Clinical hypnosis is often applied to stimulate behavioral and emotional change through the conscious and subconscious mind. It has been used as a healing technique against various phobias, stressors, and even symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

In today’s blog, we’ll be discussing how hypnosis can help individuals cope with PTSD.

Symptoms of PTSD

Since hypnosis helps you cope with the symptoms of PTSD, it’s only fair that we discuss them. PTSD is deeply rooted in a person’s subconscious mind. It could be mild or severe and, in some cases, lead the sufferer to the point of no return.

PTSD symptoms can be sectioned into four categories:

1. Unwanted Memories: Recurrent flashbacks, reliving the event, nightmares, and triggers that bring out a strong reaction.

• Avoidance: A strong aversion to visiting certain people, places, activities, or even thinking and talking about the traumatic event.

• Negative Changes in Disposition: Increasingly pessimistic about other people and oneself, emotionally numb and distant, forgetting important details of the traumatic event, and hopeless about the future.

• Emotional and Physical Changes: Generally jumpy, easily-scared, experiencing sleep problems, a low attention span, irritable, self-destructive, and feeling increasingly guilty and shameful.

Types of Hypnosis for PTSD

Hypnosis for PTSD can take many shapes. Memory regression is the most common tool hypnotists use to treat traumatic symptoms, followed by restructuring memories and establishing resource states.

· Memory Regression

During memory regression, a person can recall and even relive the event at the heart of their trauma. It can bring back their emotional state at the time of the event without taking away their spatial awareness. This would then help them work with the memory instead of running away from it.

· Restructuring Memories

In many memory regressions, restructuring is a natural course of action. The hypnotist can help a person with PTSD modify their fear responses and introduce a positive reframing to the original memory. It’s basically manipulating your suggestive state to change your traumatic event for the better.

· Establishing the Resource States

Establishing resource states is about replacing your old triggers with new ones to help you deal with PTSD symptoms. Initially, the person is given a “suggestion” of an empowered state, where they feel in control of the event.

Once this scenario is detailed enough to be realistic, they’re asked to anchor this empowered feeling to a physical stimulus. That way, they can bring back the resource state at will.

Practice the above subconscious mind healing techniques with certified hypnotist Rekha Shrivastava for PTSD recovery, smoking cessation, weight loss, setting boundaries, expressing feelings, and more.

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