A woman's chronic left-rib pain stemmed not from her skiing injury but from her husband's betrayal and childhood trauma. Her practitioner explains how the brain stays locked in survival mode, constantly scanning for danger, and why renewing her spiritual beliefs is essential to prevent the pain from returning worse.
I had a pain in my left rib area in the back. I thought it was a broken rib from skiing, and it just kept going, and it didn't stop for a couple years. And you helped me uncover that it was a broken heart. I had pain from my husband stepping out in our marriage and betraying me. Then we went deeper and you had uncovered that I didn't feel safe as a child on a playground with my brother there. And I come from this belief of I'm not safe. I have to take care of myself and for myself. And I think that's why I keep fearing burnout of I'm not safe.
Mm-hmm.
And I just keep thinking of when Jesus says, "Yeah, you can sweep the spirit out of the house, but if you don't fill that house with different spirits, he'll come back with 7 friends and it will be much worse than before." This is a continual work that you have to keep doing, and I am the same way. And we have to renew our mind and put new spiritual beliefs in there, otherwise, it will come back sevenfold with a vengeance to take you down because then you will feel defeated like, oh yeah, that was just a lie. And so I think if you're going to undertake something like this, be ready to do the work, right? Like, I can imagine it wasn't a one quick change after you had that revelation, right?
No. And I think we're in constant motion relative to what the environment around us is giving us as inputs. What our sensitivities and vulnerabilities are, given what we've experienced in life. And when things come back around, it's also because we're able to understand that sensitivity at a different level. And I think the brain's number one job is to keep us alive.
Yeah.
And to keep us feeling safe. And so it will resist any time an opportunity as a threat comes in to be able to say, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, this is, this is the way I'm trained to respond. We're all, we all have habits that will come back up based on just millions and millions of different thought processes that we've gathered over time. The trick, however, is to understand beneath it all is that we're so much more powerful than we realize. And it is that power that hypnotherapy kind of guides you into.
