The unconscious mind has the ability to repress memories, which would occur particularly if the memory has some negative emotion attached to it, negative emotion, which the individual would be unable to deal wit. However, when the unconscious knows you are ready to deal with that emotion, it can represent those memories for resolution.
Sometimes, we can remember events from the past and continue to recreate the negative emotions that went with them. Age regression can be particularly useful in this area, in fact an NLP technique called Change Personal History, can help a person to change the way they represent their memories to themselves.
Due to the power of the unconscious, which is also responsible for creating the imagination, care and a gentle indifference must be considered when performing age regression using hypnosis for traumatic memories that have been forgotten. This is because the imagination may create scenarios which justify the feelings. These scenarios may be real memories, or they may not be.
When using age regression to remember more generic things that have been forgotten, e.g. loosing your keys, age regression in hypnosis can be a particularly useful tool. All of your memories are stored in the unconscious, so even if you cannot consciously remember where you left you keys, there is a part of you that knows. (And it will usually remind you as soon as you stop thinking about the keys!) Hypnosis can be used to retrace the steps taken just before the loss of memory, and ideomotor signals can be used as a direct way of communicating with the unconscious. These are generally yes and no signals which are given in answer to questions by unconscious movements, such as a finger being raised to indicate yes, and a different finger being raised to indicate no.
Gemma Bailey is qualified hypnotherapist and NLP Master Practitioner, registered with the General Hypnotherapy Register (GHR), American Board of Hypnotherapy (ABH), British Board of NLP (BBNLP) and American Board of NLP (ABNLP) as well as being a member of the NHS Directory of Complimentary and Alternative Practitioners.
She is based in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire and has helped many clients and patients throughout South East England.
Her vast areas of expertise include helping with weight loss, quitting smoking, stress, bad habits, phobias, confidence building, performance anxiety, regression, Life Coaching and much more. She also offers an exclusive 6 hour, one off session in which a person can overcome all of their emotional problems or anxieties that are holding them back. This is called Turning Point, and details of these sessions can be found on her website.
Gemma is also a qualified trainer of NLP and runs a training company called People Building which provides NLP Practitioner and NLP Master Practitioner Training. Details of these trainings can be found at http://www.peoplebuilding.co.uk
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