Car­ol Quash

The sub­con­scious mind holds a lot of in­for­ma­tion that works be­hind the scenes to shape the ac­tions and re­ac­tions of hu­man be­ings. Hyp­nother­a­pist Sreshtha Tewari be­lieves her pro­fes­sion has placed her in a po­si­tion to help her clients en­ter their sub­con­scious and try to re­set habits that no longer serve them in a pos­i­tive man­ner.

“Your sub­con­scious mind, which is 95 per cent of your brain, is dor­mant. You can think of it as a pro­gramme run­ning in the back­ground of a com­put­er,” qui­et­ly hous­ing be­liefs from child­hood – things you were pro­grammed to be­lieve, saw in the me­dia, were told by your par­ents, teach­ers and the peo­ple around.

“It hous­es all of that in­for­ma­tion and qui­et­ly runs that in the back­ground,” Tewari told WE.

For two years, she has been prac­tis­ing Quan­tum Jour­neys Hyp­nother­a­py (QJH) – a spir­i­tu­al and clin­i­cal form of ther­a­py that com­bines hyp­no­sis with en­er­getic, meta­phys­i­cal con­cepts to fos­ter deep emo­tion­al and phys­i­cal heal­ing.

Tewari was first in­tro­duced to hyp­nother­a­py when she read Many Mas­ters, Many Lives by psy­chother­a­pist Dr Bri­an Weiss.

“He was try­ing to help a client, Cather­ine, with some­thing that the client want­ed to work through and was try­ing to regress the client to child­hood. But he ac­ci­den­tal­ly re­gressed the client in­to a past life.”

Tewari read all his books and at­tend­ed two of his work­shops.

“And well, now this is 20 years lat­er.”

She ex­plained that dur­ing her stud­ies as an emo­tion­al in­tel­li­gence and love coach, she learned about neu­ro-lin­guis­tic pro­gram­ming, a psy­cho­log­i­cal ap­proach that us­es tech­niques de­signed to analyse and mod­i­fy be­hav­iour­al pat­terns, lan­guage, and thought process­es to achieve per­son­al goals.

“I was re­al­ly in­ter­est­ed in fur­ther un­der­stand­ing neu­ro-lin­guis­tic pro­gram­ming, which is part of what they use in hyp­nother­a­py, and that is how I end­ed up study­ing hyp­no­sis.”

She is cer­ti­fied by the UK-based In­ter­na­tion­al Hyp­nother­a­py As­so­ci­a­tion.

The Freeport res­i­dent con­ducts all her ses­sions on­line through Zoom, as the na­ture of her ther­a­py does not man­date in-per­son in­ter­ac­tion.

“Your con­scious log­i­cal mind is five per cent of your brain, and it is what dri­ves cog­ni­tive func­tion and what dri­ves your every­day life and de­ci­sions we make with our con­scious mind.

“Hyp­nother­a­py ac­cess­es the sub­con­scious mind, and it helps to change pat­terns that we have in our life. It goes straight to the root.”

She ex­plained that some peo­ple may of­ten see re­peat pat­terns in their lives that they don’t nec­es­sar­i­ly like, but they can’t seem to change them. For ex­am­ple, be­ing stuck in a job or re­la­tion­ship that doesn’t make them hap­py, or ex­pe­ri­enc­ing chron­ic pain that has no phys­i­cal ex­pla­na­tion.

“And so you would find you have pain get­ting loud­er and loud­er in your body... or every part­ner you meet is ba­si­cal­ly the same…most like­ly you have sub­con­scious pro­gram­ming run­ning it.”

She said when most peo­ple think of hyp­no­sis, they think staged hyp­no­sis where they see some­body knocked out and do­ing weird things like cluck­ing like a chick­en, and they get scared.

“But from a ther­a­peu­tic stand­point, hyp­no­sis re­al­ly re­lax­es the con­scious an­a­lyt­i­cal mind and al­lows ac­cess to the sub­con­scious be­liefs…You’re able to ac­cess an­swers with­in, with­out the noise of the so­ci­etal pro­gram­ming. And when you are able to ac­cess those an­swers, it is eas­i­er for you to make changes in your life.”

She said what­ev­er is­sue the client wants to re­solve, to­geth­er they un­lock and en­ter that door.

“So if the client wants heal­ing, we would go in­to the tem­ple of heal­ing. If they want guid­ance, we will go in­to the door with guides. If they want in­ner child heal­ing, we will go in­to the in­ner child heal­ing room. There are like eight dif­fer­ent doors.”

And al­though clients can see im­prove­ments from one ses­sion, Tewari said changes in be­hav­iour­al pat­terns will de­pend large­ly on the client’s emo­tion­al state and per­cep­tions and be­liefs.

“Usu­al­ly, hyp­nother­a­py takes one to six ses­sions, with the av­er­age be­ing three.”

She made it clear that she does not make any clin­i­cal di­ag­no­sis, as she is not a med­ical doc­tor. But she does of­fer sup­port for clin­i­cal is­sues such as anx­i­ety or chron­ic stress.

In fact, she said, a lot of hyp­nother­a­pists get re­fer­rals from med­ical doc­tors or even psy­chol­o­gists when they be­lieve their pa­tients may need the ad­di­tion­al sup­port.

While forms of hyp­nother­a­py had been used in an­cient Egypt, Greece and In­dia, the prac­tice on­ly gained main­stream med­ical and sci­en­tif­ic ac­cep­tance in the 1950s.

It was for­mal­ly val­i­dat­ed as a le­git­i­mate ther­a­peu­tic tool by ma­jor med­ical as­so­ci­a­tions af­ter World War II.

Tewari said she has had many clients, all of whom she has suc­cess­ful­ly treat­ed.

“If you need sup­port in your life and you are open to med­i­ta­tion, and you’re open to ex­plor­ing your sub­con­scious mind, be­cause all our an­swers are with­in, and you need the sup­port, feel free to reach out to me.”