Regression to Cause

Regression hypnotherapy—also known as “Regression to Cause,” “Age Regression,” “Hypnotic Regression,” “Timeline Therapy,” “Affect Bridge,” and “Transformational Replay”—is a powerful hypnosis technique designed to release mental/emotional or subconscious blocks and dispel or transform negative subconscious patterns which may be causing challenges in a person’s life. 

Some of these patterns can be relentless and eventually create so much havoc that life becomes unmanageable. Fear of success/failure, inability to maintain a healthy relationship, constant self-sabotage, failure to thrive, lack of prosperity, low self-esteem, migraine headaches, infertility, phobias, and other issues that never seem to let up or let go—no matter what we do—can feel overwhelming and endless.  

Subconscious Blocks 

Regression hypnotherapy is the means to accessing the subconscious mind, determining the cause of any blocks, and then releasing or reframing any troubling incident(s). Our purpose with regression is to find whatever it is that initially caused the subconscious mind to impose a protective mechanism that eventually resulted in the issue. 

However, in order to facilitate the desired change, we must find the initial sensitizing event (ISE), which is the first time you experienced the feeling(s) that eventually produced the presenting symptoms (SPEs).  

The symptom producing event (SPE) is what typically lands a person in our office. In the search for the ISE we will most likely encounter several subsequent sensitizing events (SSEs) which are the various experiences we have throughout our lives that reinforce the subconscious mind’s original reaction to the initial incident. 

The Uncovering Process

We don’t know how or why a subconscious block has been created until we have completed the uncovering process and arrived at the ISE. The initial sensitizing event may not seem to be consciously related to the subsequent sensitizing events; however, due to trance logic (the function of the non-thinking subconscious mind), we deal with what emerges in the session and make no judgments. 

Because suggestion is strengthened by repetition or compounding, there is actually a chain of events that may be traced back from the presenting issue. The initial event almost always occurs before the age of three and is not usually consciously recognized. The client almost never consciously knows what the initial sensitizing event is, even when it seems to be obvious. 

Regression to Cause Is Not Past Life Regression

Regression hypnotherapy is not Past Life Regression. Regression hypnotherapy focuses on events that have occurred in your lifetime—from conception to present—events that may be impairing your efforts to be your best self, to realize your full potential, to just have peace or happiness in your life. The ultimate goal of regression to cause is for you to travel back in time within the subconscious mind, to the incident, event, or situation that initiated the block.

Resolution and Transformation

Ultimately, regression to cause is a hypnotherapy process used to uncover an early event that led to the current problem.  Most often these initial events happen before the age of three and are rarely consciously remembered. By following the breadcrumbs, so-to-speak, of the emotion that gets triggered, we can end up at the original event. By shifting your experience and feelings around that event, it can essentially be ripped out by the roots. We get to the core of the issue, so that the fear or problem you are dealing with now just evaporates. Most often we do this in a single session, and our clients leave feeling lighter, having had a burden, sometimes one that they’ve been carrying their whole lives, removed.