Memory & Recall |
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There is a lot more information stored in the mind than we are generally aware. |
Extended information about hypnosis for memory & recall.
If you think back about things that you remember from your personal history and then you think about all the days, hours and minutes that actually add up to make your personal history you pretty quickly realise that you have experienced a lot more than you remember. This is actually a really important function of the brain because we don't want all of our experiences in the front of our mind all the time. We want to be able to respond to current circumstances with a clear mind and to recall things when we need them.
Our mind has a method of filing, storing and retreiving all of the things that we are exposed to during the course of our day to day lives and each of us does this in our own unique way. Sometimes we want to retreive some piece of information but we can't seem to bring it into consciousness. Examples of these kinds of things might be the location of an object that we hid for safe keeping or the licence plate of a car that was involved in an accident.
Clinical hypnosis can often be used to identify and activate the individual's personal retrieval style and once activated it can be harnessed to recall the sought after details. Sometimes the memory can be recalled during the actual session whereas at other times it occurs a few days later in the form of a spontaneous recollection. The key is the activation of the personal processes that retrieve the memory.
As with all other forms of clinical hypnotherapy we can rely on the creativity and efficiency of the subconscious mind to deliver us the answers once we ask the question in the right way. Memory recall with hypnosis is just like asking a question in a different yet more effective way.
