The other day I went to the Dr. with my husband. We got on the conversation of why Viet Naum Vets couldn’t let go of the trauma of what they saw in the war. The Doctor noted she saw hard things every day and she just let it go and her advice to my husband was to just put Viet Naum in the past. I was dumbfounded that a woman with hundreds of thousands of education had such a narrow view of how to heal Viet Naum Vets but had to go home and process what she had said. I believe a person can only help another person heal as far as they have healed and her viewpoint was out of her own ignorance. (By the way she is a great Doctor in many respects and I do really like her.)

Letting go of a trauma takes grieving and you can most of the time process through it. Other times when it is coupled with physical threat or harm to your body, especially if that harm comes out of nowhere, the trauma becomes stuck in your subconscious mind and physical body. That is when we experience reliving the trauma, our body betrays us with specific triggers and says I recognize that threat, protect myself. When the good doctor sees all kinds of trauma, she can move beyond it and forget it because those traumas are not coupled with physical threat to her in any way.  The defining element to whether a person can just forget a negative experience or “will it away.” is the physical threat part.

In one small moment the negative experience can be released so you can move on to the place where you can “just forget” and live for today like the Dr. says. Not letting go of negative experiences is not always a result of faulty thinking; sometimes it is a result of embedded fear both subconsciously and physically. Release of these fears can come about through massage, sometimes through hypnosis on rarer occasions I have partnered up with a massage therapist to work with both.

In one year I lost my father, my daughter, got hit by a car which physically incapacitated me. By far the most traumatic event was being hit by a car because I had no way of controlling my body’s responses to specific triggers. Through all the experience I have personally learned a lot about my mind and body, its mechanics and how to heal from it. There is hope at the end of the tunnel; it just takes courage to walk through it. As a hypnotist we do not work with mental or medical disorders, this is clearly the work for psychologist. Hypnosis can be used to promote wellness in your life by helping to release apprehensions and fears, give hypnosis a try, it really can transform your life. The payoff is you can achieve a more positve outlook, regain lost energy, sometimes that can make a huge difference in life.