MOVIE THEATER

​This technique is used for “third party observer” methods of treatment. As a detached observer, you dissociate from your feelings about a negative experience; thus thinking objectively about the memory & maintaining self-control of your nervous system. Like a computer, your mind will remain unaffected, non-feeling & logical while your observer self watches a movie on the big screen – a movie about your life – a scene from the past in which you experienced something emotionally charged with negative energy that left an unpleasant  residue in your memory banks (neural net).

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At the point of observing yourself on the big screen, you are directed to detach even further; imagining yourself now standing in the back of the theater, as well as sitting in the theater watching a scene from your past on the big screen. In other words, during this hypnotherapy session, you will be observing yourself watching a movie about your former self. From the back of the theater, you see yourself having a reaction to the scene on the big screen. You don’t look at the big screen from the “third party observer” viewpoint. You look at yourself sitting in the chair & you walk down the aisle to where the “second party observer” is sitting. You focus all of your attention on observing the reactions of this “second party” self & you communicate with this part of yourself, listening & validating the experience; offering comfort & encouraging words; empowering yourself to become the Director & Producer of this movie or scene. In a way, you become your own therapist in this hypnotherapy exercise. I am the guide, using your words & framing the experience for personal transformation.  The movie is re-wound to the particular scene & with the “third party observer” at your side, you watch the new, revised, edited version of the movie scene, experiencing the feelings of relief, comfort &/or a neutral feeling of detachment.