Recently  a hypnotist friend had a severe health challenge and asked for help from colleagues. Several people recommended various health modalities — acupuncture, chiropractic, Cranial Sacral Release.

I reminded him to try talking to the part of him that was creating the problem. Another hypnotherapist agreed and shared a story illustrating how extraordinary this process can be:

“Long ago I had a stabbing pain between my shoulders. It persisted for over two weeks, 24/7 and was very painful. It caused all kinds of other pains.
Just for fun, I did a parts therapy session on it. Asked it what it wanted. It told me that someone I knew (a business relationship) was stabbing me in the back. It told me what to do, I agreed and it was like RIGHT THEN the knife came out. The pain was gone in about 30 minutes. The pain never came back. And that clever little part was right.  Consciously, however, I had NO clue.”

In response, I shared this story.

A Story of Rapid Healing of Asthma with Hypnotherapy

A very worried single mother once brought her 3-year-old daughter in for hypnotherapy because the little girl was having severe asthma attacks in the middle of the night. She had been rushing her little girl to the emergency room in an ambulance, night after night, until the hospital decided to put their equipment in her home so she wouldn’t have to do that anymore – it was all they had to offer. Her daughter’s attacks continued.

When the woman brought her daughter in to see me, I immediately started playing with the little girl, saying silly things and just generally being goofy, which has always come naturally to me. After some silly talk and game-playing, I shifted to a focused deeper, though still friendly and playful voice, and I showed her a scar on my thumb.

I talked to her about how my “inside mind” had made this scar, not me. I didn’t knew how to make a scar, I said. Then I asked her if she’d ever noticed a cut heal. She said that she had, so I responded enthusiastically: “See, your inside mind knows how to do stuff, too!”

Then I explained that our inside mind takes directions from us. If we’re afraid to say how we feel and if we tell our inside mind to stop those feelings, it’ll do that for us. But, I went on to explain, it often does this by pushing the feeling into our body somewhere – for example, into the lungs, which causes us to wheeze and cough and have trouble breathing.

I got the little girl to agree to express her feelings to her mom on the outside – by drawing, singing, crying, dancing etc. And I got her mom to promise to be supportive and to participate with her whenever her little girl did this.

Mother and daughter left my office, and I never saw them again. I figured that maybe my efforts hadn’t worked. Then one day I got a call from a new client, and I asked how she had heard about me. She said she’d been referred by a co-worker. The name sounded familiar, so I asked why they had referred her to me. She said that the co-worker told her she had brought her 3-year-old to me for severe asthma attacks and that, after just one session, her little girl had never had another asthma attack. This was 5 years after our hypnotherapy session!

Although there are many alternative treatments for asthma, I don’t know of any that can permanently erase all symptoms of asthma after only one 1-1/2 hour session.

On my transpersonal hypnotherapy/nlp website you can learn more about this healing power we all have available to us, right within our own mind. You’ll find useful information about how hypnotherapy can help you in any area of life.

May all beings be happy and free! May our compassion for all beings, ourselves included, continue to increase.