Archived Newsletters 2010-02-01 WHAT IS HYPNOSIS?
HYPNOSIS - "Hypnosis
is a transitory state of altered attention in the subject, a state that can be
brought about by another person and in which varied phenomena can appear spontaneously
or in response to oral or other stimuli. NOTE: This is the definition provided
by the British Medical Association
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In Tanganyika, a doctor
was called to the bedside of a sick black man; the diagnosis was acute
peritonitis. An operation was urgently necessary. The sick man,
terror-stricken, fled to the healer of his tribe.
The healer proceeded
with the customary rituals of incantations and herbs kneaded together, then
applied to the painful part. The black man watched the procedure, stupefied. He
did not interfere.
The healer commanded:
"Feel! Your pains are gone".
Surprise! The patient
returned a cured man! The medicine man had quite simply treated by suggestion
under hypnosis.
THE HYPNOSIS OF OTHERS
AND SELF-HYPNOSIS
How does one define the
exact nature of suggestion and hypnosis? No theory until now provides a precise
statement about this.
First of all, it would
be a state of semi - unconsciousness placed somewhere between sleep and the
waking state.
Here are the central
verified facts. Under hypnosis, physiological functions diminish, and psychic
activity increases.
Here is the definition
provided by the British Medical Association:
"Hypnosis is a
transitory state of altered attention in the subject, a state that can be
brought about by another person and in which varied phenomena can appear spontaneously
or in response to oral or other stimuli.
"These phenomena
include a change in consciousness and memory, an increased susceptibility to
suggestion and the appearance in the subject of responses and ideas which are
unfamiliar to him in his habitual frame of mind.
"Besides, phenomena
such as anesthesia, paralysis, muscular rigidity and vasomotor alterations can
be, in the hypnotic state, produced or suppressed’. (Quotation from L’Hypnose, Dr.
Chertok, Payot, 1969).
What is the hypnosis of
others? It is the act of dictating an idea which is freely accepted
by the patient.
Free consent
of the subject is indispensable. This is imperative.
I conclude from this
that all hypnosis is self-hypnosis, indeed even auto-suggestion. This is why it
is important to repeat your idea over and over again, several times. This will
generate a conditioned reflex, and will therefore become identified with the
patient's personality.
LAW OF THE CONDITIONED
REFLEX
Pavlov wrote:
”All unvarying and
unceasing excitation which attains a point of the neo-cortex by very
well-defined nerve paths, induces a mandatory sleep".
Here are the conditions
necessary to obtain the best result: a quiet room, and soft lighting. The
patient must not be distracted by his environment. Now, induce a hypnotic
excitation, as you are shown below. Once the hypnosis is set in motion, you may
then proceed to "lightning hvpnosis".
LIGHTNING HYPNOSIS
This is, again, a
self-hypnosis. You merely suggest the idea. This is then incorporated and
applied by the patient, who produces the desired effect. Conviction and trust
determine the effect. You must therefore create an atmosphere of sympathy and
understanding, by means of the dialogue shown below.
EFFECTS
Reactions under hypnosis
apply to every part of the person's body. Example: you can slow down or
accelerate the breathing motion and the beating of the pulse. Or cause
secretion of the gastric juices, sweating, coughing, vomiting, yawning,
sneezing, excitement of the sexual functions, menstruation, movements of the
pupil of the eye, urination and voiding of the bowels.
Illusions of the senses,
either negative or positive, can equally occur under hypnosis.
AN EXAMPLE OF
CONTROLLING WHAT A PATIENT WILL SEE
If you give the patient
a negative suggestion, he will transform it into a false sensation.
For example, he can no longer see certain objects that you say are
not there.
Here is an example.
Suggest to a person under hypnosis:
"You are in an
empty room. Cross it!"
That person will not see
the table set in the middle and will knock against it.
One day, I carried out
the following experiment. I had suggested to a patient in a hypnotic state:
"You are alone in
this room".
But a friend and I
remained there, motionless. For a moment. Then, we started throwing soft
cushions at her, to her great irritation! Her fright was such that we were
obliged to stop the experiment dead.
Once she recovered from
her shock, the patient recounted her impressions to us: flying cushions coming
out of nowhere, what a scare!
Note her absolute
conviction, under hypnosis, of having been alone in that room.
Dr Krafft-Ebing recalls
a similar experiment. He had given the suggestion:
”Dr H. has gone away on
a trip for a few days. You are quite alone!”
But Dr. H. crossed the
room, a lighted cigarette in his mouth. What a shock to the patient!
Terror-stricken, his eyes followed this luminous spot which seemed to move on
its own. The hypnotized subject attributed this phenomenon to some magic
"trick."
Another example:
You can induce temporary
total blindness by simple suggestion.
Repeat the following:
"Slowly, everything
is growing darker around you ... More and more
... Everything is disappearing into an impenetrable cloud ... Now,
you can barely make out nearby objects ... Nothing more ... You
are in total darkness",
That person will behave
like a blind man. But, in such an experiment, it is necessary to expose
possible pretending. To do that, place an object in the patient's path. If he
is really under hypnosis, he will bump against it.
VITAL NOTE:
It is important to say to the hypnotized subject:
"You will be blind
for only a moment".
It is necessary to
explicitly limit this blindness so as to get rid of any distress or fear that
would cause the failure of the experiment.
AN EXAMPLE OF MAKING
PATIENTS FOLLOW YOUR UNSPOKEN
THOUGHTS
You can also do this by
controlling what he will see. Here is a classic experiment using a deck of
cards. Put the subject under hypnosis. Suggest:
“A black spot appears on
the reverse of the card I want. Take it out of the deck",
The person will, in
actual fact, remove the card you were thinking about from the deck. However, no
distinctive mark was on the reverse of that card.
HYPNOSIS IS A STATE OF LIMITED CONCIOUSNESS, WHERE THE CONSCIOUS MIND IS DOMINATED BY THE FAR GEA TER POWER OF THE UNCONSCIOUS Of course, hypnosis is
very much like sleep. But do not confuse normal sleep with hypnotic sleep.
During hypnotic sleep, consciousness - the too-rational part of the mind that
tells us that we cannot do the "impossible" - is limited. But
with hypnotic access to the unconscious, many previous "impossibilities"
suddenly become possible.
According to Pavlov, in
hypnosis only certain cerebral (conscious) functions would be limited, or
indeed extinguished. Here is the explanation. A reduced circulation rate is
equivalent to diminished cerebral activity. The functions of the higher centers
of the brain, fed by capillary blood vessels, in hypnosis will be considerably
lessened. The subconscious personality will come into play.
There is, in reality, a
relation between sleep and the minimum of conscious perception. In a perfect
resemblance, hypnosis would be no more than simple sleep.
Inhibitions are dominant
in the sleeping state. Excitations take over when one is awake.
My conclusion: normal
sleep is different than hypnosis.
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
HYPNOSIS AND SLEEP
THE STRUCTURE OF
HYPNOSIS
1. Increased
attention is attached to a suggestion received.
2. There
is an awareness of every word and every noise.
3. There
is lessening of the patient's critical mind.
4. There
is a restricted or limited field of conciousness, although the conscious mind
remains awake.
5. There
is the presence of a temporary and limited sense of direction.
6. Except
for a command to the contrary, the memory of the patient continues to function.
7. The
hypnotized person is receptive to the spoken word.
THE STRUCTURE OF SLEEP
1. Attention is non
-existent.
2. Receptivity to
excitation is practically nil.
3. The critical mind is
totally absent.
4. Consciousness is
blocked.
5. The sense of
direction is extinguished.
6. Memory is blocked.
7. The
patient is no longer receptive to the spoken word.
RAPPORT
Under hypnosis, the
patient's consciousness moves towards the hypnotist. A contact is created
called, "rapport". The subconscious, detached from all external
excitation, will faithfully record the commands of the hypnotist. You will also
observe that during this rapport, the critical faculty, although clearly
diminished, survives. As a result, suggestions in conflict with fundamental inclinations
of the personality will immediately cancel the hypnosis.
Example:
Suggest to the patient
that he disrobe or kill someone. The latter, neither exhibitionist nor
assassin, will instantly awaken.
FACTORS LIKELY TO INDUCE
HYPNOSIS
Remember the following:
1. Hypnosis has nothing
in common with magic or supranormal phenomena.
2. Hypnosis is not
artificial sleep.
3. Hypnosis
is much more than mere suggestion.
Suggestion is simply
received and transformed more easily under hypnosis.
4.Under
hypnosis, you can influence psychological illnesses, or serious organic
disturbances in a positive fashion.
5. Ilypnosuggestive
influences are functions of the psychic activity or passivity of the person
hypnotized.
6. One
may suggest to the subject under hypnosis sensory illusions in either the
positive or negative sense.
7. Ilypnosis
is not the same as sleep. But both are inherent in human and animal life.
8. Any
person able to sleep is susceptible to hypnosis. The symptoms which take place
during normal sleep differ from the effects produced under hypnosis.
9. Hypnosis
is not, of course, a remedy for all ills. But the experienced hypnotist will
find in it an effective way to help his fellow man in the best way possible.
WHA T IS SUGGESTION? DEFINITION
Suggestion is the means
of creating, in one's subconscious or in that of someone else, an image of a
given idea or action. It is thus the infallible procedure for influencing
other's feelings, other's judgement and other's will. If the image or idea is
clear and precise, it will be easily registered. The results will be even
longer-lasting.
HETEROSUGGESTION AND
AUTOSUGGESTION
By heterosuggestion, we
receive an idea given by another person. By autosuggestion the image is
created by ourselves. But all heterosuggestion is ultimately an autosuggestion.
To explain: the idea produced by the hypnotist is first engraved in the
patient's subconscious ... then is identified with … then is
transformed into auto-suggestion.
ITS REALIZATION IN THE
SUBCONSCIOUS
A suggestion is never
put into action by our conscious mind. It is first transformed by autosuggestion
- in the subconscious mind – into a mental image of the action suggested.
The conclusion must be
that all the phenomena of hypnosis are the result of suggestions or
auto-suggestions.
Look at this experiment.
A scholar suggests to several people:
''You are each
drinking a quart of liquid"
Each person will
therefore urinate a quart more than usual. However, they have all really drunk
only a very little water.
How is the suggestion
carried out? By inner sub-conscious thought. This is what generates the
mental image \v I. iehbrings about the realization of the
desired action.
It is central
for you to realize that without the patient’s conviction, this chain from
suggestion to action is impossible. Under hypnosis, all suggestions – whether they
come from you or from the patient - are accepted or refused according to the
extent of our belief.
Here are other
similiar factors to be taken into account:
The favorable
disposition of your subject to be hypnotized.
Your power of
persuasion, developed as shown below.
Your ability to change
what you want into an idea that will be freely accepted by the subject … or
into a mental image of the action you "will" in the patient's subconscious.
This too will be shown to you.
WHO CAN MAKE A SUGGESTION?
Certain people master it
right away. The required criteria are: great self-confidence, an outstanding
personality.
Dr. Charles Baudouin
remarks, "Suggestion is the unconscious realization of an idea put
forward".
The psychologist Fritz
Lambert states, "All suggestion is a mental influence. Believe it".
We submit to it.
CONSCIOUS AND
UNCONSCIOUS SUGGESTIONS
In life, we submit to
certain influences from our environment, and, of course, our inner feelings
influence ourselves. Thus our fate is continually determined by conscious and
unconscious suggestions. Autosuggestion occupies a major place, for we take
each of these ideas and incorporate it to forge our personality.
Therefore, I recommend
that you never forge negative ideas.
Positive and very powerful
thoughts are the keys to your success.
Learn to live only with
them, and eliminate all inauspicious thoughts.
THE CENTRAL RULE OF
MENTAL POWER: He who knows and uses the laws of
suggestion protects himself from all worries - and achieves all that
he desires.
NOTE: As you have seen,
for purposes of brevity, I have ' used the pronoun, "he",
to represent both male and female. There is no sexual bias intended. Otherwise,
these books would be quite awkward to read.
MAKE SUGGESTIONS
THAT YOUR PATIENT CAN SEE AND THEN REALIZE
Before formulating a
suggestion, try to find out if your patient is capable of reproducing a mental
image of your idea. Only that of which we can form a precise image
tends to be realized.
Example: Here's how to
form an image of your breathing. While you inhale, imagine that you are storing
up new strength. Feel the strength pouring into your body with every breath.
Then feel it settling in and spreading throughout every cell of your body.
While you exhale, feel that you are getting rid of stale, poisonous air.
Ten breaths will
suffice. Your suggestion will have taken shape.
I must point out that a
suggestion is not necessarily logical. Logic is not a precondition for success.
Success depends on the vividness and precision with which the mental image is
implanted.
Any man who is capable
of belief - and who of us is not - is by that capability suggestible. The
infallible way to be effective is to repeat a clearly stated
suggestion. But do not exceed three repetitions per session.
HOW TO OBTAIN WHAT YOU
DESIRE
In every aspect of your
life, success begins with mental images. The right image brings the right
result. This law is unanswerable.
Failures also come from
accepted images. Example: There are many times where you identify with your
faults, and repeat:
"I can't do it ...
That does not suit me ... It's the way l am ... "
By giving in to these
negative thoughts, you will forge a negative personality for yourself.
Every negative thought
must be immediately Icounteracted by a positive thought. In this way, you
hypnotize yourself into a life of success and joy.
HOW TO IMMEDIATELY
CHANGE THE WAY A PERSON'S BODY WORKS BY HYPNOSIS.
I’m going to give you a
sample exercise which will prove the power of suggestion.
Ilypnotize someone as
shown below. Base your suggestions on feelings or impressions that person has
already experienced. You will be able to obtain an acceleration of his pulse,
low blood pressure, considerable perspiration and sobbing. Then, with no
transition whatever, you will produce a burst of laughter and euphoria.
Other movements,
independently of our will, are produced by suggestion: deeper
breathing, easier bowel movements, painless childbirth and the suppression of
insomnia.
HOW TO INCREASE THE
EFFECT OF SUGGESTION
Several factors playa
part:
I. Your
own personality, which will be greatly strengthened by these volumes.
o The
ascendancy exerted by your more powerful personality over the patient.
o Your
spoken word. Its contents shall be intelligible. Its tone shall be monotonous,
gentle but firm.
o Your
bearing and behavior as you are treating him. Behavior and gestures stimulate
or reduce the effectiveness of the suggestion made.
2. The
individuality of the patient.
* Adapt
your suggestion to his ability to create a mental image of the idea given.
Something that will have an impression on one person will have no effect on
another. Test different phrasings of the same suggestion, until you reach one
he will follow.
3. The
content of the suggestion.
* Every
command that goes against the patient's inclinations encounters resistance to
its realization. This must therefore be avoided.
DIRECT OR INDIRECT
SUGGESTIONS
The conscious self often
rejects a direct suggestion. If indirect, it more easily avoids the censorship
of reason, which is inclined to be critical. Thus, this indirect form of
suggestion will be more readily accepted and followed.
Why? Because the subject
is unaware that this is the first of a succession of suggestions that will
gradually and gently cause him to follow your will.
Here is an example of
indirect suggestion that works:
A
child refuses to sleep without the aid of a sedative. Her mother
offers a candy instead of the sedative pill and says:
“Take this tablet
and you will sleep".
(This suggestion is
indirect, because the mother implies that the tablet is a sedative, but does
not say that it is. Nor, of course, does she say that the tablet is
candy, and not a sedative)
The child believes she
has swallowed a sedative. (This is an auto-suggestion - a command
from the child's unconcious to her body, which follows from her mother's
suggestion.) She falls asleep. This is the final effect.
And here is an example
of a direct suggestion that does not work:
After a rough day, say
to yourself:
(([ will count
up to three, then I will feel fresh and alert".
You will experience
nothing. The subconscious will simply not be convinced. Why? Because you have
given an outright command, instead of an indirect image
thn t. contains and disguises that command.
You have not followed
the logic of the unconscious. You have tried to force it, instead of letting it
follow tho natural conclusion of the images you give it. It will therefore
resist the direct suggestion, and you will achieve nothing.
HOW TO RESTATE DIRECT
SUGGESTIONS SO THAT THEY
BECOME VIVID, INDIRECT IMAGES
In the same situation,
frame the suggestion in this way:
(7'm going to take a cold
shower, then I will be fresh and alert".
This suggestion will be
realized.
Why? Because, this way,
you are giving a physical image, rather than an abstract command. You are not
commanding, Countdown 1-2-3", Instead, you are giving your
subconscious a gratifying sensual picture to follow.
Once the subconscious is
given such a picture, it can then build a chain of associations from there. It
can feel the soothing water in the shower, for example. It can magnify the
vigor that the chill of the water gives you. It ca n turn every drop of that
water into a "fountain of youth" for you.
Your unconscious
must have a physical image to begin with. It takes this physical image, and
builds on it – automatically - again and again and again - to give you the
final result you want.
This is the way to make
it work for you!
Dr. Liek relates a
similar example in his book, Das Wunder in der Heilkunde:
"At the age of ten,
I had countless warts on my hands. Durjng a stay in the country, the servant
made for me a cure for my warts. She knotted a thread around each wart, let
some water run over each, and buried the thread at the place where the rain
fell to earth from the roof. 'When these threads have rotted, the warts will
disappear', she said. Six weeks later, without having undergone any treatment,
I had no more warts".
This example
demonstrates the power of vivid, physical suggestion, started by an "if
... then" chain.
Alas, most often we use
this kind of suggestion in its negative form.
For example: "If I
go to the theater this evening, then I will surely have my migraine".
Therefore, express only
positive ones of this type:
If I regularly take this
medicine prescribed by the doctor, I will soon be cured".
DOUBT: THE WORST ENEMY
Most of the time, We
"want" to believe but we "cannot". The obstacles that block
us are fear and doubt.
Therefore, to achieve
the result you want, make a choice between negative and positive thoughts. Remember
Edison. He carried out three thousand experiments to get to the point of
constructing a single electric bulb.
Three thousand tests!
Three thousand failures! But positive suggestion prevailed because he put them
in these terms:
“I will succeed no matter
what the cost!"
Thus, through this
means, he succeeded.
Here is a
rule: Every positive suggestion which tries to take root in a skeptical
person bounces off the trained indifference of his subconscious. Destroy this
self-defeating habit. Believe, and it shall be given to you.
'SELF-CONFIDENCE
Believe in your powers.
Use the power of suggestion.
No doubt must remain.
You will change your
life ... permanently.
HERE ARE MORE CONFIRMING
EXPERIMENTS
When phrased
correctly, certain suggestions are realized right away. The experiments
described in the works of Dr. Franz Volgyest, Menchen Und
Tierhypnose – Die Seele ist Alles (Ed.
Orell-Fussli), provide the proof.
Here is one such
experiment:
To execute an
examination of the hypnotic effects on the stomach, he had made several
patients swallow a small probe. Then these people were put under hypnosis. The
probes were still in place. He suggested to them that they were
swallowing various foods.
Here are the laboratory
analysis results:
Gastric secretion had
changed in quantity and quality according to the food suggested.
For example: The
suggestion of a patient's favorite dish produced a considerable rush of gastric
juice.
The physician then made
the following remark:
"How good would it
be if you had actually swallowed that favorite food?"
Immediately, the
patient's stomach stopped all functioning, as if annoyed by the hoax. But the
suggestion of other delights made it take up its work once more.
Here is another
experiment:
Dr. V olgyesi suggested
to a patient a total insensitiveness in one eye. An intern then gently thrust a
needle into the connective tissue, which is normally painfully sensitive. The
patient did not even blink the eye.
MORE ELEMENTS OF
SUCCESSFUL SUGGESTION
Let us begin with the
experiment of L. Benedek. He suggested to a woman, "I am pouring hot water
over your arm". The temperature of her skin went up three degrees.
8.
Here are the elements
that make up such a successful suggestion:
o Conscious
concentration is limited. The patient's attention is fixed on a single idea -
the suggestion - that starts outside the field of his consciousness.
o Through
that suggestion, the patient imagines that a physical or psychic event has
happened or is about to happen.
Suggestion is the basis
of all hypnotherapy. Its power is useful in suppressing an illness or in curing
it by natural means.
Conclusion: Hypnosis can
be effective where all other therapy has failed.
IS HYPNOSIS DANGEROUS?
Many of my colleagues
maintain: "Hypnosis is dangerous". I object! I have carried out
thousands of hypnoses. I have never been confronted by a truly dangerous
situation. I will relate, in all sincerity, several incidents, or
"breakdowns" that occurred at the beginning of my career.
HOW TO PREVENT ANY
DANGER WHEN YOU PRACTICE HYPNOSIS
One day, I put an
overly-curious female journalist under hypnosis. My suggestion was this:
'"'You have the
mental age of three years".
My son was, at this
time, of the same age. He understood quite quickly that although his "new
aunt" was big ... she was a child. He led her into his room.
I watched them play
quietly together. I intervened only once. The journalist wanted to
get into the tiny bed … ! Then she discovered the television set. Fascinated,
she turned it on and off, changed the channels according to my son's
instructions. Note that, in her childhood, television sets did not exist.
But here was the
problem. I wanted to put an end to the hypnosis. But I had no effect. The
patient, too long in the hypnotic state, was totally reliving her hypnotic role
of being a child.
What was I to do? I
remembered having learned that in case of a "breakdown", I must keep
cool and - above all – I must deepen the hypnosis.
I placed my hands over
the eyes of the journalist and pronounced the following deepening suggestions:
”Now we will learn
mathematics. You will like rnathematics.I will teach you to count up
to three ... On three, you
will
open your
eyes You
will feel refreshed and alert…You are twenty-three years
old ...Everything will be as it was before we began ... 1
- 2 - 3".
'The patient opened her
eyes, remembering nothing.
BLOCKAGE OF
SELF-HYPNOSIS
Here is another
incident. I had suggested to someone:
”You can practice
self-hypnosis only in my presence. But entrust your commands to
me".
No sooner said than
done. I heard the patient say to himself:
"I'm counting to
three ... on three, I will fall asleep. No one will be able to reawaken me ...
1 … 2 … 3”. In his ignorance, he had committed a huge error! The last part of
his suggestion placed both of us in the position of being incapable
of bringing the hypnosis to an end.
It was necessary to
eliminate this "blockage" so he could escape the hypnotic state.
ANNIHILATING THE
BLOCKAGE
I proceeded to make
deepening suggestions:
"You
are in a deep
sleep Very
deep ... No-one
will reawaken you … No one else will awaken you .... Only you will
awaken yourself ... Now, you are awake ... Open your
eyes".
Which he did
immediately. Why? Because I did not try to work against his suggestion. I did
not try to deny his suggestion.
By insinuating that he
awaken on his own initiative - that no one else but himself awaken him - I allowed
his subconscious to carry out the command he had given it.
I did this by suggesting
that he was different than the "no one" that could not awaken him. I
expanded this "no one" until it became "no one else".
Therefore, he could now awaken himself without coming into conflict with his
suggestion that no one could awaken him.
To conclude: Never give
a suggestion that is contrary to the preceding one. In case of
"breakdown", deepen it instead. Work your way around it in words.
Follow this advice and any possible breakdowns will be negligible and
harmless.
OTHER EXAMPLES TO
HELP YOU AVOID EMBARRASSING INCIDENTS
Dr. Frauz Volgiesi
recounts a curious "breakdown". One day, a mother came to
consult him with her daughter who was suffering from menstrual irregularities.
Under hypnosis the daughter received the following suggestion:
"At noon on a
given day your period will begin".
The mother had insisted
on being present at the procedure. On the given day, menstruation appeared in
the daughter and ... in the mother!
Where is the danger? It
is in the poorly formulated and unrepeated suggestions. What should have been
said was this:
”At noon on a given day,
you, (give the daughter's name), will have your period. Only you will have your
period, and not your mother. "
Here is a another
classic experiment of how a beginner can go wrong in doing hypnosis:
A patient drinks a large
glass of water. You suggest:
"You are drinking
cognac".
He will then be in a
really drunken state. But, before you leave him, you must say:
'"'You now realize
that what you have just swallowed is not cognac, but water".
If, on the other hand,
the suggestion is left incomplete - if you do not tell him before you bring
him out of hypnosis that water is not cognac, then that person will become
tipsy every time he drinks a glass of water.
AUTHORITIES ON THE
SUBJECT HAVE THEIR SAY
Is hypnosis dangerous,
harmful? Well-known hypnotherapists refute this hypothesis.
Dr. Liebeault, founder
of hypnotherapy, writes:
”I have practiced
hypnotherapy for many long years. I am therefore in a position to declare this:
it far surpasses all medical treatment. Unlike the latter, it is without
danger, without counter-indication and acts very quickly".
Dr. Brugellmann of
Baderborn replies:
"To the
question: a hypnosis carried out according to the rules of the art,
is it dangerous? I reply with a categorical ‘no' ".
Dr. Moll adds:
"To the
question: suggestion under a hypnosis appropriately executed, is it a danger to
health? I respond with an absolute 'no'''.
Dr. Ringuier of Zurich:
”I repeat what I have
already stated: I have never detected a harmful influence during
hypnotherapy".
Dr. Scholtz of Bremen
says:
“I have never discovered
dangerous consequences, neither during nor after an operation. These have been
trumped up by our detractors, on the basis of false information”.
Dr. Mobing states:
"Physicians warn
against hypnotherapy. They are detractors of hypnotic suggestion. They base
this solely on theoretical suppositions".
Dr. Otto Wetterstrand
comments:
"I predict a great
future for hypnotism. I am of Professor Bernheim's opinion. His remarkable
work proves that hypnotherapy is one of the most precious possessions of present-day
medicine".
And I add:
"The only existing
danger arises from ignorance on the part of the therapist or of the
amateur".
Taken from MASTER SECRETS OF HYPNOSIS AND SELF-HYPNOSIS by Professor Kurt Tepperwein, originally published in German as Die Hohe Schule der Hypnose, © 1977 by Ariston Verlag, Geneva, © 1991, English version, Edi-Inter & Athena Copyright, London, Printed in the United States of America, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 91-73801, ISBN 0-941683-15-X, WHAT IS HYPNOSIS?, Page 47 to 78. NOTE: YOU ARE WARNED THAT THIS IS A DIRECT INSIGHT INTO HYPNOSIS. PLEASE DO NOT EXPERIMENT WITH HYPNOSIS IF YOU ARE NOT TRAINED IN PSYCHOLOGY. THE INFORMATION IN THIS INFORMATIVE ARTICLE AND THE FACTS ABOUT HYPNOSIS IS NOT NECESSARILY THE FACTS AND INSIGHT THAT ARO-HEALING WOULD PORTRAY AND NOT NECESSARILY THE BELIEF OF ARO-HEALING AND ITS MEMBERS. |
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