Re: Hynotherapy and Ralaxation Techniques

January 10, 2012

Kaivey,

I could have been in your skin as you described that experience. I have never

felt meditation or relaxation like you. It seems to me mate that you already

have an understanding of what could work and all that is needed now is lots of

practice. Everyday if you can. I do the body scan relaxation almost every night

before I sleep, it's kind of like a body debrief for me and that helps me to

relax.

With heart,

Lou

>

> I'm desperate, so perhaps I am about to waste a load more money, but I

> bought this cheap kindle book on offfer about self hypnosis and it

> occuerd to me that although I have spent 30 years hoping my body would

> relax one day, perhaps hypnotherapy can bypass my conscious mind and get

> my muscles to relax. I know that when I can do ralaxtion execises,

> mindfulness and better quality ACT work will soon follow.

>

> So I emailed this local hypnotherapist and she says she can help people

> with lots of muscular tension like me. Hmmm! but the accupunturists I

> saw last year said she could help me with my PSSD even though I knew she

> had never heard of it. 8 sesioins later and £400 worst off I was no

> different, but my girlfirend really wanted me to do it as she was

> frustrated that I never seem to get any better. Now she is keen on me to

> try try hypnotherapy too.

>

> Anyway, I might try it. To finally relax would be divine. On you tube I

> found a couple of nice relaxation hypnotherapy vidoes. In one of them I

> imagine a purple geeen mist swirling into my body which is to help

> relax my muscles. As I am not trying to directly cause my muscles to

> relax I seem to fiind a neutral point where feel a bit smoother. Also, I

> imagine that my body is hollow and that my skin is made of glass, which

> is like Open Focus in a way. As the purple and green mist gently swirls

> around my body there are these occasional flashes of beautiful bright

> light when the mist hits the edges of the glass and this is really nice.

> I'm going to have another go now.

>

> Anyway, I liked these two relaxation videos:

>

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dk2157JYfA & feature=related

> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dk2157JYfA & feature=related>

>

> <

>

> I know I am going to be frowned upon, because this is not acceptance.

> But I have accepted things all my life and eveything is still just the

> same and recently I have felt that I cannot take any more of this. But

> if I have to, I will completely accept this, but maybe I'm stuck like

> this forever now. Crumbs!

>

> Kv

>

January 10, 2012

Thanks Lou. I seem to have quite a vivid imagination and I can visualise things

very easily. This is perhaps because as a child I invented my own world to

compensate for the painful one that I often lived in.

Anyway, I really do beleive that when I finally get to physically relax my world

will just change.

I can remember as a child how beautiful and lovely my peaceful body felt. And

how I was so happy and in love with life. The steets where I lived looked

beautiful but they were just terraced houses.

I remember doing a lots of EMDR on myself once in my 20's (using a just a coat

hanger waggled in front of my eyes)and all these incredible memories came

flooding back. I even remembered the the moziac footpaths and arches that led to

my friends houses which was just so old fashioned London (I was only four years

old). Some of these house still exist today and I love it when I see one again

(there are loads of them in Brockly, South London, where I dance sometimes). My

Nan would cook me lots of lovely cakes when I went there.

My low self esteem was always a problem but I adored this world. Wow! and I

loved being at the seaside with my mum and dad, and I loved the trains that went

clickerty click as they took me there. At home, in Kensington, I would hear them

going clickerty click over the rails way of in the distance right late right

into night. I would fall asleep in love. Superb!

One day I will get that magic back.

Kv

> >

> > I'm desperate, so perhaps I am about to waste a load more money, but I

> > bought this cheap kindle book on offfer about self hypnosis and it

> > occuerd to me that although I have spent 30 years hoping my body would

> > relax one day, perhaps hypnotherapy can bypass my conscious mind and get

> > my muscles to relax. I know that when I can do ralaxtion execises,

> > mindfulness and better quality ACT work will soon follow.

> >

> > So I emailed this local hypnotherapist and she says she can help people

> > with lots of muscular tension like me. Hmmm! but the accupunturists I

> > saw last year said she could help me with my PSSD even though I knew she

> > had never heard of it. 8 sesioins later and £400 worst off I was no

> > different, but my girlfirend really wanted me to do it as she was

> > frustrated that I never seem to get any better. Now she is keen on me to

> > try try hypnotherapy too.

> >

> > Anyway, I might try it. To finally relax would be divine. On you tube I

> > found a couple of nice relaxation hypnotherapy vidoes. In one of them I

> > imagine a purple geeen mist swirling into my body which is to help

> > relax my muscles. As I am not trying to directly cause my muscles to

> > relax I seem to fiind a neutral point where feel a bit smoother. Also, I

> > imagine that my body is hollow and that my skin is made of glass, which

> > is like Open Focus in a way. As the purple and green mist gently swirls

> > around my body there are these occasional flashes of beautiful bright

> > light when the mist hits the edges of the glass and this is really nice.

> > I'm going to have another go now.

> >

> > Anyway, I liked these two relaxation videos:

> >

> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dk2157JYfA & feature=related

> > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dk2157JYfA & feature=related>

> >

> > <

> >

> > I know I am going to be frowned upon, because this is not acceptance.

> > But I have accepted things all my life and eveything is still just the

> > same and recently I have felt that I cannot take any more of this. But

> > if I have to, I will completely accept this, but maybe I'm stuck like

> > this forever now. Crumbs!

> >

> > Kv

> >

>

January 11, 2012

I have just booked in for a hynotherapy session. I don't hold out much hope for

it as I have tried hynotherapy and relaxation CD's but it must be worth a try.

If the hynotheapist can bypass my very harsh and over critical forbrain and get

to my primitive brain and then gently tell my muscles that it is okay to relax

and let go, that would be amazing.

I don't view this as a cure, just a way to get ralaxation going and then I can

do ACT better and hopefully turn this whole thing around.

A psychiatrist once told me when I suggested I might try hypnotherapy just to

help me relax, not as a magic cure, but just to get me started, he said, yeah,

people like you just want to lay back and let someone else do it all for you.

Yet he was quite happy to pump me full of drugs. He made me feel like sh*t.

Anyway, I will let you know if this helps a little bit.