How Hypnosis, Western Medicine and Conventional Therapy Can Complement Each Other In Promoting Self-Healing by Sensorium Hypnosis Serving the Seattle Area

In this episode of the Healer Within Podcast by Sensorium Hypnosis, Amy discusses how hypnosis, Western medicine, and conventional therapy can complement each other in promoting self-healing. She explores the benefits of combining traditional therapies like talk therapy and medications with spiritual hypnosis and coaching, focusing on empowering individuals to unlock their inner wisdom and heal from the root causes of their challenges.

Key Takeaways:

• How hypnosis and therapy work together for deeper self-healing
• The importance of addressing subconscious conflicts in addiction and unhealthy behaviors
• The role of spiritual hypnosis in personal transformation and self-empowerment
• Exploring the balance between Western medicine, ADHD meds, and anti-depressants with holistic healing approaches
• Self-compassion and trust in one's healing journey through spiritual tools like self-hypnosis and breathwork
• The significance of sustainable self-healing practices for long-term well-being

Sensorium Hypnosis provides services virtually and in-person in Lake Stevens, Marysville, Everett, Snohomish, Bothell, Kirkland, Kenmore, Bellevue, Edmonds, Lynnwood and Seattle, WA. You can learn more at SensoriumHypnosis.com

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How Hypnosis, Western Medicine and Conventional Therapy Can Complement Each Other In Promoting Self-Healing by Sensorium Hypnosis Serving the Seattle Area. Also offering spiritual hypnosis services in Stanwood, Marysville, Lake Stevens, Everett, Lynnwood, Bothell, Bellevue and Woodinville, WA.

This is Amy with Sensorium Hypnosis. Thank you for joining me today on my Healer Within Podcast. It is pleasure to serve as a resource and support to you in your self-healing journey. 

What is the benefit of seeing a mental health therapist or psychologist and a hypnotist simultaneously.  Isn’t this overkill?  Shouldn’t I choose one or the other? These are questions that come up all the time in my work. 

Allow me to unpack this. 

For many people, talk therapy is a wonderful and necessary first step in their self-healing journey. It can offer a framework for understanding a diagnoses or dysfunctional pattern in ourselves or those around us. It gives us a place to go and be heard which is priceless for those who have years of bottled-up emotions or choices that are taking them down an unenlightened path. The formula in these settings tends to be more prescriptive in nature. You tell the therapist your problems and issues and they make suggestions based on their training and perceptions of what you need. And sometimes if the therapist has a deep soul and real-life experiences poignant to the client’s life, a more spontaneous and authentic wisdom can be offered. I’ve certainly had clients whose therapists fall under this category. It’s very reassuring to know I have a fellow lightworker working in a mainstream profession that is able and willing to function at this level. 

So here’s how the work and the tools I use can support mainstream therapy approaches. For some of my clients, they’ve reached a point in their own self-healing journey where their practitioner has done great work but may have taken them as far as they can with the tools they have. And the client has – in a sense – graduated out of this modality and would benefit from another, more spiritual approach. Perhaps they’ve worked through some important surface level issues and if needed found a prescriber and the right combination of psychotropic meds to keep some disruptive symptoms at bay. And now, they are ready to delve a little deeper into their self-healing journey to resolve subconscious conflicts – those are the things that hover beneath the surface of our awareness that may be creating unwanted patterns. 

But I want to be careful here, because not all hypnosis offers this kind of deeper approach, In fact, many mainstream hypnotists also use a more prescriptive formula and one-size-fits-all approach. And that’s ok, if you’re helping someone quit smoking and the client’s only expectation is “I have a singular problem (smoking) and you have a singular solution (smoking cessation).”  These hypnotists are working off a script or pre-canned formula. 

But what I’ve found in the decade I’ve worked in private practice is smokers tend to have a cluster of addictions or “too much” behavior that revolves around high-risk behavior – alcoholism, poor nutrition and lifestyle choices. Many of my smoking cessation clients are closet gamblers or have a pattern of over-spending or over-indulging. This same group tends to attract toxic and abusive relationships. Often, they struggle with an incredibly negative inner dialogue and unhealthy relationship with themselves. I have also found smokers to have a weak mind-body connection and low levels of self-awareness. My theory is because most smokers have been smoking for decades and using cigarettes to self-soothe and self-medicate, they are highly skilled at ignoring and avoiding extreme emotional and even physical discomfort. They will smoke rather than listen to their body signals telling them they are hungry, thirsty, tired or frustrated. And they will smoke on work breaks rather than confront their boss about some unacceptable work conditions or face a difficult conversation with a colleague. 

How can I not address these other important layers in the work I do? 

This is why I practice spiritual hypnosis and coaching – which draws upon the wisdom of the higher mind. My work helps clients not only identify root causes or reasons for avoidant behavior, but piece together solutions to resolve unproductive patterns they’re ready to release. And through this work, clients can uncover a formula for life that resonates best with their soul and higher self. 

Smoking or any too much behavior is just a symptom of a deeper issue. It’s not the problem itself. And so – in my work – it’s not about helping a client quit a behavior – it’s about stopping the cycle of emotional self-neglect and self-harm that’s causing the unhealthy pattern. So you can see why a “one size fits all” approach may temporarily help a client stop smoking, but it won’t address the underlying cause. For some clients to stop smoking and stop engaging in a whole cluster of self-destructive patterns may entail leaving a toxic work environment or learning to be more authentic in their work roles. For others, it may be learning to listen and respond more productively to the emotional signals in our body. You can’t find a script that addresses every unique case scenario. As a spiritual hypnotist, I use my intuitive wisdom to help clients identify their own unique patterns and learn to manage life conundrums in a way that feels authentic and resonates best with their soul.   

My work is based on the belief that the answers lie within. That there is a force within you that is infinitely wise, unlimited in potential and able to heal wounds caused by our self-limiting beliefs and self-avoidant behaviors. You are the most powerful healer and manifesting master of all. My work is less about what I can do to you or for you and more about what I can empower you to do for yourself. And THAT is why – given the right timing and mindset – this work can be transformative. There is nothing more self-empowering than realizing you, your mindset, your beliefs, and your choices are the heal-all-end-all to every struggle you’ve ever encountered from the beginning to the end of time.  

And now I want to delve into a Western medicine issue that comes up a lot in space. And I want you to keep in mind that most of my clients work in the medical, mental health and helping/healing fields. Many times, clients come to me with this: “Amy, my doctor, psychologist, psychiatrist thinks I could benefit from ADHD meds or anti-depressants” and I want to be able to handle my life more holistically without drugs. What should I do? I know as a hypnotist – it’s not in my wheelhouse to offer any guidance or advice to clients on these matters. However, I do feel it’s appropriate to explore with clients WHY they feel the way they do. Sometimes, the resistance to meds has to do with shame and disappointment in themselves for needing medication – especially if they themselves work in a helping/healing profession. And to this, I say: “If a client or child came to you with this very scenario, what guidance would you give them?” My client then responds, “Well, I would tell them to take the meds if it’s going to help them.” And bingo –there’s the answer which again comes from within. And then I press on a little further and ask what if they told you what you told me, “… but I should be able to work through things with other tools rather than medication.” And the client says, I would tell them, “It’s okay to need more help or tools; it’s not a reflection of your weakness.” Again – bingo – they’ve in essence answered their own question. 

From a spiritual hypnosis perspective, it may be useful to explore with clients if lack of self-compassion or lack of confidence in trusting their own judgment represents a recurrent pattern. Maybe a client is navigating the death of a loved one, a toxic work environment or a contentious divorce and can’t sleep or focus or is paralyzed with anxiety or fear? Maybe they blame themselves for something or have a pattern of catastrophizing? These issues take time to unpack. However, in the meantime, perhaps medication can at least temporarily restore them to baseline function so they can sleep, focus, and think more clearly while exploring additional tools and resources.  I’m not suggesting medication is the only solution or even a forever solution, but it could be a much needed and compassionate tool for moving through a storm. Once a client is in a better place emotionally and logistically, they can always revisit their medication regimen with their prescriber to explore titrating down. But again, the timing of all this comes from within each client – as each client is the expert in his/her own healing journey. 

My job is helping clients ignite their inner wisdom, inner healer and inner parent. 

I have so much more to share on the benefits of utilizing both Western medicine or conventional therapy and alternative approaches to self-healing like spiritual hypnosis and coaching. However, for today, I will end with this – there is a huge teaching component to what I do – centered around self-hypnosis, breathwork, mystical meditation and other self-healing tools simply because the value of what I do is contingent upon a sustainable protocol that continues reap benefits for clients long after they phase out of sessions. 

I hope you have found this podcast helpful. If there is someone in your inner circle who could benefit from this message, please share this. Thank you again for joining me today on Healer Within. If you would like more information on spiritual hypnosis or my self-healing modality, please visit me at SensoriumHypnosis.com

Sensorium Hypnosis provides services virtually or in-person in Lake Stevens, Marysville, Everett, Snohomish, Woodinville, Monroe, Bothell, Lynnwood, Edmonds, Kirkland, Redmond, Kenmore, Bellevue and Seattle, WA.