Free hypnotherapy · Terryl Maddocks
A session for a body in repair, and for one that has been holding on a long time.
Listen somewhere safe. Never while driving, operating machinery, or doing anything that needs your full attention. This recording is designed to take you into a state of deep relaxation and inward focus.
This is not medical treatment. It sits alongside the care you are already receiving rather than in place of it. Keep everything your doctors and therapists have you doing, and speak with them before listening if you have been diagnosed with psychosis, schizophrenia, epilepsy, or any condition affecting your mental health.
Set aside about three quarters of an hour somewhere settled, warm enough, supported, and undisturbed. Headphones help and are optional.
By listening you accept that you do so at your own discretion and take responsibility for your own wellbeing throughout.
I recorded this for someone who was badly injured. When I asked myself what I actually had to offer, this was the answer.
It is about what your body is already doing. Not what it should be doing, or what it might do if you thought about it correctly. What it is doing right now, underneath everything, without being asked.
The platelets that arrived before you knew anything was wrong. The cells that come in afterwards and clear away what has finished being useful. The collagen that goes down roughly at first, because something matters more than nothing, and then over the following weeks gets tested strand by strand, so that the strands lying along the lines of load are kept and thickened and the rest are quietly returned to the system.
There is a section on bracing, too. A body that has been protecting you tends to stay switched on afterwards, keeping a little readiness in the muscle, some part of itself listening. That is intelligence rather than a fault. And a braced body is spending on being braced, which means everything that eases has something to spare for the repair.
Having made it, I think it belongs to more people than the one I made it for. Injury, illness, recovery from surgery, or simply a body that has been holding on for a long time.
So it is here, free, for anyone who needs it. Share it with whoever comes to mind.
Some people go very deep the first time. Some take a few listens. Some hear every word and wonder whether anything happened, then notice something different in their sleep that night. All of that is the process working. Listen as often as you like.
I send new recordings, and the occasional note about the work, to a small list. Add your email and the next session comes to you.