Hi Elk
I would never tell you to get lost, I love your posts, and you are such a warm and kind person
So, they hypnotherapy. I haven't started it yet, but I did go to a preliminary meeting to find out what its about, and to see if it is something that could potentially help me
The message I took away, it that we have neural pathways in our brains, which, depending on past experiences, become sort of like "auto pilot". In other words, our thought processes use these neural pathways because in primitive times, they were there to keep us safe. So, if sometime in the past we had been threatened by a bear, then we would have obviously gone into fight, flight or freeze mode with all of the necessary adrenaline to help us survive, and the pathway knows what worked in the past, so goes straight there again. They become lightening fast, our first reflexive reaction. Somewhere along the line though, it becomes the pathway for anything we perceive as a threat, even if it is not.
Hypnotherapy takes us from our high level of consciousness to a lower level where these pathways operate, and by suggestion (?) or something, the idea is that thes pathways can be rerouted, so that non- threatening triggers do not immediately take us to that same place.
Of course, if there really is a bear, then perhaps not!
That was my understanding, I hope I got it right
I'm willing to try anything at this point. I have tried straight forward counselling, but just felt like I paid handsomely to talk b*llocks for an hour, and I have a friend who listen for the price of a lunch (or less). Seriously though, I need more than talking now
Jeepers xx
