A Gentle and Powerful Tool for Deep Emotional Release
Hello Seekers and Dreamers,
If you’ve made your way here, there’s a good chance you are carrying deep emotional wounds (as most of us are) and are looking for a safe, calming space (one created by YOUR own mind and body), to gently process, reframe, and heal…
Healing emotional pain is messy and it takes time. It can stem from our relationships (especially the childhood ones that left a mark) or arrive in the form of a full-blown spiritual or existential crisis. However it shows up, one thing’s certain: it’s layered, complex, and honestly… the EPITOME of the human experience.
It’s always a good to remind yourself that; healing means something different for everyone. Sometimes its simply about reaching a place of acceptance… acknowledging what happened and sitting with it.
Other times, it’s about developing the ability to RESPOND DIFFERENTLY than we once did, in reaction to those wounds. Healing emotional pain often requires different tools, because its a mental, physical, and even spiritual wound. Outside help isn’t always accessible and sometimes, all we need is the gentle guidance from a trusted voice to help us move through it, breath by breath, night by night.
7 Nights of Deep Healing
This Deep Sleep Hypnosis Program was written with a trauma-centered approach and draws from several therapeutic frameworks I’ve collected and used over the years for myself and other mental health clinicians. While it’s never a substitute for professional, individualized treatment (especially those with serious mental health challenges), the intention for this program is clear:
- To help inspire the transformation of suffering into growth.
- To release emotional blocks like shame, guilt, or anger.
- To rekindle hope by reconnecting with the Deeper Self (or a higher power if that resonates)
- To fall asleep to positive subconscious programming.
- To inspire creativity and personal transformation along the way.
You can start listening to the full 7-night playlist here → Watch on YouTube.
Whether you begin with Night 1 or jump into the theme that calls to you most, each session is designed to meet you exactly where you are.
What really inspired me to write this was the work of Stephen Gilligan and his Generative-Trance Approach to Ericksonian Hypnotherapy.
Program Themes:
– Reframing Suffering as Catalyst or Awakening Path (finding meaning in pain)
– Challenging Negative Thoughts (Shame, Guilt, Envy)
– Self-Forgiveness and Surrender
– Positive Affirmations/Cognitive Restructuring/Ego-strengthening
– Reconnecting with Faith or Divine Intelligence
– Age Regression/Inner Child Healing
– Gestalt Techniques/Psychodrama – imagery of the literal enaction of emotional release (Cathartic release)
How to Heal Deep Emotional Wounds?
Healing emotional pain involves more than just reprogramming your thoughts. It’s going to involve a creative, multidimensional approach involving your mind, body, subconscious patterns, and unconscious beliefs. To honor that, I strive to incorporate therapeutic techniques from the following:
- Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for challenging distortions and building new thought patterns/beliefs.
- Spiritual Psychotherapy to help you reconnect with hope, faith, or a “Higher Power”. To me, this piece is vital especially when dealing with themes like ‘Extreme Guilt, Deep Grief, Chronic Depression”. In an age where “Religion”, (or at least the universal principles of such) are being rejected by the upcoming generation, it is more important than ever to provide a tool that helps one foster a sense of connection with the “Divine”. Although I never use the word ‘God’, I do allude to the ‘Creator, Universe’ etc. to ensure inclusivity and decrease mental resistance to the suggestions offered.
- Stephen Gilligan’s Generative Trance is what inspired this me to create this entire program and may have even sparked my interest in self-hypnosis in general. A third-wave, creativity-centered style of hypnosis that treats your unconscious as a wise collaborator. Stephen Gilligan is a student of Milton Erickson and pioneer of this approach.
- Hypno-psychodynamic literature – for releasing emotional blocks like guilt, shame, and unprocessed grief.
Why My Hypnosis Sessions are Powerful
Let’s walk through my “Hypnotic Framework” for this program (which truthfully, resulted from years of notes and research compilations from my personal, freelance, and clinical experience).
Enhancing Your Hypnosis Experience
1. Setting a Positive Healing Intention
All my hypnosis sessions begin with a Pretalk, where you can invite a FELT, emotionally resonant intention (which is basically what it is YOUR SOUL or your HIGHEST SELF or your INNER CHILD is asking to be healed). This step helps shift the mindset into a more open, and resourceful state and reminds you WHY you are here in the first place.
2. Somatic Centering and Safe Absorption
You can ignore that fancy wording and just think of it as PHYSICAL relaxation in your body and creating a mental/physical/emotional space that feels safe. Remember, we don’t enter a hypnotic trance by trying hard. We enter by relaxing as deep as we can. “Somatic Centering” can also be called “Grounding” which you may be more familiar with. Grounding gives your nervous system the signal: “Hey, we’re safe now. We can soften, let go, and heal”. This is particularly important for TRAUMA RECOVERY and what I find many self-hypnosis/meditation content lack when addressing emotional healing. I’m not about to throw my fellow Seekers into the ‘Seas of their Shadow Self” without a life raft! I strive to offer reassurance, dispel negative beliefs, and provide a PERMISSIVE approach to the session.
3. Welcoming ALL Emotions
Yes, even the “Uninvited Ones”. A big part the emotional healing process is creating space for emotions that we usually suppress in our waking state: regret, guilt, shame, envy, fear. Instead of pushing them away, or “affirming them away”, we can learn how to invite them into front and center focus, or allow our emotions to express themselves symbolically.
“You might notice a part of you that feels heavy or angry… that’s okay. That part has a message. Let it show up.”
True healing and self-transformations starts with acknowledgement and ends with acceptance. In my hypnosis sessions, I strive to mimic principles from “Generative Trance”, ensuring that those “Uninvited Emotions” become “parts of Oneself” that are not enemies, but simply act as messengers. A message that healing is needed.
4. Creativity Imagery, Archetypes, Symbology
This is where hypnosis becomes an artistic, creative expression and what I hope to inspire in other Meditation/Hypnosis creators.
What I love most about Gilligan’s Generative Trance method is that it doesn’t rely on pre-written scripts to deliver meaning. It relies on you, the listener, the client. It relies on the inner wisdom of YOUR subconscious mind. The moment you enter a deep, relaxed state, your mind begins pulling from an inner library of symbols, memories, archetypes, and metaphors that are deeply personal and emotionally charged.
Your subconscious knows what images hold meaning for you. It might:
- Transform heaviness into light
- Turn a recurring nightmare into a vision of clarity or freedom
- Re-imagine your trauma as a story with a different ending
- Invite dreamlike symbols (a river, a child, a door, a phoenix) that point toward healing or growth
- Offer a wise guide or voice from within you, an inner mentor who feels both familiar and new
These spontaneous creations aren’t random. They are meaningful projections of your psyche’s readiness to integrate and evolve.
This is pretty much what Gilligan refers to as the Conversation between the Visionary Dreamer and the Practical Realist:
- The visionary dreamer is the unconscious part of you that speaks in symbols, metaphors, and emotional impressions. It sees the big picture and often works in nonlinear ways.
- The practical realist is your conscious, observing self. The grounded witness who recognizes the insights and considers how to apply them.
When these two are in dialogue, you are no longer trapped in repetitive loops of thought. You might see yourself not as a victim of the past, but as an author mid-chapter…FREE to write something NEW. I simply suggest the space, but YOU decide the meaning. Your subconscious/unconscious is intelligent and knows what to keep and what to leave behind.
You can begin your journey tonight with Night 1 of the 7 Nights of Deep Healing available free on YouTube.