The wonderful Dr Naomi Fisher uses the analogy of the amygdala being like the cupboard under the stairs, which perfectly captures what’s going on there.
If you have a cupboard under the stairs, it might well be like mine and stacked with things you need to shove somewhere.
When you have experiences you are unable to fully process at the time, for example a traumatic experience as a child, it gets stored in the part of your brain called the amygdala.
It’s used to assess any future likely threat.
The problem is it stays there without a time tag and evokes the same emotion - and reaction - as when you first experienced it.
So, say, you felt really scared by a dog when you were six, when you see a dog in your 30s you are still feeling and reacting like the six year old.
To change this, you need to fully process the event in order to move it to the hippocampus where it can be viewed logically.
In root cause therapy, we can use hypnosis to access that past event and move through it and out the other side so that it can be safely transferred to the hippocampus in a way that it will no longer have the same impact on you.
Easy.
Effortless.
Effective.
What are you storing in your cupboard under the stairs that shouldn’t be there any more?
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