I’m going to share with you an excellent technique in mind control.  I use this with most of my Therapy clients at the start of a session so that they feel empowered and able to regulate their own emotional states.  I see a very wide range of clients in my practise.  In just two weeks since returning from overseas, I’ve seen people who are suicidal, anxious, addicted, suffering from chronic pain, chronic fatigue, skin conditions, hay fever, vertigo, constipation, self-esteem issues… but no matter what the presenting issue, there is a dominant theme of people feeling helpless.  They feel like they cannot control or influence the problem that they come to me with.  They have usually already seen a lot of Doctors and Alternative Healthcare professionals and nobody can “cure” them.

I believe that empowering people to make their own changes is a far more long-lasting solution that “treating” people so that they still feel like they need someone else to fix their problems. 

You may like to try this out yourself:

You start by closing your eyes and breathing calmly and deeply and then remember a time when you felt very calm, paying attention to lots of details of that memory including what you see, hear and feel.  You notice what your calmness rating is out of 10 and realise how much you have already influenced your calmness levels. 

Then you mentally reach out and turn up your calmness dial another notch or two out of 10 and see how much better again that feels.  Then turn it down 4 notches to see the difference.  Every client has reported that as soon as they turn it down, they feel heavy and uncomfortable and quickly crank it back up to a 7 or 8.  Then we turn it up even higher and see just how capable the person is of controlling their calmness state completely. 

People are invariably surprised and delighted to see how much control they have.  We then look at other emotion dials such as happiness, self-worth, confidence, pain etc and learn how to control each of these dials also.  So far, everyone has successfully been able to control their states on all the dials that we have played with. 

One of my clients last week came to me because she had attempted suicide a couple of months ago and has been depressed for years.  Her Psychiatrist has given her a huge cocktail of pills to take for managing depression, OCD, anxiety and sleep and yet she is still feeling so low that she can’t work and said she was 90% sure she wanted to die this week.  We did the Dials Technique and she brought her happiness up to a 7 and her relaxation to an 8, her pain down to a 2 and her self-worth to an 8.  She was delighted to see that she had a lot of influence on her feelings.  By the end of the session, she said she only had a 50% desire to commit suicide, which was a bigger improvement than she’d had from years of therapy and pills. 

In order for her to be truly happy and free of this condition (and for her dials to stay naturally at good settings long term), it will be useful for her to attend The Switch Live (4-day live programme) or The Switch Webinar Series (6-week pre-recorded version) to resolve the underlying cause of her depression.    

So try this technique out for yourself.  Greater empowerment leads to a happier and healthier life.  You have the ability to empower yourself and trust your own ability to regulate your feelings.