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What SMGI® Really Is
A gentle, experiential method that reaches the deeper layers where real change happens.
SMGI® works with your body, mind, and subconscious together to resolve emotional imprints, survival patterns, and burdens that talking alone can’t reach.
Understanding the Stuckness
Why We Stay Stuck in Our Heads
Why Thinking Isn’t Enough
Because insight works at the level of behaviours, values, and beliefs. Not at the deeper imprinting level where the pattern was formed to safely protect you.
Where Patterns Really Live
Protection patterns like freeze, flee, avoid, attach, submit, or repeat live in the body and subconscious, where meaning and memory intertwine.
What Shifts Patterns
Release of the biological imprint through the mind–body connection. So the mind can create new meaning and new biological imprint for a new way of being.
How This Method Stands Apart
What Makes SMGI® Different
Most healing approaches work with just one layer of you, either with your thoughts and emotions, or your body. Even the newer methods that connect thinking and feeling still don’t reach the deeper layers where your subconscious and younger parts hold the original imprint. SMGI® works differently.
Your subconscious knows the order of importance, pace, and the depth needed to move toward what you truly desire.
My role is to guide your Central-Self safely and gently to lead the journey, so your subconscious brings forward whatever is ready, without forcing, analysing, or trying to “figure it out.”
Unlike typical parts work, including the Richard Schwartz lineage, SMGI® does not categorise or summon parts.
I speak only to your Central-Self, so your internal leadership strengthens and is not dependence on a therapist or any other external methods.SMGI® is interactive hypnosis. You remain fully aware, in choice, and in control. Nothing is imposed, demanded, and no solutions are suggested. Whatever arises comes from within you. You stay in dialogue with the practitioner throughout, so the process unfolds at the pace, depth, and order your subconscious determines to bring your desire come true.
It uses hypnosis in its original sense: attention becoming absorbed and directed inward, like a guided dream. You are never “put under,” and nothing is imposed. The imagery, insights, and shifts arise from within you, not from my voice.
This differs from traditional hypnosis, where a practitioner leads a deep trance or suggests what should change. In SMGI®, your inner system leads the process, allowing natural shifts in emotional and bodily patterns as safety is registered in the present moment.
Most inner child work stops at noticing or comforting. In SMGI®, younger or protective parts are gently, unburdened, reconnected, and reintegrated with their strength and lesson learnt into the Central Self. The biological imprinting of this process creates lasting internal cohesion rather than momentary relief.
There are no scripts, affirmations, or cognitive exercises. You’re not trying to change anything through tools or techniques.
SMGI® helps you reach the part of you that still carries the pattern and when that part is unburdened and welcomed back into your Central-Self,
change is effortless from the inside out.
The Insight-Rich, Change-Poor Thinker
You understand your patterns clearly . Yet you feel stuck and patterns repeat.
The Relationship Pattern Survivor
You keep finding yourself in familiar dynamics, even when you realise it.
The High-Achieving but Emotionally Disconnected Adult
Successful on the outside, but inwardly feeling flat, numb, or far from yourself.
The Quietly Anxious but Highly Driven Performer
The calm exterior others see doesn’t match the tension your body carries.
The Over-Functioning, Over-Responsible Caretaker
You carry too much, anticipate too much, and rarely feel supported in return.
The Emotionally Intelligent Adult at a Crossroad
You know yourself. You feel something deeper is wanting meaning & change.
The Spiritually Curious but Grounded Seeker
You’re open to inner work,
but want something embodied, psychologically and spiritually sound.
The Person with Unexplained Pain or Fatigue
Tension, exhaustion, or persistent discomfort in your body even when medical tests show nothing is wrong.
The People This Method Supports
Who SMGI® Helps
SMGI® helps people who feel ready for a different kind of change where they have agency. Where the relationship is not therapist–client, coach–client, or doctor–patient, but a guided partnership that helps them connect with their own inner authority.
inside the experience
What an SMGI® Session Actually Feels Like
Most people expect SMGI® to feel like meditation, hypnosis, or guided relaxation, but it’s different. It’s gentler. More conscious. More spacious. Deeply attuned to your body, your subconscious, and your Central-Self.
You remain aware.
You remain in choice.
Your subconscious leads.
Your Central-Self decides.
My role is simply to guide the journey with attunement, clarity, and care.
There’s no requirement to relax or feel calm. You simply arrive as you are, and we start from there. There is nothing to get right. Nothing to perform. Nothing to manage. I guide your attention to shift inward, not forced, not controlled, just enough to notice what’s present.
I guide your Central-Self inward through guiding prompts that gently direct your attention. You remain conscious, aware, and in choice throughout.
SMGI® works with imagery as the natural language of the subconscious. Imagery is a right-brain process, allowing sensations, emotions, memories, meanings, and bodily states to be expressed all at once, often more clearly than words.
Words and logical language belong primarily to the left brain. While they are essential for understanding, many times they tend to organise, interpret, and conclude quickly because of our extensive logical thinking and training in our lifestyle. In this work, we slow that impulse so imagery has space to fully convey its message before meaning and language is formed.
The imagery, insights, and direction arise from within you, not from my voice. You may notice sensations, images, colours, symbols, or subtle felt impressions that are sometimes vivid, sometimes barely there. There is no right or wrong way of experiencing this. Whatever arises is what your system is ready to bring forward.
Everything that emerges remains connected to felt experience in the physical body. We are not analysing or interpreting. We are listening.
A younger part, a protective part, or an emotion may appear. Not because we search for it, but because your subconscious chooses what comes forward. The pace is always matched to your desire and readiness.
Because your subconscious knows exactly what you’re ready for, it will not take you into overwhelm. If something is too tender to revisit directly, your system naturally softens it through symbols, distance, or gentle metaphors, so the healing unfolds without re-triggering.
You are guided to gently help the part release the fear, beliefs, burdens or survival strategies it has been carrying. This release is always a felt sensation in the physical body. Then, the part is invited to reconnect with your Central Self, which is the calm, sovereign organising centre of your inner world. You don’t fix the part. You welcome it home. This is integration and again it's felt sensation in the physical body. It's as if a fragmented part comes and joins the whole.
SMGI® helps you reach the part of you that still carries the pattern and when that part is unburdened and welcomed back into your Central-Self, a new truth about who you are naturally emerges. Clients often arrive with an “I am…” statement. And, when the new truth is spoken aloud, the felt sense in the body shifts.
From there, we invite the subconscious to reveal scenes or moments where this new truth can be lived, allowing a new way of being to take shape. Change happens from the inside out, and you recognise it only when life presents an old pattern and you find yourself responding differently, naturally, without effort.
SMGI® was created by Gina Vance, whose decades of work in subconscious, somatic, and trauma-informed practices form the foundation of this approach. I’m grateful to continue this method in my own way through BodyWise Mind.