How Do I Know If What I Experienced In Hypnosis Is Real?

Memory is interesting. We know how memory happens in the brain, but we don’t always know why people recall certain details and not others. I always give the example, if you ask 20 people about the same event, you’ll receive 20 different answers. Some people may recall similar details, others may recall very different details. This means they experienced the same event in their own ways and that’s okay!

Hypnosis is the same way. Two different clients can have similar histories with similar childhoods, but internalize very different details about their experience.

Sometimes, a regression can lead us into memories we didn’t remember consciously. These can be memories from this life, a past life, or a gestalt experience. Other times, we may experience sensations in our body that we have never experienced before. Hypnotherapy has the ability to challenge our reality and our capability as humans. Therefore, people ask me, “How do I know that my experience was real?”. This is a challenging question and I cannot answer it for clients.

However, I think being challenged can be a good thing, because it allows us to firstly, develop trust within ourself. Why is a great question, but too many why’s lead us into spirals. We may ask, why did my brain take me there, but is an outside analysis really going bring closure to the question? This means, if we know we may never receive an answer, we must accept our experience and know that it is in our highest good.

Secondly, challenges help us develop confidence towards our ability to help ourself and experience the world around us. Meaning we can develop the confidence to experience hypnosis in a way that is going to benefit us and help us achieve our desired goal. It is good to question our experiences within reason, but questioning too much can lead us into fear. Therefore it’s important to ask what purpose is this experience serving and become confident that our brain and body knows what they’re doing.

Challenges can also help us develop a new perspective on a situation, like adding more pieces to the puzzle. New perspectives can help develop new neuropathways to creating change, especially among relationships. We can trust that our brain has the ability to create an unlimited number of possibilities/solutions to help us reach our fullest potential.

Truthfully, I don’t believe we as humans give enough credit for how incredible our mind and our body is. Their purpose is to help us with our human experience in a way that will help us make sense of the world around us. So let’s say hypothetically the memory never happened, but your brain was able to create a scenario that brought a positive result, results that you were looking for. In this case does it matter if it was true or not?

I look forward to working together :)

-Jarisa

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