I am continuing to suspend in-person hypnotherapy sessions with me in my office. However, phone, and Zoom consultations ARE and WILL REMAIN AVAILABLE!
(This blog was originally posted on October 16, 2015)
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 medical or mental-health professional to make this diagnosis (California
Business and Professions Code 2908). 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. Sara has been
voted the Best Hypnotherapist in Santa Clarita, California, four years in a row
(2019-2022). For more information about Calminsense Hypnotherapy® and to set up
an appointment, please visit http://www.calminsensehypnotherapy.com/
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