Hypnosis for peace

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I don’t believe in hypnosis. Although I have had many people insist it was entirely real, I have yet to have much fulfilling proof. Certainly, I believe that the human mind is capable of great things, such as blocking the pain from surgury or speeding recovery. However, I doubt that hypnotism and hypnosis as therapy are useful except to people who already believe these things will help them. In the same way that people who are taking a sugar pill get better faster, so too do people who seek out hypnotherapy recover.
Even licensed and trained hypnotherapists only have to fulfill a 3-day training course to get certified, and every school that teaches hypnosis I have located also offers courses in other bullshit such as "Communicating with Angels" and "Divination".
Has anyone actually been hypnotized? Does anyone else think it’s BS? In a few weeks I’m attending a seminar on hypnosis, and I need to have some idea as to whether I’m going to need to be faking things the whole time!

With regards to this, "Whether you can or you can’t, you are probably right." That statement applies to so many things in life, and hypnosis.

Ask yourself, what in your mind would be considered fulfilling proof? More importantly, how could you confirm it to another skeptic?

You should check your facts about licensing and certification. At present in the US, hypnotism is not regulated at a federal level, and typically different for each state (some not regulated at all.) Any certification body worth it’s weight would not certify for a 3 day course (or ~24 hours of training) A certificate of completion (i.e. a piece of paper with your name on it) is not certification. Getting certified and maintaining certification has requirements that need to be fulfilled, typically with a code of ethics/conduct, continuing education, minimum number of hours in training, etc.

Change the name of the other courses your mentioned to "Communicating with your higher-self" and to "Meditation for Direction" would those be considered less "bullshit?" Do you have the same feeling regarding other things, such as acupuncture? Eastern medicine has been using acupuncture for well over 3000+ years. Just by that time line, there must be something to it. And how long has western medicine been doing things? 250 years? (if that long) Something to think about.

You’ve described placebo effect (aka sugar pill), which if I recall is about 29% if memory serves me correctly. For a drug to be approved and listed that it helps with condition, it has to be higher rate than a placebo, minimum of 31% if I recall correctly (I know it was only a percent or two difference) That I find very disturbing, especially with the known side effects that go along with your typical drug.

So, if hypnosis is a way to stimulate a safe (non-side effect) placebo effect, I say "GREAT." Clients I’ve worked with have had a far greater success that was is required for a drug to be "approved" for general use. So does that mean that hypnosis is BS? My clients would completely disagree with that statement.

What I would suggest to you is go to your seminar with an open mind. But you have already created the expectation that it’s BS. In other words, you’ve already created your own "placebo" effect that you are "going to need to be faking things the whole time!"

"Whether you can, or whether you can’t, you are probably right."

By the way you’ve described things, you’ve already made your decision, and your just looking for approval that your choice is the right decision. Ask yourself why do you need that approval? Ask why are you making your decision before you even see all the evidence (aka the seminar your are going to attend.)

When someone goes looking for a specific conclusion, they will only see the evidence that supports that conclusion.

When someone has no conclusion formed, they view the evidence for what it is, and form a conclusion from what the evidence shows.

Look at it objectively. You might learn that what hypnosis is not what you though it was, and in learning that, you could find that the entire belief you had on hypnosis comes crashing down.

"Whether you can, or whether you can’t, you’re probably right"

Just to provide myself basic minimum?

Hypnotherpy is an excellent way to rapidly alter perceptions without effort. It could also help you GET a job, for example, you may benefit from a confidence boost. There are many other ways to improve yourself. I used a hypnosis cd quite recently from http://www.vax6.com. I’m not saying that hypnosis will work for everyone but if you don’t try these things then you will never know

I went to see a stage hypnotist show last night. It was complete bizarre what some of the subjects did.

I talked to some of them and they all claimed they didn’t remember what happened. They were totally out, yet they did and acted everything the hypnotist asked them to do.

Anyone who volunteered for such a show remember their experience? Would you do it again?

Hello,
I have experienced being a volunteer in a stage hypnosis show, and performing them with my volunteers at each show. from a subject/volunteers perspective,i personally remember performing the hypnotic routines.some people do recall doing the things that are suggested during a show when the show has ended, some others seem to have a temporary amnesia which does subside later.would i do it again "YES,it is a wonder full fun and pleasant state to be in."
From a stage hypnotists point of view , it can sometimes be the way the hypnotist structures the specific suggestions he or she gives to the volunteers as to if they remember them after or not,ie to temp forget briefly what they did onstage until for example they return to their friends in the audience or whatever suggestion is given.
The hypnotized volunteers are not asleep ,even though at times it may appear they are totally "out", they are more in a heightened state of awareness and suggestibility and can hear all the hypnotist says but it is quite different from being in a sleep state as people imagine it to be.you may contact me if you would like to know more, i cannot comment personally on the specific show you attended as i was not present however generally i can answer questions related to hypnosis/stage hypnosis.
Suggestive Celine -"The Queen of the Trance"©

Would they put chicken curry in a bear trap? Would they use their psychic powers to lure him into the cave? Would they hypnotize him to believe he is Batman, then use the Bat-Signal to summon him? How would the Irishman escape from the cave, if he only had dingbat repellent on him for protection?

I think they’d probably know his fondness for dingbats, on account of the psychic ability and know that the repellent was all a facade. They’d douse him in the spray and the dingbats would come.

Clearly, now that the Irishman is surrounded with a harem of dingbats, he’s naturally, instinctively even, drawn into the cave.

He went in willingly, the bats are pleased. He will leave the cave when the dingbats grow lax and tiresome. The bats will let him, knowing he cannot live without experiencing the depths of the cave again soon.

The cave…the *cave* is the Irishman’s greatest weakness.

The bats are wise to nest there.

Before he leaves they use the hypnosis to make him believe it’s all of his own free will that he’s drawn to the cave, and that it’s his choice to return.

This child is good in reading and very good orally. Very expressive. He dreams a lot and hardly concentrate in his studies. Not consistent in studies and fail all his exams. He is 11years old.

a person can only become hypnotized if they have a specific kind of mind and believe that it is possible. hypnotism can be used to resurface hidden or old memories, discover hidden potentials and cause a person to act or behave in ways they would normally not. It cannot however, cause a person to become MORE intelligent than they already are, unless that person was already of a higher intelligence but were just not displaying that intelligence for what ever reason. Unless boy you speak of is already smart enough to be achieving higher marks than he is currently displaying then hypnotism would have no affect on him. also the act of hypnotizing someone is a very complicated form of mind control that can only be used to do small and specific things. you couldn’t take him to a hypnotist, have him brainwashed into wanting to do better and then take him home again. If it was successful and no other variables came into play, the effects of such a form of hypnotism would still ware off over a short period of time and the boy would just return to his normal behaviour and mindset.

on saying that, what kind of exams would be held for 11 year olds? o_O most boys in his age are failures at school and don’t really care about studying or work, they are more interested in playing and mucking around. cut the poor thing some slack, he’s still in primary school and will have to suffer through enough exam crap when he reaches high school. it sounds more like your are looking for some way to alter his personality than anything else.

please can someone teach me the underground hypnosis no cleaver techneque which effectivly gets people to do what you want them to do quickly. Please can you teach it to me 4 free or give me a website that teaches it to you 4 free.

If I could, why would I want to direct anyone to it so as to enable them to have unsuspecting others influenced into likely behaving inappropriately, or in ways that another ”Dictates”?

Riddle me that, and …..I’ll think about it..

Sash.

Matt 17:11 He answered, “Elijah does indeed come first and will restore all things. And I tell you that Elijah has already come. Yet they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted. In the same way, the Son of Man will suffer at their hands.” Then the disciples understood that he was speaking to them about John the Baptist.

Later they asked him, "Then who are you? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No

Jesus referred to John was Elijah but John said that he was not Elijah.
People in a regressive hypnosis remember their past lives. Now, if you ask them before hipnosis who they were in past lives , they do not know because his past is in the subconscious.
I do not know.
What you think about it?

Reincarnation works this way: John *was* Elijah; John *is not* Elijah – he *is* now John.

The subconscious mind has access to details about your past lives, but the conscious mind usually blocks these memories from being recalled. Good reasons for this, such as, we couldn’t function in the present life if we identify too strongly with a past self. The subconscious connection to the higher, eternal self (or "soul") can be tapped by methods such as meditation, self-hypnosis and dreams.

The purpose of reincarnation is to experience free will (not just our own but also the free will of others with whom we have contact) and to experience the consequences of that free will. Not everything "bad" that happens to us is karma, but what *is* karma will always teach us something and is always constructive. We’re here to learn, and to a large extent we design our own lives, the challenges we want to meet, the obstacles we want to overcome. The idea of a punishing spiteful deity is nonsense.

Just as the early Christian church changed OT verses to fit their doctrines (for example, substituting "hell" for the word meaning "grave" — Jews don’t believe in hell), bible references to reincarnation were retranslated and altered, and some removed altogether. The Pagan Roman emperor Constantine is largely responsible for revamping this small Jewish sect into the powerful, political, war-mongering authority which would become known as the "Christian" church.

From the beginning Judaism has traditionally accepted reincarnation as fact: "Behold, all these things does God do — twice, even three times with a man — to bring his soul back from the pit that he may be enlightened with the light of the living." (Job 33:29) In other words, God would allow a person to come back to the world "of the living" from "the pit" (which is Gehenna — there is no "Hell" in Judaism) a second, third or a multitude of times.

Proverbs 8:22-31 is *not* King Solomon channeling Jesus as Christians absurdly claim; it is Solomon’s celebration of eternal life through reincarnation.

And Psalms 90:3-6 speaks of reincarnation: Thou turnest man back to the dust, and sayest, "Turn back, O children of men!" For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night. Thou dost sweep men away; they are like a dream, like grass which is renewed in the morning: in the morning it flourishes and is renewed; in the evening it fades and withers. So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.

Numerous NT biblical reference for reincarnation. Besides the most obvious (Truly, literally, you must be born again… no one goes up to heaven but he who came down from heaven … how could that be any clearer?), there is "Who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" which is dismissed by the unaware who don’t know that Jesus historically taught reincarnation and that reincarnation was simply assumed to be true by his followers.

According to the bible Jesus answered that the man was born blind so that Jesus could heal him. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that this could not be applied to every person who is born without sight — it applied, according to the bible, to the one blind man whose path crossed Jesus.

The nonsense about "it is appointed that man dies once and then face judgment" that the unaware trot out at every question about reincarnation is just that: nonsense. No sense as an argument against reincarnation. What exactly do the critics think survives death to "face judgment"? The soul of course: the spiritual energy of the person who died. And it is the soul that reincarnates, not "the man." The "judgment" faced by the "soul" is Gehenna, the spiritual stopover place (according to Jesus’ Judaism) where we contemplate our past life and make plans for the next. Reincarnationists know that it is the spiritual energy of man that returns, inhabiting a new "man" (new body). Jews knew that; Jesus knew that.

Historically, *factually*, Jesus was a Reincarnationist, as were his original Christians. Matthew 5:48′s "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect" – with his statement "Ye are gods" – conveys his message that perfection and godliness are within the potential of every living being – but clearly not in one lifetime.

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Let’s imagine that an unhappy person visits a competent astrologer and tells them about the difficult conditions in their life, their insecurities, and so on. The astrologer looks at their chart, and after a good talk, tells them that they have a great Jupiter placement or something, hidden talent in this area and that area, great abilities in another, and a huge potential for success.

Psychologically speaking, if this unhappy person trusts the astrologer and really believes what they’re saying even if it were nonsense, we may very well start to see the "power of suggestion" in action. It would be like the placebo effect. The person believes they have some talent and that they can be successful, and so they in turn create that talent and success for themselves.

How is this not a positive thing? Of course there are some who would use astrology to hold people back, but I’m really talking about competent astrologers who use astrology to lift people up. Even if astrology did not have any basis in reality, I would imagine that astrology would still be quite a positive thing for many people.

Quote:
"Many hypnotherapists have known about how powerful [the placebo effect] can be and have used the power of suggestion to help people for years. It has just taken the academics a while, to fund, and conduct measurable experiments to prove the validity of these concepts. The overall conclusion is that there is considerable power in suggestion. [...] You can use the power of suggestion to literally change your life for the good."

http://www.real-hypnosis.com/powerofsuggestion.html

It seems strange that so many villify something that has a great psychological potential, doesn’t it?

The way I see it is that if that placebo bettered the person’s life in some way, a positive effect was gained that would otherwise not be realized.

Personally, I would rather know the truth of my chart, which is why I chose not to consult other people and chose to learn for myself so I could make my own judgments. That way, whether my judgments were right or wrong, I owned them and they were not from another. This is important to me, but not so much to other people,

If a person trusts another enough and believes what they say enough to encourage them, there is no harm.

I would also like to point out that a talent is a God given (or inborn, if you don’t believe in God) trait; so if the astrologer found that in the chart, and the person was able to find that in themself, it really did exist. A person can be told they have a talent for singing in their chart, they may believe that and really WANT to sing, and even attempt to foster that talent, but anyone who’s ever watched American Idol knows that a lot of people out there THINK they have a talent, but just don’t. A talent is either there or it isn’t, so the astrologer is either wrong or right there.

I know that was just and example and I get your point, though.

For people in despair, any hope given them, even a false one, might be the chance for them to make it through a rough patch until something real comes along. I’m not condoning falsehood or lying to someone, but there are times when God puts those things in the persons path to shed a tiny little beacon.

Thank you for any feedback.

I am a massage therapist and I try to always think of creative places to post by business cards and flyers.

I started out at gyms and health clubs because people are sore from working out. As a hypnotherapist a think gyms and health clubs would be the best too for you because people want to lose weight which can be an eye catcher. I got a lot of feed back.

I then went to college and universities and posted massage cards for the students. I got leads. I think that would be a good start for you to. At college and universities you have a huge diverse group of people.

Some private health food stores and vitamin shops will let you post cards and flyers as well.

I had no luck at grocery stores or restaurants but give it a try to draw attention.

I made a website on yahoo and advertised with a website too and I did not get any leads so I canceled that account.

It is so hard to find your target audience!!!!

My friend who is a massage therapist advertised in a laundry mat and she got several leads. She then got in contact with the manager and did chair massages at the laundry mat and made great money.

Maybe try chiropractic offices too. You have to think of places that are open to hypnotherapy. Some places will not let you post flyers but they will take your business cards or flyers and pass them out for referrals.

Do you have business cards? If not go to vistaprints.com and your first 250 cards are free. Then they email you free offers for your business.

I hope this helps!!!!

I thought that maybe there would be some liability issues. what do you think?

My school has done it for years. I think they have to because it is a great learning experience.