The affect bridge: A hypnoanalytic
technique
Dr M. Glock 1 min read 200
The “affect bridge” is a technique whereby a patient is moved experientially from
the present to a past incident over an affect common to the two events rather than
through an overlapping “idea” as is usual in psychoanalytic association. The current
affect is enhanced, enlivened and animated and all other aspects of the present
experience are hypnotically removed, melted or vaporized. The patient is then
asked to return to some earlier experience during which the affect was felt and to
re-live the associated event. The client is then guided to disassociate from the
experience and/or replace it with positive resources.
For example: A case is presented during which two “affect bridges” were used to
time travel to an early experience of hunger after a long 5 mile hike as part of the
treatment of poverty around money. Significant conflict material so secured was
“brought forward” to the present to achieve “insight” and “working-through.” The
technique achieves significant therapeutic change in a comparatively short period of
time.
This is a core technique of my working through process, a combination of NLP,
Hypnotherapy and Depth Psychology.
Hypnosis Techniques--Using The Affect Bridge
By Dr. Anthony Taylor
The hypnotic technique of the affect bridge is not something a lot of people talk
about. This hypnosis technique begins in the offices where hypnotherapy is
practiced, as the hypnotist attempts to dissolve the root of a problem by
traveling The Affect Bridge. The affect bridge is in a sense an unconscious
connection to the origin of various emotions or experiences. If you can follow
The Affect Bridge, you can change a person's unconscious blueprint.
Fear and anger are two of the common emotions that hypnotists eradicates
through the affect bridge. So, if the hypnotist is working with a person who is
dealing with anger, what the hypnotist will do is induce trance and then follow
the affect bridge until the unconscious mind brings the person to their initial
recorded occurrence where they felt anger.By removing anger from its roots,
what happens is that the frequent anger a person feels will be removed as well.
This same hypnosis procedure applies to how a hypnotist removes destructive
fear in a client.
A hypnotist who is following the affect bridge must not forget that once the
origin of whatever particular emotion they are trying to get rid of is realized, that
the person has still likely learned important coaching from the incident. This
means that while the hypnotist is in the process of clearing away the unwanted
emotions, that the hypnotist must not also by accident clear away the critical
learning experiences their client received from the unwanted emotions.
So, as a basic rule, the hypnotist must first induce trance, then follow the affect
bridge to discover the very first experience that led to the unwanted emotion.
Then, the hypnotist should bring their client through a regression in order to
dissolve the unwanted emotional state while at the same time encouraging their
client to learn from their past experiences that caused them to experience these
unwanted emotions to begin with.
The affect bridge is one of the most significant tools a hypnotist can use while
they carry out regressions on their clients to clear away unwanted emotions, but
the hypnotist must not dissolve the important learning experiences along with
the negative feelings. - 31857
About the Author:
The covert hypnosis program created by Dr. Jonathan Groves is hands down the
most powerful and modern style of mind control hypnosis anywhere. Language
patterns are like luck, they will only get you so far. Disguised Hypnosis picks up
where hypnotic language patterns leave off.
