Re:Control Mastery in Schools & Homes

Yesterday afternoon I bought some items from a local department store & the attendant gave me a big smile & said, "I had a great weekend." [she had gone to a BBQ]
I replied, "I knew you were going to tell me that."

The lady, about 50 came to see me twice last week for 2 one hour hypnotherapy sessions, 2 days apart for panic attacks. She told her husband at breakfast that she was sick of putting up with 'the problem' & was going to see a hypnotist. She said he was happy about that.

I began the first session by asking the client to keep her eyes fixed on the door & I asked her two questions...
1. What are you thinking while you are keeping your eyes fixed on that spot?
2. What are you feeling while you are looking there?

She replied that her mind was blank & that she wasn't feeling anything, except a little bit calmer.

She imagined that she was sitting in her favourite chair at home & was looking at the blank wall. That was the home work.

At the end of the 2nd session she told me that the first time that she had ever "felt awful' was when she was 6 years old & had been staying with her brother, a little older with an auntie. They had been invited to a meal at the auntie's mother's place. Mushroom soup was serve. She didn't like the soup, neither did her brother & he said so.
They were told that even if they didn't like the soup that they should have just had the soup & said nothing because it was bad manners to do otherwise. Ever since that day she had suffered from panic attacks & avoided going out especially to visit relatives.

Session 2 - we discussed the eye gazing homework. The other key technique, apart from keeping her eyes still was to gather all 'the feelings' together in a bundle in her belly & squeeze them into a ball until they were compact & take a big breath & breathe the feelings out of her body & mind through the soles of her feet & into the far distance. That was for homework too.

Could you explain this case in terms of Control Mastery, or is it something else altogether.

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