Are You Feeling Out of Control?

Get Perspective with Hypnotherapy and Past Life Regression

Are you feeling out of control and terrified because of… you name it!

Please, just for a moment, try this:  Take a deep breath and finish this sentence: “I’ll relax once ___.”

Once the election goes my way. Once gas prices drop. Once the economy stabilizes. Once my kid gets through this semester. Once my inbox is empty, my body cooperates, my ex stops texting. Get it?

I hear a version of that sentence from nearly every new client who walks into my office, or logs onto Zoom from somewhere between Los Angeles and literally anywhere else in the world. And I have to break some news to them, gently, the way I’ll break it to you now: that day isn’t coming. The world is not going to hold still long enough for you to feel calm on purpose. You have to build the calm somewhere the chaos can’t reach it. As my clients hear on their recordings: “The point of power stays in the immediate present.”

That’s not a metaphor. It’s physics and neuroscience. And it’s the whole reason I do the work I do.

YOUR THINKING BRAIN IS NOT IN CHARGE

Here’s the part nobody tells you in your standard weekly talk therapy hour: you cannot think your way out of a feeling that didn’t start in your thinking brain.

Anxiety, overwhelm, that low hum of dread that seems to live behind your sternum, all of it originates in the older, faster, more primitive part of your brain. It doesn’t read the news. It doesn’t care that you’re a functioning adult with a mortgage and a green juice habit. It just scans for danger, all day, every day, and right now it has a lot of material to work with.

Talking about your feelings can help you understand them. It rarely changes them, not on its own. I had a client years ago who understood this better than most, because he’d spent his whole life trying to talk, medicate, and white-knuckle his way out of a fear he couldn’t explain.

THE YOUNG MAN WHO WAS AFRAID OF EVERYTHING, FOR NO REASON

Peter was twenty-two, sandy-haired, funny, and permanently braced for impact. He’d been on anxiety medication for most of his life. He wanted off the drugs, and he wanted to be a screenwriter, which meant he needed to be brave, and instead he felt vigilant and terrified almost every hour of every day. There was no trauma in his history that explained it. Loving parents, safe childhood, good schools. His nervous system was just quietly convinced the world was about to attack him, and no amount of insight had ever talked it down.

We started with the fundamentals: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help him catch the obsessive brain-loop and interrupt it, plus techniques to calm the part of him that was still, on some level, a frightened little kid. He did the work. He got some relief. But the fear itself didn’t move, because we hadn’t yet found where it actually lived.

Then we did a regression.

Under hypnosis, Peter dropped into a memory that wasn’t from this lifetime. He was five years old, in Africa, hunting with his father, holding a small stick like the men in his tribe carried spears. And then, in an instant, a lioness had him. He screamed in pain.

He felt his leg, the panic, all of it, until I got him to float above his body and watch instead of relive it. He saw the lioness drag him away. He saw his father freeze in terror and, out of shame, walk away from the tribe forever.

That was it. That was the fear, sitting in his cells for who knows how many lifetimes, with nowhere to go until we finally found it and let it finish.

Once Peter saw where the terror actually came from, it loosened its grip fast, faster than years of medication ever had. He didn’t need to understand every detail of that lifetime to feel it release. His nervous system just finally got the memo: that danger is over. You survived it. You can put the stick down now.

THE BRIAN WEISS, MD PIECE

I trained directly under Dr. Brian Weiss, MD, the Yale-educated psychiatrist who first wrote about past-life regression in “Many Lives, Many Masters” and basically kicked open a door mainstream medicine had nailed shut. I don’t lead with past-life work for everyone. But for a client like Peter, someone with a fear that makes no logical sense given his actual life story, it’s often the fastest route back to feeling like himself.

You’d be amazed how many people are carrying anxiety that isn’t even, strictly speaking, about their current life. Once we find where it actually started, it tends to loosen its grip fast. Not because I waved a wand. Because the nervous system finally got the information it was missing.

YOU DON’T HAVE TO BELIEVE ANY OF THIS TO FEEL BETTER

I get emails every week from people who say some version of, “I’m not really a woo-woo person, but I’m desperate.” Good. Desperate is a fine place to start. You don’t need to believe in past lives to benefit from a nervous system that finally exhales. You just need to show up.

Twenty-five years of doing this work, a UC Berkeley education, training at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute in Jungian dream analysis, and certification under Dr. Brian Weiss have taught me one thing above all else: people don’t need more information about why they’re anxious. They need their body to believe, at last, that it’s safe to put the stick down.

Whatever is out of control in your life right now- and let’s be honest, something almost always is- you don’t have to wait for it to resolve before you get to feel okay. That’s the whole point of this work. Hypnotherapy calms the nervous system. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy gives you a rope to hold onto once it’s calm. And every so often, a past-life regression shows you exactly where to put it down for good.

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Sending you all hope,

Stephanie