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Many veterans have told us that Alchemical Hypnotherapy has helped to heal the physical and
emotional scars of war far better than traditional therapies and drugs combined. In this article David
Quigley describe unique strategies that can be used in conjunction with medical treatment to assist
war veterans troubled by their memories and injuries.

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The ve most common problems that are helped by hypnosis

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1. Bodily pain from war wounds may persist long after medical doctors have done everything they can. Phantom
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2. Terror from wartime experiences can be locked in the subconscious mind and manifest as nightmares, night
terrors, excessive startle reactions, physical pain and tension, generalized anxiety, severe relationship problems
and phobic reactions.
3. Guilt over the things one did in wartime can haunt the surviving veterans of war. This guilt is especially serious in
every client where there is a moral ambiguity of that conict. This guilt is often accompanied by unresolved anger
against the military ocers who gave the orders and the political leaders who created these conicts.
4. Physical illnesses caused by exposure to WMDs (weapons of mass destruction) are a major problem for veterans
of modern wars. The United States remains the greatest promulgator of WMDs in the world. For example,
hundreds of square miles of Iraq are now contaminated by the radioactive dust of Uranium 238, brought over in
tanks, bullets, and artillery. In Vietnam, thousands of square miles were contaminated by Agent Orange, a potent
herbicide and deadly poison. Most veterans were in the middle of these activities, and thus, like the native
populations, will be paying all their lives with chronic illnesses caused by these agents of mass destruction.
5. Because of all the physical and emotional pain suered by veterans, drug and alcohol addiction are a major
epidemic among war veterans.

Bodily Pain
The wounds that occur in wartime are not terribly dierent, physically, from the wounds caused by a car crash or
other accident. Hypnotic movement has proven to be a powerful adjunct to medical treatment in dealing with the
long term eects of such injuries. By reliving the incident in the body, and permitting the body to move in its own
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unique way in trance, the body is able to release much of the trauma residue, including chronic pain, stiness,
and tenderness. Walking and other physical movements become much easier as we learn from our subconscious
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Terror
The hypnotic technique called the "Rescue Mission" is the most powerful for the relief of terror stored in the body
and is frequently recommended for traumatic childhood memories. The concept of the rescue mission for
childhood memories is simple but powerful: We enter the client's traumatic childhood memory in the highly
suggestible state of hypnosis, bringing with us the strength, wisdom, and compassion of the client's adult self and
the therapist. We encourage the adult client to use their voice and their body to stop abusers from hurting this
child. This helps release emotions, including terror, that are stored in the body around this incident. Then the
client lifts the child in their arms, using a stued animal to represent this child physically, and promise to save the
child and protect it from any further harm. This helps implant in the body deep feelings of safety and being loved.
A very similar process can be used for wartime trauma, although in these traumas it is usually necessary to bring
in other helpers, like more soldiers or a tank. One client who survived the blitz of London as a child in 1941 called
in Winston Churchill to rescue her family!

Guilt
Guilt over the mistakes one has made in combat can haunt a soldier for a lifetime. This feeling can be
overwhelming for many returning veterans and isn't made easier if one was obeying orders. Sometimes fellow
soldiers died because of ones poor decisions or a clumsy rie shot. Sometimes innocent civilians died when
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orders were obeyed to kill enemy soldiers at a certain location, but unarmed families were found in the burning
huts of the "enemy." Some soldiers become horried by the blood lust that took them over and turned them into
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An extremely powerful hypnotic approach to these guilty feelings is available through what is called the "remorse
process." This requires the veteran to return in a hypnotic trance to the scene of devastation which created the
original guilt. Then the soldier must imagine crawling on his knees from person to person among the burning and
bleeding bodies, begging each one of the victims for forgiveness. Through this process, the soldier can explain
how he didn't mean to hurt them. He can tell them what his orders were. He can tell them how he suers from
guilt over their deaths. For those whose forgiveness is not available, he can oer to make amends for his deeds
and those of the commanding ocers, and political leaders.
Such atonements oered by the soldier to these victims could include: active campaigning against this or any war,
returning to the country to help families suering from the war's eects, developing a lifestyle of peacefulness and
spiritual work to share with family and friends, learning and practicing healing arts as a career, or investing in
businesses that are committed to helping third world citizens rise from poverty and oppression. These oers of
atonement must not be empty promises and must be followed with real action. But such promises when followed
by dedicated action will bring an experience of forgiveness to the soldiers wounded heart.

Toxic Weaponry
The use of weapons of mass destruction in warfare did not begin in the 20th Century but the modern military
strategies of destroying entire landscapes and poisoning the land itself for thousands of years is a unique feature
of modern warfare. And the American soldiers, who deal with the chemicals of such destruction, pay a terrible
price for their involvement, a price the US military is reluctant to acknowledge.
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Removing these deadly toxins from the body is primarily a challenge for medical science. Hypnotherapy can help
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Drug and Alcohol Addiction

Drug and Alcohol addiction are very dicult to heal for war veterans when the physical and emotional pain of
these wartime traumas are screaming for some kind of relief. Fortunately, hypnotherapy has proven to have
enormous value in releasing addictions because the emotional sources of these habits lie in the subconscious
mind, the place where Hypnosis works. However, in these cases it is especially important to nd a hypnotherapist
who is familiar with the many unique challenges that war veterans face during their eorts at recovery.

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