A new client asked me to help her manage pain she was suffering after knee surgery. Her physical therapist worried that she was not progressing sufficiently.
 
Following repeated examinations, her doctors had assured her nothing was wrong physically. The problem, they concluded, was that she needed to get out of her own way, without explaining what they meant.
 
She found me while searching the internet, and she was persuaded after seeing videos on my website.
 
A remarkably spry 70 years old with barrels of energy, she was fed up with her knee pain.
 
She was a type-A personality who loves to be busy and to be in control, two reasons her knee condition frustrated her.
 
A veteran of the entertainment industry, she readily agreed to hypnosis, and it worked. By now, her pain has greatly diminished.
 
No More Interruptions
 
Among derivative benefits of hypnosis, she now sleeps a good eight hours a night as opposed to four hours before when pain awakened and wracked her. Her bathroom habits also have changed dramatically – from once or twice a week to once or twice a day.
 
Her old energy has returned.
 
Before hypnosis, she was severely uptight.
 
She was holding large amounts of tension in various parts of her body.
 
Like fingerprints, everyone hypnotizes differently. As I gave her subconscious suggestions to relax her body, she obeyed flawlessly. Her tension was so deep that it looked as if she were receiving electric shocks while each part relaxed.
 
She was not receiving external stimulation other than the sound of my voice, which made her reactions so intriguing. I never had seen that before.
 
As she became relaxed, her issues were quickly resolved. Now she enjoys the benefits of self-hypnosis, and she is completely pain-free.
 
For those who seek vocational and avocational changes, hypnosis creates them.
 
Her body reactions reminded me of a client early in my career. He was having trouble letting go of his ex-girlfriend. Not that he was stalking her. He just was not functioning well, common for people who have had a very physical relationship.
 
When Needy and Non-Needy Clash
 
Such a person must be in a relationship with lots of touching and sex. If neither occurs, the person pushes for more attention, causing his or her partner to become fed up with the constant demands. The result: The offended partner ends the relationship .
 
After I hypnotized my troubled client, he fared well. Finally, I said to him, “When you feel my finger gently touch your forehead, let your girlfriend go.” But when I touched his forehead, I suddenly thought I had entered the movie  “The Exorcist.” Pressing down with his feet onto the chair footrest, at the same time he pressed down hard against the chair with his head.
 
His body arched at an angle I had thought impossible while unleashing a piercing primal scream. For two minutes!
 
At last he stopped screaming and he collapsed backward into recliner chair, dripping sweat.
 
This was 22 years ago, and I was surprised by his reaction. When he opened his eyes, he looked at me as if he were a different person. He paid me, stood, shook my hand and said he didn’t know what I had done, but he felt much better.
 
It was obvious in his step and movements that he was indeed feeling better.
 
He never came back for a second session. It was not necessary. He had cured himself. All it took was hypnotic relaxation and a loud scream.
 
Later I met a friend of this client who told me he did not know what I had done, but it had dramatically changed his friend. He was all the way back to his old funloving self.

Do not hesitate to contact me by telephone, 310.204.3321, or by email at nickpollak@hypnotherapy4you.net. See my website at www.hypnotherapy4you.net