With hypnotherapy we gain the ability to understand cessation in the continuous activity of the mind of depression. Using the simple mechanics of the body and behavior a Hypnotherapist can help a client change where and what their awareness and consciousness are focused on. A Hypnotherapist leads the client through the experience of choosing to experience another activity of the mind, on purpose under their own control.
Without the tools used in hypnotherapy it is very difficult to find any relief from depression. Depression exists in the processes of thought as a real life somatic (felt) experience. The pain felt in real time triggers a process of survival, amplifying the importance of the pain and the dependence on these thoughts. This is a triggered automatic process labeled incorrectly as survival due to a real experience of pain.
With hypnotherapy session experience and a growing understanding of these mechanisms combined with a simple meditation or self-hypnosis practice things soon change for the better.
You are already the best version of yourself. When we learn how to know that center of ready fullness, beyond the versions of you there is nothing else to gain. We will and are representing the whole self at that moment. The propensity toward thinking and seeing with a depressed lens or perspective happens as a response to reality. When we find that we can just see clearly first in open awareness, and then taking a breath, we have the experience in real time of making a new choice we never knew existed. To experience reality without the bullying, dominating voice of depression and bipolar disorder.
In the same way a medication can provide space in your awareness for you to see more than pain and the thoughts of depression, these tools and experiences can aid at the same moment of suffering. These tools and experiences can only help you, your doctors, therapists, psychiatrists and medications find the shortest road to a greater understanding of peace and balance in your daily life.
Jason Meissner, Pasadena Hypnosis