Marilyn Gordon, Cht
There
is more to healing than alleviation of symptoms, succeeding
in a career or finding and keeping a mate. Yes, healing
is about all of these; yet it is more. It’s about self-knowledge.
We’ve come to this earth for a great purpose: to overcome
all obstacles that are covering our experiences of higher
love and wisdom. Deep inner healing, or hypnotherapy, has
all the ingredients to help us accomplish this purpose.
During the relaxation process, we have the opportunity to
not only experience and transform these obstacles by going
deeply within, but through it, we can experience transcendent
states. Some practitioners have wondered why we should bring
up deep material from the inner mind. They feel that abreaction,
or the experience of deep feelings, can be difficult or
harmful. Some say they get faster results with other approaches
or that deep healing is difficult.
When we do deep inner healing, in addition to direct suggestion,
energy therapies, visualization, and other techniques, we
open up possibilities for inner experiences that we might
not otherwise have had. To get to these experiences, we
might say, “Let’s see what your deep inner mind would like
to pay attention to today.” Or we can say, “Let’s go to
the root of your issue today.” This way, we have the opportunity
to know about experiences from our lives that we may have
missed. Sometimes we go into past experiences; yet it is
also possible to stay in the here and now, experiencing
what’s going on in the body or in the higher mind.
One man had recurrent allergies, the symptoms of which had
been controlled intermittently by energy therapies, ways
of actual tapping on the meridian points to help the energy
to flow more freely. He wanted to look more deeply at his
situation, and it came to him through deeper healing, that
his allergies had to do with his relationships. He saw that
every time he had an allergy attack, it was directly connected
with some relationship he was in and was his own way of
telling himself that he had not yet found the person who
was ultimately right for him. On looking more deeply at
this, he found unresolved grief over a great disappointment
in love. When he put his awareness on this, paid full attention
to his loneliness and grief, something in him profoundly
relaxed. Just by seeing this in a high state of awareness
– seeing how these buried feelings impacted his physical
symptoms – allowed him to let go. He came into a state of
greater self-knowledge and peace. He was able then to feel
his greater connection with God, which he knew was the ultimate
relationship. We could have simply suggested that his symptoms
would vanish, or we could tap them away. Yet his knowledge
of how his consciousness was affecting his physical symptoms
was truly transformative for him.
Deep inner healing is not only an opportunity to explore
root causes, but a vehicle for exploring anything in the
subconscious that may be worthy of our attention. The greatest
of these experiences are those of transcendental awareness
or cosmic consciousness. One woman, after experiencing a
very painful divorce, began biting her nails. She knew she
was “eating herself up” inside and out, and when she went
into a state of deep inner healing, something profound happened
to her. She experienced a blue light. This is not something
she normally experienced; great beings have called the blue
light the color of consciousness that underlies all matter.
This woman didn’t know that. She’d never even meditated.
But when she went into that state of deep relaxation, she
was introduced to an expanded world. She did stop biting
her nails, and something inside of her relaxed in a deeper
way than ever before. She had made contact with the center
of herself.
Other people have deep healing experiences, in which a voice
of guidance speaks to them, giving them an entirely new
perspective on their problems. Others make contact with
the consciousness of the cells of their bodies to foster
a kind of communication that helps them overcome many physical
issues. Others have experiences in which their hearts open
so much that forgiveness and love of everything and everyone
in their lives is the only alternative. There is a revelation
in these deep states of an inner center in which there is
a release from all the vicissitudes of life and the difficulties
of the world. There is a sanctuary in which ultimate peace
can be experienced.
Being Aware of the Human Condition
Some people have given up on deep inner healing because
they think it’s hard, too much work or takes too long. Or
they don’t know how to do it. Even Freud, it is said, gave
up on hypnosis, pronouncing it ineffective, because he didn’t
get the hoped-for results. It has also been said that Freud
hadn’t really mastered the art of hypnosis. If he had, just
imagine how the course of psychoanalysis might have changed.
Other people have a true fear of working with deep emotion.
Some think that people will get stuck in these experiences
forever. Others just don’t like to be around feelings that
pour out. If you are one of these people, and you’d like
to change this, just know two things: one, that the way
out is often through, and that there is a light at the end
of each tunnel. And two, that as you allow your own emotions
to come forth in your own healing work with yourself, you
become more and more comfortable allowing others to experience
their deep feelings.
Allowing the experience of deeper feelings is like going
into a soup pot stirring it up, and letting all the “stuff”
on the bottom of the pot float up to the surface. Doing
this allows you to skim the surface of the soup, moving
away whatever isn’t needed to make the perfect meal. The
greatest thing here is that there is an important alchemy
involved. Anger can become light. Grief can morph into forgiveness
and love. Fear can relax itself into perfect faith. You
don’t have to have a prolonged and unrelenting experience
of these feelings, but you can allow them, and in doing
this, you can create a cleansing of the emotional organism.
Yes, of course, you can “tap” for fear, anger, grief and
more, and you can “smooth out” the electrical system. That
is very powerful. In addition to this, paying attention
to the deep experience of whatever is within you is an important
part of being aware of the human condition. And again, it
is often true that “the way out is through.” Sometimes the
journey through the dark forest is filled with important
experiences. Hansel and Gretel needed to get the witch and
put her in the oven before they could join hands and dance
in freedom.
When people learn new and quick modalities, they sometimes
let deep healing go by the wayside. They may have been using
long induction techniques or complex regressions that may
have proved laborious for their clients. Nevertheless, there
are ways of doing deep inner healing, or combining them
with the new and quick modalities, that creates a smooth,
simple, and also deep experience for clients. I most often
do energy therapy, tapping on the energy meridians while
talking about the issues, before I do deep inner healing.
This clears a path for the next step. When I do deep inner
healing, I will ask the client to pay attention to whatever
else needs to be known or understood about the issue. Perhaps,
then, something visual will come up, perhaps a feeling or
a thought. Perhaps the client will take a more cosmic view.
This may mean that he or she will see the life lesson that
her challenge presents. Perhaps her guide might come forth
with great wisdom. Perhaps her heart will open to great
healing love. Then, I also use energy therapies within the
session, as a release technique. If deep feelings come forth,
often we use tapping techniques to release them. This way,
the client has both the opportunity to experience her experience
and then to transform it. Many miracles have taken place
in this way.
The Path of Self-Knowledge
The path of self-knowledge is both deep and high. We’ve
come into this world to understand life with full awareness.
This ultimately means that when we understand the issues
that life has given us to resolve and heal, then we can
tear off the veils around them and see that there is something
else underneath them. Underneath the “play of light and
shadows” is pure consciousness, itself. Underneath the anger,
fear, grief, self-doubt, success, failure, rightness, and
wrongness, there is a radiant core. This is what we’ve come
here to uncover. Fortunately we have all the necessary tools.
Inner healing is not a quick fix. It is the work of a lifetime,
both a commitment and an ultimate joy.
