Alchemical Hypnotherapy
focuses on spiritual healing through the use of inner guides and healing the inner child, this can be an effective tool to help you create the positive changes you desire in your life by synchronizing both the conscious and subconscious. Developed in the 1970s by David Quigley, Alchemical Hypnotherapy combines the use of hypnosis to access the subconscious mind to reveal and heal traumas which occurred in the past, yet affect our present. It is a dynamic process of personal transformation which can bring about lasting and meaningful changes in ones life. It is a proven vehicle for contacting childhood memories, clearing emotional blocks and accessing the limitless wisdom that lies deep within our Soul.
AH is a spiritual science of transmutation. Its name is borrowed from the ancient alchemist, who had as their purpose, transforming the negative weight of emotions into the gold of enlightened awareness. The writings of the Middle Age alchemists indicate that they saw their inner guides as keys to their own transformation. According to Carl Jung, the first modern alchemist, the vehicles of this transformative process were the archetypes, the Inner Guides. Therefore Alchemy can also be defined as the spiritual discipline of working with Inner Guides. These powerful and autonomous beings live within the unconsciousness mind and can guide us effectively to health, happiness, relationships, prosperity, and most important, the fulfillment of our spiritual purpose! These Guides can be accessed through the hypnotic state.The alchemical process goes beyond symptom removal to personal integration and spiritual awareness. Hypnotherapy allows you to access your inner emotions so you may address many of the negative issues and make positive changes. The results can be profound and lasting. This process is non-invasive and interactive, wherein the therapist acts as a guide for the client's exploration. Therefore the client and therapist work together as a team to achieve the client's goals; suggestions for change come from the client's inner guidance, NOT the therapists. The focus is on giving the person resources within themselves that they can call upon to resolve their own issues. This insures the paths taken are appropriate for each individual client.
Val draws upon such disciplines as transpersonal hypnotherapy, Jungian Archetypes, regression therapy, Gestalt, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Ericksonian hypnosis and shamanism to provide a sensitive, interactive, client directed approach to explore the unconscious forces behind behavior patterns in life and relationships.
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Hypnosis: a Powerful Tool in Complementary Cancer Care
By, Jack Bleeker
February 9, 2010
Complementary therapies, while not given the attention that more traditional cancer therapies may receive, are perhaps equally important while undergoing treatment for certain types of cancer. Patients diagnosed with difficult to treat malignancies will often use these types of therapies in conjunction with traditional surgical, chemotherapeutic, or radiology techniques to form a more comprehensive and effective treatment regimen. Among the most important and effective alternative therapies utilized by those diagnosed with cancer is hypnotherapy.
Hypnotherapy has been used for many years in clinical settings. Hypnotherapy’s role in cancer management however, is relatively new and indications are that its utilization has not been fully maximized yet. Effective cancer treatment often depends on the patient’s ability to not only defeat the cancer through treatments but also to maintain their health and mental spirit throughout the painful side effects of cancer treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation.
Often, the symptoms and effects of the cancer itself on the body are negligible compared to the pain and other side effects of chemotherapy and radiation. This is where acupuncture has been said to be most effective. Cancers such as mesothelioma, which are often unable to be removed by surgical means, are often treated with some combination of chemotherapy and radiation. While these potent therapies can be effective in eliminating some of the tumor mass and growth, they also profoundly affect the health of the surrounding tissue. Symptoms of these effects including fever, nausea, and general pain have been dramatically reduced through the utilization of hypnosis. Patients, who are able to withstand these symptoms and recover quickly, will often be able to be more aggressively treated, increasing the efficacy of the treatment regimen as a whole. Some specific hypnotherapy techniques utilized in pain management include altering the neurophysical configuration of pain, control of anticipatory anxiety, and targeted imagery.
Hypnotherapy techniques may not be appropriate for all patient’s pain and individual symptoms but it’s certainly worth exploring as it can do very little harm in experimenting with integrative therapies. The goal with alternative therapies, as with traditional therapies, is always to increase the effectiveness of treatment as a whole. If hypnotherapy can assist in any way in helping patients recover or manage symptoms of chemotherapy or radiation, then it will have contributed to the treatment regimens overall efficacy and should certainly be utilized.
References
Erickson MH: Hypnosis in painful terminal illness, in Haley J (ed): Advanced Techniques of Hypnosis and Therapy: Selected Papers of Milton Erickson, MD. New York, Crune & Stratton, 1967.
Sunnen, Gerard M.D. , Hypnotic Approaches in the Cancer Patient Ozonics International, LLC
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