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Hypnosis of Negative Core Beliefs on Health & Aging: Heal with Hypnotherapy

By David Quigley

All of us carry in our subconscious minds certain core beliefs about the nature of ourselves and the world. While many of these beliefs are positive, it's the negative beliefs we carry that drag us down relentlessly, limiting our potential. These core beliefs are often planted in childhood by our parent's programming.  Sometimes they emerge from adult experience.  They may even be implanted by past life trauma and conditioning.  While the roots of these beliefs are well beneath the surface of the subconscious mind, it's not hard to hear these beliefs being muttered deep down inside our inner mind if we are listening.  How often have you heard statements like these emerge uninvited from your depths?  "I'll never be good enough."  "All men or women are like that, so why try?" "I'll never be smart enough to succeed."  These are but a few of the core beliefs that limit our possibilities.

My personal Alchemist, Brigitta D'Amato, illustrates this concept with a fascinating story.  It seems that even fleas can have core beliefs.  In training to join a flea circus, young, newly hatched fleas are placed under a large glass bell jar.  At first the fleas jump and bang the jar's invisible walls.  But soon the fleas learn exactly how to jump just high enough to avoid the walls of the jar.  They learn to avoid the pain of hitting this glass ceiling.  Then the jar is removed.  The fleas will continue to jump, but only within the walls of the now absent bell jar. The fleas are trapped for life not by the bell jar, but by a core belief in the limitation of their freedom.  They are free to leap as high as they wish, but are prisoners of their programming.  We humans are similarly imprisoned by the negative core beliefs imposed upon us in the vulnerable years of childhood.  This could explain why impoverished people can win multimillion dollar lotteries, but a few years later are impoverished again, while many others born in desperate poverty wind up as multimillionaires.

Clearing these core beliefs from the subconscious mind is one of the most important elements of alchemical hypnotherapy that I do with clients.  In order to clear such core beliefs I often find it necessary to return in a hypnotic trance to the time when "you learned that this belief was true."  Then we release the pain of these experiences from the body through crying, screaming, trembling, hitting, etc.  This is how we dissolve the muscular tension which, according to Wilhelm Reich, helps fix these beliefs in the body. Then we create new memories of safety, love, and freedom and implant these new memories in the tissues of the body.  We then use hypnotic suggestion to implant new positive core beliefs that are consistent with these new memories and help the client achieve their therapeutic goals. The details of how to complete this process are outlined in my textbook Alchemical Hypnotherapy.

Our core beliefs about health and our bodies can be especially limiting and painful.  When I was first diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis I suffered from a core belief that kept my disease growing.  I believed it was an incurable disease.  My doctor told me I would almost certainly suffer from this disease all my life.  My parents confirmed this, telling me that my aunt, who was married to a doctor, had been crippled all her life with rheumatoid arthritis.  So what made me think I could lick this?  Fortunately, my dear friend and noted herbalist Rosemary Gladstar said to me one day in the most matter of fact tone:  "Arthritis? You can heal that!"  What audacity, I remember thinking.  Yet I knew she had herself recovered from a "permanently" crippled state only a few years before, and she was a wise woman, so I believed her.  Thank you Rosemary wherever you are!  Without her forthright opinion, I might be living even today like my poor aunt, in a wheelchair…or like a flea under that invisible bell jar.

So what negative core beliefs might be limiting your health options?   Here is an exercise to help you contact some negative core beliefs about your body.  Finish each sentence below after tuning in to your inner self

 

• My condition is incurable because  ____________________________________________

 

• When a person reaches my age its normal to experience these  health problems (ex. Arthritis pain, tiredness,etc): _______________________________________________________________

 

• I'll never be able to lose weight and keep it off because________________________________________

 

• Exercise just isn't fun because____________________________________________________________

 

• I can't change my eating habits because ____________________________________________________

 

• I can't be as healthy as other people because________________________________________________

 

• I'll never overcome my addiction to ______ because __________________________________________

 

Some of the core beliefs you have just described may be entirely true.  Others may seem completely valid but are simply the result of negative core beliefs.  First, share these sentences you have filled out with some trusted friends, and several professional health care providers.  Or email these sentences to our Fountain of Youth program staff.  Do these statements seem true to them?  If not, these may be negative core beliefs that are sabotaging your health and vitality!  If so, it's time to call a hypnotherapist and begin your journey to recovery.  You can only get as healthy as you believe you can be!  Our Empowerment Intensive is designed to free you of these negative core beliefs. For more information, call my hypnotherapy hot line at 707 539 4989.