Regression therapy utilises hypnosis techniques whereby the client goes into the experience. In this state, clients can turn their attention completely inward to find and utilise the natural resources deep within themselves that can help them to make changes, or regain control in certain areas of their lives.
Areas for regression therapy can include:
- Disturbing thoughts such as obsession or recurring nightmares
- Emotional problems including fear, anger, guilt, sadness, loneliness or depression
- Unexplained physical symptoms such as muscle tension, pain, numbness, panic attacks or blocked feelings.
- Relationship issues with parents, family, work or social contacts.
- Anyone spiritually stuck, or anyone diagnosed with PTSD.
- Anyone who has suffered child abuse, anxiety or depression.
REGRESSION THERAPY TECHNIQUES
The client is guided into a trance state by the therapist, usually using hypnosis and is generally guided to the source of any emotional or unexplained physical symptoms (as listed above), this can be be experiences from past lives or current life and often includes memories that are not in our conscious awareness. Regression therapy can include aspects of inner child healing, soul retrieval, body therapy and exploration and healing of past life memories.
INNER CHILD THERAPY / CURRENT LIFE REGRESSION
All of us have an ‘inner child’, the part of us that allows us to play and have fun, whether it be getting down on the floor and playing ‘make believe’ with a real child or running into the sea for the sheer joy of being alive.
If someone has had a less than ideal childhood, this part often appears to be missing, sometimes producing a sort of plateau of numbness. This apparently missing part of us is locked up inside, curled up for protection, maybe upset, angry, or frightened and tends to, on occasions, break out in moments of weakness when we are stressed, ill or feeling tired and low, or maybe had a bit too much to drink and it creates mayhem in our lives; demanding attention and sometimes revenge and the further we get into our lives, the more often this seems to happen. This uncontrollable behaviour, often completely opposed to how the individual consciously wishes to behave, is frequently what brings people into therapy. If you’ve ever looked back at an incident in your life and wondered “why the f*** did I do or say that? That’s not a bit like me!” then you’ve met your adapted ‘inner child’.
Maybe your ‘inner child’ has not yet broken through with ‘tantrum’ behaviour. Carefully developed defence mechanisms, built in childhood, to protect the tender hurt ‘inner child’ sometimes only begin to break down spontaneously in mid-life – hence the “mid-life crisis” that we’ve all heard about. Maybe your ‘child’ is still locked in, but is making you feel depressed, anxious, have low self esteem, making you scared of criticism or confrontation and unable to stand up for yourself? Or maybe it just seems that everything always goes wrong for you?
When that missing part, that ‘inner child’ is rescued and re-parented and is free to join you in being a whole, complete, psychologically, maturely functioning adult in your own right, then you can come into your birthright as a human being. You can claim your natural power and your right to calm, peace of mind, contentment and joy. You can say goodbye to feelings that you’ve taken for granted for years as being part of the human condition, feelings of being stressed, of nervousness, anxiety, of embarrassment, awkwardness, loneliness and boredom. This is done using hypnosis to go back to the source of a clients fear, uncovering trauma points at which our inner selves retreated to hide from the pain of our circumstances. The therapist then guides communication between the adult self and the inner child. Techniques are used to help the inner child feel love and respect and gain all the strengths such as courage and resilience and understanding that it needs to grow into adulthood.
