What if the key to your present pain is hidden in a forgotten memory? What if you could heal your pain with your own thoughts, you just needed the proper guidance to heal yourself.
Regression therapy is a powerful hypnotherapy-based method of helping you heal from past experiences to allow your subconscious to process new situations with a different perspective and heal from past pain that is causing current issues.
Hypnotherapy and regression therapy work to relax you into seeing your subconscious mind and what it is carrying around as excess baggage that no longer serves you. We all carry things with us like don’t touch a hot stove or it will burn you.
These are not just things we heard growing up, something happened that shaped that knowledge in us. What if some of the knowledge we learned no longer applies, that it is no longer useful, but we just can’t let the belief go.
What Is Regression Therapy?
Regression therapy is a guided hypnosis that takes the client back to an earlier experience usually from childhood that shaped a belief, fear, or habit. It finds the source of the issue and addresses it, rather than addressing the current situation, based on this belief from childhood.
When you are having a conversation about how you are feeling you are normally looking at how you are feeling about what is happening right now. But with focused relaxation in regression therapy you look at why you feel this way right now, it’s usually an event that triggers a memory that triggers a feeling.
Like when you know you feel the warmth from the stove and know in your mind that is the point to stop your progression. You have emotional points that you stop progression beyond what you know is comfortable.
There are two types of regression therapy, either current life or past life. Each technique works differently for different results and comfort levels with hypnotherapy. Also not all therapist do both types of regression.
In age regression therapy. While hypnotized you revisit events from early times in your life that have helped shape a belief or a behavior. It allows you to see the source of a behavior or pain point in your current life that was shaped by an early life experience.
In past-life regression therapy. You are in a deeper state of hypnosis where you have memories from previous lives you have experienced, this can be more abstract and requires different beliefs and interpretation of experiences.
In neither type of regression therapy is reliving the trauma what it’s about. It’s about acknowledging what happened and processing it safely and in a mentally healthy manner rather than suppressing the feelings for them to revisit when you’re older.
How Regression Therapy Works
Your subconscious mind is the protection you have from painful memories, the memories that taught you how to behave and what is right and wrong. All your repressed memories are here, and when you access them in a guided manner you can sort out why you’re now feeling the way you are.
When your mind represses these painful memories that shape you, it’s unresolved issues that you know hurt you so you don’t want to feel that again, but you don’t know why it hurt you or if there was something unusual that you missed that is holding you back.
When you can heal your inner child and address the repressed feelings you can heal from the pain, this will stop emotional triggers that can cause your reaction to a situation. The triggers are part of your trauma loop that you can stop. By dealing with the past, you can stop the current pain.
During hypnotherapy you enter what they call the REM (Rapid Eye Movement) this tells the therapist your ability to be hypnotized. Then with REM, you can enter a relaxed state, where you are aware but comfortable and with guidance can get back to what you need to deal with that you originally repressed.
It’s like being in a dream but having a guide that keeps you from entering into the nightmare part without someone’s hand to hold. As you hold your therapist guided hand. You can see what you actually went through and deal with the reality once and for all.
What Regression Therapy Can Help You Heal
Regression therapy can help find the deep-rooted causes of anxiety and phobias. These conditions can develop from a childhood situation that may have triggered a fear of abandonment or embarrassment, but by addressing the event you can overcome the fear.
If you are experiencing chronic relationship pattern problems. Regression therapy can lead you into your subconscious mind to find what is in your memories, maybe a toxic cycle you haven’t processed or a codependency issue you buried inside.
If you are feeling a low self-worth or are self-sabotaging, regression therapy can help you find the part you buried because you didn’t want to process the pain at the time, but now you’re carrying the effects with you.
When in regression therapy you can solve unexplained fears and emotional blocks. When you were a child, you didn’t know how to deal with emotions. Now that you are older the emotions you didn’t deal with are resurfacing and need to be addressed at the root cause.
Psychosomatic Pain or Chronic Illness can be brought on by unresolved emotional issues. With regression therapy you are able to reframe past memories and heal from your childhood trauma that is leading to your experiences with this pain.
Addiction and Compulsion Behaviors can be brought on from your past experiences. With regression therapy you can return to when you made the changes and almost reanalyze your decision to establish a new behavior that is more in line with your beliefs.
You can even experience spiritual confusion that regression therapy can help you to revisit the origins of this confusion and help guide you into the path that aligns with your beliefs and well-being.
What to Expect in a Regression Therapy Session
Every session is different depending on the therapist. Most sessions start with getting to know you and what you would like to accomplish, they will explain their process to you step by step. If you have questions this is the time to ask.
The setting may be on zoom or in an office, either way is effective and therapists are usually trained in both techniques. The results though you see in 3 weeks or so rather than 3 years or so with traditional talk therapy.
During your induction the therapist will help guide you into a relaxing state allowing you to access your subconscious, as you enter a relaxed state you become receptive to guidance to be able to reach the root of your issue you are addressing
The therapist will then guide you into accessing the memories and observing them. Not reliving the experience that hurt you but seeing it from an overview perspective, and allowing you to recall why you felt the feelings you felt.
As you see why you felt the feeling it gives you the ability to reprocess this memory and resolve emotions or beliefs you are holding to update them to your updated internal emotions that can serve you better as you continue on your life’s journey.
After the session, you will receive a recording to listen to usually for 3 weeks. The session itself is the integration of this new emotional balance and the recordings serve as the grounding after your session to anchor the new emotions and beliefs.
A normal treatment for a single issue can be as little as one session and a recording to listen to with a follow up call. A more intense issue or multiple issues may take repeated sessions, usually with a maximum of 3 sessions or 9 weeks for one issue.
Is Regression Therapy Safe? Myths and Misconceptions
Common fears are that you can get stuck in your past or you will make something up. In reality you are more likely to have that experience being conscious rather than being hypnotized.
When you are in a subconscious state you are naturally honest, and like you are in a dream so you know you always wake up from a dream you will wake up from hypnosis as well.
At all times the client leads the conversation and topics, we as hypnotherapists guide you through the scenes in your life so you can process them with guidance in a healthy fashion and then move on from them, you lead the way and are fully aware and conscious of what’s going on.
Details are not always what is important, the memory we discuss will be your memory, so it can only be accurate to how you experienced it. The facts you recall are where the therapeutic value is not every little detail.
There are still certain conditions that may prevent hypnotherapy as an option. Certain psychosis, treated or non-tread, or certain levels of trauma or abuse that is above a therapist’s training or experience.
Who Should Consider Regression Therapy?
Regression therapy is not for everyone, and you should make sure you align with your therapist. For most people regression therapy is a one time fix, but it can take multiple sessions. But certain people it does just work better for.
Regression therapy is a great option for several people stuck in a repeating pattern or habit. These are developed in the subconscious mind and can be redirected from current behaviors by working through what triggers these behaviors.
Someone who has tried traditional talk therapy and sees results but wants to see them on a more rapid trajectory, or has not achieved long lasting change or results, yet each time does have success.
And in all honesty, really any individual is open to deep inner work. Someone who isn’t interested in inner work most likely isn’t trying to find help either. If inner work is what you are seeking to accomplish, regression therapy is a huge help in your journey.
Regression therapy though is not just there for someone looking for a quick fix, yes it is faster usually than traditional talk therapy, but if you are expecting to just be healed and not have to do some of the work. This isn’t a good path for you.
You also have to be willing to revisit emotionally uncomfortable situations. Notice I say revisist, not relive. You do not need to have the same feelings you did before, but you have to be willing to be guided through the discomfort if it presents itself.
Final Thoughts
Regression therapy is a powerful path to healing if you are willing to do the inner work. You have to be willing to face what hurt you and caused your fear or habit. Knowing the answer though lets you heal and relook at how one moment can affect you for so long in ways you would have never thought.
By exploring and resolving the issues under the surface it allows you to grow and grow with others in new and healthier ways. Knowing this kind of information can allow you to truly find and be your authentic self.
You’re not broken or too much, your mind is protecting you from repeated pain and therapy can help you move forward and start to understand and heal from not only the pain now but from the root cause of what deep down is causing the pain.
If you’re noticing signs of narcissistic abuse or you feel stuck in a narcissistic relationship, you’re not alone — and it’s not your fault. What you’re experiencing is real, and healing is possible.
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