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gentlestrength
Category:
Mystery/Suspense
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
ISBN-10: 139780595375202
Type: Fiction
Pages: 118
Monastic mystery with action alternating between USA and India. East-West spirituality and medicine themes woven together. Main characters evolve out of previous three mysteries.
“When I count from three to one you will awaken, feeling refreshed and better than when we started. You will remember everything and may find that more and more of your memories return gradually over the next few weeks, perhaps during the day, perhaps in dreams.”
The doctor continued soothingly and confidently: “Three, two, and one. Awake and refreshed.”
Vincent opened his squinting eyes and blinked several times, rubbed his eyes, and mopped sweat from his brow with a handkerchief. The underarms of his shirt were ringed with dampness.
“How are you feeling, Vincent?”
“A little shaken, Doctor Fleur. I think I’d rather be at the dentist. I never thought I would prefer root canal to anything else!”
“Hypnotherapy can feel a little like pulling teeth sometimes, I know, but you will be glad you had the courage to do this. ‘Refreshing’ old memories, as we call it, can be very unsettling, but it will help us to piece together the missing pieces in your mind.
“Your memory is like a tape recording or a CD, but there are blank spaces in yours and we need to find out what they are and why they were put there.
“Do you have any conscious recollection of a military guard on a train wearing a red turban and carrying a rifle, Vincent?”
“Not before today Doctor, but now that I’ve been through this session, there is something vaguely familiar about that story. And I do remember what went on under hypnosis. You said that is okay, right?”
“Yes, okay, and very normal. We usually do remember what happens in hypnosis. It is only when the memory unearthed is still too traumatic for our conscious mind to deal with that we experience spontaneous amnesia to the hypnosis session. The fact that you remember what happened is a good sign, Vincent.
“Please practice the self hypnosis technique I taught you a few weeks back—the one where you roll your eyes upward while closing your eyelids, remember?”
“Yes Doctor, I do remember it and have been practicing it. Didn’t you say that doing things in two directions at one time, like rolling the eyes upward while lowering the lids helps to confuse the brain?”
“Right. Hypnosis taps our inner mind by circumventing the rigid and logical patterns we usually think with. Under many circumstances, logic is helpful and efficient, but sometimes it can get in the way of accessing what is repressed. When we do something confusional, it breaks the logic barrier, so to speak.
“There is an ancient Asian saying: ‘Confusion precedes enlightenment.’”
“Well, I’m going to be one very enlightened person then, because now I am one very confused guy.”
The doctor gently kept herself on track. “Speaking of memory, I now need to...
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