Archive for July, 2007

I love to hear the words “I am done”. Whether it is smoking, biting nails, eating whole cakes, cowering before an “ex”, the words, “I am done” are pure, musical joy to my ears.

Come to think of it, I am in the business of guiding people to be done with things, and I have had some interesting cases.

I received a short email from someone looking for a hypnosis CD for claustrophobia. I wrote back that while hypnosis CDs can be helpful for many things, curing a phobia, on one’s own, with a CD, is not recommended.

We chatted and yes, she remembered how it all started. She was locked in a closet.

With that information, I felt safe telling her that we could probably take care of it in one session.

We tapped (EFT) for about fifteen minutes on different aspects of her phobia and it soon became apparent that her claustrophobia might be a little trickier than I had originally thought.

Later, in hypnosis, when she told me she was being buried alive, I knew it was way more than I anticipated, but truly, I love this stuff.

She had years she did not consciously remember, and while I certainly I did not question the wisdom of her subconscious mind in keeping the memories buried, I knew I would need some serious cooperation to resolve the phobia.

I ask her Subconscious if it was OK to get rid of the phobia and got an affirmative. That was easy! The ensuing battle was not so easy. Just weeks before coming in, she had felt stuck in a shower and in desperation had torn the whole door off. The person, who installed it, had no idea how she could have managed to do such a thing.

I reasoned, thanked, pleaded, praised and argued for a long time with her subconscious mind. When she opened her eyes, she said, “I am done with it. It’s over”

I checked on her a few days later and she had easily entered the bank vault at her new job, and just wasn’t fearful.

A Hypnotherapist will often comment that the subconscious mind is very much like a child, and in this case, the child was very determined, but the baby is done, and the woman has her freedom back.

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