What is Heart-Centred Hypnotherapy
What to expect during a session
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Heart-Centred Hypnotherapy is the ancient practice of hypnosis, developed and refined over the last 35 years, for modern use in the counselling process. We use a deeply relaxed, sensory state to bypass the busy mind, access and ‘rewire’ the root experiences of life and relationship patterns, physical conditions, overwhelming emotions, and compulsive behaviours.
Integrated with modern, evidence-based practices, HCH utilizes Parts Therapy, Gestalt, Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) and the concept of “re-wiring” the neuro-pathways of disease, as well as modern psychoanalytic, developmental, and behavioural theories; mindfulness, the mind-body connection, and transpersonal psychology.
If there’s something you keep feeling, doing, or experiencing, compulsively or despite your best intentions, this type of session can help you understand why this is happening and ultimately change the pattern, from the inside out.
Practitioners have specialized training in supporting, releasing, and regulating intense emotions and traumatic memories; and we have experienced the work ourselves, deeply and extensively. Many describe HCH as several sessions in one.
HCH can feel like a guided, fully-embodied, and interactive state of meditation. It utilizes deep states of relaxation that allow you to explore and work with somatic experiences, stored memories, intense emotions, and other patterns within the nervous system. New pathways are created and deepened at the end of each session. Additionally:
- We remain fully conscious of what is happening in the room and are easily able to recall the entire session.
- We remain fully able to reject suggestion, with a heightened sense of inner knowingness, that ultimately guides the session.
- Sights, sounds, sensations, smells, as well as memories and emotions are generally more accessible, heightened, and vivid.
- We retain (or gain) full control over the intensity of each of these experiences.
- Discover and re-wire the root experiences behind intrusive emotions, compulsive behaviours, relationship patterns and chronic conditions.
- Process and release traumatic experiences and emotions for renewed life energy.
- Gain insight into one’s life patterns and overall purpose for renewed clarity and vision.
- Recover and strengthen your sense of Self, intuition, and inner knowingness.
- Experience deep relaxation, physically and mentally, to interrupt old patterns in the nervous system.
‘Hypnosis’ and ‘hypnotherapy’ have been used interchangeably and they are two very different concepts. Hypnosis mainly uses relaxation and hypnotic suggestions to address a behaviour. The effect lasts a few days or weeks. In hypnotherapy, we can regress, through the senses, to discover and re-wire the root experience(s) behind the behaviour. When anchored in the nervous system and strengthened by the client between sessions, new neuro-pathways and responses can be created permanently.
Having experienced HCH as a client for the last 10 years in person, training online for this work during a pandemic surprised and inspired me about working online. I can safely say that online sessions can be equally effective as in-person ones, with some simple preparations in your own space:
- A comfortable surface to lie down, where you can remain in view of the camera (head and shoulders, not more than 4 feet away).
- Good sound, without headphones, and solid internet.
- Extra blankets and pillows, an ice pack and heating pad (or extra available layers).
(These testimonials were not solicited and appear with the expressed permission of their authors.)
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