Whoosh the Undesired Behavior

Tina was confident and consistent with her car driving skills. While most of her colleagues travelled by bus, she had been driving to office daily from more than a year. One sudden stroke of migraine induced a life-long fear of driving?

  While she was driving and waiting for the traffic signal to go green, she suddenly felt acute pain in her head and black out as she couldn’t see anything ahead. Everybody around started honking and she got so afraid and affected by this incident and lost all her confidence in driving. This was the last time she drove the car. Even in case of emergency she would not drive as she felt so fearful thinking she would again get the attack at the traffic lights.

  I and Tina sat down for a discussion where she shared that she had left driving from some 3 months as now she was quite scared after the incident.

  I asked her to close her eyes and imagine/ visualize a red frame and picture that moment of attack adding every possible memory to it, and then visualize at the bottom-right of the red frame, a small green frame where she could see herself driving confidently and happily as she had always done, and then as I made the sound “Whoosh” she had to expand the green frame and break the red one with it and then feel the green and open her eyes to break the pattern. Then again close her eyes and repeat the steps.

  She did this 5 times and later when she tried closing her eyes and visualize the red picture, she was amazed to realize that she could only think and see green picture. The old, scary and undesired pattern got completely vanished from her thought pattern. Next day onwards she started driving with the same zest and confidence as she had always been.

NOTE: This technique of changing the unwanted behaviors or neurological patterns is a powerful approach used by NLP. NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming. It works on the principle that there is a connection between the neurological processes(“Neuro”), language (“Linguistic”) and behavioral patterns learned through experience (“Programming”) and these can be changed to achieve specific goals in life. Anyone can apply this simple technique of “whooshing” to let go of any unwanted behavior or thought pattern. 

CASE STUDY

Sahil was having severe back aches from a year and a half. He would stop in the middle of activities when this pain would come to foreground and this was affecting his productivity from quite some time. As we started discussing what he was desiring out of the session, he quickly answered I want to be free of this pain and ultimately Happy!!

We started with the session and I instructed him in order to induce the hypnotic state for the purpose of healing. As we forwarded, he began to feel tired in his body and started breathing fast and deeply. I asked him to share what was happening. Sahil said 

I am running in the small lanes, rather many people are running. I enquired him to find out how old he was and in which area he was running. Had he been to these lanes in this lifetime?

He said I have not been there before, it’s Islamabad. I am 20 years old.

I asked him about his current age. He said 20.

I understood the backache was definitely a trigger of some past memory.

I instructed him further to the count of 5, and asked him to find out more details about himself and the reason why he was running.

Sahil responded I am wearing a Maroon colored Pathani suit and I am being followed by people with big beards, they are running behind me. I am running to save my life. They are going to kill me.

I instructed him to go further and see what happened next, and find out why they were trying to kill him.

He said these people with swords and knifes in their hands are Muslims. They are killing me because I am a Hindu. I asked him to move even further and see what happens and find out which year it is.

He said its 46.  I questioned 46 of what?

He said 1946.  One of them has stabbed me in the back (just above the point where I feel the pain) with the sword and I have fallen down. I am in pain.

He died at the same spot.  I guided him on how to let go of the pain and the emotional trauma associated with the experience using one of the powerful letting go techniques(Hypnodrama).

 As he did that, he felt relieved and free of the pain. And finally affirmed “I AM HAPPY ”

NOTE: At times during the events, the emotional trauma gets locked within the sub-conscious even after the soul has made transition to a new life. And these memories tend to trigger physical or emotional issues sometimes as the experiences are stored in sub-conscious and remain alive and bound to the soul. So by revisiting such memories and settling the traumas associated with them, the issues can be healed.

DISCLAIMER: Names in the case studies have been changed to keep the privacy of clients intact.