Jean-Pierre is a butchery teacher and teaches young adults. He says his life is at a standstill because he has fallen in love with Lolita, one of his students. The bond between them seems very strong, but the young woman sees him only as a good friend. She has made it clear that she is not in love with him. In the course of our conversation, I bring up the fact that as human beings, we sometimes tend to become a little too attached to the people who draw us in, and even to those we cannot stand. Some people even form emotional bonds with objects. These bonds are loaded with stakes, unconscious calculations, reproaches, and power plays. All of this is created by our unconscious, that ball of emotion par excellence and great seeker of attention. Jean-Pierre’s eyes light up and his face becomes more childlike.

The only bond a human being needs is the umbilical cord in their mother’s womb. Once the baby is born, the cord is cut. The two beings can then begin a new life, in love for one another and in each one’s autonomy.

Familiar with hypnosis, Jean-Pierre happily discovers the thumb induction. Quickly, his eyelids blink and his eyes water as he stares at his thumbnail. His arm, hand, thumb and nail become heavy. Or maybe it’s the nail, the thumb and the arm that are weighing down. And the more it weighs, growing heavier, the more relaxed he feels inside. When Jean-Pierre’s hand touches his thigh, his eyelids close, pleasantly heavy, and he goes completely inward, calm and relaxed.

A dizzyingly gentle descent down five pretty, colorful slides brings him exactly to the place where he wants and needs to be to settle what he has to settle. After spending some time near a tree and taking care of it, Jean-Pierre crosses paths with Lolita. The young woman stands before him, smiling. They seem connected to each other by a thick steel cable running from the man’s chest. In a clear, decided voice, Jean-Pierre says “I forgive you” toward Lolita. On the other hand, there seems to be a ball of wool preventing him from saying “I forgive myself” intelligibly. After unwinding the ball of wool through his mouth and burning the mass of wool in an extraordinarily bright fire, Jean-Pierre decides to cut the cable with the druid Panoramix’s golden sickle. I ask him where he can find this famous sickle, and he tells me it’s at the very top of a magical oak tree twenty meters tall.

I then ask him about the strategy he’s going to use to go get the tool, and he immediately replies, in a confident and almost annoyed tone, “Well, I have wings on my back, so it’s easy.” Perfect — I encourage him to fly to the top of the legendary tree and bring back the sickle to cut the steel cable. Jean-Pierre cuts the link in one sharp stroke with a great sigh of relief, “Ah.” The cut is clean, the cable leaves no trace. Jean-Pierre then sends light to Lolita, who has found her place a little further away and who, in turn, sends him small soft cotton clouds that he presses against his heart.

Jean-Pierre comes back to the office about two weeks later. He says he feels relieved, and lighter. Communication with Lolita is good and unambiguous, but he has trouble picturing himself in the future with a partner, even though that’s what he wants more than anything. After defining his goal along these lines, Jean-Pierre goes into trance and, in the middle of the work underway, he crosses paths with Lolita again. This time, it’s a daisy chain that connects him to the young woman. After doing the forgivenesses, he cuts the link with a simple pinch of his nails, tears streaming down his cheeks, a blissful smile on his face. Freed, he throws the little flowers into the air in a dazzling burst, like fireworks. Jean-Pierre’s face is peaceful, and he says he feels happy as he leaves the office.”

A month later, the butchery teacher, whom I now find quite likeable, gives me an update. He met a woman two years older than him, and he tells me things are going perfectly, that they have things in common, and that they have decided to spend their next vacation together. Lolita remains a good friend, and she too seems to have found love.