![]() ![]() As you change the way you feel about the memory, you change your entire perception of it, including altering your mental discomfort and the negative physical reactions. They can be reinterpreted toward your hypnotherapeutic goals. Hypnotherapy is your reframing tool to “re-edit” the emotional clay in your mind and your negative associations with a memory. When these changes are applied, they do not have to have happened in reality, but should be “reasonably acceptable.” You can change what a particular memory means to you, how you feel about it, and how you respond to it when you create and attach new associations and narratives to that memory. Most of the time we don’t even realize it. Each time your mind replays a memory, minor details of the memory are constantly being remoulded. Memories, with their associated thoughts and emotions, are adaptable and flexible, making us open to suggestion and more able to accept small changes to some of their original meaning. Reframing the Context of Memory with Hypnotherapy Instead of trying to suppress these memories, or erase them, we can deal with them, and manage them in a more productive and healthy way. Adding additional emotions such as frustration and anger will cyclically keep the bad memory active. You then add more importance to the memory as the emotions are being re-triggered. When you force yourself to suppress a recent painful memory, the memory is recalled. ![]() As we may know from experience, the emotions from these memories can be resurfaced from a trigger connection, which causes us to feel upset or create complete paralysis in our minds. This is what is commonly known as repression. What your mind does as its own form of coping mechanism is it takes your negative, emotionally charged memories and pushes them into your subconscious as a means of protecting you from re-experiencing the pain and trauma. By erasing a memory from your mind, you would be erasing such connected compartments of information in the process. ![]() One memory can open other memories and associations such as other people, places, thoughts, and feelings. Memories are complex, containing more than mere subject matter. Your trauma can affect all aspects of your life. I want to ensure you are well taken care of physically and mentally. Messing with the mind means messing with the body. This is your health and safety we are talking about. When it comes to the fictional depiction of hypnosis, taking away memories is at a desperate time of need. ![]() If memory erasing did exist, it would be against all codes of ethics that any health practitioner follows. Reality CheckĪs much as we would love to have the ability to erase trauma, no modern therapy is able to do so. Here’s some more information on how that works. That being said, what I can do is to help you heal from these traumatic memories and move forward so you don’t have the symptoms that the traumas created. Can we really use hypnotherapy to be free of these traumatic memories? It is during these helpless moments when we feel hypnosis seems the way to go to erase these memories out of pure desperation, to “flick the switch” so to speak. However, the harder you try, the more the memories end up rebounding back into your conscious mind. When reality decides to give you a dose of personal trauma, you become faced with the hugest urge to get it out of your head. Perhaps you have thought there is a way to completely erase these bad memories? Films and television may give you the impression that hypnosis is able to do so, and this is a big misconception. Our brain tends to work as a coping mechanism and store these traumatic moments deep within our subconscious. The memories of such events can be extremely painful to deal with. Trauma is not something we ever want to deal with in our lives. How Hypnosis Can Help with Traumatic Memories ![]()
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