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Properly
trained Hypnotherapists have many diagnostic techniques
available to them to help determine the kind of negative
forcing functions within the client that are at the
root of his problems. Two of the diagnostic uncovering
techniques that I often use in my practice are the ideomotor
response and automatic writing. I also use shamanic
techniques, energy suppression, the Rossi Technique,
Parts Therapy and other techniques as a way of communicating
with the subconscious to find the festering sores within
the client that are causing his symptoms.
In this article, I will
discuss the ideomotor response and automatic writing
because they are often misunderstood and confusing to
clients. Actually, they are both variations of the same
subconscious response phenomena…getting the subconscious
to help us figure out what is wrong with the client
and how to fix it. Sometimes, I can get entities to
help me with the symptom diagnosis, but you can’t
always trust them, particularly if demons are involved,
so these two automatic subconscious communication techniques
are quite valuable in figuring out which treatment approach
is most likely to succeed.
"Hypnosis is only
the revelation of the subconscious. Hypnosis is also
communication with the very limits of imagination and
the unknown world."
This extract was given
to me in answer to a question I asked a 16-year-old
boy while he was in a hypnotic trance. I had been working
with this client for several sessions clearing entities
and was not attempting to tap into his higher level
of consciousness, which Jung called the “Superconscious
Mind” or the "High Self."
The Kahunas, a priestly
caste in Hawaii used to move into an altered state of
consciousness and gain access to information, which
was of considerable importance to the people of their
country. "Jeffery," the client I was working
with was a boy of average intelligence who had come
to me initially with a severe complaint, which I had
been treating with Spirit Releasement Therapy and he
had improved greatly, but was not entirely out of the
woods. He proved to be an individual who could go into
a very deep trance and hence my attempt to explore along
these lines.
Sometimes it is difficult
or impossible to get a verbal response from the client
after the entities are removed, so I resorted to automatic
writing.
After providing him
with pencil and paper, he produced the above extract
in "automatic writing." At the time, I did
not concern myself about the process but was more interested
in the result. At a later stage, particularly in relation
to the various functions of the brain, I found that
the left hemisphere is the controller of writing. It
would also appear that the right side of the brain functions
through creativity, visualization and intuition. I now
believe that this area is where dreams are produced.
Because of this, it seems logical to accept that this
is the focal point for hypnosis. Therefore, a successful
trance induction occurs when the activity of the left
hemisphere (the critical, logical section) is subdued
and the opposite portion is stimulated by hypnotic suggestion.
The higher level of
consciousness prefers to communicate by either ideomotor
finger response or automatic writing, but will, if it
chooses, communicate verbally. This also shows how the
process of idiomatic finger response signals work. The
critical factor of the conscious mind is by-passed and
access to the subconscious mind is achieved. The subconscious
then uses the autonomic nervous system to activate the
appropriate finger of the client's hand and provides
a yes or no answer to the hypnotherapist’s question.
Sometimes the idiomatic finger response does not work
and then I try automatic writing. They are both variations
of ideomotor response because both use the subconscious
autonomic nervous system to provide the answer.
When "Jeffery"
wrote the words "communication with the very limits
of imagination and the unknown world," could he
have been referring to that part of the individual which
is the divine within?… the High Self… the
Self which uses imagination or image-making to create
its own reality? Carl Jung said "Our unconscious
existence is the real one and the conscious world is
a kind of illusion… an apparent reality constructed
for a specific purpose, like a dream, which seems real
as long as we are in it."
Hindu philosophy describes
the physical world as Maya or illusion. Could it be
that what we perceive as "real" is actually
an extended dream of our High Self?
Previously, I had been
able to achieve a similar level of consciousness with
a 19-year-old client "Denise." Once again,
this individual was of average intelligence and had
come to me seeking treatment for a nervous problem.
I got rid of the negative forcing functions I could
find, but her nervousness continued. I again employed
automatic writing to tap into her High Self. When asked
whether the High Self could write answers to questions
as whether hypnosis would be harmful to her she wrote.
"The Divine Self and High Mind have certain intervals
wherein hypnosis may be beneficial both to client and
hypnotist. However, certain times are more favorable
than others are. You see, the mind, as powerful as it
may be, has its profitable moments as well as the correct
cooperation of individual mind and practitioner. You
must understand the mind is such a potent structure
and must be treated with respect.... "
From the above I took
it to mean that if there was a high mind, then there
must be a low mind and that these must equate to the
conscious and subconscious. The Divine self is the High
Self. It was obvious to me that "Denise" had
had no prior knowledge of this, therefore it would seem
that she had obtained information from some greater
source than what she would normally use. I then asked
for a diagnosis of her nervous troubles. She wrote the
following.
"Suppressed emotions.
Finds difficulty in expressing herself, due to childhood
and mixed background. These feelings are tense and unyielding,
mainly because of fear and confusion due to parental
guidance. Mother had a great effect on her emotions.
Caused a great shattering impact, something like a mental
block. This disability had great projection into mental
force vibrations and rays of uneasiness have impregnated
the girl's subconscious. However, this has to be remedied
by a slow course of time and patience: by gradual improvement
and understanding this mental force will disassemble
itself and the auras of this stigma will eventually
cease."
Subsequent treatment
with hypnotherapy enabled the cause of the girl's problem
to be identified and worked on and she was able to demonstrate
a much more stable personality.
During the sessions
I had with "Jeffrey," he had also diagnosed
his own physical and emotional condition. Treatment
for this was once again successful and even incorporated
ridding him of a worm infestation with appropriate medication.
He had pinpointed this problem during his automatic
writing.
In my work along these
lines, I was influenced by the work of the great American
psychic Edgar Cayce. For the greater part of his life,
this man was able to put himself into a self-induced
hypnotic trance and while in this state could answer
questions on any topic asked of him. In total he gave
some 15,000 readings which were mainly concerned with
health, and involved diagnosis and appropriate treatment.
People would write to him from all over the world asking
for his help and in most cases he was successful in
solving their problems. He was consulted by several
U.S. Presidents and many world famous persons during
his life.
Apart from his health
readings, Cayce provided information from the distant
past, a lot of which has been since verified, and he
gave predictions of the future. In his trance state,
this man said that the information he obtained came
from something called the Akashic records, where his
mind in an altered state had access to it. Jung has
called these Akashic Records, the collective
unconscious and considered it to be a timeless state
where past, present and future was one. Albert Einstein
made this statement: "Any thinking physicist must
come to the conclusion that time and space are illusions."
A number of the world's
scientists, particularly those involved with quantum
physics are also of the same opinion. Throughout history,
there have been individuals who have had experiences,
which have gone far beyond anything human beings normally
had. These have mostly resulted in a spontaneous alteration
of consciousness wherein the person has had a vast expansion
of awareness. There is a feeling of release from separateness
and a merging in oneness with the whole of creation.
The famous Harvard philosopher William James has listed
a number of cases of these phenomena from many of the
world's different cultures. These are the client matter
in his book "Varieties of Religious Experience."
In many instances working
with hypnotic regression, I sometime run up against
a barrier as to the problem cause. This can be very
frustrating but on a few occasions, I have been able
to tap into the client’s High Self and received
the explanation. "Susan" was such a case.
She was a pleasant woman in her sixties who was grossly
overweight. She weighed 220 pounds. After getting rid
of entities both earthbound and demonic who were attracted
to her weight problem for exacerbation, and finding
her a particularly good hypnotic client, I decided to
see whether she could access her High Self. I had tried
without success to find if there was any past cause
for her weight condition using past life work. Her High
Self was able to speak in answer to my questioning.
The High Self can speak verbally or through automatic
writing. The spoken word is quicker if the High Self
chooses to use it. In this case it did.
Speaking as though she
was someone apart from herself, "Susan" related
the following story:
"As a child of
five "Susan" went to stay with her grandmother.
On one occasion while the child was in the bath, her
grandfather came into the bathroom and sexually assaulted
her. The grandmother happened to walk past the bathroom
window, which was open and saw what was happening. She
rushed inside, chased "Susan" out of the room
and attacked the grandfather, and then she came out
and beat the child until she was unconscious."
I asked her High Self
what this had to do with her weight problem and received
the following answer:
"Because of the
trauma she experienced, she has unconsciously put on
excess weight so she would not be attractive to men."
Having practiced hypnotherapy
for 24 years, I would like to put forward the conclusions
I have reached regarding this phenomena. I consider
that there are various levels of consciousness, which
are part of the individual. Normally we function on
the level of the conscious mind. This is a limiting
factor since it focuses mainly on the body and the personality.
The body and the physical world are illusions and are
dreamlike projections of the subconscious mind.
Since the soul consists of the High Self (our connection
to Divinity) and also includes the subconscious mind,
We can consider that the subconscious is a mind of the
soul and exists in a timeless state. The High
Self and the subconscious mind, which constitute the
soul, are what reincarnate. The conscious mind does
not.
Consider the example
of hypnotic regression, where a client is regressed
to a past happening, and experiences the event completely
with full emotional impact as though he was actually
reliving the experience. The subconscious mind, because
it is an analog, parallel processing super bio-computer
has memory banks, which are accessable under hypnosis.
Under hypnosis, the critical factor of the conscious
mind is by-passed and the answers you get from the subconscious
are simply the imagination unfiltered by the conscious
mind. This is why most people coming out of interactive
hypnotherapy usually say, “I was only making up
a story”.
All subconscious minds
through the High Self are intimately connected and because
of this, phenomena such as telepathy, clairvoyance,
precognition and clairaudience can filter down under
certain conditions into the conscious mind. Hypnosis
is one of these conditions. At the highest level, or
superconscious mind level, all minds completely blend
into one. This is the condition that some enlightened
beings have experienced.
"Do unto others
as you would have them do unto you," can take on
new meaning if we accept this concept. What I do to
or think about another can have a harmful physical or
emotional effect on myself. This can bring about a stimulation
of the endocrine glands, which can release secretions
harmful to the body if the thought involved is of a
negative nature.
In the Course In Miracles,
there is one prime concept that I regard as of prime
importance in hypnotherapy. It is helping the client
to forgive anyone in the past from which he has experienced
a real or imagined attack. If there is someone out there
you cannot forgive, then you cannot forgive yourself,
in which case subconscious guilt develops. Guilt attracts
punishment. And who punishes you?...You do! This can
manifest in physical or emotional illness. Perhaps this
is where the idea of Karma originated.
William Shakespeare,
who, among other things, was a wise old psychologist,
included these words in one of his plays: "We are
the stuff that dreams are made of."
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