I thought I was dying.
I could not get my breath and my head spun. My heart
pounded as if it was going to explode. But most of all
it was the cold grip of fear enveloping me. Please God,
help me! This was the panic attack I lived with daily.
I also could not sleep, often-going sleepless 4-5 days
in a row from a sleep disorder called Restless Leg Syndrome
(RLS). My blood pressure soared astronomically and I
waited for the stroke.
I went to medical doctors,
psychiatrists and psychologists finding little help.
Three sleep clinics and countless doctors put me on
sleep drugs to which I became addicted and had to suffer
withdrawal agony repeatedly. Psychotropic drugs for
panic attacks, and beta-blockers, ACE inhibitors and
calcium channel blockers for hypertension. Ending up
in the hospital emergency on nights when the fear engulfed
me beyond my ability to cope. This was how I lived,
if you could call it living.
With all this, I still
had to make a living. In spite of these problems, I
advanced in my jobs, becoming vice president of a major
defense electronics firm and responsible for $300 million
a year in Anti Submarine Warfare Systems. In this job,
I had to conduct meetings, travel extensively, make
presentations to high-ranking government officials in
Washington, DC and be on my toes in this very competitive
business. I was finding it increasingly difficult to
cope with my job responsibilities.
The sleep problem ultimately
became so bad that I reluctantly quit this job and moved
to Atlanta to become a consultant to the government
and aerospace companies. I figured a consultant could
set his own hours and I might live with my affliction.
I had saved enough money for a good investment income
and felt secure, financially.
I had not been in Atlanta
a year when the stock market and a crooked broker cleaned
me out and I was in serious debt. Panic attacks, terrible
insomnia, severe hypertension, almost broke, in debt
and without a job. So much for security! I had to go
back to work and to do that I had to improve my health
or I would die.
After another session
in the hospital de-tox to get off Xanax taken for sleep
and panic attacks, I went for a year with intense panic
attacks and sleep deprivation. I now realized I had
to change things or I could not continue to live, much
less work. That's when I discovered Holistic Medicine
and Hypnotherapy.
My metaphysically oriented
wife found a chiropractor who used gemstones in healing
and she wanted me to try him as I wasn't getting anywhere
with the treatment I was receiving. I was a conventional
businessman and technologist, with a Ph.D. in Engineering
and an MBA in business. I thought this "voodoo"
treatment was ridiculous and wouldn't have it, preferring
to find an accepted solution. However, I just couldn't
get there. The problems persisted in spite of the best
efforts of my allopathic doctors.
Despair finally drove
me to try the gem stone chiropractor and for some reason
I didn't understand, I felt better, more relaxed. Therefore,
I continued to see him and began to investigate other
holistic therapies because of my curiosity about what
I was feeling from some crazy stones on my body.
The change I felt from
the gem stone therapy, although positive was very subtle,
so I looked for stronger therapies. Over the next few
years, in addition to chiropractic, I tried Christian
Science, Chiropractic, Osteopathy, Cerebral Spinal Fluid
Therapy, Chinese Energetic Medicine, Homeopathy, Reiki,
Aromatherapy, Herbal Therapy, Peruvian Shamanism, Soul
Retrieval, Acupuncture, Shiatsu, Rebirthing, Body Electronics,
Yoga, Massage, Hypnotherapy and finally Hypnotherapy
with Spirit Releasement. All the therapies helped some,
but Hypnotherapy with Spirit Releasement finally put
me on the road to true healing. Over time, my panic
attacks stopped, I slept better and my blood pressure
normalized with very small doses of medicine.
During this time, I
realized I could feel Chi energy flowing in the body
and sense energy blockages. I remembered my Grandmother
could do this and I must have inherited it from her.
So impressed was I with the change in my health using
Holistic Medicine that I began to treat others with
Shiatsu, a technique for opening blockages in the body's
energy pathways and was successful in temporarily alleviating
some miseries. I read voraciously and soon realized
that I was only working on symptom release and not healing
the source problem. I remembered what Hypnotherapy had
done for me and thought it might improve my Shiatsu
energy work.
So, I began to study
and use Hypnotherapy, because it is the only healing
modality allowing direct access to the subconscious
wherein is buried all the causes for illness. I became
Board Certified by the National Guild of Hypnotists
(NGH) in Basic and Advanced Hypnotherapy and soon after
studied and became proficient in Spirit Releasement
Therapy, Past Life Regression Therapy and Parts Therapy.
Adding these Hypnotherapies to my energy clearing capability
proved to be very successful in allowing me to help
people with all kinds of problems. People began coming
to me when they ran out of options with other healing
modalities and I was usually able to help them.
So, what does all this
mean? To me it means that when conventional allopathic
medicine cannot solve your problems, look to the addition
of holistic therapies to adjunct your treatment. I think
Hypnotherapy is the most powerful holistic therapy there
is, especially when used in a complimentary role to
conventional allopathic medicine, but most of the other
holistic therapies also help.
The stresses of making
a living in a very competitive society can be almost
overwhelming to some people and they may feel there
is no way out --- but there is. Remember that every
night has a dawn, and every dawn is a new beginning
of life. Never, ever give up!
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