THE REAL SCOOP

           ON HYPNOSIS!            

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HYPNOSIS TRACES IT'S ORIGINS BACK THOUSANDS OF YEARS. ANCIENT EGYPTIANS AS WELL AS ANCIENT GREEKS USED SOME FORM OF HYPNOSIS FOR HEALTH-RELATED PURPOSES.  CLOSER TO OUR TIME IT WAS ANTON MESSMER WHO USED A FORM OF HYPNOSIS WHICH HE CALLED "ANIMAL MAGNETISM."  HE BELIEVED THAT ALL OF US HAD WITHIN US CERTAIN MAGNETIC PROPERTIES WHICH, WHEN PROPERLY ALLIGNED, WOULD HELP ELIMINATE ILLNESS.  HIS CLAIM TO FAME WAS THAT HE FILLED A LARGE TUB WITH IRON FILINGS AND WATER.  HE HAD HIS "PATIENTS" SIT AROUND THIS TUB AND HOLD ON TO A LARGE METAL ROD PLACED INTO THE WATER. HE CHANTED AND AT THE SAME TIME WOULD SPEAK BOTH IN SOOTHING PHRASES AND LOUD ANTICS. THIS WOULD CONTINUE FOR QUITE SOME TIME, AND WHEN IT WAS OVER MOST OF HIS PATIENTS WERE ACTUALLY CURED OF THEIR ILLNESS!  UNFORTUNATELY A BOARD OF INVESTIGATION WAS ORGANIZED TO SEE HOW THIS CURE WORKED.  WHAT ONE PARTICULAR INDIVIDUAL DISCOVERED WAS THAT IF HE PAINTED WOODEN RODS AS IF THEY WERE STEEL AND FILLED THE TUB WITH WATER AND ANYTHING THAT RESEMBLED IRON FILINGS HE COULD EFFECT THE SAME CURES!  THUS MESSMER WAS CALLED A FAKE, AND UNFORTUNATELY DIED IMPOVERISHED.  WHAT WE DID LEARN FROM THIS WAS THAT THE MIND PLAYED THE MAJOR PART IN AN INDIVIDUAL'S HEALING PROCESS.  IF ONE WOULD BELIEVE HE/SHE COULD BE CURED AND BELIEVED STRONGLY ENOUGH THE CURE COULD HAPPEN. 

"HYPNOSIS" IS ACTUALLY A GREEK TERM..."HYPNOS"  MEANING, "SLEEP."  WE DO KNOW THAT THE STATE OF HYPNOSIS IS NOT A STATE OF SLEEP!  ACTUALLY HYPNOSIS IS AN ACTUAL "ALTERED STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS."  IN THIS STATE, THE INDIVIDUAL IS VERY AWARE OF EVERYTHING THAT IS HAPPENING AND CAN INTERACT ACCORDINGLY.  NO ONE CAN CONTROL OR "TAKE AWAY" ONE'S MIND IN THE HYPNOTIC STATE!  NO ONE CAN BE "MADE" TO DO ANYTHING HE/SHE DOESN'T WANT TO DO!  IF YOU WANT TO ACT LIKE A CHICKEN OR BARK LIKE A DOG WHILE IN A STATE OF HYPNOSIS, WELL....THEN YOU WILL!  IF YOU CHOOSE NOT TO DO THOSE THINGS, WELL......THEN YOU WON'T!  AND IF YOU GO INTO A DEEP HYPNOTIC STATE, AND YOUR HYPNOTHERAPIST DROPS DEAD.....YOU CAN'T BE "STUCK" THERE FOREVER, NEVER TO COME OUT OF IT AGAIN! YOU WOULD SIMPLY WAKE UP.  HYPNOSIS IS NOT A GUARANTEED LIE DETECTOR EITHER.  A PERSON CAN TELL WHOPPERS WHETHER THEY ARE HYPNOTISED OR NOT!  SO WHERE DO ALL THESE WILD IDEAS COME FROM?  WHY ARE THEY SO HARD TO GET RID OF?

THE ANSWERS LIE IN HOW WE WERE BROUGHT UP TO THINK ABOUT HYPNOSIS.  FIRST, WE WERE SUBJECTED TO OLD MOVIES...YOU KNOW, THOSE VAMPIRE MOVIES WHERE THE VAMPIRE WOULD ALMOST ALWAYS LOOK AT AN UNSUSPECTING VICTIM WITH HIS "EVIL EYE" AND IMMEDIATELY HAVE THAT PERSON UNDER HIS SPELL.  OR HE WOULD GET INTO THE MIND OF THE POOR DAMSEL IN DISTRESS AND CONTROL HER, GETTING HER TO DO HIS BIDDING!  WE WERE ALSO SUBJECTED TO THOSE EVER-PRESENT STAGE SHOWS WHERE THE HYPNOTIST EXHIBITS HIS POWERFUL MIND-CONTROL ABILITIES OVER HIS WILLING SUBJECTS IN FRONT OF A LIVE AUDIENCE. WE'VE ALL READ THE BOOKS ON THE POWER OF HYPNOSIS AND BACK IN THE LATE FORTY'S WE CERTAINLY SAW THE ADS IN THE BACK OF MAGAZINES TOUTING HOW, WITH THE PURCHING OF A PARTICULAR BOOK, YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO CONTROL ANYONE...INCLUDING ANY GIRL YOU ENCOUNTER!   

THE PROBLEM IS THAT DURING THOSE FORMATIVE YEARS, AS WE WERE GROWING UP AND SLOWLY MAKING OUR WAY INTO ADULTHOOD NO ONE TOLD US ANY DIFFERENTLY.  SO WE WERE SURE THAT WHAT WE SAW, READ AND HEARD, HAD TO BE FACT!   WELL IT AIN'T SO!

THE TRUTH  IS:  AS MENTIONED ABOVE, YOU AND YOU ALONE CONTROL YOURSELF.  HYPNOSIS IS A STATE OF MIND YOU PASS THROUGH TWICE EVERY TWENTY-FOUR HOURS.  ONCE WHEN YOU LIE DOWN AT NIGHT AND BEGIN TO DRIFT TOWARDS SLEEP...AND AGAIN WHEN YOU BEGIN TO MAKE YOUR WAY FROM BEING ASLEEP TO BEING AWAKE! YOU CANNOT FALL ASLEEP OR WAKE UP WITHOUT PASSING THROUGH A HYPNOTIC PHASE.  GUESS WHAT?   YOU ARE STILL HERE.    NO ONE CONTROLLED YOUR MIND AND YOU NEVER EVEN ACTED LIKE A CHICKEN OR BARKED LIKE A DOG!  HYPNOSIS IS ONLY A RELAXED STATE OF MIND MUCH LIKE DAY DREAMING IN WHICH YOUR PHYSICAL BODY IS CALM AND AT REST.  IN THIS STATE, IF YOU WANTED TO YOU COULD DO WHATEVER YOU DECIDED TO DO.  IF YOU DIDN'T WANT TO DO ANYTHING YOU JUST WOULDN'T.  YOU SEE, HYPNOSIS IS NOT SLEEP.  YOU ARE NOT ASLEEP.   YOU CAN HEAR ANYTHING AND ACT ACCORDINGLY IF YOU CHOOSE.

DURING A HYPNOSIS SESSION YOUR HYPNOTHERAPIST GUIDES YOU INTO A RELAXED STATE OF TOTAL RELAXATION.  THIS RELAXATION ALLOWS THE SUBCONSCIOUS/UNCONSCIOUS PART OF YOUR MIND TO ABSORB BENEFICIAL SUGGESTIONS.  THESE SUGGESTIONS WHEN REPEATED OVER A PERIOD OF TIME, WILL BEGIN TO HAVE A PROFOUND POSITIVE EFFECT ON YOUR ABILITY TO ENHANCE YOUR BEHAVIOR IN JUST THE RIGHT WAY FOR YOU. IF THIS IS WHAT YOU CHOOSE TO ACCOMPLISH.WHILE EXPERIENCING HYPNOSIS YOU ARE COMPLETELY AWARE OF WHAT IS HAPPENING AND YOU CAN HEAR EVERYTHING THAT IS BEING SAID.  IN FACT YOU ARE VERY ALERT!  YOU AND YOU ALONE PERMIT YOURSELF TO SLIP INTO AND OUT OF THE HYPNOTIC STATE.  YOUR HYPNOTHERAPIST IS MERELY A GUIDE. 

HYPNOSIS "WORKS" LIKE THIS:  ONCE YOU ARE WILLING TO RELAX AND COMPLY WITH WHAT YOUR HYPNOTHERAPIST SUGGESTS YOU DO YOUR CRITICAL CONSCIOUS MIND BECOMES LESS CRITICAL.  THIS ALLOWS YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND TO BE MORE OPEN TO VALUABLE SUGGESTIONS GIVEN BY THE HYPNOTHERAPIST.  THESE SUGGESTIONS, FOR EXAMPLE, WILL HAVE TO DO WITH STOPPING SMOKING, CONTROLING WEIGHT, OR ANY NUMBER OF SUBJECTS.  IN FACT YOU AND YOUR HYPNOTHERAPIST WILL CREATE THESE TYPES OF SUGGESTIONS BEFORE YOUR INITIAL SESSION BEGINS.  YOU WILL KNOW PRETTY MUCH OF WHAT WILL BE SUGGESTED TO YOU DURING YOUR SESSION.  REPETITION IS THE KEY TO SUCCESSFUL SUGGESTIONS.  THAT'S BECAUSE WE HUMANS LEARN BY REPETITIVE INFORMATION.  THE MORE WE ARE TOLD SOMETHING OR THE MORE WE PHYSICALLY DO A PARTICULAR THING THE EASIER IT BECOMES UNTIL, AT LAST, IT BECOMES AN AUTOMATIC ACTIVITY.  HYPNOTIC SUGGESTIONS WORK THE SAME WAY.

YOUR MIND IS A POWERFUL TOOL!  IN FACT, WHENEVER WE TELL OURSELVES THAT WE CAN OR CANNOT DO SOMETHING, WE USUALLY FIND THAT THE RESULT IS EXACTLY WHAT WE TOLD OURSELVES IT WOULD BE!  THIS IS BECAUSE THE SUBCONSCIOUS/AUTOMATIC PART OF THE MIND STRIVES TO GIVE US BACK WHAT WE TELL OURSELVES WE WANT.  "I CAN'T," RESULTS IN NOT BEING ABLE TO!  IT'S REALLY AS SIMPLE AS THAT.

DURING A COMPLETE HYPNOTHERAPY PROGRAM YOU ARE TAUGHT TO USE THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND IN AN EFFORT TO WORK TOWARDS A SPECIFIC GOAL WHICH YOU HAVE SET FOR YOURSELF.  IN A ONE-ON-ONE SESSION YOU ALONG WITH YOUR HYPNOTHERAPIST CREATE A PROGRAM WITH SPECIFIC SUGGESTIONS TO ADDRESS YOUR PERSONAL NEEDS.

A COMPLETE HYPNOSIS PROGRAM WILL LAST FOR ABOUT FIVE SESSIONS.  THE FIRST SESSION COULD LAST FROM ONE AND ONE-HALF HOURS TO TWO HOURS BECAUSE OF THE INITIAL INTAKE PROCESS.  ADDITIONALLY IT IS IMPORTANT TO LEARN THE PRESENTING PROBLEM AND THE CLIENT'S PHYSICAL STATE OF HEALTH AS WELL.  HYPNOSIS IS USUALLY GIVEN AT THAT SESSION. EACH SESSION AFTER THAT IS USED AS A "BOOSTER" TO CONTINUE TO STRENGTHEN THE SUGGESTIONS.  THESE SESSIONS MAY LAST ANYWHERE FROM 45 MINUTES TO ONE HOUR.  THE SESSIONS ARE DONE ONCE A WEEK FOR FIVE WEEKS AND YOU MAY OR MAY NOT BE GIVEN A TAPE/CD TO USE FOR DAILY STRENGTHENING.  THE REASON A PROGRAM LASTS FOR FIVE SESSIONS IS BECAUSE IT USUALLY TAKES ANYWHERE FROM TWENTY-SEVEN TO THIRTY-ONE DAYS OF DAILY INFLUENCE TO THE SUBCONSCIOUS FOR A NEW BEHAVIOR TO FORM AND BECOME MORE PERMANENT.

WELL FOLKS....NOW YOU KNOW THE SCOOP!  THERE'S MUCH MORE TO KNOW BUT I'M SURE YOU GET THE PICTURE!  THERE IS NOTHING TO FEAR; YOUR MIND DOESN'T GO AWAY; AND NO ONE CAN TAKE CONTROL OF IT!  ALL THAT CAN HAPPEN IS THAT "NOTHING" WILL HAPPEN (BECAUSE YOU DON'T WANT IT TO) OR, YOU WILL ENHANCE YOUR LIFE IN JUST THE RIGHT WAY FOR YOU!

Hugh N. Drey is the area's most recognized and foremost authority on hypnosis/hypnotherapy. Mr. Drey is a certified instructor of hypnotherapy.  He has lectured throughout the community and the State of PA on topics related to hypnosis both in the private and business sectors.  He has a private practice in Reading, Berks County, PA. and can be reached at 610-375-6008.