Beyond The Swinging Watch - Hypnosis and Psychology in Everyday Life

  All through our life we amass different experiences; some pleasant and others we would rather forget, and occasionally we can struggle to let something go.  An unpleasant incident from our past can creep back into our thoughts at the most unhelpful moments and sometimes stop us in our tracks.  Most of the time we can rationalise these instances and accept them for what they were, but what happens when making it rational doesn’t seem to help? Consider someone experiencing a serious car accident, a broken relationship or the loss of someone close to them. Our way of coping is to rationalise them and make sense of the experience, which is usually achieved through social support . We talk about it with our friends and families, and this process of sharing the problem helps to halve it! We think about it, talk about it and make sense of it. Most of the time this is all that is needed. Slowly we overcome the feelings associated with the experience and get back on with the bu...

  “I know what happened and yet I still can’t get past it!” This one comment describes the purpose of analytical therapy and why it's important to address the emotional impact of trauma. True recovery from trauma, and the symptoms it creates, is only really achieved when two distinct types of understanding are achieved: Intellectual Understanding  Emotional Understanding  Intellectual Understanding refers to the knowledge of what happened and/or the events that led up to and are contained within the trauma. They are the facts of situation. what actually happened. The events are often describe in a narrative form. The events may be recent or from many years previously, but they are recounted as a description of what happened. Emotional Understanding refers to knowledge of what emotions the traumatic events created at the time. It includes the interpretations we gave to circumstances at the time. The emotion response to the events may be very different than compared to...