Stop Obsessive Thoughts, Let Go of Bad Memories, and Release Old Trauma for a Life Filled With Positivity and Calmness
There are endless benefits to using hypnosis in order to change your life for the better. Over the past few months, we’ve talked specifically about how hypnosis can help you put an end to certain negative behaviors and free you to live a much more positive, relaxed, and calm life.
In particular, we’ve spoken about how to stop obsessive thoughts, how to let go of bad memories for closure, and how to release old trauma so you can feel grateful again.
The roots of these triggering thoughts or behaviors are nestled deep inside the subconscious, often stuck there for years.
Hypnosis can help you weed out those self-sabotaging behaviors so they don’t overtake your life. Think of hypnosis as a form of gardening. Weeding out the negative weeds and planting new seeds so you can be your best self.
Let’s revisit some of the ways hypnosis can help you let go of old patterns and plant new and positive ones that support your growth.
How to stop obsessive thoughts with hypnosis:
If you’ve ever had trouble letting go of someone or something, then hypnosis can help you.
It can be easy to get caught up in a cycle of obsessive thoughts when you still have strong feelings or a strong attachment to something. Even when you’re trying not to think about it, your mind automatically wanders back to that same topic, continuing to fixate on it.
For instance, perhaps you’ve recently had a relationship end. It may have been a rocky road that led to the dissolution, so you naturally keep constantly thinking about what you should’ve done. You replay scenarios over and over again in your head. It distracts you from your work during the day and keeps you awake at night.
This unconscious mental loop is unhealthy and will wear you out emotionally and physically.
Hypnosis can help shift your perception about the end of your relationship. By asking very specific questions to get to the heart of what keeps your mind reeling, an experienced hypnotist can quickly zero in on the subconscious reasons why it’s so difficult to put it behind you.
The truth is that the reason you may be so affected by it may have absolutely nothing to do with the other person. Your obsessive thoughts may actually be related to something or some type of “programming” that occurred elsewhere in your life that’s been buried deep in your subconscious.
When you finally make the emotional connection to your past, the hypnotist can then help you have a new and healthier association with the ending of this relationship. By “rewiring” your subconscious, they can help you see it in a new light, helping you to end the negative feedback loop.
You’ll have new and neutral feelings and associations about this relationship. You can put it behind you and get back to the happy and positive person you’ve always been.
READ: How to Stop Obsessive Thoughts and Find Inner Peace
How to Ditch Your Bad Memories and Get Emotional Closure:
Bad memories are like cobwebs, a sign of unfinished emotional business. Until we get some form of closure, they can stick around in our psyche for years, even decades.
They can have a lasting impression and impact on us long after an event. This can happen because at the time, we may not have been emotionally mature enough to process them with the adequate tools.
For instance, maybe when you were five years old, your older brother thought it would be funny to scare the living daylights out of you with a rubber snake. At that young age, you’re unable to distinguish a toy snake from a real one. Hence, you develop a very real fear of snakes that stays with you for life.
Yet, if the same thing happened to you at age fifteen, you’d probably be annoyed but still able to laugh it off while planning your retaliation.
Without the ability to articulate or advocate for ourselves during traumatic moments, we become stuck with emotional clutter that lingers in our subconscious.
Hypnosis can help you look at these bad memories from a new perspective and help you move past them.
An experienced hypnotist can help you access these negative memories by putting you in a relaxed state where your subconscious mind can retrieve them and is more open to suggestion. While in this state, you can view traumatic incidents through a new lens that diminishes paralyzing fears and provides emotional resolution.
This mental shift can free you from those deeply rooted negative emotions and patterns that have plagued you. From then on, you may even feel a tiny bit of affection for snakes . . . or maybe not!
READ: How to Ditch Bad Memories and Get Closure
How to Clear Old Emotional Trauma and Feel Grateful Again:
When you’re struggling with difficult times in your life, it can be hard to feel gratitude for your blessings. Even though you may have a healthy family, a beautiful home, or financial success, seeing the abundance when times are dark can be challenging.
Past traumas, ongoing family conflicts, relationships that went south, or personal failures can create heavy emotional baggage that makes gratitude feel impossible. Whether these events are recent or buried in your subconscious, these issues can seem as powerful today as when they first occurred. This happens because the subconscious has no concept of time, events from the past feel like the present which are projected into the future. Therefore, they create barriers that keep you stuck and prevent you from experiencing the lightness and joy that should accompany life’s gifts.
Hypnosis can help unlock these resolved emotional traumas from deep in the subconscious chambers where they reside.
A trained therapist can help individuals safely explore and release these stored experiences without the usual conscious mental resistance. They can help you become deeply relaxed and focused to quickly get to the heart of your issues.
This process allows people to reframe past traumas, clear emotional blockages, and let go of outdated beliefs that no longer serve them. Space opens for authentic gratitude that feels light and natural, rather than forced or with feelings of guilt attached.
You can once again feel grateful for all of the wonderful gifts and opportunities that life has brought you.
READ: How to Feel Grateful When Life is Hard
Let go of negative emotions holding you back:
Getting rid of obsessive thoughts, old trauma, and bad memories may seem impossible, like an inescapable foregone conclusion.
But hypnosis can assist you in letting go of the negativity and hurt that keep you from living life to the fullest. The benefits of hypnosis are countless and can help you address issues and fears that you’ve always believed would be living just under the surface for the rest of your life.
The team at The Flow Center can help you with in-person hypnosis in Dallas (and coming soon to McKinney, Texas), or remote sessions from the other side of the globe. We’d love to help you embrace the happy and emotionally healthy person you were always meant to be.