I have begun studying Ericksonian hypnosis and hypnosis. My introduction to revivification is in that context. If you look at the meaning of the word, it sounds like a state of reliving.
In my limited experience, revivification for a traumatized person should be only done with great care. How many of us have been triggered into a heightened emotional state from which we might then misinterpret a present experience with fear or anger or some overwhelming emotion?
Hypnotic methods that I am aware of can do various things to create a compartmentalization of the experience, and a relationship to it that allows safety. Like Brice described, seeing it on a screen is one way. You can additionally make the screen smaller, in black and white, in cartoon, etc., to give a sense of distance and emotional control. Another way is that you float above and watch it from afar.
Memory is a creative experience, to at least some degree. In courtrooms this can become a point to argue over, and the false memory allegation is one way that can look. Survivors who might want to testify may consider whether accessing those memories through hypnosis, or even therapeutic process, could be attacked from that angle.
Interestingly, there is much trauma work done with memory reconsolidation. For example, imagine the adult floating over a historical timeline and looking down at one's younger self. The adult self can establish a positive relationship with the younger one. Advice, love, support, and even a baseball bat could be given to the younger self, allowing one to heal oneself by creating an experience that allows this. Once the present, or even imagined future self, offers support and resources, it is possible to "remember" in a different and more positive way. There are so many interesting approaches. And, you can imagine, as people naturally reframe and integrate their difficult experiences, that there comes the question of how you know when a memory is true or imagined or whatever?
In your post Brice talks about true memory as having sensory signatures that mark it as real. I don't think I know enough right now to weigh in on that question, other than to mark it out.
I did hear a story about a man who had a problem in that he experienced things he imagined as if they were true and struggled in distinguishing real memories from imagined ones. A hypnotist took the approach with him to code memories by placing an imagined frame around things he found himself imagining. If there was no frame around a memory, then he would take it to be true.
I have had trauma myself, of less extreme sorts. I really like the idea of being able to time travel and give my hurting self so much help, and in a way, to change the past, even though I know what happened that was real and not.
Another great technique is to revivify on purpose a positive state, in which you were safe and strong, or whatever quality you're looking for, and then, when you feel all of that, you establish a relationship to the trauma by which you utilize your own positive qualities to be able to handle triggers and imagine aiding your self who was in a bad experience. So, take the good, and have it embrace and neutralize the bad.
Thanks for your comment Runemasque. I have not had time to check yet, but one of my concerns was to whether it was a hypnotic method. Is it definitely? Self hypnosis?
I| was also interested in the false memory 21 day method, it seemed a bit abitrary.
Yu have had personal success with the time travel and positive state reimaginings? Can you talk us through an example? Many thanks, thought provoking comment, and i havent yet been able to give it the attention it deserves.
I have begun studying Ericksonian hypnosis and hypnosis. My introduction to revivification is in that context. If you look at the meaning of the word, it sounds like a state of reliving.
In my limited experience, revivification for a traumatized person should be only done with great care. How many of us have been triggered into a heightened emotional state from which we might then misinterpret a present experience with fear or anger or some overwhelming emotion?
Hypnotic methods that I am aware of can do various things to create a compartmentalization of the experience, and a relationship to it that allows safety. Like Brice described, seeing it on a screen is one way. You can additionally make the screen smaller, in black and white, in cartoon, etc., to give a sense of distance and emotional control. Another way is that you float above and watch it from afar.
Memory is a creative experience, to at least some degree. In courtrooms this can become a point to argue over, and the false memory allegation is one way that can look. Survivors who might want to testify may consider whether accessing those memories through hypnosis, or even therapeutic process, could be attacked from that angle.
Interestingly, there is much trauma work done with memory reconsolidation. For example, imagine the adult floating over a historical timeline and looking down at one's younger self. The adult self can establish a positive relationship with the younger one. Advice, love, support, and even a baseball bat could be given to the younger self, allowing one to heal oneself by creating an experience that allows this. Once the present, or even imagined future self, offers support and resources, it is possible to "remember" in a different and more positive way. There are so many interesting approaches. And, you can imagine, as people naturally reframe and integrate their difficult experiences, that there comes the question of how you know when a memory is true or imagined or whatever?
In your post Brice talks about true memory as having sensory signatures that mark it as real. I don't think I know enough right now to weigh in on that question, other than to mark it out.
I did hear a story about a man who had a problem in that he experienced things he imagined as if they were true and struggled in distinguishing real memories from imagined ones. A hypnotist took the approach with him to code memories by placing an imagined frame around things he found himself imagining. If there was no frame around a memory, then he would take it to be true.
I have had trauma myself, of less extreme sorts. I really like the idea of being able to time travel and give my hurting self so much help, and in a way, to change the past, even though I know what happened that was real and not.
Another great technique is to revivify on purpose a positive state, in which you were safe and strong, or whatever quality you're looking for, and then, when you feel all of that, you establish a relationship to the trauma by which you utilize your own positive qualities to be able to handle triggers and imagine aiding your self who was in a bad experience. So, take the good, and have it embrace and neutralize the bad.
Thanks for your comment Runemasque. I have not had time to check yet, but one of my concerns was to whether it was a hypnotic method. Is it definitely? Self hypnosis?
I| was also interested in the false memory 21 day method, it seemed a bit abitrary.
Yu have had personal success with the time travel and positive state reimaginings? Can you talk us through an example? Many thanks, thought provoking comment, and i havent yet been able to give it the attention it deserves.