Emotional Comfort: The Gift of Your Inner Guide

Reviewed by Irene Watson for Reader Views (3/06) After attending a hypnosis workshop, psychiatrist and author of "Emotional Comfort," Judith Davis discovered that she could communicate with her Inner Guide through self-hypnosis. Her Inner Guide, through finger signals or automatic handwriting, guided her into her own emotional comfort as well as learning how to help others achieve it. Through laborious dedication and working with her Inner Guide, Davis was able to achieve motivation to reorganize her paper work, decorate her home, as well as achieve her desired weight. After much experimentation on her own life, Davis gradually focused on using her Inner Guide to develop a modality to assist her patients with more than just psychoanalysis or psychotherapy. That she did, resulting in the creation of The Davis Foundation for Providing Emotional Comfort. In her book, Davis explains the causes of emotional discomfort, which are often caused by habit patterns, stimuli, trauma, or genetic predisposition. The emotional discomfort could manifest as anger, anxiety and depression. She then gives solutions by addressing the origin and recommending hypnosis or self-hypnosis to materialize the Inner Guide. While the first part of the book explains the Davis' theory, the second part of the book addresses The Davis Technique, a five-stage process in developing the Inner Guide. Davis gives a clear process of how to enter the self-hypnotic state and how to establish communication with one's Inner Guide. Davis suggests that once comfortable with communicating with the Inner Guide, the Inner Guide will assist in your well-being, provide new solutions to uncomfortable situations, help with your relationships, as well help raising your family. Basically, according to Davis, the Inner Guide can help with any facet of your life. In summing up the book, Davis provides case studies that almost anyone can relate to. She also provides answers to "frequently asked questions" as well as theories by forerunners Freud and his student, Klein. At the back of the book is a glossary which is most beneficial for those not familiar with some of terms Davis uses. Being a certified hypnotist and practicing psychosynthesis myself, I found Davis' book very concise and practical. Her simple explanations of the theory as well as the five-stage process would be easy to follow by someone not familiar with self-hypnosis. Davis writes with passion and simplicity, giving the reader comfort in knowing that finding, then developing and using one's Inner Guide is possible.

Expert psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Judith Davis presents Emotional Comfort: The Gift Of Your Inner Guide, which describes a five-stage program to create a more joyful life - the Davis (tm) Technique for Attaining Emotional Comfort. By creating a new entity in one's mind, an inner guide, one can search one's memory for the origins of one's problems, and therefore build true solutions that address the roots of the difficulty. The benefits of entering a self-hypnotic state can be used to foster a greater self-awareness and an improved ability to deal with one's problems and reconcile difficulties. A liberating self-help guide about tapping into the wellspring of one's own strength and hidden powers of the mind.