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I train hypnotherapists, therapists, and other medical and mental health professionals, to help their patients eliminate Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms (PTSD) in just a few weeks.

I charge JUST 50 GBP/USD/Euros for an ENTIRE 6-week video course of 6 x 2hr seminars explaining my methods.

However, the first two-hour seminar is absolutely FREE, with no obligation to continue, and you can watch it here now.

If you would like all the free scripts, case histories and books which go with this FIRST seminar, whether you want to take the full course or not, just email me at beatretreathypnotherapy@gmail.com and I will send them by return. (Be aware you will NEVER be added to a mailing list, or be asked to buy anything, and your email will NEVER be shared with anyone else or any other company.)

Here is a rundown of each seminar of the course.

Seminar 1 – Introduction to using hypnotherapy for PTSD 

1) My credentials

2) Changing everything

This protocol may require you to put aside everything you know and have practiced regarding hypnotherapy so far. 

3) What is PTSD?

PTSD is physical and psychological. It is a full gamut of symptoms. PTSD is a catch-all. It is not a disorder. It is a reaction to emotional trauma. The list of symptoms below is not exhaustive.

• Insomnia, night terrors, nightmares, sleep paralysis, phobias. 
• Anxiety, depression, hyper-vigilance, withdrawal, inability to rationalize. 
• Anger, irritation.
• Flashbacks, intrusive memories, dissociation, psychosis. 
• Pain, seizure, paralysis.
• Suicidal ideation.
• Guilt, moral injury, risk taking, shame. 
• Alcohol, drug, substance abuse. 
• Exhaustion, apathy, cognitive dysfunction. 

4) The Scale of Symptoms

• There is a sliding scale of symptoms.
• Symptoms are coded symbols, clues with a hidden meaning.
• The therapist and the patient will become decoding experts/archaeologists together. 

5) Where do PTSD symptoms come from?

Symptoms are caused by ego parts, created as a protection mechanism inside the person. While their purpose is protective, they can become highly disruptive.

• The body creates an alter ego – an ego part – to absorb pain and hurt, and to assume blame or guilt.  
•   Ego parts can absorb repeated trauma. 
•   Clients know when an ego part is becoming overwhelmed by the level of emotion they feel. 
•   PTSD symptoms start when the part can no longer carry the emotional load.  
•   Ego parts can seem like a separate personality. 
•   Ego parts can rule the body and the mind. 
•   Ego parts can cause symptoms to fit an agenda.  This will be explained through numerous case histories.
•   Only when the self understands what created the ego part, and how they felt at the time,         will the symptoms collapse. 

6) What is the point of the symptoms?

• Symptoms are specific. They are flags, clues, signs pointing the way to what is wrong. All symptoms are clues, but intrusive memories and flashbacks are literally waving flags. 
• The Fight, Flight, and Freeze responses create different PTSD symptoms in later life. 

7) Playing ’Hypnotic Charades’ 

When PTSD symptoms become chronic, the ego part is trying to communicate with the person, to explain what is wrong. But the person turns to medical personnel, believing the symptoms are inexplicable. However, the symptoms are actually indicators of exactly what is wrong and can be very literal, even in the case of paralysis, seizures, pain, agoraphobia and dissociation. The most literal symptoms are flashbacks and intrusive memories, but even then, their presentation can be cryptic.

8) What is the difference between CPTSD and PTSD 

• CPTSD – the C meaning ‘complex’ or rather ‘cumulative’ – it comes from repeated emotional trauma and may be multi-symptomatic. 
• The difference between CPTSD and PTSD is like the difference between magnitudes of an earthquake. 
• The way to cure CPTSD and PTSD is exactly the same – with clinical hypnotherapy.

9) What is the difference between Military/First Responder PTSD and Civilian PTSD

Nothing.  In general, the predispositions to PTSD are established in childhood, and the military and first responder experience is simply a trigger.

10) Why treat PTSD with this protocol? 

• Why not CBT? Why not EMDR? Why not direct suggestion? This course will explain why not.
• Why go so deep? (The subconscious is not a place – it is all the things a person is not aware of. Depth of hypnosis reveals what is not available to the conscious mind.) 
• Hypnotherapy is a subconscious treatment for a subconscious injury! No PTSD symptoms are too complex to treat.  

11) If it works so well, why isn’t everyone using hypnotherapy to cure PTSD? 

• The medical profession used to. 
• Freud understood ego parts, but he moved away from hypnosis and said it would take 5-7 years of therapy; 2-3 times a week to heal the divide. No one understands his change of heart.
• There is a fundamental lack of understanding, or prejudice, among many psychiatrists, post-Freud.
• David and Herbert Spiegel cured hundreds of Vietnam veterans of combat fatiugue. Doctors in the UK during WW1 also used hypnotherapy to eliminate shell shock. It was the most effective treatment for PTSD in the USA in WW2.
• Many patients and therapists prefer the Big Pharma ‘quick fix’.  

12) What does a predisposition to PTSD mean? 

• “Predisposition Plus Stress Equals Neurosis”. “Motivation Plus Insight Equals Cure.” 
• Key predispositions to PTSD include neglect, abandonment, rejection, parental-breakup when young, premature birth, difficult birth, post-natal depression of mother; an alcoholic parent; childhood illness, asthma, sexual or physical abuse, loss of parent, boarding school at a young age. All these predispositions will be demonstrated through case histories.

13) So, what do you need to do now? 

The Beat Retreat PTSD Protocol uses the key tenets of clinical hypnotherapy to eliminate PTSD. This course will detail each session over six seminars.

• Session 1 – Negativity Clearing 
• Session 2 – Ego Parts 
• Session 3 – Forgiveness/Acceptance of Others 
• Session 4 – Age Regression/Timeline/Rewind  
• Session 5 – Forgiveness/Acceptance of Self 
• Session 6 – Ego boost/reinforcement/strengthening

All sessions are delivered in somnambulism using a progressive relaxation induction.

14) Key Points  

• A full cure is possible in weeks, no matter how chronic the symptoms. 
• Finding the root cause is essential, otherwise symptoms will return/continue. 
• Reacting to something without context is almost always a repressed memory. 
• The root cause is often NOT the most serious trauma they have experienced. 
• The root cause is generally before the age of 5, when they were most vulnerable. 
• It is not a hypnotherapists place to draw conclusions for the client. They must realize it themselves.  
• Insight comes in small pieces – like clues on a whiteboard. 
• The whole process is ‘couples counseling meets hostage negotiation.’ 

15) What are the main methods of treatment 

• The hypnosis is always somnambulistic, using centering, double inductions, double/triple deepeners before the therapy proper.  
• The client lies down and does not sit up. 
• The client is not required to speak during hypnosis (confidence of non-disclosure of secrets).  
• Ample time is given for pre and post talk.  
• Sleeping and snoring is fine. The subconscious is always awake. 
• The therapy is ideal for children and adults.
• Treatment of psychotics, schizophrenics, suicidal people and even homicidal people is effective.

16) Things to watch out for when treating clients:  

• Patterns in life events and learned autonomic reactions to stressors. The trauma response as a child will be the same when they become adults. 
• Juvenile reactions to stress (Stammering, IBS, releasing bladder) indicate childhood trauma.
• Emotions without context indicate repressed and troublesome memories.
• The client will know if they have found the emotional root, even if it doesn’t seem serious enough to the hypnotherapist. 
• The client will say exactly what is wrong, and usually disclose the root, in the first session without realising it – word-for-word note taking is essential. 

Scripts for the PTSD protocol 

Induction and deepener scripts are provided.

• Centre through breathing
• Blackboard visualisation
• 7 plus or minus 2 Induction 
• Body Scan Induction 
• Stairs Deepener
• Safe Place

A different script is provided each week for the therapy part of the session:

Week One is Negativity Clearance – Here is a recording of the session 1 script for you to listen to.

Coming Up throughout the course:

Step by step application of the protocol 

Combating resistance and secondary gain

The Microbiome and nutrition and its role in mental health issues

The use of Psychedelics with Hypnosis

Virtual Cocaine and virtual heroin therapies

There is a private facebook group for all those who take the course: Hypnotherapy for PTSD/CPTSD Course Veterans.

All participants who demonstrate an understanding of, and an ability to use the methods taught during the course, are eligible for a free listing on catchptsd.com

Seminar 2 – Exploration of Ego parts

Ego Parts In Detail

Session 3 – Forgiveness/Acceptance of Others

Medical diagnoses of emotional anger/Anger and the Ego Part

Session 4

Age Regression/Emotion as Energy/Hypermesia 

Mind Body Connection – Balance of the Gut Microbiome

Session 5  – Forgiveness of Self 

Addressing guilt and self-blame.

Session 6 – How do they know they are done?

Exploring a whole range of tools to help clients over the final hurdle, plus ego strengthening.

Interested in the course? Why not listen free to my FREE book before you decide. (Also available to read at www.thebeatretreat.com/publications/

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