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Hypnosis
If you are
becoming curious about hypnosis, read below.
When Milton Erickson was asked if he knew for sure whether there
really was an unconscious mind, he is reported to have said, “I’m not sure
whether there is a conscious mind or not.”
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What is Hypnosis
Hypnosis is one
of the most misunderstood phenomena around. Unfortunately, movies, superstition, stage hypnotists and the
word “hypnosis” itself, have given the phenomena or state of hypnosis a bad
name or led us to believe wrong things about this wonderful state. In the movies Dracula, the Vampire,
looks into your eyes and you fall completely under his control, superstition
has it that hypnosis will get you to speak out all of your secrets, stage
hypnotists led you to believe they can “put you under” hypnosis in matter of
seconds at which time you will be like robot and do anything he says with no
memory of it later. Most of
these ideas are either false claims or exaggerations regarding hypnosis.
Hypnosis is a
natural relaxed state of consciousness in which the hypnotized person finds
himself completely absorbed in the things he is doing or dreaming about. It is kind of like being lost in a
good book or a good movie for a while.
It looks like sleep to many people because some hypnotists (not all)
tell the client to “close your eyes and sleep.” He is actually suggesting that the conscious
mind relax for a while and let the unconscious mind, the imaginative mind
wake up and play with some ideas.
If fact, hypnosis can be done with the client’s eyes wide open if he
doesn’t want to close his eyes.
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Common Everyday Hypnotic Trance
In fact, the
things known as trance phenomena happen in everyday waking states as well,
leading some people, James Steed, and even Buddha, to believe that we are
truly living in a dream, and the state of hypnosis or mediation is the true
waking state and all else is illusion.
Some of the trance phenomena include: focused state of attention, profound relaxation, age
regression, amnesia, numbness, time and space distortion, hypnotic dreaming,
positive and negative hallucinations and post hypnotic suggestion. If you
have ever been reading a book so intently or watching a movie so carefully
that you did not hear someone  call your name, then you have been in “focused
state of attention.” If the
sound of the oceans waves, the rocking of a train, or the setting of the sun
behind a mountain has ever made you feel special, then you have entered the
same hypnotic feeling of “profound relaxation.”
If you have
ever heard a song from the past and suddenly started thinking or dreaming
about that time or if you have ever acted like a child when you got angry,
then you have experience “age regression.” When on a test you temporarily forget something you know,
that is “amnesia.” When you get
so scared or so excited that you stop paying attention to your body and later
on you realize you have been sitting in an awkward or uncomfortable position
for a long time without knowing it, you experienced “numbness.” If a wait in the post office line
seems like hours and hours to you, you have experience “time distortion.” If
you have ever had a tiny pimple that at the time seem as big and red at a
cherry, then you have experienced “space distortion.”
Daydreaming is
the same thing as hypnotic dreaming.
If you have mistaken a rope for a snake or a black spot for a cockroach,
then you have had a  hallucination. If you have ever lost your keys temporarily just to find
them right there on the table in front of you, then you have experience
negative hallucination. Finally,
have you ever filled a glass up with too much water, and told yourself not to
spill it. As soon as you said
that, you spilled it. Or have
you ever sneezed at a time you really did not want to? That is “post-hypnotic suggestion.”
Now some people
say they can’t enter hypnosis, or they don’t want to be hypnotized, or that
they have never experienced hypnosis.
I say they experience hypnosis everyday. It’s natural.
I also say that people can use these phenomena to make their lives
worse or make their lives better.
Their lives can be either nightmares or dreams. My goal is to show people how to use
these phenomena to make people’s lives better, more satisfying and delightful. My goal is change their frightening
nightmares into comfortable dreams.
On of my teachers used to say, “If you don’t like the movie, change
the “real.” In English “reel”
and “real” sound exactly the same.
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Signs of Developing Trance
Outside Signs of Trance
I will know my
clients are hypnotized by certain outward signs. Their breathing becomes lighter and slower, their eyes
flutter for a second, their face muscles become loose and flat, their face
gets a little white, they lose their interest in moving and talking, and they
lose their interest in sounds around them. Once they I see these signs of
hypnotic trance, I help them hypnotically create new experiences that will
make their lives better.
Inner Signs of Trance
All of my clients
are different and each experiences hypnotic trance in different ways. Some say it is like sleeping. Others
just say it is relaxing, peaceful and quiet. Some feel bigger or smaller. Others feel out of their bodies. Others see things vividly other feel things vividly. Some say it is like slowing
down. Others say it is like
daydreaming. Some experience a feeling of heaviness, others lightness, still
other numbness or dreaminess. All of my clients say it is one of the most
relaxing and comfortable experiences they have ever had. So, I teach everyone
self-hypnosis.
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Hypnosis Faqs
1. Will I tell you
all of my secrets?
No,
not unless you want to. People
can still lie when they are hypnotized.
2. Do I lose all
my control to you?
No,
you won’t do anything you don’t want to.
3. What if I don’t
come back?
Everyone
comes back. The sleep you have
at night is deeper than hypnosis.
Are you always afraid you won’t come back in the morning?
4. Will you make me
hop on the table and act like a chicken?
No,
not unless you want an excuse to act silly. Then, a drink of Kaoliang would give you the excuse and it
is a lot cheaper!
5. Will I lose
consciousness and forget everything?
Most
of the time, no. Some times I
will request you forget some important lessons on the conscious level so that
they can become more effective at the unconscious level where they are, in
fact, more important.
6. Will I lose
track of reality?
Only
about 5% of the population has this ability to totally lose track of
reality. And even them, as long
as they hear my voice, they know where they are and what day it is.
7. Are there any
side effects?
No. None at all. Oh, some people feel hungrier and
more energetic after a hypnosis session.
8. Can anyone
enter hypnosis?
No. Some people lack special
intelligence, imagination, creativity or flexibility. They have a harder time entering
hypnotic trance.
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One Way to
Start Practicing Self-Hypnosis
You can take the directions below and
then follow the directions as you listen to the tape.
1) Sit straight up
feet flat on the floor, close your eyes and take three deep breaths. Tell yourself to relax each time your
breath out. Then, start
breathing naturally and do the following:
2) State three
things you hear around yourself.
(ex. Traffic, air
conditioner, radio next door.)
3)
State three things that you remember seeing in the room around you.
(ex. Computer screen,
soft yellow light, my brown teddy
bear.)
4) State three things that you feel around you.
____(ex. The air temperature, feeling of feet on
the floor,
____ softness of shirt.)
5) Tell yourself to relax one time.
(Relax)
6) Compare two sounds and decide which one makes you feel
the most relaxed. Then, double the feeling.
(The sound of the ocean, the sound of river.)
(The river, okay, twice
deep)
7) Compare two things and decide which one looks the most
relaxing. Then, double the
feeling it gives you.
(A light blue sky, clouds and sun; midnight sky, stars and
moon.)
(The light blue sky, okay, twice deep)
8) Compare two textures and decide which one is the softest.
Then, double that
soft feeling.
(Cotton shirt, silk shirt)
(Silk shirt, okay, twice deep)
9) Tell yourself to relax two times.
(Relax…… Relax……)
10)Think of the
sound of a choo choo train going down the
track,
slowly slow it down until it comes to a stop quiet stop.
11)Think of the
sun slowly going down behind a mountain and
changes in color that take
place in the sky.
12) Imagine how a slab of butter would
feel as it melted.
13) Tell yourself
to relax three times. (Relax…
Relax… Relax)
14) Imagine
watching, hearing or feeling an elevator go from floor 10 to floor 1.
15) Enjoy the feeling
you have and know that you will be able to go deeper and more easily into
trance the next time.
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