Dr. Dyan Haspel Johnson, a licensed psychologist, hypnotherapist, and somatic experiencing practitioner who previously worked with a board-certified internist/allergist/immunologist, describes her experience using the Gupta Program for brain retraining after a SIRS diagnosis. She reports six months of daily practice with marked health improvement, deeper psychological insight (layered access to root causes), reduced risk of relapse or re-exposure, and a perception that the program changes triggers for gene expression. She characterizes the program as comprehensive, unique in approach, easy-to-use, and clinically safe/containing.
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About four years before this interview.
About six months of daily practice.
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I'm Diane Haspel Johnson. I am a licensed psychologist and I'm also a hypnotherapist and somatic experiencing practitioner. And I've actually specialized in health psychology and working with chronic illness and worked in the practice of a board certified internist, allergist, immunologist for about 20 years. I got involved more deeply with the brain retraining and specifically with the Gupta program because I had been diagnosed with SIRS about four years ago. I was at a place in my own treatment for SIRS where I felt like there was something that was lacking in the treatment. And I decided to sign up for the the Gupta program and I started doing it every day. So it's been about six months now. And I really did feel like there was a big difference. And what was fascinating to me actually about it was that I think that the program, it isn't just the mechanics of stopping thoughts the way something like cognitive behavioral therapy is, or even the changing the charge, if you will, of symptoms or emotions the way somatic experiencing does. But I think that some of the tools in the Gupta program tap into some of the psychological thought patterns and the basis and foundations of our patterns and change them. And I found it really fascinating that when I was doing some of the parts exercises or even the happiness visualizations or the daily brain retraining, that I started to get in touch with certain of the root causes of the thoughts and, and it was like going layer upon layer upon layer, like I kept getting underneath and underneath and finding things that linked up for myself. That's one of the reasons I think the program is so powerful. My health is so much better than it was six months ago. I have the sense that this Gupta program is the thing that makes me feel like, like I am at less risk moving forward. I am less at less risk for dips. I'm at less risk with re exposures. And it makes me feel like in the long term, once I really pull out of the SIRS and you know, reverse the gene transcription, that, that I can move out into the world feeling a lot more safe and secure, that I've completed this part of my journey. I think the process of brain retraining is a crucial piece in recovery and in learning what we need to learn from the illness. I think every cause of suffering, every experience of suffering also holds the opportunity to become more self actualized and to become a better version of ourselves, that we can reach our potential through some of the things that challenge us and our obstacles. And I think that the brain retraining is such a magnificent piece, actually, in really utilizing the experiences that we're having and building resiliency. When we go to the mind piece and sort of the spirit piece, which I think is what's happening, what we're addressing with the Gupta program, it sort of changes the way, I think the gene expression. It changes the triggers of how the genes express themselves. That's the sense that I have. So I think it makes a huge difference, and it's very unique. I think the way that Ishock approaches it is very unique. And I think that the program is extremely comprehensive. It's got so many different components, but it's laid out in a way that is so easy to use, and it's compelling and it's engaging and. And it feels both personal and it also feels like you're sort of being held in it. Like there are so many resources. One of the things that's really impressed me about it as a. Just as a practitioner, having had a lot of exposure to a lot of different training programs and approach, psychological approaches and physiological approaches, is that I think a lot of them are sort of incomplete, and they take a piece and then you have to kind of go somewhere else for another piece. And I think that the Gupta program makes it very easy to use. It's very safe. It feels containing. It feels like it's tapping into a lot of different things.