Emotional Shift Session
Discover which of the 21 Self-Opposing Mind Patterns
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Discover which of the
21 Self-Opposing Mind Patterns
you MUST remove so you can...
Align in Your Power and Reach Your Dreams
Breaking Recurring Emotional Patterns: A Different Way to Shift
You may understand why you feel the way you do and still find yourself reacting in the same way.
A memory, conversation, relationship, or situation can activate an emotional response that feels much stronger than what you consciously want to feel. You may know rationally that you are safe, capable, or ready to move forward—yet part of you continues to react from an older emotional pattern.
Understanding an emotional pattern is important, but understanding alone does not always change the automatic response.
The TrueSelf SHIFT Session™ is a focused, experiential session designed to help you access recurring emotional patterns, reduce their emotional intensity, and reconnect with a clearer and more grounded state of awareness.
What Is the TrueSelf SHIFT Session™?
The TrueSelf SHIFT Session™ is a 75-minute guided process that uses conscious hypnosis, focused awareness, and the TrueSelf Alignment Method™ to work with recurring emotional patterns.
During the session, your attention is gently directed inward so you can identify the emotional response beneath a recurring trigger and notice how it is experienced in your thoughts and body.
Rather than only discussing the situation intellectually, the session helps you work directly with the emotional pattern as it is being experienced in the present moment.
The purpose is to help reduce the emotional charge connected to the pattern so it no longer influences your reactions, mood, or choices with the same intensity.
Why Was the SHIFT Session™ Created?
After more than two decades of clinical practice, Toni Rebic, M.A., Psychologist, noticed something that many clients experienced.
They often understood why they reacted the way they did. They had gained insight into their past and could explain their emotional struggles, yet the same emotional reactions continued to return.
It became clear that understanding an emotional pattern and changing it were not always the same thing.
This observation led Toni to develop the TrueSelf Psychology® Alignment Program and, as part of that work, the TrueSelf SHIFT Session™—a focused process that combines conscious hypnosis with the TrueSelf Alignment Method™ to help people work directly with recurring emotional patterns as they are experienced in the present.
The goal was to create a more focused, experiential process that helps people move beyond recurring emotional reactions and reconnect with a calmer, more aligned state of being.
Why Do Emotional Patterns Keep Repeating?
Many people believe they have dozens of different emotional problems.
More often, they are experiencing a handful of recurring emotional patterns that continue to appear in different situations throughout life.
The circumstances may change, but the emotional response often feels familiar.
You may find yourself becoming anxious in different situations, reacting defensively with different people, feeling rejected in different relationships, or doubting yourself whenever you face a new challenge.
Most people don’t immediately recognize these recurring patterns. Instead, they naturally focus on what happened rather than on how they consistently think, interpret, and respond to what happened.
Over time, these patterns become automatic. They can be activated before you are even aware they are happening, making it feel as though your emotional reaction is simply part of who you are.
This is why people often say:
“I don’t know why I reacted like that.”
or
“I knew I shouldn’t have reacted that way, but I couldn’t seem to stop myself.”
The SHIFT Session™ is designed to help bring these recurring emotional patterns into conscious awareness so they can be experienced differently rather than simply repeated.
The focus is not simply on understanding what happened in the past.
It is on recognizing what continues to be activated within you today, reducing its emotional intensity, and helping you respond from your TrueSelf rather than from an old conditioned pattern.
Why Do Emotional Patterns Keep Repeating?
The SHIFT Session™ is not simply a conversation about an emotional experience.
It is an interactive process that helps you:
- identify the recurring emotional response beneath the trigger;
- notice how the response is experienced in your body, thoughts, and inner dialogue;
- remain present with the emotion without becoming overwhelmed by it;
- interrupt the automatic emotional loop;
- develop a clearer and more aligned internal response.
The goal is not to erase memories or prevent you from ever feeling difficult emotions.
The goal is to help you experience greater space between a trigger and your response, so you can respond more consciously rather than automatically reacting from an old emotional pattern.
What Happens During a SHIFT Session™?
Every SHIFT Session™ is individualized, but the process generally follows these steps:
1. Identify the Recurring Emotional Pattern
Together, we briefly identify several emotionally significant experiences that continue to trigger a recurring emotional response today. The purpose is not to analyze each experience in depth, but to recognize the recurring pattern they have in common. These experiences serve as entry points into structured alignment exercises designed to help shift your emotional response in the present.
2. Enter a State of Focused Awareness
Using conscious hypnosis and guided attention, you are invited into a deeply focused yet fully conscious state of awareness. Throughout the session, you remain awake, aware, and able to communicate.
3. SHIFT the Emotional Response
Using a series of structured experiential exercises—including guided role-play, emotional expression, and focused awareness—you are guided to work directly with the emotional response rather than simply talking about it. The goal is to help shift the emotional intensity of the recurring pattern.
4. Strengthen a More Aligned Response
The session concludes by helping you reconnect with your TrueSelf through personalized alignment exercises designed to reinforce a calmer, clearer, and more self-supportive way of thinking and responding.
The goal isn’t to relive the emotion—it’s to move through it so it no longer carries the same emotional weight. The focus is on changing your relationship to the emotional pattern, not on repeatedly revisiting the story behind it.
Common Experiences Following a SHIFT Session™
Following a SHIFT Session™, clients often describe experiencing one or more of the following:
- Feeling calmer or emotionally lighter
- Experiencing less emotional intensity around a familiar trigger
- Feeling less emotionally attached to a difficult memory
- Noticing that associated thoughts feel less compelling
- Having greater emotional clarity
- Feeling more present and grounded
- Experiencing more choice in how they respond
- Feeling more connected to themselves
Some people notice a shift immediately, while others recognize changes gradually as they encounter situations that previously activated the pattern.
No particular response can be guaranteed, and the session does not replace ongoing psychological, medical, or psychiatric care when those services are needed.
Who May Benefit From a SHIFT Session™?
The SHIFT Session™ may be helpful for people who:
- experience recurring emotional reactions;
- become easily triggered and have difficulty settling afterward;
- feel that their emotional response does not match their rational understanding;
- continue to feel emotionally affected by a past experience;
- understand their patterns intellectually but still feel controlled by them;
- repeatedly experience fear, shame, guilt, rejection, anger, or self-doubt;
- want to develop greater emotional clarity and self-awareness;
- want to respond from their present reality rather than an older emotional pattern;
- feel ready to move from internal conflict toward greater alignment.
A consultation may be recommended to determine whether the SHIFT Session™ is appropriate for your needs.
FAQ
What Does Conscious Hypnosis Mean?
The SHIFT Session™ uses a form of conscious hypnosis that guides you into a deeply focused, inward state of awareness.
Some people describe the experience as:
- deep relaxation;
- an immersive daydream;
- a meditative state;
- a state between wakefulness and sleep;
- a heightened awareness of thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations.
Although your attention is directed inward, you do not lose awareness or control.
You remain able to speak, answer questions, describe your experience, and actively participate throughout the session.
The purpose is not to reduce awareness.
It is to deepen awareness so the recurring emotional pattern can be recognized and worked with more directly.
What Does the SHIFT Session™ Feel Like?
Most people are surprised by how natural the experience feels.
Although the session works with meaningful emotions, clients remain conscious, aware, and in control throughout the process. TheThe session is supportive and non-judgmental, allowing many clients to feel comfortable participating fully in the experiential exercises and expressing the emotions that arise during the process.
As they move through the structured exercises, many clients describe feeling progressively lighter, calmer, and more at ease. By the end of the session, it’s common for people to say they feel as though a weight has been lifted or that the emotional intensity connected to the pattern has noticeably decreased.
Will I Be Conscious During the SHIFT Session™?
Yes.
You remain conscious, aware, and able to communicate throughout the session.
The SHIFT Session™ is interactive. Your practitioner will ask questions, and you will be invited to describe what you are noticing and experiencing.
You cannot be made to disclose something you do not want to disclose or act against your wishes.
You remain an active participant throughout the entire process.
Is the SHIFT Session™ Psychotherapy?
The TrueSelf SHIFT Session™ is offered as part of the TrueSelf Psychology® Alignment Program.
It is a focused Alignment Psychology-Coaching process that uses conscious hypnosis and structured alignment exercises to help clients recognize and work with recurring emotional patterns. Rather than providing ongoing psychotherapy, it is designed as a structured experiential alignment process focused on a specific emotional pattern.
It is not intended to replace psychotherapy, psychiatric treatment, medical care, or crisis intervention when those services are required.
The suitability of the session depends on the individual’s needs, history, current functioning, and treatment context.
Is the SHIFT Session™ the Same as Traditional Hypnosis?
Not exactly.
Traditional hypnosis can be used in many different ways and may include direct suggestions related to habits, behaviours, or symptoms.
The SHIFT Session™ is collaborative and interactive. Rather than simply receiving suggestions, you actively participate in identifying the emotional pattern, describing what you experience, and developing a more aligned internal response.
The process combines:
- conscious hypnosis;
- focused awareness;
- structured alignment exercises
- emotional-pattern identification;
- TrueSelf Psychology® alignment principles.
The emphasis is not on losing control or entering an unconscious state. It is on becoming more consciously aware of the pattern that has been influencing you.
Do I Need to Talk About Everything That Happened?
No.
You may need to provide enough context to identify the emotional pattern and understand what activates it, but the session does not require a detailed retelling of every past experience.
The focus is on identifying what continues to affect you in the present and helping you work with the emotional response that remains active today.
How Many SHIFT Sessions™ Will I Need?
The SHIFT Session™ is a focused 75-minute process, and the number of sessions needed varies.
Some people choose to work with one clearly identified emotional pattern. Others may have several distinct triggers or recurring patterns they want to address over time.
Your practitioner can help you determine what is appropriate based on your goals and response to the process.
Reconnect With the Part of You Beyond the Pattern
Recurring emotional patterns can make it feel as though your reactions define who you are.
Over time, it can seem as though the fear, self-doubt, anger, guilt, or emotional pain has become part of your identity.
But those recurring reactions are not your TrueSelf.
The TrueSelf SHIFT Session™ is designed to help you recognize these patterns, reduce their emotional influence, and reconnect with the part of you that can observe, choose, and respond more consciously.
You do not have to become someone else.
You simply learn to respond from your TrueSelf rather than continuing to react from an old conditioned pattern.
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The Better You Feel, The Better Life Gets!
The Better You Feel, The Better Life Gets! TrueSelf Psychology®
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You are one CALL away from living a TrueSelf life! Book your appointment today with one of our TrueSelf psychologists and coaches in Montreal, anywhere in the province of Quebec. We offer in person and online services.
514-933-2289 /
[email protected]
