| We've all had the experience of racking our brains | | | | and driving somewhere unfamiliar. As soon as you |
| to try and remember where we left our keys, or | | | | begin to feel stressed you will go into foveal vision |
| the name of someone or that extra item that | | | | and miss all of the clues that are there to get |
| you needed to buy in the super market. We've all | | | | you to your destination. When you are relaxed |
| felt that frustration and annoyance at knowing we | | | | you can see more in the periphery and notice the |
| know it and yet not being able to find the | | | | clues that will send you in the right direction. |
| information. | | | | However when the information required is really |
| It is thought that the conscious mind (the domain | | | | lodged away from the conscious mind, hypnosis |
| of the short term memory) is but a fraction of | | | | can be a useful aid to retrieve it. Many people |
| what constitutes the human mind, and that the | | | | now have heard of using hypnosis for past life |
| rest if made up of subconscious mind and longer | | | | regression, but we can also use hypnosis to |
| term memories. For example, if I asked you to | | | | regress to previous times in our current life. This |
| memorise a number, such as a phone number, | | | | can be useful for those who want to go back in |
| the information would be buzzing around in your | | | | time and find lost information- this could be a set |
| conscious mind until you had learnt it. Once you | | | | of lost keys, or something related to a deeper |
| have learnt it, it is passed into your unconscious | | | | psychological problem. |
| mind so that you do not have to consciously | | | | As with any hypnosis work, the practitioner must |
| repeat it to yourself but can call upon it as and | | | | have in place the boundaries within which they |
| when you need to. Quite often, people experience | | | | feel comfortable working. For example, I will work |
| memory problems when they are seeking to | | | | with someone who wants to resolve an issue |
| access the information they have passed over to | | | | from a memory of the past but I will not conduct |
| their subconscious mind and have consciously | | | | a memory recall for someone who suspects, but |
| forgotten about. The information is there in the | | | | does not know (and wants to find out) if they |
| subconscious but finding it can be a little like | | | | have been abused in their past. This is because if |
| looking for a book in a great library with the lights | | | | someone does not know if they were abused, |
| off and only a torch to help you. | | | | there may be a good reason why the |
| Usually the information shows up again sometime | | | | unconscious mind is keeping this information from |
| later when you are least expecting it. This is a | | | | them- perhaps they are emotionally not strong |
| good thing to know, because it tells us that | | | | enough to deal with this information. If they did |
| getting stressed and continuing to try to find the | | | | then recall a memory of abuse, how would they |
| information when we cannot, doesn't help. You | | | | know that it was true and not imagined? This |
| are much more likely to get the information back | | | | could be very detrimental to a person's |
| if you relax and think about something else. It's a | | | | relationships if they incorrectly begin to believe |
| little like when you are late for an appointment | | | | that they were abused. |