I stumbled upon an old journal of mine. The entry from September 11, 1991 is a quote from Joseph Campbell:

"...[E]very failure to cope with a life situation must be laid, in the end, to a restriction of consciousness. Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late. The whole sense of the ubiquitous myth of the hero's passage is that it shall serve as a general pattern for men and women wherever they may stand along the scale.... The individual has only to discover his own position with reference to this general human formula, and then let it assist him past his restricting walls. Who and where are his ogres? Those are the reflections of the unsolved enigmas of his own humanity. What are his ideals? Those are the symptoms of his grasp of life."

Twenty years ago, this passage spoke to me enough for me to copy it down.

So much of the energy around us takes place on a subconscious level. What is holding us back? What fears of which we are completely unaware consciously block our path? Who and where are our ogres?

Hypnotherapy can lower the noise of daily conscious distractions, create a safe space by which light can be shone on those ogres. The key word here is "safe". In the safety of a hypnotic state, the subconscious can give us clues about what is really influencing our behavior and, it is very important to add here it can provide us tools to defeat it or to integrate it into our conscious lives.