Trance Formation

“Allow yourself to see what you don’t allow yourself to see.”

–Milton H. Erickson, revered American psychiatrist who specialized in medical hypnosis and family therapy

Richard Bandler, co-founder of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) has a great YouTube video with the Hypnotist, Paul McKenna. To say that it helped ‘Trance-Form’ my life is not an understatement.

Ever since recovering from Covid in 2020, I’ve had problems walking. The x-rays revealed a list of spinal and bone disorders that really weren’t responsible for the walking problems. My brain scan discounted the incident of a stroke so, again, that drew a blank. Parkinsons Disease was a possibility — because sometimes my left foot feels like it’s been nailed to the floor. No matter what I say inside my head, I just cannot move it — I’m still waiting for the diagnosis.

It’s a mission to regain my health — I’m determined not to be a burden on future generations.

A couple of years ago, I read a great article on Medium.com about developing the non-dominant side of your body. The article suggested brushing your teeth using your non-dominant hand, and fastening buttons with your other hand…

… but it wasn’t until I watched the YouTube video with NLP Co-founder, Richard Bandler and Hypnotist, Paul McKenna that I realized how this could Trance-Form my life.

Being right-handed, when I get out of bed, or up from a chair, I use my right leg to start walking, because it’s my dominant side. Lately, I’ve used Mindfulness to start a walking journey with my left leg, with surprising SUCCESS.

Every time there’s hesitation in walking, a lecture goes on inside my head, ‘left leg first’— and it seems to work.

It’s also possible that recently my brain has been convinced that it can walk with a bit of adaptation — honestly, I’ll try anything.

“Since most problems are created by our imagination and are thus imaginary, all we need are imaginary solutions.” Richard Bandler

One of the reasons I’m convinced this may have happened, is an old memory often discussed with my more open-minded friends. Years ago, my mother had difficulty walking due to the side effect of taking anti-depression drugs, she was diagnosed with Drug-Related Parkinsons. (YES, it can happen so please read more uplifting stories on Medium as part of your healing journey!)

Anyway, every week I took mother to the Supermarket for her weekly grocery shop. On one occasion she could hardly walk and was rooted to the spot.

“I can’t go shopping this evening, I can hardly move” she told me.

My solution was to tell her that I would get her groceries. It was springtime, the trees were just coming into leaf — the earth was awakening from its winter slumber in the northern hemisphere.

“You’ve been stuck indoors all week, why don’t we go for a drive through the countryside?” I suggested. With some effort, I managed to get her into the passenger seat, fastened the seat belt, and off we went. It was a lovely drive, the daffodils were blooming, there were spring lambs in the fields and the willow trees were a beautiful ‘fresh’ green.

At this point I need to tell you that the previous day my mother had a visit from a friend, who is the most negative narcissist I’ve ever known. It seems likely that the conversation affected my mother emotionally, because when I phoned mother the day after our shopping trip, she told me she could walk fine. My brother puts it down to good days and bad days.

Probably also true, but negative conversations have the same effect!

The 4.30am Wake Up Call

The second reason I believe my disability may be psychosomatic is because one morning I woke up at 4.30am and needed to use the bathroom. I got out of bed with no problem, ran up the stairs to the bathroom and then skipped back down the stairs. I said to myself, as I stood in the hall, ‘I can walk, I’m healed!’ then went back to bed. When I got up at my normal time of 6.30am, it was a struggle to get out of bed and walk.

My own explanation is that at 4.30am I was half asleep and had forgotten that I couldn’t walk, but at 6.30am I was fully awake and remembered.

The Benefit of Hypnosis

There are some very useful YouTube videos available to see if Hypnotism can Trance-Form any part of you that’s ‘stuck’ in a life pattern.

Hypnotists, may have “superpowers” like helping other people to overcome trauma or challenges, break unhealthy habits, or just to be a better version of their former selves — their work, in short, is nothing short of inspiring.

“The easier you can make it inside your head, the easier it will make things outside your head” — Richard Bandler

If you can build a set of new beliefs, or build on your existing ones, you may get some innovative solutions. Some the following quotes may help:

“As you begin this day, tell yourself, Today I am incarnated anew! I am released from the hypnosis of my old habits and mistakes! Everything that I have long dreamed of doing I will accomplish in this, my new life”.— Goswami Kriyananda

“People often ask me if I’m working on a book. That’s not how I feel. I feel like I work in a book. It’s like putting myself under a spell. And this spell, if you will, is so real to me that if I have to leave my work for a few days, I have to work myself back into the spell when I come back. It’s almost like hypnosis.”— David McCullough

“It is only by questioning what people take for granted, what people hold to be true, that we can break through the hypnosis of social conditioning.”— Deepak Chopra

“When I write, I wear earplugs. I don’t want to be self-conscious. I don’t want to be thinking about the fact that I’m thinking about it. I just want to be in it. It’s one element of hypnosis.”— Miranda July

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