Have you seen the movie, ‘A Few Good Men?’ Do you remember when Jack Nicholson screamed at Tom Cruise, “You can’t handle the truth!” Cruise’s character was trying to find out who ordered a hit on one of Nicholson’s men, and he kept pushing him until he screamed, “You want the truth? You can’t handle the truth!” If you are suffering from any form of PTSD symptoms, that is what is going on inside of you right now.
Do you ever sit there thinking, ‘Why do I feel this way? What caused it?’ Do you find yourself wailing inside, ‘Just tell me how to stop it!’ Well, imagine you have your own Jack Nicholson inside you, listening to you, thinking, ‘He can’t handle the truth!’ Thinking ‘If I tell her what happened she will be even more upset than she is now. And she is wailing already!’
Because, generally, anyone who has PTSD or CPTSD feels the way they do because of something that happened a long time ago, PLUS many other things that may have added to the hurt and anger all the way up to now. What happened a long time ago, you probably don’t even remember, but it set a pattern, a theme, in motion, in your life, which dictates the way you think, act and react today. It may not be the worst thing that has ever happened to you, but it was awful for the younger you, at that age, and that part of you has never got over it. That is why you feel the way you do, and that is why your body thinks you won’t be able to handle the truth.
The solution is to do what Tom Cruise did to Jack Nicholson. Use hypnotherapy to go down to that age, in your mind, with the help of your subconscious, and ask the questions you need to ask to understand what happened. Your body has a photographic memory of everything that has ever happened to you, and it can take you directly to the source, to the moment in your life when all the anger, fear, or sadness started.
In hypnotherapy, you can ask, “What happened?” You can push your body to tell you everything, saying, “ I am older now. I can handle it. I can even help.” You know when you have a really vivid dream about the past, and it is as if you are right back there, surrounded by the people who were there at the time, and it all seems so real. Well, that is what hypnotherapy can feel like. You can see everything in clear detail, have conversations, ask questions and say whatever you always wanted to say. And you can assure that younger you that things have changed now. That you survived and made a better life. Because that younger you may have been trapped in that thought pattern for a very long time. But just the process of seeing it, tackling it, understanding it, begins to reduce its hold over you, and by the time you come out of your highly-relaxed state, everything can seem very different.
The very fact that you made the effort to find out the root cause of your troubles, is enough for your body to drop all the symptoms. It will understand then that you CAN handle the truth, and overcome it. Hypnotherapy cannot change the past, but it can cut the emotional attachment to what happened, so you can understand and move on.
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