Somatic Hypnotherapy

There are five basic premises to Integrated Somatic Hypnotherapy:

• The body has an innate awareness which, when allowed, can heal the body at all levels: Physical, Emotional and Spiritual.

• This innate awareness can even tell us what is wrong with the body system, what needs to be treated, and what it means.

• The key element in maintaining health in the body is the reestablishment of communication between all systems and parts of the body/mind complex. In this way, the body can heal, find integration and adapt to the stresses of life.

• The most important consideration in the healing process is allowing the body/mind complex to express its needs verbally and/or in movement.

• The more we respect the body’s innate awareness, the more it instructs us and the more powerful it becomes.

In Integrated Somatic Hypnotherapy we are consulting the innate body awareness for guidance on how to treat the client. Just think, if the body could talk, what would it say?

The body/mind complex reflects our thoughts, emotions and spiritual experiences. A stiff shoulder carries the weight of the world, a locked jaw holds unspoken words, an back pain reflects a lack of support. Could this body language be revealing the subconscious mind, and could it possible hold the key to the healing process itself? If so, how?

Through Integrated Somatic Hypnotherapy we give the patterns developed in our bodies a new context within the subconscious mind, from a necessary defence to an outdated inconvenience. Instead of imposing new postural patterns on the client’s possibly unwilling body, we first make it safe in the subconscious world for the client to listen to the innate body awareness and to let go, then and only then can we utilize techniques with our hands to release the holding patterns in the client’s body which contain tension, hurt, hopelessness and despair - causing pain, stiffness, stress, anxiety and dis-ease.

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