Hypnosis and Spirituality

Hypnosis, trance and altered states of consciousness have been used in religion and more importantly in spirituality for ever. We will have posts about the relationship between hypnosis NLP and related subjects and spirituality.

I'll soon have other sites up which will deal more directly with spirituality. There will be a site a teaching stories which are used in hypnotherapy. For now you can go to my blog.

I feel one of the most important aspects of spirituality is forgiveness and release of resentments. My hypnotherapy is entwined with my spirituality as to me psychology and spirituality are two sides of the same coin. In fact in the East (and the West until recently say 1600) psychology, philosophy (love of wisdom) and spirituality were not considered as separate subjects.

Thus in the "Tibetan Book of the Dead" written millennia before Freud there is an indication of the Oedipus complex. And again the Sufis talked about the unconscious at least a thousand years before Freud.

The most import nat practical use of spirituality in hypnotherapy is the following beliefs:

I find that when I (my ego) get out of the way and allow my unconscious be a channel for the infinite intelligence to work through me I can bring about much better healing. I discovered this one day after a particular good session.

I was doing a house call for a client who had been partially paralyzed after a stroke and I was seeing her for pain management. I was really happy. We had a major breakthrough. My client had started to move a "paralyzed" limb.

I thought to myself, "God, you are good!" And then I realized what I had said. The truth was not that I was good but that God (Nature, infinite intelligence, collective unconscious, whatever term makes sense to you) was the source of the break trough. I always enter a trance with my clients and trust my unconscious....