Hi everyone, I have a odd question

[amylou]

Does anyone know if it is possible to be hypnotised to forget a certain period?

[Terry (existing)]

Does anyone know if it is possible to be hypnotised to forget a certain period? All things are possible to them that know what they are doing....

[Don]

Hmmm. By "period" do you mean a dot at the end of a sentence, a menstrual cycle, or a certain segment of time?

Well, I can only guess that you might mean some time. The answer is "yes," but it's a bad idea and I doubt if you'll find many, if any hypnotists who will help you.

You see, Amy Lou, I've never met anyone who wanted to forget an entire section of time (although there may be such people). Rather, they want to forget something that happened during that time. But it's easier to say, "I want to forget last night" instead of admitting, "I got drunk and made a total fool of myself last night. That's something I'd like to forget!"

So unless you are different, and if you mean you want to forget a certain stretch of time, what you are actually saying is that you want to forget one or more events that took place during that time.

The problem is, that event didn't happen by itself. Many thousands of things were taking place at the same time. If you forget that time stretch you are also forgetting all of those things, too. And there may be lots of things of value there.

But there is more, too! Let's say that the person in the description above is hypnotized to forget getting drunk and making a fool of himself. That means he has no reason not to do it again. He hasn't learned the lesson.

Now, what hypnotherapists will do (and this is a major part of some hypnotherapists' work) is to help take away the pain, anger, embarrassment, or any other emotions that are associated with what a person did. As a result, you keep what you need to learn and lose the bad feelings and emotions over what happened.

[skip]

Amy,

How would you feel about wanting to forget this, if the emotions surrounding it were different?

skip

[Poodle]

It can be done and I have done it but please read Skip's post CAREFULLY!

[Jack]

Does anyone know if it is possible to be hypnotised to forget a certain period?

Depends what you mean by forget.

If you mean totally forget it by removing the memory then it is possible but no reputable hypnotherapist would do it.

If you mean forget, diminish or remove the emotion attached to the memory then yes, that is what we do.

Jack

[MTprac]

Clarify a bit willingly, and to this answer your question ,Miss. You are speaking broadly on time periods.