The Transparent Hypnotist

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Quotes of the Week

• If you look at your mind like an iceberg, your conscious part would be the tip of the iceberg — that’s the part where your logical thinking comes from, your willpower comes from there. Your subconscious mind is like the bottom on the iceberg, it’s the powerhouse. It’s huge and it has an unlimited capacity. And it stores everything you’ve ever learned, everything you believe, all your emotions.
  From an interview with hypnotist Nathalie Kelley in the Burlington Free Press.

• Although we can’t undo traumatic events from the past, we can undo a person’s reactions to it, and bring down the pain.
  From an interview with Sherrie Kitto in the Prince George Citizen.

• “I use the color green…We put a positive trigger of the color green in your subconscious, and when you feel stressed, you look at the color green and become more calm, relaxed, and think more clearly.”
  From an interview with hypnotist Chris Pennell on the chron.com.

• The comment I get most often is, ‘I’ll never be hypnotized, I’m too much of a control freak.’ The truth of the matter is, you never lose control when you are in hypnosis.
  From an interview with hypnotist Paul Nguyen on wickedlocal.com.

Proof

It seems like a fine time to add this category to the good, the bad, and the ugly news. Proof means that there was some sort of study or such done (or another form of positive validation) that shows the advantages of hypnosis.

• We will start this off with an article in US News and World Report. In an article called In Chronic Pain? You Might Need Psychotherapy: Talk therapy and biofeedback are two treatment options by January W. Payne, Payne writes about talk therapies and concepts like bio-feed back and hypnosis were found by Robert Kerns, a professor in Health Psychology to positively effect chronic low-back pain. Chronic is the the important word here.

• Synaesthesia. That is a fun word. It is something that Roi Cohen Kadosh from Imperial College London has been studying. What is it? According to my computer’s dictionary it is:
  

  the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body.

  What this study found out is that hypnosis can induce this phenomena in ordinary people. Otherwise it is something that seems more prevalent in Savant sorts. The impact of this is that hypnosis may “reactivate connections that had been suppressed by the brain.” (NewScientist Health)

The Good

• For a school that regularly offers Tom DeLuca hypno shows, Northwestern enjoyed the pursuits of hypnotist Rebecca Lauer. Rather than doing a full-blown hypnosis show, she presented a talk on the benefits of hypnosis. The writer, Will Storey, shares his positive experience in the article Hypnosis and hypno-therapy lead to a healthier and happier you.

• The trend in writing about hypnosis seems to be experiential these days. Jim Moore of seattlepi.nwsource.com was inspired (this is my theory) by all the sports hypnosis in the news lately. He interviewed hypnotist Craig Sigl about the various people Sigl has helped in getting game. For those of you who have said “yes” you would use hypnosis for sports (in the weekly poll), well, Sig is a hypnotist for you. Moore also enjoyed a session for himself (it seemed like Sigl worked on relaxation, though Moore wanted to work on three separate things…).

• Speaking about sports and hypnosis, hypnotists unite! How could we not over the recent decision by the school board to cancel the use of hypnosis to help the St. John High School basketball team in St. John, Kansas increase their focus and concentration to play better? An article on lehighvalleylive.com gives voice to the rationale behind hypnosis in this case.

The Bad (as in cool)

Well, who knows what to believe about Lily Allen and hypnosis. However her hypnotist Susan Hepburn has helped many other people fight the fat according to an article in the Times Online. Hepburn has also written a book on weight loss and hypnosis that is due out on February 23. It is called F–k Diets. Some of her philosophy:

For someone who makes a living helping people to eat less (or quit smoking, drugs or other harmful behavior), she’s remarkably opposed to diets. Instead she trains patients to eat less, chew more, drink lots of water, and visualize themselves at their ideal size.

Transparent Hypnotist 10 Question Alumni

• Paul Durbin has entered the debate that seems to occasion rises between hypnosis and religion (it comes up behind-the-scenes on this blog with entrecards who will not allow me to advertise on their blogs because of their religious beliefs). In the Digital Journal, Paul is sited as rebutting some of the issues some Christians have with hypnosis. The article talks about positive benefits of hypnosis to help those with cancer as well as Scientologist view on psychiatry and the Bible Discernment Ministries refutation of hypnosis via means of the bible.

• Canada.com features a fun article on Janice Mason called `Love’ guru puts the zip back in your zap. Now how could you not read something with that title. LOL.

Article by Another Hypnotist

Hypnosis is a Natural Medication for Stress and Anxiety by Randy A. Gilchrist (Funny thing here. There was an ad for Dientetics front and center when I read the article. Interesting ad placement).

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