Human contact and connection is something that is both healthy and necessary for all of us. At the same time, how we engage with one another, intimate others in particular is what really establishes whether or not a certain engagement can be classed as healthy.

Two Basic Forms of Intimate Emotional Engagement

When it comes to intimate emotional engagement, the same can be loosely classified into two methods of engagement. One is interdependence, the other is codependence. Interdependence involves healthy mutual support, mutual respect, mutual appreciation, companionship, healthy trust and space. Codependence, under the guise of a lot of the above is more about control, enabling, possessing and engaging in a highly ambivalent relational pattern.

Experts agree that interdependency is what makes for healthy intimate engagement and not codependency.

Working with Codependency

If you’re someone who feels they have an inclination to become codependent and have spent some time working on it with little if nothing to show, you might be wondering what to do. Breaking out of a codependent relational pattern is often difficult.

Many of us are codependent for reasons beyond our conscious awareness. Our reasons may lie buried under memories and may link directly to our childhoods and early development. We might not even have been able to form words when certain relational patterns set in!

It is for this reason that it can sometimes be extremely difficult when working with codependency. Furthermore, the mind is powerful and if you subconsciously feel comfortable being a certain way, your mind will to everything it can to keep things such.

This is why conventional treatments like talk therapy can sometimes fall short when working with codependence.

What Does Work?

Hypnosis is known to be extremely effective when working with codependency. It can be used as standalone treatment as well as in tandem with regular talk therapy. Hypnosis works by helping us gain access to parts of the mind which when conscious are beyond our awareness.

When in such a state, we not only bypass the filters and blockages that prevent us from accessing our own consciousness, we also gain the ability to make suggestions that will help us later. It can help us connect with the root of what makes us codependent and change internal messages that support the same.

Hypnosis can even help us connect with our own talents, beauty, independence and abilities so we feel less inclined to engage with others in a damaging codependent manner.

In a sense, hypnosis will allow you the space to pull back and explore your current relational framework and make the amends or do the reframing you need for it to be a healthy one.

Getting Started

If you feel you might benefit from using hypnosis to address your codependent behaviors or if you want to use hypnosis to work on anything from phobias to low self-esteem, we can help. Our center located in Pittsford, NY offers effective hypnosis specialized to address a number of concerns. Feel free to pay us a visit or to connect with us for more details. We offer both face to face sessions as well as online Skype hypnotism sessions so pick what suits you.

Remember, realization is the first step – the next is personal empowerment!