Ellen J. Langer
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 Most contemporary writers on the subject agree that hypnosis cannot take place without the compliance of the subject. Some go so far as to say that all hypnosis is self-hypnosis.25
The treatment of warts makes a graphic illustration of this self-healing power. Believed to be caused by viral invasion, warts qualify as a "real" physical condition: they are visible, touchable, and lasting. Yet they respond to hypnosis. As the biologist Lewis Thomas wrote in The Medusa and the Snail, "warts can be made to go away by something that can only be called thinking or something like thinking. ... |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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 It is not possible to truly get well by way of some easy, feel-good process, which is what the selling point is behind meditation, hypnosis, acupuncture, and all cognitive therapies. What they offer is a temporary palliative to the patient's suffering, and for a period of time, at least, the patient will feel better. But after decades of work in the field of clinical psychology, I can tell you that if the patient isn't suffering in therapy, there is no improvement. No pain, no gain. |
Ronald Klatz and Robert Goldman
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 There are several selected awareness techniques currently used today:
• Hypnosis: With hypnosis, a therapist can induce relaxation by providing you with either a mental task or a repetitive stimulus. By doing so, your perception is altered, allowing the hypnotist to restrict your awareness. hypnosis can be learned by the patient, and once learned, this state can be achieved without the aid of a hypnotist.
• Autogenic training: This method is similar to hypnosis in its use of a therapist to help direct awareness. |
E. D. Hirsch
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 These properties make hypnosis a useful tool in psychotherapy. hypnosis also has sinister implications, for subjects may be manipulated to perform embarrassing actions, or be susceptible to carrying out the hypnotist's commands after the hypnosis session (posthypnotic suggestion). These results of hypnosis, however, are extremely unlikely. hysteria A complex neurosis in which psychological conflict is turned into physical symptoms such as amnesia, blindness, and paralysis which have no underlying physical cause. Early in his career, Sig-mund Freud worked on hysteria. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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 Influence of pharmacological metabolism: An injection of a dried ether extract prolonged the phenobarbituate hypnosis of female albino mice, up to 120%; a higher dose shortened it to 83%.
Estrogenic effect: An acetone extract of cumin, administered to female albino rats (ovariectomised, ovaries have been removed) led, depending on the dosage, to an increase in the weight of the uterus, an increase in the amount of protein in the endometrium, and to an increase of alkali phosphates. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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| Influence of pharmacological metabolism: An injection of a dried ether extract prolonged the phenobarbituate hypnosis of female albino mice, up to 120%; a higher dose shortened it to 83%.
Estrogenic effect: An acetone extract of cumin, administered to female albino rats (ovariectomised, ovaries have been removed) led, depending on the dosage, to an increase in the weight of the uterus, an increase in the amount of protein in the endometrium and an increase of alkali phosphates. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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| Awareness can be manipulated, as in hypnosis; it can be turned against feelings and against the self, producing a lack of harmony, serving to keep us unconscious, and as such can be harmful. Awareness alone, without conscious-awareness, can be fatal. We can be on the verge of a stroke and it still remains a mystery. In cognitive therapy, the more "aware" we are made through insights, the less conscious we may be; the left frontal area becomes a defense against consciousness. This means that there is a wider Janovian Gap between feelings and thoughts. |
| They told me that they use various means to affect a cure, including hypnosis, acupuncture, EMDR, massage, and exercise, as an attempt to build toward reality. The result, in effect, is to pile on one ineffective technique after another, resulting in a massive unreality. In no other branch of medicine would we consider trying a plethora of old discarded techniques on a physical symptom, hoping that one might help. There is either a science or there isn't. If we did that in physical medicine, there would be chaos. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They proposed a top-secret research program on behavior modification -- involving testing drugs, hypnosis, electroshock and lobotomies on humans (Barker).
(1952)
At the famous Sloan-Kettering Institute, Chester M. Southam injects live cancer cells into prisoners at the Ohio State Prison to study the progression of the disease. Half of the prisoners in this National Institutes of Health-sponsored (NIH) study are black, awakening racial suspicions stemming from Tuskegee, which was also an NIH-sponsored study (Merritte, et al.).
(1953 - 1974) The U.S. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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| It is not possible to get well through more of it, which is what happens in hypnosis and all cognitive therapies, where the left is driven further from its right counterpart.
Connection has neurologic roots. The Swedish neuroscientist, David Ingvar, using a CAT scan of the brain, found that a perception of pain involved both sides of the prefrontal area working in tandem. When emotional pain is repressed, I would assume the right side is more involved; the right amygdala picks up volume. As I pointed out earlier, the right amygdala tends to swell when there is feeling. |
Andreas Moritz
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 As a human race, we are about to recognize the vanity of participating in the hypnosis of social conditioning that keeps our mind veiled in the shadows cast by misinformation. Many of us have already begun to let go of the fears and doubts that keep us from realizing the tremendous powers that are patiently waiting for us to put them into action. To make a real difference in life, we need to employ our vast potential of energy, creativity and intelligence for the truly essential issues in life and for generating a profound sense of happiness. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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| They like hypnosis because it all happens while they are unconscious. We can't beat that. They don't have to participate and make an effort, and, above all, there is no need to feel any pain. Yet the pain is there; we can either deny it or feel it.
Now why should we make a fuss about history? We have only to look at research by neurobiologist Charles Nemeroff to understand. He studied rat pups who were separated from their mothers. He later found markers of hyper-secretion that one finds in acute stress. This early abuse left a lifetime vulnerability to stress. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Short courses of cognitive therapy or hypnosis can alleviate the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) for the estimated
15% of adult Americans who have this disorder, according to several recent studies.
THE FIRST STUDY
In one study, Jeffrey M. Lackner, director of the behavioral medicine clinic and assistant professor of medicine at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine, assigned 59 patients to either a 10-week course of cognitive therapy, a four-week course, or a wait list. |
| Visit the American Society of Clinical hypnosis Web site at www.asch.net.
Cough Away Pain—It Works!
Coughing reduces the pain of a needle being inserted into the skin for a local anesthetic, an intravenous (IV) line or when blood is drawn.
Reason: Coughing at the moment the needle is injected distracts a part of the brain that also perceives pain.
Important: Before trying this approach, ask the practitioner to observe whether you move your arm when you cough.
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| HOW IT WORKS
Although experts are not sure just how cognitive therapy and hypnosis ease IBS symptoms, Lackner's and Simren's results are in line with other studies that have come to similar conclusions.
Dr. Emeran Mayer, a professor of medicine and physiology at the University of California at Los Angeles, believes that hypnotherapy works because it alters the way the brain reacts to stress, reducing levels of body arousal. "There's a very important role for these kinds of [mind-body] approaches," he says. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 In this latter category are biofeedback, hypnosis, guided imagery, relaxation techniques, "lifestyle diet," and vitamin therapy, which, together accounted for less than 10% of total visits to alternative medical practitioners.
Four in ten of these treatments were disclosed to physicians (though we are as always skeptical of such self-reported data), a rate which did not change from 1990. Extrapolation to the U.S. population suggests that there were 629 million visits to alternative medical practitioners, compared with 427 million in 1990. |
| Consider acupuncture and yoga, until a few years ago were considered "unscientific" and alien, their purported effectiveness explained as a result of a placebo effect or hypnosis, or through misreporting or outright lies. Today, along with a host of previously maligned "alternative" practices, they have made inroads into standard medical practice. The editors of JAMA now accept acupuncture and yoga as "facts of life," and are encouraging research on those treatments. |
Charles Barber
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 Men-ninger's recommended treatment methods for war neurosis included hypnosis and psychoanalytic therapy.
In 1945, Menninger introduced an entirely new diagnostic nomenclature for the field. He created new categories specifically geared to incorporate the war experience—such as "transient personality reactions to acute and special stress," which included "combat exhaustion" and "acute situational maladjustment" as diagnoses. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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| Common mind-body treatments include relaxation, meditation, imagery, hypnosis, and biofeedback.25
We might assume that psychological problems, such as those reviewed in the previous chapter, are amenable to such therapies. These problems are, after all, all in one's head. Indeed, mind-body treatments have shown some effectiveness in treating psychological problems. So have mind-body therapies been effective in the relief of pain. Once again, we might (incorrectly) dismiss or minimize these claims, given the subjective nature of pain. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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| Let me put it succinctly: any therapy that focuses on the present, that uses gimmicks, methods, or special tools (for example, hypnosis) to go into the past cannot be effective. Only full reliving with the brain system operative at the time is resolving. If a therapy claims to deal with the patient's history but approaches it from an adult focus, it is bound to fail. If the delving into the past is at the behest or urging of a therapist, it will fail, because the focus is on the external instead of internal. If it is the result of any kind of encouragement or insistence it will fail. |
Lynne McTaggart
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 Wickramasekera claimed the tests identify people most likely to have psychic experiences or to be susceptible to hypnosis. Although the test was originally developed to pinpoint people at high risk of psychological problems during times of major life changes, Krippner believed that Wickramasekera's model could also be used to evaluate mediums and healers. Krippner and his associates found they could readily use the test to identify people whose inflexible sense of reality blocked them from perceiving or acknowledging intuitive information. |
Lynne Mctaggart
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 One of his students who practiced hypnosis agreed to participate in a study in which Braud attempted to transmit his thoughts. Some amazing transferences had gone on. His student, who'd been hypnotized and was sitting in a room down the hall from him, unaware of Braud's doings, seemed to have some empathetic connection with him. Braud had pricked his hand and placed it over a candle flame and his student experienced pain or heat. He'd looked at a picture of a boat and the student remarked about a boat. |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
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 The experience of hypnosis can mimic sleep because the mind and body go into a perfect restful state of peace. If you come back at the end of the exercise, aware of my voice prompting you to awaken and open your eyes, then you were not asleep. If, however, you come around half an hour after the exercise has ended (long after my voice prompts have ended), then you were asleep.
If you have a physical injury or a debilitating disease, the pain from this might make it harder to relax. Do not worry if you find you cannot relax physically or feel distracted because of pain in your body. |
Lynne Mctaggart
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| Even when only dabbling, Braud showed great success during hypnosis. In Tart's studies, and in his own remote staring studies, the communication had occurred subconsciously, without the recipient being aware of it.
Braud had looked hard for the common thread in all these experiments. He'd noticed several characteristics which tended to more readily guarantee success: some sort of relaxation technique (through meditation, biofeedback or another method); reduced sensory input or physical activity; dreams or other internal states and feelings; and a reliance on right-brain functioning. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 He integrates relaxation therapies, hypnosis, meditation, acupuncture, nutrition, herbalism, musculoskeletal manipulation, dance, yoga, and physical exercise in his own practice of medicine and psychiatry.
Center for Mind-Body Medicine
5225 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 414
Washington DC 20015
Tel: (202)966-7338 www.cmbm.org www.jamesgordonmd.com
JAN CACNON, M.D., is a naturopathic physician in Seattle, Washington. |
Dawson Church
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 Under hypnosis, subjects can be induced to really "see" things that aren't there. They can be trained to look at common English words, and perceive them to be gibberish. In a provocative summary of this research published in the New York Times, Dr. Amir Raz said that the brain's internal beliefs and perceptions, '"overrode brain circuits devoted to reading and detecting conflict.' A number of other studies of brain imaging point to similar top-down brain mechanisms.... Top-down processes override sensory, or bottom-up information, said Dr. Stephen M. Kosslyn, a neuroscientist at Harvard. |
| One of those creations may be health where before there was disease; "Many of the so-called miracles of healing via spiritual practices and therapeutic hypnosis (Barber, 1990), probably occur via this type of activity-dependent gene expression in stem cells through out the brain and body."24 Rossi declares that, "fascination during novel and numinous life experiences plays a fundamental role in focusing our attention and engaging activity-dependent gene expression neurogenesis, and healing in general."25
The process of turning short-term memories into long-term memories is key to neurogenesis. |
Lynne McTaggart
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| A fascinating study by David Spiegel, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University, offers a glimpse of what happens to the brain when an intention is given under hypnosis. His participants were shown a colored grid painting, similar to a Mondrian, and were asked to imagine the color draining from the picture, leaving only black and white. |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
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| You will "slide" quickly and deeply into hypnosis with repeated exposure to the process.
If you can, continue practicing the energy exercises from chapter 2 during this time, as well. These tools compliment one another. The power and benefit of any one tool is bolstered by practicing the others you have in your kit. You should also notice a positive health benefit right away—a reduction in pain, improved stamina, and lower blood pressure, for example—even though the most exciting and rewarding work of self-assessment and treatment is still ahead. |
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