What I discovered while receiving my first Hypnotherapy session

As fate would have it, my first Hypnotherapy session took place in my homeland of Israel during a visit seven years ago. I had recently experienced two life-altering Ayahuasca journeys (a topic for another Blog post), and was eager to find out more about my soul’s many journeys. At the time I was trying to navigate a long-term relationship-turned-friendship that felt karmic and at times overwhelming. I was having dinner at a café on the beach with a childhood friend when she started telling me about her session with a local Hypnotherapist that she sought out in order to let go of a karmic relationship of her own.

​A few days later I drove to a little village on the coastal plain of Israel and entered a spacious, minimally decorated house that smelled like woodsy incense. The Hypnotherapist was calm and confident, reassuring me that I am about to have an incredible experience, and although I will be somewhat different after it, I am safe and in control of my journey. ​ I was able to enter a hypnotic trance quite easily, though at first I was doubting whether my consciousness was actually journeying or if my mind was just making it all up.

 As someone with a powerful imagination, it was hard at first to believe all the strange sights I was seeing in my mind’s eye. Quickly I understood what the Hypnotherapist explained prior to the session, that if I were making it up I wouldn’t have strong emotions and sensations as a result of the scenes. There was definitely no denying it, I was feeling with my entire body intense joy, then anxiety, followed by grief, and subsequent relief and release, as the scenes unfolded.

I visited a lifetime which took place in the eighteen hundreds in North America, a little-house-on-the-prairie style lifetime. In that life, I was a young lady whose decision to not marry my then suitor resulted in his travelling to another land where he was violently killed. That suitor was of course the person I was currently trying to let go of, unsurprising since I told the Hypnotherapist in our intake conversation that I wanted him to lead me to a life with that person. 

​I was shocked at how responsible, guilty, and ashamed I had felt back then upon learning of his death. The Hypnotherapist then took me to the end of that lifetime, where I witnessed the “death scene” of my former body. The body of a lady in her 30s, which I knew to be “me” was lying still as a husband and two teenage children were saying their goodbyes. I was aghast at how a body I once inhabited was laying lifeless on a bed while my soul, my true self that is but consciousness, was witnessing this scene. I felt no sorrow at the sight of the dead body as I realized that the vessel expired and was dropped, but that my essence, which is pure energy, is eternal. I had already gained this knowledge in my Ayauasca journeys, but the vivid visit to my previous materialization on this earth caused me to further assimilate this knowledge.

Once the death scene was over the Hypnotherapist deployed a technique where he brought me back to the moment of my decision to not marry the suitor, and instructed me to make a different choice this time around. Since in the vibrational plain, unlike in the material plain, thoughts manifest as objects/events immediately, I was able to do as he instructed and recreate a different path. Back in that critical scene, I said yes to the suitor. He didn’t leave our land, he wasn’t killed, and we both lived an un-eventful life together in our hometown. Once at the new “death-scene” I saw myself slightly older than in the previous death scene, my suitor-turned-husband had already died from an accident on the field, and I had three children bidding me farewell this time. “Wow!” I exclaimed out-loud to the Hypnotherapist, “It doesn’t matter! Nothing really matters!” and with this conclusion he brought me back to present time and place.

​On my drive back home, with my conscious mind alert once again, I processed my experience. Well, nothing matters because there is no death. We are immortal souls who come back again and again with members of our soul-group, and we get a chance to have all kinds of experiences together. Living a few more or a few less years, marrying this person instead of that person, in the big picture makes no difference! I realized the only meaning of these lifetimes was the energetic impressions they were making on my current vibration, until I chose to clear those impressions. I was able to immediately release the heavy feelings regarding my current relationship-turned-friendship and that friendship has been healthy, light, and satisfying ever since. So much more was revealed to me as a result of that session, and it had launched into motion a series of events that led to my certification as a Hypnotherapist, but that too is for another Blog post.

Blessings and good vibes from me to you,

Sharon