Overview

Transpersonal psychology is the aspect of the human psyche that goes beyond our normal conceptions of reality. It may be called spiritual consciousness or the study of access to the transpersonal, out of the ordinary realm of the unconscious mind. It encompasses information beyond the five senses, which transcends physical and ego boundaries.

History

Transpersonal therapy is a further development of hypnotherapeutic techniques which takes into account Mind Body and Spirit. It involves many standard hypnotherapeutic techniques but other techniques are added.

Benefits

Awareness is the centrepiece of transpersonal therapy. Cultivating awareness allows people to have more access to unconscious material. The therapist facilitates the process of awareness so the client is able to develop insight. Therefore the therapist is a tool for clients to use, rather than the supplier of answers.

Past relationships (including one off encounters of a traumatic nature) can leave behind spiritual and emotional residues that block innate and natural healing processes.

Procedure

For adult clients, the work is about untangling our minds from all the useless and often damaging cognitions that we absorb over the years of our lives. Negative self images, feelings of shame and guilt, and deeply held beliefs that keep us limited and removed from the direct experience of life. Often the simplest truths are the most elusive. The need to control - to know the future, or to figure out the past, keeps us permanently pre-occupied as life passes us by.

It is believed that any issues uncovered during a session should be dealt with and processed within that session wherever possible, not postponed to be dealt with at some later date. For this reason transpersonal hypnotherapy does tend to require longer sessions.

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