I met with my father, Dr. Edwin Yager, on three consecutive days in September of 2009.  The first meeting lasted for about two hours; the second and third meetings lasted less than an hour.  All meetings took place in my automobile, since that was the only place uninterrupted privacy could be assured. 

I started having numbness and pain in my arms and hands when I was 22 years old.  The pain got worse over time and it took 8 years before I was correctly diagnosed with a brain malformation (Chiari Type I).   The malformation put pressure on my spinal cord and interrupted the flow of spinal fluid between my brain and spinal cord, which then caused a syrinx.  The syrinx in my spinal cord caused the cord to expand into my spine and thus cut off nerves, which is what caused the pain and numbness.  I have had 3 surgeries to correct the problem and the last one was so successful (restructure of the craniotomy I had in my first surgery) that the syrinx never returned.  Although the physical problem was corrected, my nerves never recovered and I was in constant pain since the first time I had pain at 22.   Although I was always in pain, it would get worse whenever I did anything physical with my arms.  The nerves would start to fire when I used my muscles and that firing wouldn’t stop for days.  After 25+ years of pain I started using a Fentanyl patch and other medications to control the pain.  Although it worked fairly well, I knew that in time I would have to increase the dosage and thus shorten my life due to the side effects of the drugs. 

I have worked with my father over several different occasions in the years that he has been practicing hypnosis and Subliminal Therapy.  Usually I found that what was done didn’t work very well, although I knew I was most likely the cause of it.  For many different reasons, it was difficult to work with my father, even though I knew he just wanted to help me.  In my mind, Centrum was a mischievous being that made a joke out of what was trying to be accomplished.  Centrum would pretend to try to help but was not really doing much, as I later learned.  When my father suggested that we use Subliminal Therapy for my pain, I agreed but wasn’t very confident that it would be any different this time, even though I really wanted it to work. 

During the first session, Centrum was revealed as the same mischievous being that he had always been.  But fairly soon after we started, I realized that he wasn’t the real Centrum for me, but a part of him.   After bringing out the true Centrum, who was normal and larger in my mind, I was able to make some progress.  The old Centrum had to be a part of everything, so in my mind he got inside of the real Centrum and the work began.   Although the first session identified some things for me, it wasn’t until the second session that I truly learned why my pain continued all these years.  The third session just confirmed what I learned in the second session. 

Issues/causes identified during my treatment   I learned that the biggest conflict within myself was my fear.  Fear of Success in my career, with my horses, with my weight control and with quitting my nail biting.  All of these issues have in one way or another prevented me from feeling successful in my life.  I also realized I was afraid of loneliness, isolation, abandonment and getting attention.  Getting rid of all these fears was a huge step for me and I now feel I am on my way to being that successful person I always hoped I could be. 

Once I realized what was preventing me from being the person I wanted to be, my pain ceased and has not returned.  Although I am currently still working to get off the morphine-derived medication I had been on, that also is going very well.  It has been much easier than I had hoped and I know I will be able to get off it entirely within the next few weeks.   

I think the treatment worked for me because I was finally able to face what was stagnant inside me and let it go.  Letting go of the fermenting problems inside me also allowed me to let go of my pain.  I held onto it in order to make sure I wouldn’t be forgotten, especially when I wasn’t successful, and once it wasn’t needed to serve that purpose, I no longer needed it and let it go.  I feel like a new person, one without pain that I’ve had for most of my life.  It is a wonderful gift.   

Cindy Yager

During my experience with Dr. Yager, he was able to guide me in understanding the fundamentals of “Centrum”.  My obsessions were hindering my ability to focus, sleep, and live happily.  Dr. Yager has taught me how to communicate with the different parts leading to that obsession and together helped me focus on re-training my areas of concern.  I have learned the beginning stages of how to train myself and my emotions.  The work provided by Dr. Yager was effective as my obsessions no longer exist pertaining towards the concerning areas that hindered me from moving on with life.  I feel relaxed, enlightened, and less stressed, and these were my intended goals to accomplish. 

Thank you again for providing me the tools to bring reality into perspective and understand how to correct my obsessions.  

Aaron M. Anavim

In February, 2007 my mid size sedan was broad-sided by an SUV.  I sustained soreness and a pinched sciatic nerve in my left upper hamstring and left buttock.  The soreness went away, the sciatica did not.  After many types of non-invasive conventional medical therapies

I was still unable to sit for over fifteen minutes due to escalating pain. 

In August, 2009 I saw Dr. Edwin Yager for the first time.  After three hypnotherapy visits I found that I could mediate the sciatic pain through neurologic techniques acquired through Dr. Yager.  For the first time in over two years my wife and I could eat out and see movies again.  We truly feel that Dr. Yager's hypnotherapy gave me my life back.  There is still onset of the sciatic pain when I sit but I can make it go away almost instantly. 

Other people ask me how I am able to do this.  I am unable to articulate what I do, just that I do it. 

William Campbell, age 68