Hypnotic Age Regression is one of the most powerful tools that you can master as a hypnotherapist. It is amazing to watch, conduct or experience. In a true age regression, the client re- experiences the event as if it were happening all over again. This is called a revivification. This is more than a mere remembering. Hypnosis can cause an improvement in the ability to recall. This improved ability to remember the past is called hypermnesia. This ability to experience improved recollection without a reliving of the event can be useful, but should not be confused with a true age regression. Hypermnesia should not be confused with revivification.
When the client is in hypermnesia she is recalling what happened in the past and will speak in past tense. The client in revivification will speak as if it is happening right now.
Sometimes, if the client wants to reduce the intensity of an experience when she is in a state of revivification, she may move into hypermnesia. Certainly it is less painful to remember a traumatic experience from the past than it would be to re- experience it! Another way that a client may spontaneously distance herself from a revivification is to experience it from a third person point of view. For best results, in most cases you will need to suggest to the client that she go back to the event and experience it all over again.
In order to do this with the highest degree of reliability and professionalism, you will need these basic and advanced techniques. Read on and you will learn about such things as how to prepare your client for a successful age regression, how to quickly re-induce and deepen to somnambulism, how to take your client back through her life and uncover the event that started the problem, then how to help the client overcome the problem, and even come away from the event feeling better off for having experienced it (if that is appropriate and true). I will give you techniques that will enable you to determine whether you have actually found the Initial Sensitizing Event (ISE), and to avoid being mislead by Subsequent Sensitizing Events (SSE) associated with the problem.
I will discuss certain pitfalls that a regression therapist must consider and avoid, such as leading the client and creating or reinforcing false memories.
You will learn how to use the Informed Child Technique, the Informed Adult Techniques and Desensitization Technique.
Then I’ll cover how to empower your client by changing her expectations for the future. And, how to wrap up your session after you have used one of the very powerful and often emotion- laden hypnotic tools.
Finally, you are going to learn about a time when the client is super suggestible during an Age Regression session. And, how the client herself can make suggestions that are extremely powerful in and out of the hypnotic state that will supercharge the experience for long lasting results.