Even thinking about anything entering my vagina makes me very uncomfortable. How will I complete the treatment?
Concerns about one’s body generally stem from lack of knowledge, inadequate sex education, religious/cultural prohibitions against accepting one’s own body and sexuality, painful experiences in the past, and negative thoughts about oneself and body image. During the treatment process, it is important to confront these issues and address them properly. A successful and effective treatment program deals with these aspects and changes the way women view themselves.
It helps increase their self-confidence. Knowledge, combined with women’s process of getting to know their own bodies and working on unhealthy feelings and thoughts, helps women feel more comfortable about their bodies and work on accessible solutions regarding their situation. The human mind has a very great ability to affect our physical structure.
Patients with vaginismus tense up uncontrollably, that is, involuntarily; they avoid intercourse with fears that it will hurt or that they will bleed; they say that they love their spouse very much, that they want to have intercourse, that they want to be a family, but at the same time they cannot get out of this vicious cycle as prisoners of their fear and anxiety. Because the source of involuntary, automated feelings, thoughts, and behaviors whose reason you do not know may be in the unconscious. With hypnotherapy, one of the most effective ways to reach the unconscious, or more commonly known as the subconscious, feelings, thoughts, and behaviors that are known to be wrong by the conscious mind but cannot be changed are reorganized, internalized, and new behaviors are turned into habits.
Thus, when both the conscious mind and the unconscious mind solve the problem, the treatment becomes completely holistic. The following quote by the famous psychologist Jung forms the basis of the treatment: “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” Hypnosis is a different state of consciousness between sleep and wakefulness in which attention is focused and the ability to receive suggestions increases, but it is never a state of sleep. Hypnotherapy is a therapy technique performed with the hypnosis technique and is accepted as a psychotherapy technique. Due to the influence of movies, hypnosis is incorrectly thought to be a state in which consciousness is lost and things are made to be done against your will. This is not true. When you look at someone who is hypnotized from the outside, they may appear to be asleep, but for example, when they are told to raise their hand, they do it—meaning they are conscious, and most importantly, they do not do things they do not want to do. For this reason, it has been used for many years by doctors and psychologists as an aid to treatment to reach the unconscious, find the source of problems and correct them there, and also to teach new things to the conscious mind and make them permanent. When trust is gained throughout the information and treatment process, fears typically decrease and discomfort is relieved. Taking deep breaths and doing what you are taught through hypnotherapy will be helpful.
