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Hypnosis & Healing the Inner Child
For many people, their childhood was less than ideal. Sometimes, it’s the everyday stresses of being an adult that keeps us from healing these wounds and moving forward in our lives.
Other times, it’s the traumatic experiences that can haunt people throughout their whole lives and result in issues with intimacy or a lack of self-esteem and confidence.
Whatever the case may be, hypnosis can help you heal your inner child and achieve peace and happiness in your life, today.
What is hypnosis?
Before we get into how hypnosis can help with healing your inner child, we should first define what hypnosis is. While there are multiple definitions and uses for hypnosis, it is widely accepted that hypnosis is a state of heightened attention and relaxation.
It allows someone to experience the possibility of extreme suggestibility and changes in perception, often resulting in decreased awareness of one’s surroundings. Depending on who you ask, some view hypnosis as something mystical or magical, while others see it as an altered state of consciousness characterized by extreme suggestibility. The truth is that hypnosis really falls somewhere between these two views.
How does hypnosis work?
When hypnotized, your conscious mind becomes less active some experts describe it as a sort of sleep state in which your brain activity is much lower than normal.
It’s at this point that your unconscious can be accessed — and herein lies part of its healing power.
The subconscious controls a great deal of our behavior — much more than most people realize; tapping into it can help us make changes in our lives. In other words, hypnosis opens up new possibilities for growth and change; it unlocks parts of ourselves that have been hidden from consciousness.
While meditation may tap into these same powers, hypnosis helps unlock them more quickly. Anyone can enter a deep hypnotic state and benefit from its effects on his or her inner child.
Whether or not you use hypnosis regularly is up to you of course — but if you do decide to give it a try, keep in mind: This isn’t something that will fix everything overnight!
