Path to the Dark Side?
It is in Star Wars Episode 5 – The Empire Strikes Back that we hear Yoda speak these words. “You will only find what you bring in.”
On Dagobah Luke Skywalker learns the ways of the Force, and has to confront his demons, and Darth Vada, in a cave there.
Is it possible that Luke has “daddy issues”?. Do you?
“You will only find what you bring in.” – this is true in therapy too.
Many clients are worried about what might “come up” during therapy sessions. This is understandable because if something hurt you or caused you anxiety in the past and has not been resolved it can recreate those feelings in the present. I provide a safe space in which you can re-process, not re-live things those things that troubled you.
Other clients tell me “I’m worried what I might say under hypnosis”. I often spend a lot of time explaining that I’m “not that sort of therapist.”
He is the therapist you are looking for.
I am not an analytical hypnotherapist delving in the darkest recess of your distant emotional past. Most clients don’t have time for that, nor the money. Instead I am interested in who or where you want to be, and what stops you from being that person or reaching that goal. And yet inevitably “stuff” comes up in sessions that relates to your past.
This isn’t a bad thing. Being able to join the dots, and understand how you came to be where you are now can bring relief. It can also bring other insights and empower you for the future.
As Yoda once said “In a dark place we find ourselves, and a little more knowledge lights our way“.
Some therapies require you to stare your problems in the face long and hard. Other therapies might have you recount moments from the past, so that you relive the trauma. That is not the way I work.
In fact, many techniques I use such as “The Blueprint”, BWRT®, Kinetic Shift, IEMT or Emotional Freedom Technique require very little disclosure.
If you need to work on a traumatic experience from the past, you will only be asked to think about it for a few seconds. With most therapies that I use for trauma you don’t even need to go into details. Which means if there is something really secret that you can’t discuss we can still work with it. It can be more difficult, yes. But we can still make a difference.
Be under no illusion – I do not posses the Jedi power of mind control. I cannot read your mind, nor make you behave in any particular way.
Instead, in a conversational way, I help you find and resolve what you brought in with you.
This is the way.
Gavin Bowtell is a hypnotherapist. He works on line and face2face. His Force powers include hypnosis, Emotional Freedom Technique, and BWRT®. WSN – Warriors, Settlers, and Nomads – can help you control your inner Sith and release the resources of your inner Jedi.
