When you come in for a hypnotherapy session it helps to understand about sub-modalities which we have touched upon in past blogs and articles.
Sub-modalities feel like tricky things to get a hold on and are much easier to access when someone is asking you the questions rather than trying to do it by yourself.
One of the first questions I will ask is, “in your mind’s eye, what do you remember about the event?” And then we proceed to understand certain memories and sub-modalities related to the event or incident which involves visual, auditory, and kinaesthetic (what is sensed and felt).
Visual sub-modalities refer to the visual aspect of something and here are some, just to name a few;
· In black or what or colour
· A still picture or moving
· Clear or blurry
· 2D or 3D – or see through
· Associated or dissociated
· Bright or dim
· Near or far
Auditory sub-modalities are things like;
· Volume
· Pitch
· Timbre
· Vibrato
· Mono or stereo
· Loud or soft
· Near or far
Kinaesthetic sub-modalities refer to;
· Hot or cold
· Location of the feeling
· Smooth or rough or silky
· Light or heavy
· Strong or weak
· The size
· The shape
· A sensation
Because of how our mind remembers information, memories tend to change over time and when referring to them and as such when recalling one’s home when you were growing up with often evoke emotions.
What is fascinating is that you can change certain sub-modalities with different techniques during a session so that the memory when evoked does not have such a strong or negative connotation.
What is also interesting is that sometimes people have small black-outs during recollection or during everyday life and it is important to get to the root of this.
I say this as importantly I have noted that some people when recalling information or talking about their sub-modalities have black-outs or dots during a recollection and sometimes I have found that this could be a sign of something more significant occurring neurologically.
Understanding and getting to the route of seizures themselves require a specialist and for the purposes of this article we will refer to them briefly and identify that there are three major groups as focal, generalised, and unknown.
According to www.cedars-sinai.org/health-library , they have an overview of seizures which describes the following;
Overview
A partial (focal) seizure happens when unusual electrical activity affects a small area of the brain. When the seizure does not affect awareness, it is known as a simple partial seizure.
Simple partial seizures can be:
· Motor - affecting the muscles of the body
· Sensory - affecting the senses
· Autonomic - affecting automatically controlled functions
· Psychic - affecting feelings or thoughts
· Simple focal seizures are also known as auras.
Symptoms - Symptoms of simple partial seizures are:
· Muscle tightening
· Unusual head movements
· Blank stares
· Eyes moving from side to side
· Numbness
· Tingling
· Skin crawling (like ants crawling on the skin)
· Hallucinations- seeing, smelling, or hearing things that are not there
· Pain or discomfort
· Nausea
· Sweating
· Flushed face
· Dilated pupils
· Rapid heart rate/pulse
· Changes in vision
· Feeling déjà vu (feeling like current place & time have been experienced before)
· Changes in mood or emotion
· Unable to speak for a short while
Here a lot of the symptoms appear like those described as anxiety for example flushes, sweating and nausea and I wonder how often during a high-pressured situation, trauma, or incident if a person is literally having a micro-seizure or mini seizures and not realising it.
Some time ago I recall an ophthalmologist also stating that it is important to alleviate any pressure to the optic nerve as this could also be applying pressure to the eyes which makes it feel like you are having a seizures or impacting how you see.
When referring to sub-modalities we are not referring though to what we see, we are relating it to what we recall in memories or when we think about something and not the state of our eyes.
I speak about simple seizures here and now as I had what was called a neurological stroke to my left side about 13 years ago and received trans-cranial treatment for it through IFN in Canning Vale, WA and was having small micro-seizures for a few years.
At the time I searched high and low for answers and then came across a book called 'Neurosculpting
by Lisa Wimberger who took a whole-brain approach to healing trauma, re-writing limiting beliefs and finding wholeness who helped me significantly in my own journey of healing.
I have also often seen clients who when recalling sub-modalities have blanks in memories and during the day mention that they feel like they are blacking out. If this occurs, I refer to see their medical practitioner or a specialist.
The body is such a fascinating place to explore and when recalling memories and sub-modalities it is important and interesting to see that they can change quite significantly during the therapy process itself.
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