Yoga Journal #58: Hypnotherapy and Hippie Shit.

Pushed snooze on the alarm today (again) – but got up/out of bed at 7 and decided to do a yoga session – did 45 mins in total – 3 sun salutes A and 3 sun salutes B – then standing sequence that I made up myself followed by a seated sequence – also one that I made up. Sequencing is actually a lot easier if you follow the three chain rule! And I think will be even easier the more familiar you get with the poses and the more you know them inherently in your own body.

Did a mini chakra meditation at the end felt really awesome after – the actual asana couldn’t have been longer than 35 minutes though – need to extend my timing a bit more!

Went off to a hypnotherapy session with Jess – was super interesting! At first (with all these things) I was super dubious – but I’m definitely becoming way less skeptical the more I see these things actually working! The power of the mind is incredible and I want to harness that shit!

We first did an exercise where she asked me to put up both hands then told met o close my eyes and imagine a string attached to my left wrist with a balloon filled with helium pulling my arm up – then on the right hand -a hard cold heavy rock pushing my hand down. She went through this and then after a while asked me to open my eyes to notice my left hand had lifted higher than my right hand. It was so weird – almost as though I knew my hands were doing that – but I couldn’t really stop them or my brain was wondering if I should stop them.

Just to demonstrate the power of the unconscious mind and imagination. She said the unconscious mind doesn’t know the difference between reality and the imagination – so to the unconscious mind what you imagine IS happening. Which is why visualisation is such a powerful tool and that whatever you tell yourself is made more powerful by imagining yourself in that position. Am definitely keen to add more of this to my meditation.

I then lay on the couch with a blanket and she told me to close my eyes and let my body relax and then imagine a light of my own colour choice (chose white) above my head that was making my skull relaxed, that was making my eyes relaxed, then my cheeks, jaw all the way down my body. She told me to imagine I’m walking down a beautiful corridor towards a door with the sign priority (I chose to work on being more productive with my days and wasting less time on social media etc)- when I open the door there are steps going down 1 – 10 with each step going deeper and deeper. At one point, I remember feeling like my feet and my head was rocking and that my whole body was spinning like how you feel when you are so drunk and lying in bed and the room does a flip – even though I had my eyes closed and was completely sober. It was very weird and I remember feeling almost a bit sick – then it started feeling like the bottom of my stomach was pulling down and it was leaving a huge black cave between my feet and my head. I remember feeling like I was standing very small on the surface and that I was actually deep somewhere else – difficult to explain. I was completely aware of what was going on though.

She asked me some questions which she directed at my sub-conscious – she had previously assigned fingers (I chose them) one for yes, one for no and and one for not sure – raising the corresponding fingers to answer the questions – rather than verbalising the answers. Some of the questions I didn’t even know what she was asking me but I just felt like I knew the answer – or at least one finger just felt like it was the right finger to lift. It was very weird. I remember thinking that I was not very “into the sub-conscious” and then at the end she started using a different/more normal voice and then I was like – oh. WOW. I was TOTALLY in a different place – felt like I was in some other world/ or on drugs or something! It was super strange but am interested to see if my sub conscious has had a good spell put on it! HAHA!

Was waiting at the bus stop on the way home and absent mindedly took my phone out (to scroll through instagram or something while I wait). Usually if I catch myself unnecessarily on social media I consciously say, “No Ché – you don’t need to be on this” and then put it away. But this was something different. I could see my finger hovering over FB and then the next thing my phone was back in my pocket. It was like something else other than my mind had told me to put my phone away without me even realising it.

Then I thought, “WOW. It’s already working!”
To which I then laughed and said to myself, “No man Ché! This is just all in your mind!!”

to which I then thought….

hahahahaha… EXACTLY.

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