What Doctors Don’t Tell You Australia-NZ – July 22, 2019

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That single session was sufficient to lift Sofia’s

depression and also enough to convince her to teach

RTT herself. If this was having such a good effect on her,

she needed to do it for other people. “Ten days later I

was on a plane to New York to train as a therapist.” Sofia

opened her own practice in August last year.

Revisiting the past

Marisa Peer, a British hypnotherapist and

psychotherapist and author of five best-selling self-

improvement books including I Am Enough and

Ultimate Confidence, created RTT by distilling the

wisdom she had gained from more than 30 years’

work as a child psychologist and hypnotherapist. Her

clients, who she claims include royalty, Hollywood stars

and Olympic athletes, convinced her that three core

disempowering beliefs lay under all issues:

1. I am not good enough


2. I don’t deserve happiness, goodness or whatever it is
   that I want


3. I am different so I don’t belong and can’t connect to
   other people
   RTT maintains that these core beliefs get adopted in
   childhood and are buried deep in our subconscious.
   Despite our best efforts to overcome negative emotional
   states and change unwanted habits, we tend to recreate
   the same old patterns because we blindly follow the
   subconscious programs—which are often totally in
   conflict with our conscious desires and beliefs.
   “Since those deep unconscious beliefs have been
   there longer, they are stronger and in control,” says Sofia.
   “You can say to yourself as much as you like, ‘I am going
   to exercise, I’m going to stop eating chocolate because
   I really want to lose weight,’ but if there is a deep belief
   there saying, ‘You are only safe if you are overweight,’
   your mind is going to keep taking you there, and
   your body is going to keep doing that. So people feel
   disempowered and just give up at some point.”
   RTT is actually a very simple process. Clients are
   taken into hypnosis through a
   simple, five-minute visualization
   with the goal of understanding the
   issue or beliefs that are preventing
   them from living the life they want.
   They are then regressed—
   guided back through time by the
   therapist—to key moments in
   their life (very often childhood)
   to discover where the belief came
   from, how old the client may have
   been when he or she adopted this
   belief, and the situation at the time.
   The hypnotic trance facilitates recall
   of past events that are often otherwise buried from
   everyday awareness.
   “So, if someone says to me, ‘I have an addiction,’” says
   Sofia, “then we look for a period in their life where the
   addiction first began and the conditions surrounding
   it, whether it was a period where the person felt really

The core beliefs of RTT

Marisa Peer, founder

of RTT, teaches that the

mind operates on simple

principles:

•It does what it thinks

you want it to do

• It is hardwired to move
  you toward pleasure
  and avoid pain 


• The way you feel about
  everything all the time
  is about the pictures
  you make in your mind
  and the words you say
  to yourself
  
  
  • The mind loves what
    is familiar, and it
    is programmed to
    recreate what is
    familiar and avoid what
    is unfamiliar
  
  
  
  

In order to change a

negative emotional state

or unwanted habit, or to

create a happier, more

fulfilling life, you have

to make what is familiar

(e.g. comfort eating or

anxiety) unfamiliar, and

make what is unfamiliar

familiar (e.g. eating

healthily and adopting

calming practices and

behavior).

This is done by

collaborating with

your mind—telling it

exactly what you want

by creating very specific,

exciting pictures and

positive self-talk, and

linking the pictures

and talk to a massive

sense of pleasure from

achieving your goal and

to the great pain of not

achieving it. 

We tend to blindly

follow subconscious

programs—which are

often totally in conflict

with our conscious

desires and beliefs

Hypnotherapist and

psychotherapist Marisa Peer

developed RTT to overcome

the disempowering beliefs

at the root of health issues

Sofia with RTT

creator Marisa Peer,

who, she says,

”had a different

way of approaching

depression that

resonated with me”