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Hypnosis: The Most Holistic Healing Method Known To Man
The Muscle Testing and Set and Release procedures described in the book, Hypno-Kinesiology, The First Step, are amazing and efficient ways of releasing blocks and changing thought patterns. These changes happen from within, but if you have overt behavior patterns built around deficiencies you’ve felt all your life, you will need Hypnosis, or Self Hypnosis, to change your conscious thinking. Say you’ve felt insecure all your life, with muscle testing and the Set and Release procedures you can neutralize the negative emotional trauma which created that feeling. Over the years you had patterned your life style around those feelings of insecurities, slowly, inwardly, you can begin to feel stronger and more confident. You might have a job that you dislike, but it is secure. You can’t bring yourself to change jobs because consciously you have accepted your position in life. You’re not happy but still it’s a big step to take. With Self Hypnosis you can give your conscious self the needed strength to do what is best for you. You may decide that the job wasn’t really that bad and develop a more healthy attitude toward it. You may begin to think of advancement within the company, something you didn’t allow yourself to hope for before. Or maybe you will start thinking seriously about another field of work. Never demand a change; give your affirmation with a goal in mind and let things happen as they will. Water seeks its own level it is said, raise your level and gravitate naturally to your goal. Those things that you desire are available to you, make yourself worthy of them.
My biggest concern with the first few attempts at Self Hypnosis is that you might fall asleep and get discouraged, especially if you’re in bed. Affirmation should be brief and to the point, but repetitive. Affirmation should lead to a goal rather than demand you make a complete change immediately. If you start by telling yourself that you won’t fall into a normal sleep you will probably be fine. At first you will want to speak aloud. I have developed an affirmation that covers about every need you will have. It allows your mind to make the decisions that are best for you, using your experiences and abilities.
Hypnosis: The voluntary acceptance of suggestion.
Dr. Milton Erickson was the leading medical hypnotist for over thirty years. His methods and philosophies of hypnosis have been studied and taught for many years. One of his beliefs was that implied suggestion has the strongest hypnotic effect. One of the reasons people have such a hard time quitting the smoking habit is because of the implied suggestion. Try to quit smoking. When you say “try” in the proper tone of voice it strongly suggests that it is impossible to do.
Dr. Volne Matheson was the originator of the sleep learning tapes. He too was a medical hypnotist. He, like Dr. Erickson, made many statements about hypnosis. Dr. Matheson stated that the strongest hypnotic effect was when a parent slapped a child across the face and said something to the effect, You’ll never be any good. The hypnosis was created by the trauma, the suggestion being obvious. He also stated that he had a client who couldn’t understand or accept her sexuality so she created a cancer in that part of her body that was dirtying her.
A few years ago I saw a “factoid” on Channel 8 TV, Portland, ME. I didn’t notice the source; I wish I had because as hypnotists we should understand what it really means. The factoid, Since the Aids scare, breast cancer and cervical cancer have gone up twenty percent.
That’s what we should expect if we accept the suggestibility factor. If records were analyzed I believe that this figure, twenty percent, would come up quite often.
This also implies that those twenty percent who accepted the disease could be cured by changing their belief system to healing. This confuses researchers because they are looking for scientific evidence and can’t find it without the use of the emotions. Of course that is what has been happening all along. The miracle cures were so suggestive that those affected cured themselves, leaving the impression that the cure was the Laetrile, visualization, hypnosis, meditation, visit from the Guru or whatever. The fact remains, if twenty percent could give themselves a disease then twenty percent could also heal themselves.
If the above is true then who are the most prolific hypnotists of our time? The medical researchers who come up with the information which influences us? The medical journalists who write about it? The A.M.A. who perpetuate and license it? The Pharmaceutical agents who advertise it? The TV personality who makes the quick statement of fact and goes on with the news? Or those who accept it? If humanity could only think for themselves.
Are those twenty percent doomed to be diseased because our society demands that we be made aware of every little risk that may be headed our way? Could it be that if we were not so wrought with trauma at early ages we would not be so susceptible to suggestion? As a parent think about this. Was the conception of an unruly, violent, hyperactive, hypo-active, and/or sickly, asthmatic, confused, child pleasant? Or was there stress present at conception. Did the parent experience trauma during the gestation period? Was the parent’s early childhood troubled? Children are affected by the emotions felt by the mother from the point of the conception through the birth and into early childhood.
If anyone stood in front of a group of people and sincerely told them to put their hands together, to squeeze them tightly together; that their hands were sticking together. Then told them that you where going to count to five. At the count of five their hands would be stuck so tightly together that they could not open them; they could try to separate their hands but they wouldn’t be able to. Twenty percent wouldn’t be able to separate their hands. Twenty percent! Anyone can perform this demonstration if h/she only rehearses the words so h/she can say them with conviction. You don’t have to be a hypnotist. Perhaps everyone is a hypnotist at times.
If your friend says, You look great, . . . you feel better.
If your boss says, You look great, . . . you feel better.
If the mailman says, You look great, . . . you feel better.
You accept the suggestion and it has an effect. The suggestion doesn’t have to be given by a hypnotherapist.
The first person that I ever hypnotized was a friend. I was at a card party and the others began discussing my new hypnosis hobby. The guests asked for a demonstration but I hadn’t done anything with hypnotism yet and so I tried to get out of it. Unsuccessful in my reasoning, I got the book on hypnosis I happened to have in my car. A female guest wanted to lose weight and asked me to hypnotize her for her weight. I was concerned about being able to hypnotize her. She wanted therapy as well. I held a dime in front of her eyes at the suggested distance and read the procedure from the book which included the eye closure test. It went well. I assumed that she was in trance so I suggested that she go to a doctor, get a diet from him, and that she would have no trouble following the diet. This all came to pass and she lost 25 pounds. I had hypnotized her before I became a hypnotist. Realize that this happened back when there were no schools of hypnosis anywhere near.
Another incident that I feel is important happened shortly after that. I was a police officer with a year of experience and was training a new officer on the beat. He asked about my hobbies so I mentioned hypnosis. For the next hour I heard all I could take on the phoniness of hypnosis. We visited an all night garage which employed two night workers. We sat around having a coffee and, again using the dime, I put the fellow officer into hypnosis. I gave him three suggestions to accomplish when he came out of hypnosis. The first, that he wouldn’t be able to lift the coke that he had just bought. The second, that upon awakening from hypnosis he would go to a certain page in the book that was in front of him and read the first paragraph. The third, that when I snapped my fingers he would blow his whistle three times. I brought him out of hypnosis and he sat for a moment. He grabbed for his coke but couldn’t lift it until I told him it was all right. This bothered him because he was a weight lifter and was proud of his strength. He lifted the book then fumbled through it but acted confused. He set the book down and we left the building. After walking a few steps he mentioned he was getting a headache. I realized immediately what I had done wrong. When I gave the suggestions I repeated them each twice. When I gave the suggestion about the book I had forgotten the page number I gave first and when repeating the suggestion I gave a different number. This minor infraction of the rules of hypnosis may have given him a good headache. It gave me a valuable lesson.
There is a Hypnotherapist in Indiana who presented his program in Chicago a few years ago. He showed videos of himself in an operating room in Honduras. He had gone there as a hypnotist to show that hypnosis could be used in major operations. In Honduras they don’t have the money for pharmaceutical drugs; operations are performed as is. His story is especially interesting because after he had prepared himself and his video crew, he realized that the intended patients could not understand English. How could he hypnotize them? After thinking it over he told the Honduran doctor to tell the patients that when the hypnotist touched their forensic nerve (the nerve on both sides of the wrist), squeezed gently and counted to three they would go into trance. Everything would be fine. He helped with twelve major operations that day using the method of implied suggestion.
The computer program we call the subconscious mind is written by emotional thoughts and/or traumatic experiences of the mother. It starts at the time of the conception, includes the gestation period, birth, and early childhood (up to four or five years of age). Stress, anxiety, fear, anger, passivity, hate, guilt, shame, or any emotion that is felt strongly enough to create an energy, becomes part of the program. The effect on the computer program depends on how extreme the emotional impact was on the mother.
If the mother felt anger, the child will have anger in h/her program; anger is now a natural part of character. The child, feeling uncomfortable without anger, will then create situations which allow h/her to feel justified, self righteous anger. This is harmful but not as harmful as two emotions that might conflict with each other such as anger and fear or hate and guilt; a dichotomy in the subconscious mind. This is what can be found with autistic children.
This type of dichotomy becomes obvious when testing someone for h/her inner mind’s weight preference. If the findings indicate a positive reaction to being both heavy and being thin, this person will be emotionally torn between the two. Hypertension, high blood pressure, weight fluctuations, manic depression, a constant emotional battle within the self, a lack of personal identity, draining of energy, and/or total confusion can result.
If trauma can affect the growth patterns through thought transference, couldn’t it also affect the sexual preference of the child? When testing the sex of the child within I often find a female child within a male or a male child within a female. This doesn’t imply homosexuality although most homosexuals test this way. It shows that there may be a misunderstanding about their sexuality no matter how subtle it may be. It is another dichotomy which causes another inner battle. I usually leave it be until I’ve released all of the other negatives I’ve found, then I retest. Then I release it with the hypno-kinesiology program. If the client’s retest is normal, there’s no need to pursue it further. But if the results are the same with the retest then we know we have missed something important and will want to address it.
