What is Compassion Key and how does it work?
Compassion Key is an emotionally and spiritually based healing modality that uses self-directed compassion to heal real life issues. Sessions are done over the phone, in audio mode only. This allows the client complete privacy at home, and a recording is available immediately following the session. The client is guided to uncover the incidents and wounds that run our lives, and to permanently heal and release them. It does not require any particular religious belief, or any belief at all—except for one: the belief in the chance of healing.
When we have problems that won’t go away in our lives, it’s easy to blame ourselves, others, or circumstances. The truth is that often, challenges appear in our life for a reason. Just as often, when the reason is discerned, understood, and healed, miraculous changes come into our lives.
Medical doctors have long known that the human brain is comprised both of the conscious and subconscious minds. The subconscious is responsible for all of our habitual and automatic responses to life around us, and these habitual responses are often “programmed” into us during early childhood by parents, siblings, and life events. Although we often have little conscious memory of those experiences, they play a major role in our lives. We may work on consciously creating things we want in our lives, only to have our efforts fail because the underlying subconscious program won’t support our creation. Since we don’t remember or understand the underlying programs, we think bad things are happening to us, that we are unlucky, or that it’s hopeless to keep trying.
With safe, gentle, and loving guidance, you will unlock subconscious habits, wounds, reactions, karmic imprints, and limitations so that they can be released and healed. When the underlying program is “disabled,” your conscious desires for love, prosperity, health, purpose, and joy can manifest. Once the causes of your pain or challenges are identified, you will be guided and taught to use self-directed compassion to heal these wounds and yourself.
How is what you do different from traditional therapy?
I am a wellness practitioner and not a licensed psychologist. I provide complementary services to those furnished by medical or psychological professionals. I do not assign a diagnosis or label the difficulties my clients experience. I am not a psychiatrist and do not give medical advice. If you are tapering off medications or thinking about doing so, I will expect you to be consulting with your physician.
Rather than focusing on a pathology, I believe that my clients have the capacity to be whole. I will never view you as permanently broken. Wounds can be healed, and it is my role to support that process, at your own rate. Also, since the process proceeds at the rate that is best for the client, session length can vary. A normal session lasts somewhere between 1 and 1 ½ hours. New clients should allow at least an hour after the session ends to rest and process the experience.
Both Hypnotherapy and Compassion Key are individual modalities, so I work only with my clients, not with their family members or significant others. Just as in traditional therapy, strict confidentiality standards are observed.
While Compassion Key is best practiced remotely, Hypnotherapy may be in person or remote, depending on the physical location and preference of the client.
What is Hypnosis?
Hypnosis is a natural state that we all frequently experience. Have you ever arrived at your destination, and upon parking your car, realized you couldn’t remember driving there? You were in a natural state of hypnosis, completely functional and able to drive safely due to the driving ability of your subconscious mind. Your conscious mind was somewhere else! We call that “highway hypnosis”, but you can also experience being in trance if you are daydreaming, or immersed in a good book—the world around you fades away as you enter that literary world.
Hypnosis is a state that possesses an extraordinary quality of mental, physical and emotional relaxation. A consent state of physiological relaxation, the subject allows the critical censor of the mind to be bypassed to a greater or lesser degree. Leslie M. LeCron has said that hypnosis “is a somewhat altered state of consciousness and altered awareness, although the conscious mind is still present. We might compare it to a teeter-totter. In the waking state, the conscious mind is at the high end of the teeter-totter and the subconscious mind is at the low end. Under hypnosis, they reverse. The subconscious is at the high end and the conscious part is at the low end, but is still present. Thoughts rise from the inner mind into consciousness.” This is the reason why hypnotherapy can encourage what is hiding out of the subconscious shadows, to bring it out into the light to be healed.
A hypnotherapist can never make you do something you don’t want to do, nor is there anything supernatural about it. It is a natural state of mind, with special identifying characteristics. A capacity for response to hypnosis is a natural human ability that everyone, including children, can access for healing.
Where can I get more information?
About Compassion Key:
Impossible Compassion by Edward Mannix
Reinventing Truth by Edward Mannix
Withdrawal from psychiatric medications:
May Cause Side Effects by Brooke Siem
Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert Whitaker
Anxiety, Depression, Fear and Toxic Childhood:
The Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice Miller
Homecoming by John Bradshaw
It Didn’t Start With You by Mark Wolynn
The Spirit and the body:
The Biology of Belief by Dr. Bruce Lipton
Hypnosis:
Self-Hypnosis, Key to your Inner Power by Gil Boyne