What are the Means and Limits of Hypnosis

The  capabilities and  capacities of our neuro-vegetative system  are  immeasurable They come into play with hypnosis.  So what are the means and limits  of hypnosis.  

• In a hypnotic, such as somnambulism, our muscular strength is clearly superior to that shown in our waking state. 
• Under hypnosis, you can achieve perfect relaxation.  This is impossible to attain in our waking state. The conscious mind in an obstacle to relaxation.
• With hypnosis, you have the means of influencing inner functions.  As an example, you can accelerate or slow down the rate of the heartbeat.

Sharpen the senses with this experiment

To what extent do you think one can sharpen the senses?   Try this experiment and you will get the answers.   

Take a new pack of  cards which are all identical to the touch.   Choose one of them.  Note its color and value,  ie,   6 of Hearts  Then  with hypnosis, use self-hypnosis or put someone under hypnosis  into the somnambulistic state.    

The command is given:   “Open your eyes!”   

Show this person the back of the selected card  and suggest :

“I will show you this card a second time.  You will notice a black cross on its back.  You will recognize the card by this sign”.

Put this selected card in question back into the pack.  Shuffle.  Show the back of each one of the cards in turn to the person undergoing the experiment.    Say:

“Recognize the card marked with the distinctive sign”.

As a general rule, the hypnotized subject will point it out , in spite of the absence of the cross. 

What do you think the means and limits of hypnosis really are?

A committee of doctors observed an experiment, the result of which was drawn up in a report.  It concerned the  development of a blister due to the use of suggestion of a burn.      This is how  the experiment worked.

With a subject in a hypnotic state,  the hypnotist touched the person’s skin with a cold metallic object, a coin.  He suggested: 

“Feel it.  The coin is very hot.  It is burning your skin”. 

With this suggestion given, the subject was  brought out of hypnosis.  All present noticed the formation of a blister at the place on the skin where the object was applied.

Controlled Experiment

This experiment was repeated several times.  And many physicians present observed the subjects very closely, stating how can a simple excitation of the sympathetic nerves , leading to the epidermis, create a blister?   We know the latter is the effect of a local destruction of cells and of a lesion of blood vessels, caused by the agent of high temperature. V. Safonov noted that the nervous system sustains the same intensity of excitation throughout, but  the effected  area had only one blister.   

In conclusion:  The impulses responsible for the single suggestive blister in a given spot escapes our comprehension.

The Puzzling Phenomenon of walking on fire

In Polynesia, a priest walked on burning stones while praying, without receiving the slightest burn.  Spectators, previously conditioned also completed the walk.    In Tahiti, stones were heated for two days and two nights.  The one by one , native Tahitians walked on this burning path, 12 yards long. 

Dr. Kellogg, observing this ritual, threw an old she at the path and it burned up in the wink of an eye, but the feet of the walkers bore no trace of a wound. More recent events  include the fire walk at Tony Robbins retreats where again everyone in attendance walked the fire path without any injury or pain.

The power of your mind

With control of your secret power, your mind,  and using  self-hypnosis or induced  hypnosis you are able to keep temperatures of your body within your control.  In controlled experiments, the feet were washed and examined.  No trace of any possible preparations were made to the feet in the experiment  and the soles of the feet were soft and dry.  The temperature of the skin  was 86 degrees (F).  

After walking two paths of burning newspaper, paraffin and kindling.  The paths were ten feet long and four feet wide, the subject walked back and forth without haste or hesitation.  The temperature after the walk was 86 degree.  The soles of the feet were unharmed.  

How do you combat pain?

Hypnosis, the hypnosis of others and self-hypnosis exert their  beneficial effects in many fields.  Above all, they relieve pain. Many surgical operations and dentistry have been performed under hypnotic anesthesia.  Detailed descriptions and procedures  of these operations no longer allow the effectiveness of hypnosis to remain in doubt.

Therefore, any pain or discomfort, no matter how great can be neutralized under hypnosis.  Above all, imaginary pain such as headaches, phantom pain from amputations and childbirth are eliminated by hypnotherapy. 

The objective limit

The ways of healing offered by hypnosis are limitless,  so as  the minds ability to create refuge in illness.   Hypnotherapy  is very effective using  Gestalt therapy also known as chair therapy.  Finding the first sensitizing  incident and altering the interpretation or the body reaction to that  creates a modified  conditional response.   

Using  hypnosis for pain management will improve your pain threshold  such as in  sports enhancement  and  dentistry.   Pain Free Childbirth is  very popular  and eliminates  any drugs  that could harm the child. 

Authorities have  found this program delivers a second benefit. Studies have shown that a child delivered in a Natural Painfree Childbirth  environment that is  stress-free and trauma-free natural childbirth have higher IQs and fewer problems both physically and mentally in their lives. JAMA

Desire, An obstacle to success

This is the rule to be observed and followed:

Hypnotherapy will be beneficial if no desire opposed to its motivation prevents it from being effected.   If you abide by this  rule, it will not be restricted .   So a  simple wound will heal more quickly with a hypnotic suggestion.   Any convalescent will recover more rapidly from a successful operation, thanks to positive suggestions.  

A sick person, unhappy in his private or professional life  and made to feel secure by the solicitude of the hospital staff, will heal less quickly than his neighbor who is driven  by the desire to leave the hospital as soon as possible.