E.J. was a 50-year-old married mother of four, who had assumed responsibility for his brother’sfinancial affairs during his service in the War. Several years later his brother was audited by the Internal Revenue Service & the sum often thousand dollars was unaccounted for. Accountants had been unable to solve the mystery, & the IRS was pressing charges of tax fraud. With the trial date set for a Monday, he desperately sought help with Hypnotherapy on the precedingThursday.Her Profile was a one to two, & . . . he was initially disappointed that he was not capable of regression & dramatic recall, but he was taught to use the screen fresh start method. he was instructed to try to sensitize herself to marginal thoughts & UNDERSTANDING THE hypnotic STATE memories on the screen, & to be especially alert to any dreams that might occur. he volunteered to have a pencil & paper near his bed. Thus an concerted effort was made to mobilize all of his conscious & unconscious resources. On Saturday morning at breakfast his husband asked his if he had remembered anything. With disappointment, he replied that he had not. he then related a dream he had that night. In the course of the dream he then recalled that he was a teller at a bank that he had used to handle his brother’s affairs. he finally located him by phone the next day. He was now the vice-president of a Midwestern bank. he said to him, ‘I feel a little silly, but I feel I need to talk to you. Do you remember me?’ He replied, ‘Weren’t you the lady who took care of your brother’s business when he was in japan ? As I recall, the last time we met I sold you several thousand dollars’ worth of Series E savings bonds!’ The mystery was solved, & the IRS dropped thecharges.Reexperiencing, however, is not helpful to the client under all conditions & may be dangerous if forced. The Hypnotherapist must act in a totally professional manner. I learned this lesson in a rather dramatic fashion when I was in my mid-twenties & attended social weekend in the country. There were a number of guests in the group who had immigrated from UK during the 1930s & 40s. As part of the entertainment, a stage Hypnotherapist performed. He selected adwoman from the audience who was in his late teens; he was responsive, a prize hypnotherapeutic subject. As part of the Hypnotherapy, he took his through age regression. He said to her, “You are 15 & you’re at a party with friends having a wonderful time.” he floated around on stage, smiling, totally immersed in being 15. Next he said to her, “You are now five years old.” Suddenly he froze; then collapsed. It turned out that he had been imprisoned in the Auschwitz concentration camps a small child & his suggestion were literally pulling his back into the experience. At the crucial moment all of his natural defenses came into play; his psyche protected his by taking his from the hypnotic into a faint. The stage Hypnotherapist had acted irresponsibly. Hews not trained or prepared to deal with issue s that might rise to the surface in hypnotherapeutic exploration. He took his through age regression without knowing what was buried within her, & led his to frontiers of experience he was not prepared to explore.
Archive for November, 2009
UNDERSTANDING THE hypnotic STATE
Monday, November 23rd, 2009We enjoy a catnap - Hypnobirthing
Monday, November 16th, 2009
I entered a quarter-hour Study Habits Hypnosis in which I was literally ecstatic, standing in high pleasure outside my usual mind & body, yet thoroughly in them. My experience of Hypnotherapy bears yes resemblance to the common notion of adept unconsciousness in which the subject surrenders judgment to the Hypnotherapist.
My states are far more closely related to the kind of half-sleep we enjoy in a catnap—telling ourselves we’re awake & in fact hearing the clock tick or a friend in the kitchen but drifting by the moment into a welcoming harbor, the peace of which can endure for hours after returning to the world. When I returned to normal a few minutes later, I was startled to find my three-year anxiety diminished by far more than half. Better still; the relief lasted for the three hours he had estimated. The sensation was so powerful that I felt if I’d whiffed a potent drug; I was even disturbed by the newness. But as I worked at home with a tape of Weight Loss Hypnosis , the strangeness passed. & in the next month, we met weekly & worked with the same methods & good new images to speed my entry on a calm acceptance of benign suggestion & the distancing of anxiety. Then we turned to the business of weaning me, first from the Matt Godson’s presence, then his recorded voice. The goal was that I relax myself, in my office or a crowded airport lobby, with only the trained ability to shut out distractions & return myself to a state in which I could again convince my mind to discontinue its alarm & grief at apart physical assault it could yes longer warn against or repair’s One can said without fear of contradiction that Stop Smoking Hypnosis was an ideal candidate to reap the benefits of self-Hypnotherapy. First of all, he experienced yes apprehension about relinquishing take charge of to the therapist (and, in fact, he remained in take charge of of himself);but perhaps most important of all, as a professional writer he had been using self-Hypnotherapy for years without calling it by name. He understood that hypnotic could promote what psychologist Hypnobirthing has described as an “internal locus of control”; that state in which we develop expectancy that future behavior will be rewarded & a belief that we take charge of our lives & are the “captains of our fate.” Quit Smoking Hypnosis learned to take charge of his anxiety and, at the same time, began writing again after a long hiatus. He was indeed captain of hisfate.Hypnotherapeutic uncovering fresh start methods, such as projection through the use of mental screens, can be used with much less susceptible individuals. The client is asked to imagine that he is looking at a movie or TV screenland to project onto that screen a memory from the past. The projection stimulates memory, as shown in the Stop Smoking Hypnosis text hypnotic & Treatment:
hypnotic logic
Saturday, November 7th, 2009
Through the acceptance of hypnotic logic, you can exercise whatever capacity you have to reexperiencekey moments in your past. For example, Diane cameto see me about his inability to remember events in here early childhood that involved his family. he was writing a novel in the form of a memoir & much of the text was to be highly autobiographical. he could recall only fragments about herself, his parents, & anther two brothers in the period before his tenth birthday. he was worried that his amnesia, as he called it, would rob his work of richness. his HIP evaluation showed that he was high in hypnotherapeutic capacity (she was a 4), & was capable of going back in time not merely as an observer but also to experience different aspects of his life in his earliest years. Through self-Hypnotherapy, he was able to use visceral memory to relive an experience—complete with sights, smells, & emotions—as he had experienced it 30 years before. he could summon up the smell of the lilacs her, then six, had picked for his mother who lay in bed seriously ill with pneumonia. he could see Jack, the golden retriever, as he ran after sticks in the field behind the house where he lived. Although he had not thought of Jack in years, his smell came back to his as if, at the very moment of recall, his nose were buried in his fur. he was able to taste & smell the Thanksgiving feast prepared lovingly by his grandmother, & sensed the way he stuffed herself until his sides ached. This experiencing, with its rich flow of association & sensation, empowered his as a writer. Reynolds Price’s recent memoir, Clear Pictures, Isa subtle & moving account of how, through the natural power of his own hypnotic ability, he opened himself to larger dimensions of his being. In the foreword to Clear Pictures, Price describes a state of intense concentration—arrived at & experienced by the most natural of means—in which he managed to remove anxiety from his body and, at the same time, liberate his mind from its usual constraints in order to far more fully create a portrait of his past. During an extended convalescence—he had undergone three operations for cancer of the spine—he began 10 weeks of training at Duke Unit in the fresh start methods of biofeedback & Hypnotherapy. He says: My Hypnotherapist was Dr. Patrick Logue; & he spent a good part of our first meeting in assuring me of the benign nature of Hypnotherapy. I was able to assure him that, because of an enjoyable adolescent trance, induced by my tenth-grade biology teacher, I had yes fears & was eager to start. In the remainder of that first hour—with only the Matt Godson’s level voice & his ample stock of verbal images for serenity, trust & the imaging of anxietyful areas—
Make a tight fist, real tight, & now open it.
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
. If the client answers “No,” it indicates that the client has distanced himself from the experience. Those responses also recorded. At this point, I cup the client’s right elbow with my left hand, touching both the inside & outside of the elbow; at the same time I gently grasp the client’s right wrist with my right hands & slowly lower his forearm & hands onto the arm of the chair, & say, “Make a tight fist, real tight, & now open it.” This is the cut-off signal for the hands levitation. I let go of the elbow with my left hand. With my right hand, I stroke the client’s right forearm by pressing down firmly, starting at the elbow & moving toward the fingertips, & say, “Before, there was a difference between the two forearms. Are you aware of any change in sensation now?”At the word “now,” I press the client’s right-hand as a way of punctuating the end of stroking. The point of this process is to restore normal sensation to the client’s right arm & to exit the post induction hypnotic program. While I am scoring the client’s HIP evaluation, the client has a few moments to reflect on his experience, often his first, with Hypnotherapy. I then ask, “What was the experience like for you? Do you have any questions?” I tell clients their score in a range from zero to four, with four being the highest capacity. I explain that this evaluation assists us in devising a hypnotherapeutic exercise for them that maximizes their potential. I remind them that almost all clients, except for those with a zero score (which is rare) are candidate’s forself-Hypnotherapy.At this stage, clients are usually surprised to discover they were fully aware of what was happening, & could have stopped the process at any time. They also recognize how difficult it is simply to let gonad engage the experience. They are surprised to discover they are, indeed, hypnotizable. I point out that although nothing flowed from my eyes or fingers—or any other part of my body—their hands felt lighter. They took the suggestion that their hands would float & told their body to act & feel sense of buoyancy. Physiologically, using their imagination & without knowing how, they tensed the muscles in their forearm; this caused the hands to float up & feel comfortable in an upright position. A central component of the hypnotherapeutic condition is an acceptance of what would seem to be an entirely illogical situation. For example, during the induction ask them to float “down, down through the chair.” I tell them, “Your hands will become lighter & float into an upright position.” Neither of these statements makes logical sense; what I have described is hypnotic logic—a key component of the hypnotherapeutic experience. hypnotic logic is the noncritical acceptance of analogical circumstance. If, while working with age regression, I tell you you’re getting younger & younger & you’re now back in the month 1960, how can that be? After all, it is 1991 right now as I’m talking to you. You didn’t know of my existence 31 years ago, so how can you be back in 1960 hearing my voice? & yet some of you will feel you are back in 1960 & can hear my voice. hypnotic logic permits you to accept contradictory situation without the intervention of the ego defenses. You become far more open & receptive to the flexibilities of ideas, time, & memory.
