How Does Regression Hypnotherapy Successfully Treat Chronic Stress?
Regression hypnotherapy is able to successfully treat chronic stress by taking advantage of the enhanced concentration and memory that are two of the major characteristic of the hypnotic state. The patient is then guided back through the memories of specific events in his/her life so that they can be re-examined for any unexpressed feelings or unresolved emotions that may still be associated with them. Once they are discovered, the patient is encouraged to feel the feelings (loneliness, sadness, anger, fear, etc.) and/or express the emotions (grieving, crying, raging, etc.) they are re-experiencing as a means of releasing the energy associated with them out of the nervous system once and for all. Since the patient’s adult intelligence is present throughout this entire emotional release process, it is afforded the opportunity to reprocess (cognitively restructure), with the hypnotherapist’s help, how these past events will be thought about and viewed in the future from a much healthier,
