Most people are familiar with situations that agitate them: before taking a test, giving a presentation, or making important decisions, for example.
Nearly everybody has experienced some kind of physical reaction in such situations.
First one’s digestion goes awry, then your hands grow damp or your circulation fails. These are all examples of everyday psychosomatic reactions.
The poet Karl Valentin expressed this feeling in one of his poems: “My stomach hurts, my liver is swollen, my headache will not cease, and if I may speak for myself: Even I don’t feel well!”
Our speech-patterns often make common reference to such possible psychosomatic reactions. Something can “get on somebody’s nerves,” for example, or “sit funny in one’s stomach.” But someone can also “take something to heart,” or “have one’s hands full.” Other experiences can “take one’s breath away.”
If psychosomatic reactions continue, they can become chronic, harming the affected organs and/or the entire body in the process.
In this case traditional medicine is needed to set someone on their feet again. But when youreturn to your everyday routine, everything returns to the way it was. Often only the effects, or the symptoms, have been diagnosed. The actual, spiritual triggers – your way of acting and thinking in the world – have been left untreated. Inthis way, a relapse or a “symptom-shift” to another organ has already been pre-programmed.
Hypnosis and inception go deeper. While they cannot heal existing injuryto organs, they can cure the root of the symptom. Often it is a human’s capability for self-healingthat does the rest, making the discomfort disappear for good.
It must be emphasized here, however, that in the case of illness hypnosis can never replace a medical examination, but rather can only serve as part of a thorough treatment.
Modern psychosomatic medicine begins with the perception that symptoms are a type of communication.
As such, symptoms are often important signs or indications of developmental problems on the verge of entering into one’s consciousness.
Milton H. Erickson / Ernest L. Rossi (Hypnotherapy)
