This is how a lot of my clients describe their feelings on a first session with me. I take a full history as well as a medical history and I take a "snap shot" of how they are feeling on that day. This diagram is the closest I have ever seen to illustrate this "snapshot". I ask a client to go back over the bridge of time to where their brain would like to start to tell me what is troubling them. Tears are common and are a really good indicator of this. A timelime of "stuff" is helpful - sometimes its a trauma timelines - oftentimes its a suprise for a client to see just what has happened in their lives and how it has shaped them, their beliefs. Their self esteem and self compassion are naturally enagged and in most cases "the penny drops". When do we ever take the time to listen to ourselves and really shine the light on our stuff that we carry around? After realisation, a very gentle hypnosis is undertaken with a walk in nature or similar which further allows a client more release and relief and the begnnings of reconnection and felt in the body. Clients are visibly lighter, their breathing and face colour changes as they experience the actual relief. Our brains don't know if a threat is real or imagined in our heads - a threat might be a negative thought, anxiety, worry, stress or traumatic memories. Our bodies react to these thoughts to protect us and so we have all the adrenabline and cortisol racing through us, making us feel on edge, or more anxious or on alert. Allowing your mind to take a walk in nature, take a break just for a short time reminds it that this is posssible and with practice can be a highly beneficial way of overcoming those uncomfortable feelings.
This visualisation along with resonant breathing (which I will teach you as your first tool in your toolkit for calm) and other practical ways of getting control back (or maybe for the first time) of feelings, emotions and thoughts. - reconnecting to self - tools that will be your tools for life.
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