How Is This Different Than Hypnotherapy, Coaching or Therapy?
Whenever we receive action steps out of these unique MindWalks, they emerge from somewhere deep within us individually, for our own lives – it’s not a suggestion from anyone else, friend, relative, coach or therapist. By this virtue, we know with total confidence that it’s our next soul-aligned step and thus feel strongly compelled to take that action. This is so strong that people often begin the action before our session is even finished!
Hypnotherapy: A Contrast
Hypnotherapists often have an agenda. For example to clear out a belief that no longer serves you, they might guide you to visualise the hottest fire that exists and ask you to throw that belief in so that it burns and transforms. Logically, this seems to work: the fire element in Eastern philosophies is all about transformation and that is what we see in the material world. However, the fire element is not necessarily what YOU need to shift that belief for YOU. Only Your Unconscious Mind can truly know what it needs in order to transform YOUR limiting beliefs. That’s precisely why we only ever guide the initial moment of a visualisation – the rest emerges from within you.
Hypnotherapists also often have very strong belief in their processes, so they may push you to open a closed door even if you don’t feel ready. Likely, that door was closed for safety by your unconscious and if you feel within yourself that you are not ready to open it, you definitely should not open it in that moment – but maybe in a future session something will have shifted and it will be safe then. Even worse, they may ask you to make a transformative leap that you are not yet ready or safe to complete, without giving you adequate possibility to say no. At Dream Co Creators, we invite interactions with anything of interest to you – a closed door might pique your interest so we would go with it. Our process might look like this: an invitation to walk up to it, then stop. Notice how you feel emotionally. Check through all of your senses and find out what your body tells you about this door. Take a deep breath and smile. Now, having felt those emotions, noticed what your senses tell you about your surroundings, breathed, smiled and given thanks for this experience, is there anything you’d like to say to the door, or anything the door would like to say to you? (Pause.) Do you feel you want to open that door, or is there something else to do now? Some people of course simply walk up and open the door – in that case it is likely safe to do so and we proceed from there. But safety is paramount to Dream Co Creators’ guiding principles, so we will always check in and never ever push you. If we feel an urge to push you, we might let you know that this is difficult for us, there is something coming up within us as facilitator, and we are surrendering it so that you get what you need from the experience – we’re not doing it for us, we’re doing it for you.
Coaching: A Contrast
Coaches mostly tend to work in the conscious world, using tools honed by masters like Tim Feriss or James Clear. Our work includes the Shadow Side of Goal Setting – the connection between the goal you set and your deepest limiting beliefs about yourself, others and the world. We access those beliefs through a metaphorical image, stored deep in your unconscious, of your own creation. Dream Co Creators facilitators will never offer suggestions of what should come up for you, or say that you are wrong. Everything you see in this experience has been offered up by your own unconscious mind, and that is infinitely valuable to you personally – even if it’s not valuable for anyone else in the world.
Therapy: A Contrast
Therapy tends to be a conscious conversation relating to the event that happened in the real world. Traumatic events that form limiting beliefs are often scary to revisit, and can trigger stress responses from the amygdala in the brain. As soon as these stress responses are initiated, the ability of the brain to make reasonable decisions is severely diminished. As far as I know, there is no known way to access a traumatic experience in the conscious mind, without triggering a stress response – so the process of therapy troubles me. It can be useful to verbalise something so it can be spoken out of you, but space must be created then for something new to emergy. This step is often missing in therapy, where clients are invited to talk for the whole session. At Dream Co Creators, a metaphoric representation of the outcome of the traumatic event is all we experience. This represenation was created by your unconscious mind, and it will only show you what it is safe for you to experience in this moment. That safety is truly a felt sense, meaning your amygdala remains firmly switched off throughout our process. You are able to process and make decisions with ease, transforming your life for the better as we go.