PIONEERING holistic therapist Jon-Richard Turner is in Cyprus this week and will hold two workshops at the weekend based on his successful techniques in pre-natal psychology.
Turner is pioneering in the sense that while it is widely accepted that hypnotherapy can help people delve deep into their subconscious to remove destructive behaviour patterns, he has developed a method of achieving the same results without having to hypnotise his clients.
He has been a two-term elected vice-president of the International Society of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine. He is also an ISPPM Executive Board Member and one of the co-editors of the ISPPM Journal and English Language Consultant to The Neuroendocrinology Letters Medical Journal.
“It was discovered as far back as the 60s that people were living this life with feelings and memories or traumatic events from another life,” he said referring to well-known techniques of past-life regression.
Turner also uses pre-natal psychology, which takes the client back to the womb, where he says first impressions and many behavioural patterns are recorded on the subconscious mind through the emotions of the mother.
The therapy involves 22 sets of questions, which reveal the basic patterns which each person keeps living out.
“You don’t have to believe in this to use it as a therapeutic tool,” Turner told the Cyprus Mail yesterday. “I discovered it was not necessary to hypnotise anyone to help them recall past traumas. I could just ask them to close their eyes and go to the place they recall.”
While in therapy practice in Beverly Hills, California, Turner was getting referrals of clients who had been given up as incurable by other therapists. He said he realised that these people had spent extended time exploring their lives for the cause of their problems and had failed.
He was inspired to ask those clients to explore the emotional patterns their mothers and fathers were experiencing during their pregnancies. That was when he discovered that not only is each person the synthesis of the physical DNA of their parents, which give them their physical characteristics, but that they are also the synthesis of the charged emotions which the parent experienced during the nine months of the baby’s gestation.
Turner calls this the emotional DNA.
”In other words, each one us is born with a full menu of emotional patterns,” he said. “Through whole-self psychology, we are able to realise that our life of diminishing feelings and patterns are actually the residue from our parent’s reactions to traumatic events during their pregnancies.”
Turner said that standard types of therapy in general are not successful. He said studies show that it requires 21 consecutive days to change a belief or behaviour. “Therapy simply gives insights. It does not change the problem. There has to be a focused change,” he said.
“Most psychologists work with people for one hour. Sometimes it takes half an hour for something to come through. The one-hour therapy just conditions the patient to open a link, and then it is closed again. They are becoming hypnotised in a sense to never finish the therapy. I pioneered working with people until it was finished. I rarely see anyone again,” he said, adding that he once worked with a client for 14 hours in one session.
Turner said that this type of transpersonal multidimensional regression therapy is helpful in self stress-reduction, self-healing, and a way to understand reactions and fears and phobias that create non-productive behaviour.
He also said that a four-year diploma course in pre-natal psychology is now being taught at the University of Athens. “It’s the first such diploma course in Europe,” he said.
“It’s a basic technique. It’s a therapeutic technique and there is no religion involved,” he added.
n The two weekend workshops will take place at EP Competent Management Solutions Ltd in Nicosia on Saturday and Sunday. They focus on past-life regression and the secret for a successful personal relationship. Turner is also available for a limited number of private sessions during his 10-day visit to the island. For more information Tel: 99615557 or 99450262.
