Healing in Croatia: Hypnosis
The posts on this blog are based on my personal experience and are not medical advice.
I want to talk about my experience with hypnotherapy without invading my own privacy or the privacy of the man I received the treatment from. I came to Croatia expecting to receive one type of treatment but I ended up practicing yoga (antigravity and vinyasa), Plasma-wave therapy, sound-wave therapy, and hypnotherapy. I strongly believe in the synergies of using several modalities at once. Of course, the downside is that you cannot determine which modality caused your improvement and which, if any, did nothing at all.
The man I received the hypnosis from has a background in Bio-Physics. He was a hard scientist and then began asking questions. First Daoism, then Kaballah, and then other schools of spirituality. Hypnotherapy enhanced my ability to look inside myself. It was surprisingly simple. It meant that he would coach me through some deep breathing that would put me in a deeply relaxed state. The hypnotic state was voluntary —like other altered states I’m aware of I knew what was going the whole time. This conscious, altered stated of mind which brings about several insights and revelations is actually what differentiates hypnotherapy from other talk-therapies. At one point I asked to go to the bathroom and he said on 3 you will go to the bathroom and when you return you will be in this same state. 1, 2, 3.
Talk therapy, it might be argued, has little intrinsic value. It’s a tool for the clinician to apply her wisdom to the patient. It’s only as good as the clinician. Luckily I was in the hands of a very wise man. Over three weeks and about eight 90 minute sessions we traveled across the globe, into my kidneys and other organs, we fought parasites with a broken sword I found, we spoke with angels and aliens, and I made a large decision about my personal life.
I ran into other people in Zagreb who had worked with the same man. Two told me that they broke down crying in their sessions, revisiting childhood traumas.
Like neurofeedback, talk therapy will do anyone a bit of good.