The Transparent Hypnotist

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This Sunday Question is posting late, I know. Like many others this weekend, I have company at the house and it’s made for a highly enjoyable but slightly hectic day.

This does, on the other hand, bring up a question that I get from time to time: “So, do you hypnotize your kids to do their homework?” No, I don’t, though I have to admit to a certain level of temptation in that area. ;^)

Joking aside, there are certainly times when it comes in handy to be a hypnotist. Today my girlfriend Julie accidentally touched a hot pan handle in the kitchen and received a small but painful burn. We did all the usual first-aid things — a bag of frozen broccoli applied immediately for a form-fitting cold pack, for example — but when it came to the pain I was without any of the usual topical anesthetics that people normally stock for that. Instead, I used hypnosis to remove the pain and gave her suggestions for rapid healing (something that worked marvelously for my teacher, Marcia Proctor, when her daughter had a burn on her face) and all was well.

It occurred to me during all this that I have never used hypnosis with a family member. I’ve taken my children to Marcia in their younger days and have, once or twice, induced trance in someone with a family member around (usually a quick demonstration), but nobody in my immediate family has ever asked me to hypnotize them. I wonder whether they believe I can do it, since they’ve known me for so long as just plain Michael the computer geek and dad.

So with all that in mind, my Sunday Question for you is:

Do you use hypnosis on members of your own family? If not, why not?

<MR>

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