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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.No trance, no suggestion, no altered state. You stay conscious and in choice. The imagery, insights, and direction come from within you, not from my voice.
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 slow, grounding prompts.No trance, no suggestion, no altered state. You stay conscious and in choice. You don’t imagine anything.
The imagery, insights, and direction come from within you, not from my voice. You remain fully aware. You may notice sensations, images, colours, symbols, or energy feelings arising, some times vivid and sometimes subtle. There is no right or wrong way of noticing, because we all perceive the world through our own unique lenses. Whatever comes is exactly what’s ready. And always connected to a felt sensation in the physical body.
Along the way, supportive inner resources may appear — a helper, an ally, or a comforting presence. These figures arise from your own subconscious, offering reassurance so your journey never feels overwhelming or alone.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.