ALCHEMICAL HYPNOTHERAPY
Hypnosis is a simple and natural process that utilizes the way in which the functions of the conscious and unconscious parts of our minds interact with each other and create our perception and thus, experience of reality. By going beyond the critical, analytical level of the mind we can facilitate the acceptance of suggestions, directions and instructions that are aligned to the goals of the session. Hypnosis also is a way to elicit deep information and insight from our unconscious that is not normally accessed in our day to day mind.
Alchemical Hypnotherapy builds on the foundation of traditional hypnotherapy by integrating techniques from many modern schools of Transpersonal Hypnotherapy and Psychology. It includes work and insight from Gestalt, Regression Therapy, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Psychosynthesis, Shamanism as well as an expanded version of the philosophy and inner alchemy that Jung re-discovered in his work. It is a process of using the ‘light’ of our conscious waking awareness to go into the ‘darkness’ of our unconscious. By shedding the light of awareness onto the root causes of the dysfunctional patterns that cause us suffering we are able to heal them by Understanding them. Understanding is what transforms the ‘lead’ of our hindrances into the ‘gold’ of healing and Illumination. This process largely revolves around empowering ourselves by being safely guided to contact the powerful and insightful forces of archetypal intelligences, inner guides and the higher functions of our psyche that reside deep within our unconscious minds.
Hypnosis is a simple and natural process that utilizes the way in which the functions of the conscious and unconscious parts of our minds interact with each other and create our perception and thus, experience of reality. By going beyond the critical, analytical level of the mind we can facilitate the acceptance of suggestions, directions and instructions that are aligned to the goals of the session. Hypnosis also is a way to elicit deep information and insight from our unconscious that is not normally accessed in our day to day mind.
Alchemical Hypnotherapy builds on the foundation of traditional hypnotherapy by integrating techniques from many modern schools of Transpersonal Hypnotherapy and Psychology. It includes work and insight from Gestalt, Regression Therapy, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Psychosynthesis, Shamanism as well as an expanded version of the philosophy and inner alchemy that Jung re-discovered in his work. It is a process of using the ‘light’ of our conscious waking awareness to go into the ‘darkness’ of our unconscious. By shedding the light of awareness onto the root causes of the dysfunctional patterns that cause us suffering we are able to heal them by Understanding them.
Understanding is what transforms the ‘lead’ of our hindrances into the ‘gold’ of healing and Illumination. This process largely revolves around empowering ourselves by being safely guided to contact the inner guides and Higher Functions of our psyche that reside deep within our unconscious minds.
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Physical illness and disease
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PTSD and Trauma
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Sexual Abuse
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Addiction
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Phobias
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Depression
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Anxiety
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Loss, Abandonment and Betrayal
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Weight Loss/Food Addiction
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Birth Trauma
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Abusive Relationship Patterns
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ADHD
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Feeling Stuck, Lost, Disempowered
Hypnotherapy Has Shown To Assist In Healing The Following Conditions:
How Does It Work?
Alchemical Hypnotherapy greatly differs from what most people would understand as traditional hypnotherapy. In traditional hypnotherapy, the goal is to have the client go into a very deep trance where the therapist basically takes over the function of their conscious mind and implants new associations and commands into the clients unconscious. I.e.- every time you now take a drag of a cigarette it will taste like dirty socks and you will vomit. This reprogramming can be powerful and does work because it utilizes deeper truths about the ways our reality operates.
What it does not do is empower the client by consciously going through an alchemical process of actually getting to the root of the reason they smoked in the first place and then resolving it. Alchemical Hypnotherapy is all about empowering ourselves by connecting to our inner resources with the tools that allow our psyches to achieve the balance and wholeness it naturally seeks. The alchemist simply holds the space and has the know-how to guide and initiate this organic process.
Briefly, this process unfolds by utilizing our conscious outward looking, masculine, planning, egoic function of our mind to go into a light trance that is similar to a waking dream. In this state the contents of the wild, feminine unconscious are given space and permission to bubble up and reveal what is ready to be seen and addressed and thus healed.
We are consciously aware and remember everything that is happening during the session. This is key to integrating the actual lessons and Understanding of our dysfunctions and is really where the healing and resolution occurs…through the alchemical process of consciously integrating these hidden parts of ourselves.
The following are the main processes that Alchemical Hypnosis utilizes at different times for different people working through different issues.
5 Main Processes in Alchemical Hypnotherapy
This form of therapy is for people that are ready to really go inwards and permanently heal any kind of blocks, hinderances and dysfunction in their lives. Every sort of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual issue or question can be addressed through this form of inner work. All the answers and information to all our questions and ailments are inside us and this is an ancient form of consciously going inwards to access this information to grow, learn and heal.
Who Is It For?
Working With Dreams And Visions
Any of the above may be utilized as needed during a sessions process to get to the root of healing a very wide range of physical illnesses and mental/emotional dysfunctions. Sacred Ground Medicine also offers a very powerful method of inner dreamwork. In the Western Hermetic worldview, it is understood that our dreams and visions from fasting or plants or trance are the most direct and unobscured communications from our Higher Functions to us...to guide us, to teach us and show us where we are it in our journey and what needs to be learned and done at this time in our lives. Our unconscious records everything, all of our waking and our dream lives in perfect detail, like a full sensory 3D movie that we are able to replay if we are able to access it.
Going into trance, we are able to replay and pause significant dreams and visions we receive to be able mine from them their deeper meaning. This is not like Jungian/symbolic dream interpretation using our conscious mind as the interpreter nor is it having someone interpret your dreams and visions for you. That really doesn't work because our waking intellect (or someone else's) can at best simply guess the meaning based on generalized archetypal pattern recognition. The problem with that is that each person more or less has their own internal, living symbol system because they have their own personal relationship to symbols and their meanings and this is why no one can actually interpret your dreams for you accurately. They can again, at best simply guess their meanings based off generalized associations through the intellectual mind.
So, by going into trance we are able to bypass the intellectual hijacking of meaning and access different parts of our being that communicate and know things beyond the way reason works. In this way, one is simply guided to unravel the deeper significance of what our Higher Self, our Soul is communicating with us and how it is guiding us, in a language that only we can really understand fully. Being able to question more into what is being transmitted and how to productively apply the meaning and lessons of the dream or vision into our lives without bullshitting ourselves is the key with this process.
Similar to the dream work, one of the unique ways Alchemical Hypnotherapy can be extremely beneficial is in integrating the sometimes life-changing and disorienting experiences with psychedelics and plant medicine. Through session work, we can go back into a process or vision that feels misunderstood or unresolved to consciously complete and integrate it’s significance into our daily lives in a way that leaves us clear and inspired. We can also call upon inner guidance to aid us in interpretation of the reason we experienced what we did, the lessons it provided us and the next steps in our journey.
Psychedelic Integration
This is most often used to explore long forgotten early childhood memories/events that created an intelligence within us that now governs some sort of behavior pattern from our unconscious. Things that may now show up as deep aversion or attachment, repressed anger, fear or resentment that arise when triggered in various ways in our daily lives that are connected to a original childhood memory/event. The Inner Child Rescue Mission allows you to re-engage this event in a safe way and bring our child-self back to the present to be nurtured and integrated with the adult self in the presence our Inner healer and/or Higher Self. This allows the energy and information in the root event/memory to be released and understood and will thus no longer be an unconscious reactionary force in our lives.
01 - Inner Child Rescue
During an Alchemical Hypnosis session, we are able to go into our inner world safely and be able to accurately identify and communicate with powerful inner resources that lay waiting to communicate in our unconscious. These are highly powerful and intelligent guides, or autonomous forms of energy and information that are deep parts of ourselves and/or the collective unconscious. We all have connection and access to an Inner Teacher, an Inner Healer, an Inner Artist, etc. all the way up to clear connection with our Higher Genius, the source of our reality and being itself. These are all different aspects of what we call ourselves, that our narrowed waking conscious mind is generally not aware of.
02 - Contacting Inner Guides & Higher Self
When we say “I” we are not talking about one single individual self but rather a symphony of selves that are autonomous parts within us that have various different needs, wants, desires and goals. This is why we are often at odds or war even at times with ourselves. The ‘I’ at 6 pm may have different plans than the ‘I’ that started the day does at 6 am. Conference room therapy is way to call up these different aspects of ourselves and negotiate agreements to create lines of communication and cooperation between the sides of ourselves that are working against each other. It is a powerful tool for creating inner harmony, understanding and alignment.
03 - Conference Room Therapy
Our thoughts, emotions and body are all actively intertwined in a continual ongoing dialogue that is the body-mind system. This means that repressed emotions, traumas and repetitive negative thought loops all have physical effects on the health of our body. By going into trance, we are able to bypass the conscious minds illusory sense of control and allow the knotted up emotional/thought energy patterns that create disease and misalignment in the body to be released, by giving the natural wisdom of the unconscious the space and freedom to move, express and heal itself.
04 - Somatic Healing
Through this illuminating process we are able to access distant experiences, memories and abilities from our soul’s journey through its many incarnations. Our deep unconscious mind records everything in perfect detail and sometimes there is a deep-rooted pattern whose origin goes back further than this life and we are able to go back explore, understand and resolve this through regression work. We are also able to explore contracts made before this incarnation and understand our connection to other cultures, to other souls, to our mission in this life and the skills we have cultivated in lifetime’s before this one in order to deepen our experience and connection to life in the present.
05 - Past Life Regression
Working With And Understanding Our Shadow
If you are incarnate you have a shadow. This is the part of our being the sustains the most fundamental root of the binary illusion of separation within us. It is the unconscious repository of all of our trauma, confusion and every part of us we don't want to and/or refuse to acknowledge. By willingly or unwillingly remaining ignorant of these hidden and ‘unwanted' parts of ourselves we maintain the illusion of separation within ourselves and with the ‘outer’ world. The 'outer world' is a direct reflection of the condition of our 'inner world', they are one and the same. This inner division that is the result of ignorance of these hidden parts of ourselves show up in our lives as conflict, anger, jealousy, rage, gossip, addiction, complacency, despondency, attachment, aversion, impatience, etc. and in blaming the ‘other’ in any way for any of these feelings. Whenever we are ‘triggered' and hurt because ‘he called me a blank’, ‘she did this to me’, etc, and blaming your situation on the world, on politics, on your spouse, on your boss, etc, etc, the list goes on and on. These are all various ways our shadow material is projected onto our experience of the world in order to bring it to the light of our awareness the dysfunctions in us that are ready to be healed and integrated through understanding them.
In this way, we don't need to go looking for things to heal we work with the issues that are arising in our experience as the things that we are ready to work with. True shadow work begins with taking radical responsibility for our situation and no longer having the luxury of ignorance as a convienient crutch to bypass our unacknowledged dysfunction and suffering. The same issues will continue to repeat over and over, literally over lifetimes if need be until they are healed. They are healed by directly facing them with full conscious awareness…. feeling them, feeding them and transforming their stored, repressed energy into the Light of Wisdom and Understanding that can be channeled in ways that help uplift yourself and those around you as opposed to going home and slamming doors and screaming at your family because your upset with your boss, as an example. This where the lead of our dysfunction and illness is transmuted into the gold of higher knowledge. There is no way around doing this work to be able to truly know ourselves and in truly knowing ourselves we are able to accept, forgive and truly love ourselves in a very deep way...every single part of ourselves. Only from this place of Understanding and self-love and acceptance can we truly fall in love with the world and hold compassion for every single part of it without attachment or aversion to any of it. This is why it is called The Great Work. It is not easy but doesn't have to be as hard as we imagine, it all depends on our ability to shift our attitude and perspective on the process.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find
all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
- Rumi
So, in short, much of this form of inner work will ultimately revolve around working with and healing various sub-personalities that are aspects of our shadow. This takes courage and responsibility, but is the only way to allow true healing and growth. When we begin the long term process of patiently, slowly and consciously beautifying our shadow, what was once the source of primal fear in us can become our greatest ally, teacher, source of strength, courage, inspiration and love that is a blessing we have nothing but gratitude for.