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According
to Hypnosis Motivation Institute founder John Kappas, Ph.D., whenever a person represses or does not express an
emotion the displaced energy from that experience is converted into a physical
“symptom” of that emotional trauma. The phenomenon is called a body
syndrome. There are no nerve endings in the brain; however, sensory
perception (e.g., smell, taste, sight, hearing, touch) that begin there send
electric impulses that carry this information through the body. These impulses
ultimately begin to manifest physical discomfort in areas of the body that are
specifically associated with a certain repressed emotion. Once we are aware of
which emotion is being manifested, we can treat the syndrome, the Hypnosis
Motivation Institute founder stated.
The
Fight/Reaching Syndrome affects the arms and hands. Physiological
symptoms and diseases that are characterized by these syndromes include:
arthritis, blisters, nail-biting, rheumatism, skin rashes or warts. According to the premise of Body Syndromes,
the symptoms of someone who has a Fight Syndrome manifest the sufferer’s
subconscious need to defend her- or himself, such as from verbal or physical
abuse. Someone who is metaphorically “reaching” for something that is
unobtainable, such as a rejecting lover or a promotion the person was denied,
might experience one of those physical ailments as a manifestation of Reaching
Syndrome.
People generally
do not know what causes this presenting issue when they seek hypnotherapy. Since
it is out of my scope of expertise as a certified hypnotherapist to
recognize/identify specific symptoms that have a psychological or physiological
basis, I refer clients to an appropriate licensed professional to make this diagnosis.
However, once this other expert has ruled out a medical etiology of your
symptom and provided an appropriate treatment, I can continue to work with you
in hypnotherapy with a follow-up referral from that licensed professional. In
addition to providing complementary therapeutic benefits and help to alleviate
and/or control your discomfort, I can also use hypnosis and therapeutic
guided-imagery techniques to help you achieve vocational and avocational
self-improvement goals.
My first step to
treating someone who is manifesting a Fight or Reaching Syndrome is to explore
what the client is subconsciously fighting or reaching for. Once the possible
cause(s) or motivation(s) has been established, I would use systematic
desensitization to help the client neutralize the intensity of the stimulus
that triggers his or her physical symptom of this syndrome. I would also
incorporate guided therapeutic imagery and teach the emotional freedom technique to increase the
person’s perception of being able to control and prevail over the emotional triggers
of this syndrome. Therapeutic guided-imagery techniques would also be useful
tools with which the client can explore different options for resolving the
conflict so he or she could focus on and achieve vocational and avocational
self-improvement goals.
Sara R. Fogan, C.Ht. is a certified hypnotherapist based in
Southern California. She graduated with honors from the
Hypnosis Motivation Institute in 2005. For more information about Calminsense
Hypnotherapy® and to set up an appointment, please visit http://www.calminsensehypnotherapy.com/.
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