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.
In your post, mentioned were Milton Erickson and Corydon Hammond. Milton Erickson is a legend in Hypnosis. Corydon Hammond is contemporary. I have an excellent book of his on hypnotic metaphors which gives incredible guidance for working with all kinds of situations. He probably includes exactly your topic. In just beginning learning, as I said. I could probably photo and send excerpts to you as I go along. Not sure if substack does messaging or if you post an email. I'll have to look.
Thanks for that offer. My problem I think is that I cannot put my finger on exactly what hypnosis is, so it is good to hear your persepctive. It would be useful to have limited brief excerpts / summaries to aid my understanding, if you were willing. Email is foxblog @gmx.com
It appears that it is a running joke amongst hypnotists that no one knows or agrees on what hypnotism is. I'll try to keep you in mind as I come across things that might be of interest.
I don't know about time travel. I can easily compare it to past life regression, or visiting yourself at different times, but, you can direct yourself imaginatively to an experience beyond your own, certainly. Whether that is divination or extrasensory powers, I really don't know. At the very least, we can all imagine anything we direct or invite ourselves to imagine. I imagine a flashback to be a kind of time travel.
Positive state reimaginings? I think you are asking about when you go back to something that happened to you and contribute a positive reframe, or revisit it while in a positive state, or even go back and give yourself a different experience. Hypnosis certainly is a domain that expidieron) explicitly works with this. Also, somatic experiencing does some. The SE example is that a child afraid of dogs after a scary experience will add into the memory something helpful, like someone saving them, or being with them, or having a weapon, and so on. You can do the exact same thing from a trance state, and when you imagine it this way, to a significant degree you get the benefit of experiencing it as though your new scenario really happened. That is possible. It is pretty amazing that you can just imagine the past and fix it.
For myself, I really like the reframe. I imagine God, or even a wiser and more mature version of myself, can help me change my part experiences from, say, being a victim to whom things happened, to having a divine or enlightened perspective by which the torture can be seen and experienced in a different way. You've probably seen that, say, in a family, siblings may have the same experience literally but understand and even remember it in drastically different ways. I am excited about the idea that, by some greater perspective, all of the pain can be re-expressed according to that larger frame or understanding. I like this because, for me, I still feel like I get to have the raw truth, but I aim to see it more wisely. When you understand something in a different way later, it can remove the pain and triggers.
I really think there is so so much that we can do to help ourselves. I don't think we need to live always subject to triggered overwhelm or always damaged by what has happened.
Preface everything from me that I am a learner. I don't have a lot of experience, just a lot of purposeful self directed interest. I'm working on it.
Hypnosis is a concept that is somewhat mystified. I think it is a state of focus, with purpose, but many normalize it by comparing it to what naturally happens when you suspend disbelief to watch a movie, or enter into a flow state while reading or exercising or some hobby, or having a conversation to which you give your full attention.
I think most imagine it ritually as a purposeful entry into a directed focus state, with access to the processes of the "unconscious." The unconscious is mystified as well, since no one can physically find it, and yet it is almost now a cultural assumption utilized in so many ways. Ritually you enter in relation to a hypnotist who walks you through the experience. Or, you can walk yourself through. It is the purpose that makes the ritual relation, I am imagining.
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.
In your post, mentioned were Milton Erickson and Corydon Hammond. Milton Erickson is a legend in Hypnosis. Corydon Hammond is contemporary. I have an excellent book of his on hypnotic metaphors which gives incredible guidance for working with all kinds of situations. He probably includes exactly your topic. In just beginning learning, as I said. I could probably photo and send excerpts to you as I go along. Not sure if substack does messaging or if you post an email. I'll have to look.
Thanks for that offer. My problem I think is that I cannot put my finger on exactly what hypnosis is, so it is good to hear your persepctive. It would be useful to have limited brief excerpts / summaries to aid my understanding, if you were willing. Email is foxblog @gmx.com
It appears that it is a running joke amongst hypnotists that no one knows or agrees on what hypnotism is. I'll try to keep you in mind as I come across things that might be of interest.
I don't know about time travel. I can easily compare it to past life regression, or visiting yourself at different times, but, you can direct yourself imaginatively to an experience beyond your own, certainly. Whether that is divination or extrasensory powers, I really don't know. At the very least, we can all imagine anything we direct or invite ourselves to imagine. I imagine a flashback to be a kind of time travel.
Positive state reimaginings? I think you are asking about when you go back to something that happened to you and contribute a positive reframe, or revisit it while in a positive state, or even go back and give yourself a different experience. Hypnosis certainly is a domain that expidieron) explicitly works with this. Also, somatic experiencing does some. The SE example is that a child afraid of dogs after a scary experience will add into the memory something helpful, like someone saving them, or being with them, or having a weapon, and so on. You can do the exact same thing from a trance state, and when you imagine it this way, to a significant degree you get the benefit of experiencing it as though your new scenario really happened. That is possible. It is pretty amazing that you can just imagine the past and fix it.
For myself, I really like the reframe. I imagine God, or even a wiser and more mature version of myself, can help me change my part experiences from, say, being a victim to whom things happened, to having a divine or enlightened perspective by which the torture can be seen and experienced in a different way. You've probably seen that, say, in a family, siblings may have the same experience literally but understand and even remember it in drastically different ways. I am excited about the idea that, by some greater perspective, all of the pain can be re-expressed according to that larger frame or understanding. I like this because, for me, I still feel like I get to have the raw truth, but I aim to see it more wisely. When you understand something in a different way later, it can remove the pain and triggers.
I really think there is so so much that we can do to help ourselves. I don't think we need to live always subject to triggered overwhelm or always damaged by what has happened.
Preface everything from me that I am a learner. I don't have a lot of experience, just a lot of purposeful self directed interest. I'm working on it.
Hypnosis is a concept that is somewhat mystified. I think it is a state of focus, with purpose, but many normalize it by comparing it to what naturally happens when you suspend disbelief to watch a movie, or enter into a flow state while reading or exercising or some hobby, or having a conversation to which you give your full attention.
I think most imagine it ritually as a purposeful entry into a directed focus state, with access to the processes of the "unconscious." The unconscious is mystified as well, since no one can physically find it, and yet it is almost now a cultural assumption utilized in so many ways. Ritually you enter in relation to a hypnotist who walks you through the experience. Or, you can walk yourself through. It is the purpose that makes the ritual relation, I am imagining.