Dr. Ian Opperman
My Transformation
Understanding Hypnotherapy
We all have hypnotic moments throughout every day of our lives, including when we drive from point A to point B, and arrive at our destination and do not quite remember how we got there, as we were daydreaming and on automatic pilot while we were driving, which is similar to the hypnotic state.
Transport back in time
Imagine you driving your car on a road that you are familiar with, say from your home to your work, and on the radio plays a song that has special meaning to you from your adolescence. It may be the first song when you met your first girlfriend or boyfriend, and it was “your song,” the song that was meaningful in that relationship. Transports you back in time to your first kiss with that person, you smell the fragrance that they are wearing, you feel their skin against yours. It is like you are there! However, you are still driving your car, stopping at red lights, turning where you should, and following the rules of the road. So ninety percent of you has gone into a “hypnotic regression” or day dreaming back in time, while ten percent of you still drives your car and obeys the rules of the road.
Being in Control
Suddenly a little old lady with purple hair cuts in front of you in traffic, and the ten percent of you that you have left in charge of driving the car, realises that there is an imminent accident waiting to happen if you don’t tale immediate evasive action. The ten percent of you that is left in charge of driving recalls the ninety percent of you that was in hypnotic regression or day dreaming state immediately, and suddenly you are 100% fully present as the driver of the car, braking very hard to avoid the accident.
Repeat subconscious or hypnotic blueprint as a life pattern
Dr Opperman further believes that we all repeat a subconscious or hypnotic blueprint which are made up of the hypnotic experiences and wounding we received in our early childhood.
For instance a person who comes to Dr Opperman’s practice stating that he is being physically abusive towards his fiancé, and that he cannot stop this behaviour.
Subconscious conclusions and subconscious decisions
Dr Opperman’s patient who is five years old at the time of the incident, is crying softly, whimpering, he says to me: “my mommy is dead.” His little brother is hysterical; he tries to calm his little brother down, saying everything is going to be okay. He thinks: “I hate my father, my father killed my mother.” He makes a subconscious conclusion that: “power equates to physical abusiveness and if I want to be powerful I decide I must be physically abusive. I must become stronger than my father.” Consciously he does not want to be like his dad. Subconsciously his hypnotic blueprint says that: “for me to survive in this world I have to be exactly like my father”; this overrides all his conscious decisions and every time that there is a situation that triggers any aggression in him, he becomes hypnotised into his blueprint, that he formed at five years of age, and replays that pattern automatically and subconsciously.
New Conscious Blueprint
Dr Opperman’s patient who is five years old at the time of the incident, is crying softly, whimpering, he says to me: “my mommy is dead.” His little brother is hysterical; he tries to calm his little brother down, saying everything is going to be okay. He thinks: “I hate my father, my father killed my mother.” He makes a subconscious conclusion that: “power equates to physical abusiveness and if I want to be powerful I decide I must be physically abusive. I must become stronger than my father.” Consciously he does not want to be like his dad. Subconsciously his hypnotic blueprint says that: “for me to survive in this world I have to be exactly like my father”; this overrides all his conscious decisions and every time that there is a situation that triggers any aggression in him, he becomes hypnotised into his blueprint, that he formed at five years of age, and replays that pattern automatically and subconsciously.
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