A lifetime of old memories and busy days spent creating new ones can sometimes add up to a feeling that life is a little less than ideal. Addressing these issues can do a lot of good, and deep hypnosis practitioner Emmy Volkar has just developed a new business to meet this challenge.
Volkar was born in Pennsylvania, where she also earned a degree in English. “Back then, I knew I loved reading and writing, and thinking about how people feel and living their lives, and thinking about it in different ways,” she says. This led to 15 years in the world of nonprofit adult and child behavioral health and community programs. Later, she took advantage of a network called World Wide Opportunities On Organic Farms, which allows workers to travel to farms in different locations to gain experience.
“My favorite farm was in Concrete. I kept in touch with these people, and at one point they had a small cabin for rent,” Volkar says. “Then I moved to Guemes Island for a bit and moved to Bellingham in 2017. I guess I needed a bigger town to find more community, new friends and the opportunity to play music.”
Volkar’s childhood experience was an inspiration for his future. “In college, friends would tell me what upset them, family issues and stuff, and I noticed that I felt really comfortable about it,” she says. Since then, she has also found another personal touchstone. “There may have been times when I didn’t believe in the presence of a god or a universal connective tissue, but I’ve always believed in energy, and it’s always been incredibly obvious to me. “
She quickly found a way to combine her beliefs with a desire to be her own boss. “About four years ago, I started attending the Sacred Current Foundation in Berkeley, California,” Volkar explains. “It was founded by Isa Gucciardi, a PhD who developed a hypnotherapy modality in the mid-1990s called Depth Hypnosis.”
Despite what hypnosis might conjure up, its practice has little to do with entering a state of sleep. “It’s a model that combines hypnotherapy, Buddhist psychology, energy medicine, shamanic work and transpersonal psychology – a way of understanding the self by connecting to a deity, a higher power or an inner sense of wisdom,” says Volkar.
His method doesn’t involve swinging a pocket watch in front of someone’s eyes, but begins in a familiar way.
“I’m going to get an emotional biography of the person’s life, going through their memories and basic relationships,” Volkar explains. “In the next session, I help them connect to a compassionate inner voice. Some people are in a state of tremendous disempowerment and their inner narrative is negative.
The goal is to use that hidden, positive inner voice to engage head-on with the stronger, negative one.
“We talk about the issues that arise in their lives and come to an emotionally charged state,” Volkar explains. “From there, I help them get into a meditative state, where their mind is quieted so they can actually find the source of the feeling that’s coming up. Whatever the issue, we bring that compassionate voice to help with integration.
Volkar sees it as an effective tool for a wide range of people. “If you’ve put a lot of effort and energy into changing something and it still isn’t changing, now is a good time to work with Depth Hypnosis. For many people, I see improvement in just three or four sessions,” she says. “It’s not like talk therapy, which can help people organize their thoughts — it’s for people who are ready to change the things in their lives that are causing trouble. suffering.It has been proven to help with PTSD, anxiety and depression.
Volkar also offers three other areas of assistance, beginning with his training in the Coming To Peace process, a conflict resolution model in which clients connect to inner wisdom to guide them through mediation and conflict resolution. “I believe conflict is a teacher,” Volkar says. “It’s there so that we can get to know each other better and deepen our ability to be in harmony with the world. I believe it can be a really valuable thing to engage.
Another specialty deals with physical health. “My understanding of human nature is that if we don’t process something on a spiritual level, it moves on to an emotional level. If we don’t process it at that level, it moves to a mental level. If we don’t deal with it there, it can manifest physically,” Volkar says. “If your nerves are fried, you cannot receive information in a normal, relaxed way. There are so many gentle and effective herbs that can help repair your nervous system, and once you have a base you can dig into the physical issues and then open up on the emotional, mental and spiritual levels.
Finally, Volkar guides people in developing ceremonies for weddings, births, funerals and other personal milestones. “Our culture moves through everything so quickly that we often don’t give things the space and time to be truly sacred,” she says. “I’m interested in bringing that back to people because there’s wisdom in that.”
While much of Volkar’s job is dealing with negative circumstances, she sees real results in confronting and working around them. “I believe in digging into the hard stuff, and I think we’ve forgotten how to do it. I’m also interested in helping people develop practices that allow them to feel comfortable and safe in their bodies.
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