Another common hypnotic phenomenon practiced in waking life is age regression – the experience of subjectively becoming younger than your years. The hypnotherapist Milton Erickson defined age regression as “the tendency on the part of the personality to revert to some method or form of expression belonging to an earlier period of personality development.” That describes what we do when we have a psychological problem: a part of us is trapped in the past, coping in the best way he or she...
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