Hello, welcome to the lecture on emotional releases. It's not uncommon to the course of a hypnotherapy session for someone to break down into tears like a shed a few tears and, and in the first session, it's not uncommon for people to actually explode into tears every once in a while. So what they're doing is that they're releasing emotion that's been pent up from the past. And so what you want to do when that happens is you want to let them do that as much as they can. If they seem to be resisting or holding back, they seem self conscious, just kind of encourage them to let them out as deeply as they can. And then when the session is over, they may feel self conscious or embarrassed and just remind them that releasing tears is a really great thing to do.
It's a great emotional release, and this is the place to do it. So you want to encourage them and support them in their emotional releases. And this reminds me of a story when I worked In the cancer unit some years back, and a woman came to me she signed up for six sessions. And she had just been told by her doctors that her case with cancer was terminal, so she was going to die. And so we went into the first session, I got to relax and she exploded into tears. And she cried, and she cried, and she cried, and she did not stop crying for the entire hour.
And then she came back again. In the next session, same thing, she's cried the whole hour long. And she did that for five consecutive sessions. All she did was she came in and released, everything that she was grieving. And then in the last section in the sixth session, same thing, she started crying, really unloading we got about halfway through the session, and she stopped. her tears had all been cried, her grieving had all been done.
And when we finished that session, she was so relieved. And so grateful. And so by the end of that session, she was ready to die. And so she had made peace with her maker and was ready to move on to the next world. So that was a tough series of sessions, but it felt very meaningful. And I was grateful to help her through that process.
So that can happen in your sessions. And so when people cry, just let them so let's move on to the next lecture.