Hypno-healing: how does it work?

The body is the most extraordinary mechanism. Breathing, heartbeat, digestion, hormone release, cellular renewal and thousands of other functions take place without the need to think about them. However, our unconscious mind is very much involved with many of these processes. In hypnosis it is easy to turn all sorts of bodily functions on and off.

There are three steps involved in hypno-healing:
1.Identifying whether the disease has an emotional cause (often this is a repressed emotion or experience). It is possible to communicate with the unconscious mind to investigate possible emotional links. The emotional cause is then treated

2. The use of special imagery. If the emotional cause has been treated, or if there is no emotional link, the next stage is to use positive imagery--the unconscious mind is primitive and works with pictures. Programming the mind with positive imagery causes it to bring about healing.

3. Strengthening the new programming with positive suggestions and affirmations. (note: affirmations are usually unsuccessful if emotional causes have not first been identified and treated)

Case Study--Cancer

Following an article I wrote about  Buddhist healing, I was contacted by a lady suffering from advanced cancer, who requested hypnotic pain relief. The cancer had reached the ladies brain, liver and breasts--she was told by her doctors she would die within 6 weeks (negative use of hypnosis!).

I conducted a personality test on the lady and it was apparent that deeply repressed emotions were at play-I suggested we look at possible causes.

The lady had been brought up in a strict catholic family, and we quickly found at that at the root of the cancer was toxic guilt about getting pregnant at 14 and aborting the baby.

We resolved the guilt and did a deal with the unconscious: to remove the cancer provided that the lady made certain changes to her life. After 6 hours of hard work in my consulting rooms, a very exhausted lady went home with hope.

Two weeks later she phoned from the hospital. All traces of the cancer were gone. The doctors cited spontaneous remission and of course dismissed the hypnotherapy work.

I kept in touch with this lady for several years during which she was still cancer free.

I have in the meantime worked with many people suffering from cancer and aids. In many cases wonderful healings have occurred.

Steven Lane spent many years studying under a Tibetan lama, as a Buddhist monk. During this time he learnt Tibetan healing meditations and rituals which he has taught to many people suffering from terminal illness.