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Dissociaters I have hypnotized many people who had fit the “fantasizer” description, people who are highly hypnotizable. But then I saw many who did not fit this prototype. Some of the people I had hypnotized could not remember ever having experienced vivid imagery. When I assessed highly hypnotizable people who would not go into trance instantly, I…
Read MoreWe are becoming wise to the fact that mutually biological and environmental factors can forecast how deeply an individual goes into a trance. Identical twins raised apart often have extraordinarily similar responses to hypnosis. Additionally, an “eye roll” test, developed by Herbert Spiegel, M.D., measures how far a person can roll his eyes up under…
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As a hypnotist I have worked with various clients caring for difficulties from chronic pain to poor study habits. Andrea was a few minutes late for our first session as she was standing outside my office building lighting, what she thought would be, her last cigarette. As this habit had developed so had her severe asthma and a…
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While the placebo effect can be powerful, it is sometimes stated incorrectly that hypnosis works as a placebo, and that the effects of hypnosis are merely a placebo effect due to the patient’s beliefs and expectations. While positive expectancy is an important part of hypnosis, hypnosis is not the same as the placebo effect in…
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Photo by Priscilla Du Preez The Power of Words on Children This week I had a teenager in my office for a hypnosis session concerned that something bad would happen to his family. This young man was growing up in the midst of a possible divorce between his parents ; it was not a surprise that…
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Click Here to Join us for “It’s Only Words” When I have someone come to me for a hypnosis session, I want him or her to think about their own life for a minute. Unless they or someone close to them, has been prey to an act of physical violence, chances are the worst pain they have felt in…
Read MoreAs a nurse, it was suggested after I graduated from my first four years of nursing school, that I read Florence Nightingale’s original writings. I was not required as a student to read her writings. The language of nursing was first revealed by Florence Nightingale (1859) in her book “Notes on Nursing” when she stated…
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Hypnosis has long been known to be associated with heightened control over physical processes and has been used as a therapeutic tool since mankind’s early history. As a Hypnosis Clinician, I have found that hypnosis is also associated with control over emotional processes from certain episodes of our lives which may remain for a lifetime.…
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In the history of hypnosis, there are many people who are important. One was Franz Anton Mesmer who in the period around 1779 gave hypnosis a name but the name he gave it was mesmerism. He was all the rage in the day. He felt he had the ability to magnetize people with his power. But we know…
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The history of hypnosis can be traced to ancient times. It has been called numerous names in various places. Medicine men, witch doctors, and religious leaders have utilized it in many forms to heal the ill. The cures frequently were credited to miracles achieved by the gods. The Papyrus Ebers, an Egyptian medical record dating to…
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