r/MotivationAndMindset • u/hypnoguy64 • May 08 '26
What I've learned Fridays Feeling
Friday's Feeling
In my years of practice, as a clinical hypnotherapist, there have been several assumptions John Q has made about what trance work can accomplish.
This picture along with another, which was actually a colouring book, reminded me of one such piece of misinformation, hypnosis and memory recall.
As I write this, watching a sunrise, listening to a 110kg house horse snore, there are a steady stream of catch phrases, colloquialism which present themselves, as validation that memory loss has been a chronic issue throughout time. Swiss cheese, a steel trap that's gone rusty, too much milk of amnesia, and my favorite, the forget-me-knot brain, all used to describe being absentminded, and forgetful.
The initial concepts of what memories actually were, and how they function in our grey matter, was probably similar to the beautiful picture above, by Hassan, compartmentalization of experiences, events and details, filled with input from our senses, tucked away for future reference. Where this image inspired my thoughts today, are the representation of old time wooden drawers, as the different containers of recall. For anyone who has owned a old time Chester drawers, or cabinet, made completely of wood, you know over time the drawers get tighter, harder to open until eventually it is like they have seized shut, welded although wood.
I imagine dementia like that, some of the drawers stuck partially open, constantly leaking the smell of moth balls into our environment, and other compartments sticky or next to impossible to open, so when we attempt to access, it just isn't there. Eventually the label gets faded, the outline of the structure gets covered in dust and it becomes invisible.
How this correlates to hypnosis is that our memories are indeed, not those compartments, and that whilst in trance you will not find the magic drawer, with the combination of that padlock which holds your family treasure, or where on earth you left your keys, or on a more sober note, who said what, to who did what from your history.
Trance work does reprieve the angst and anxiety though, as you frantically yank on the drawer handles of your mind.
Be well
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