Finding Your False-Truths

Gwenn Henkel, CMH, MH

I received a call from a gentleman in Virginia this week.  He said he needed help sleeping and he had a dentist phobia.  He had dental work coming up and he hated the dentist as far back as he could remember.  Being that he was 70, I figure there where a LOT of scary times in the dentist chair!

He began telling me about his sleep being interrupted often just as he was dozing off, he would awaken with a start and feel very anxious.  It would be difficult to go back to sleep because he would try to figure out why he would awaken so suddenly with fright!  I asked many questions and all the answers seemed normal, so I suggested I would send him a sleep induction CD to listen to at bedtime.

Next he told me how he hated going to the dentist. He had upcoming dentist visits which where either going to consist of pulling some teeth in order to fit a bridge or a FEW route canals. He was terrified either way!

I explained that most fears and phobias originate with some traumatic experience in childhood.  That sparked him right up as he recalled being 6 years old, not only being held down by the dental team but also strapped down to the chair while they held a rag over his face containing ether to put him to sleep!  He said he fought so hard with them and all he kept thinking was, “They are killing me!  They are killing me!” and then the faces all faded away and he thought he died. 

With this information, I realized that administering the ether caused him to fade into sleep, which is what he does every night when he goes to bed.  The trauma in the dentist chair at age 6, associated with being killed, could present the same feeling to the subconscious mind, when going through the natural phases of trance to go to sleep, hence creating the sudden jerk reaction, startling him awake again and feeling anxiety with it.  When I explained my theory to the man, his 70-year old conscious mind completely understood!  He was so excited! It made so much sense to him now!  Mind you now, it’s not always this easy to find out why someone has a fear or phobia.  Granted, he got it on a conscious level now, but the subconscious needs to get it too, so I sent him a CD to help him heal the experience of feeling that he died in the dentist’s chair long ago.

False-truths are things we learn at a very young age, when we are too young to discern logic.  They are things that we see, hear, feel from the grown ups around us, our mentors.  As children we believe that everyone older than us MUST know the truth about everything because we are too young to know yet.

These false-truths are stored in the subconscious mind, never to be removed and not necessarily remembered.  Every experience all the way back to the womb is stored there.  Thank goodness we can’t remember all of it consciously!  Lord knows it’s hard enough to remember where we put the car keys let alone what we ate for breakfast on January 2^nd when we where 3 years old! 

These false-truths often keep people from fulfilling their dreams.  They get wonderful ideas but can’t seem to move forward to make them happen.  They are constantly blocked with thoughts of doubt, worry and fears, innermost thoughts that tell them they can’t possibly do it or excuses that keep them stagnant.  Or sometimes it’s just a feeling that keeps them from moving forward and they don’t know why. This is where the tools of hypnosis or other trance inducing techniques are so helpful.  One can get to the root cause of a challenge in life that is keeping them from the changes they want to make.

I am currently in a contest for The Next Top Spiritual Author and I’m writing a book about this process called:

When the Law of Attraction Isn’t Working, Ask Your Subconscious Why!

Finding the False-Truths That Keep You From Manifesting Your Dreams

The book will also come with a CD that will guide a person to find the false-truths and change them so that they can move forward with confidence!

To find out more about this contest go to: www.nexttopauthor.com and I am author #312.  I have already made it into round 2 and I am one of the 250 who were selected from the over 3000 entrants.  Cross your fingers for me for round 3!  I would then be one of the 25 people selected from the 250 who were in round 2!  Thanks to those who have already voted for me!