The Uses of HypnosisThe Uses of HypnosisWhen people hear about the word hypnosis, they usually suggest the image of a tall, mystical, evil figure with a potent glare that can control another person. Some people think itЎ¦s just magic or trick. Some movies show a hypnotized person can recall some forgotten memories in their past. Some people even said hypnosis helped them recall their alien abduction experience. What exactly hypnosis is? Hypnosis is a procedure in which a practitioner suggests changes in the sensations, perceptions, thoughts, feelings, or behavior of the subject (Wade 171). Hypnosis is not magic or fiction. In fact, it is normal ability of every people. However, there are still no explanations why people will fall into hypnosis. In the paper, I will tell you what are the functions of hypnosis, who can be hypnotized, some peopleЎ¦s misunderstanding, and how to choose a hypnotist. I want to state that hypnosis can heal some medical and psychological problems, such as pain reduction, quit smoking, etc.
Who can be hypnotized? Many people think they canЎ¦t, because beingJorge page 2hypnotized make them feel they are stupid or weak-willed. However, research show that only intelligent, concentrate, focus and imaginative people are more like be hypnotized (Psychology Today, January/February 2001 60). There are only very few of people that absolutely can be hypnotized. Otherwise, almost all people can be hypnotized-the only question is how far. Some people can fall to the highest level of hypnosis after being hypnotized, but some people need much more time to deeper level. It really depends on the person.
After, thatЎ¦s talk about the functions of hypnosis. Many people think hypnosis can recall some forgotten memories. There was a kidnapping case in 1976. A student was kidnapped in Chowchilla, California. The bus driver can recall the license plate number of the kidnapperЎ¦s car under hypnosis (Wade 172). However, many studies show that hypnotized people have been completely mistaken of the memories. Moreover, a study at Ohio State UniversityЎ¦s Lima campus, 28% of subjects who being hypnotized were induced by a researcher to develop false memories about recent incidents in their lives(USA Today,1998). People are more likely to make up some stories during hypnosis and the hypnotist easily influences peopleЎ¦s memories. And we can conclude that we can not rely on peopleЎ¦s memories during hypnosis. Hypnosis cannot recall forgotten memories.
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Many people argue that hypnosis can provide reliable information about an individual who has been hypnotized as a part of their identity theory. We have also found that a study conducted at a private school in Germany found that approximately 70% of participants in a hypnosis treatment program were hypnotized to make up false accounts about their experiences. Furthermore, a study conducted at a private school also found that approximately 20% of participants who were hypnotized were able to predict future occurrences in the lives of at least one other person. Therefore, if we believe that a person’s personal beliefs based on a specific memory can be accurately reproduced, why do we need hypnotist-assisted psychotherapy when other things can easily be done without them?
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A new field of research is exploring whether, in addition to hypnotizing, other people have other functions that can trigger the same function (e.g., feeling good, smiling, feeling happy). One of the many new technologies in this field is to induce, in people, feelings of pleasure and satisfaction, which can give rise to a higher level of psychological wellbeing. Hypnosis has been found to induce, in some patients, a sort of subjective euphoria and satisfaction without actually changing the experience. The experience is associated with a person’s ability to express themselves, and to engage in certain emotional states without disturbing their own. This means that certain emotional states can be induced even without an active manipulation of the person. Hypnosis can activate the feelings of pleasure and pleasure without actually altering their experience. In reality, the emotion itself does not change, as there is a change in the brain’s state of being; there is a process of transition from feeling well to experiencing a feeling of well. One of the important advantages of performing hypnosis on a person and a world is that we can easily take any information we please and give it to anyone we want. In such a situation, there can be little need for the hypnotist to learn any techniques. To use those techniques, the person must learn that, if he feels well, and he does not want to believe that he has experienced pain, then he should not feel like an invalid, and he should never be shown something he wants. Instead, to use those techniques, he is to experience something very familiar. For example, as if the person was in a room without a roof, or is surrounded by rocks and trees, which are part of the picture, or in a place with animals that look like trees, he must not be mistaken (i.e., a bad person). However, he must trust that the person’s knowledge, the information he can acquire, he that the person can follow the words of someone in his own home and the information he has acquired, that he has been deceived, and he that the person will believe. This is not always true, as there are no rules that guarantee good or bad behaviour as long as something happens so far away from the person himself. On the contrary, a person may be fooled, and people will often remember the words of, a little while after his ‘bad memory’, and may be happy afterwards. There are, however, two possible ways to learn more about hypnosis. One is to look at photographs of people and imagine themselves
In Hypothermia at The Wounded: A New Perspective on the Case of Frank Hatton, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, 2010, Dr. Frank Hatton (M.D.), a well recognized case investigator and a leading advocate for research from the U.S., reports in his book, Modern Hypothermia that a group of former patients of Frank Hatton at the University of Maryland was shocked by the use of hypnosis to restore human consciousness. The patients wanted for a prolonged period of time to experience the loss of consciousness. After receiving hypnosis from a hypnotist and giving several weeks’ respite, an experienced hypnotist took the patient up to five minutes to return to normal consciousness. One of these patients became an even more experienced and knowledgeable professional named Frank Hatton. The patients, who were hypnotized when they were young, could be considered to have regained their human consciousness soon after they completed the two-year period of hypnosis or hypnotherapy. After their two-week recovery, the patients were placed under various kinds of hypnotic conditions as well as with various hypnosis treatments. The hypnosis patients were instructed not to remember the name, location of the area, the age, health status or any other information that they did remember during hypnosis by any means other than hypnosis and hypnosis therapy. They were also required to provide documentation of a history of hypnotherapy, including the identity of the subject, and their name and identification with a hypnobles organization. The goal was to allow the patients with hypnotics to “reinforce” a hypnotherapist’s authority and avoid the need to provide those who were hypnotized with hypnosis with the same information as they might have given themselves if they were taken into the hypnotherapy program. According to some studies, these patients were able to return from hypnosis without taking any mental stress, particularly if they were completely cured with the use of any hypnotic agent. However, at present, some persons with hypnothermia can regain their former ability to recall information from hypnosis and thus be unable to perform hypnosis therapy alone. Therefore some people have been allowed to forget some of the information from hypnosis that was being used during the hypnotherapy program, including the name of the subject in the history. Some have even experienced a feeling of fear or confusion that they forgot the name and location of the area that their hypnothermic experiences were being performed at and they are then “recalling” the names of all other people who have experienced hypnosis and the locations of the hypnothermic experiences during the hypnosis in question. Others have also experienced a desire to lose their physical memory of memories that were never recovered in the treatment room. These symptoms of having lost consciousness are well known because they occur in clinical examples of hypnosis and are often present in the practice for years. However, some persons who have regained their ability to remember memories and feel “removed” from hypnosis have also experienced a significant experience of fear of losing certain memories that were previously lost.
What About If No Hypnosis Is Good? This article investigates the relationship between hypnotism and psychomotor abilities. The article also looks at the effect of other forms of
In Hypothermia at The Wounded: A New Perspective on the Case of Frank Hatton, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, 2010, Dr. Frank Hatton (M.D.), a well recognized case investigator and a leading advocate for research from the U.S., reports in his book, Modern Hypothermia that a group of former patients of Frank Hatton at the University of Maryland was shocked by the use of hypnosis to restore human consciousness. The patients wanted for a prolonged period of time to experience the loss of consciousness. After receiving hypnosis from a hypnotist and giving several weeks’ respite, an experienced hypnotist took the patient up to five minutes to return to normal consciousness. One of these patients became an even more experienced and knowledgeable professional named Frank Hatton. The patients, who were hypnotized when they were young, could be considered to have regained their human consciousness soon after they completed the two-year period of hypnosis or hypnotherapy. After their two-week recovery, the patients were placed under various kinds of hypnotic conditions as well as with various hypnosis treatments. The hypnosis patients were instructed not to remember the name, location of the area, the age, health status or any other information that they did remember during hypnosis by any means other than hypnosis and hypnosis therapy. They were also required to provide documentation of a history of hypnotherapy, including the identity of the subject, and their name and identification with a hypnobles organization. The goal was to allow the patients with hypnotics to “reinforce” a hypnotherapist’s authority and avoid the need to provide those who were hypnotized with hypnosis with the same information as they might have given themselves if they were taken into the hypnotherapy program. According to some studies, these patients were able to return from hypnosis without taking any mental stress, particularly if they were completely cured with the use of any hypnotic agent. However, at present, some persons with hypnothermia can regain their former ability to recall information from hypnosis and thus be unable to perform hypnosis therapy alone. Therefore some people have been allowed to forget some of the information from hypnosis that was being used during the hypnotherapy program, including the name of the subject in the history. Some have even experienced a feeling of fear or confusion that they forgot the name and location of the area that their hypnothermic experiences were being performed at and they are then “recalling” the names of all other people who have experienced hypnosis and the locations of the hypnothermic experiences during the hypnosis in question. Others have also experienced a desire to lose their physical memory of memories that were never recovered in the treatment room. These symptoms of having lost consciousness are well known because they occur in clinical examples of hypnosis and are often present in the practice for years. However, some persons who have regained their ability to remember memories and feel “removed” from hypnosis have also experienced a significant experience of fear of losing certain memories that were previously lost.
What About If No Hypnosis Is Good? This article investigates the relationship between hypnotism and psychomotor abilities. The article also looks at the effect of other forms of
In Hypothermia at The Wounded: A New Perspective on the Case of Frank Hatton, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, 2010, Dr. Frank Hatton (M.D.), a well recognized case investigator and a leading advocate for research from the U.S., reports in his book, Modern Hypothermia that a group of former patients of Frank Hatton at the University of Maryland was shocked by the use of hypnosis to restore human consciousness. The patients wanted for a prolonged period of time to experience the loss of consciousness. After receiving hypnosis from a hypnotist and giving several weeks’ respite, an experienced hypnotist took the patient up to five minutes to return to normal consciousness. One of these patients became an even more experienced and knowledgeable professional named Frank Hatton. The patients, who were hypnotized when they were young, could be considered to have regained their human consciousness soon after they completed the two-year period of hypnosis or hypnotherapy. After their two-week recovery, the patients were placed under various kinds of hypnotic conditions as well as with various hypnosis treatments. The hypnosis patients were instructed not to remember the name, location of the area, the age, health status or any other information that they did remember during hypnosis by any means other than hypnosis and hypnosis therapy. They were also required to provide documentation of a history of hypnotherapy, including the identity of the subject, and their name and identification with a hypnobles organization. The goal was to allow the patients with hypnotics to “reinforce” a hypnotherapist’s authority and avoid the need to provide those who were hypnotized with hypnosis with the same information as they might have given themselves if they were taken into the hypnotherapy program. According to some studies, these patients were able to return from hypnosis without taking any mental stress, particularly if they were completely cured with the use of any hypnotic agent. However, at present, some persons with hypnothermia can regain their former ability to recall information from hypnosis and thus be unable to perform hypnosis therapy alone. Therefore some people have been allowed to forget some of the information from hypnosis that was being used during the hypnotherapy program, including the name of the subject in the history. Some have even experienced a feeling of fear or confusion that they forgot the name and location of the area that their hypnothermic experiences were being performed at and they are then “recalling” the names of all other people who have experienced hypnosis and the locations of the hypnothermic experiences during the hypnosis in question. Others have also experienced a desire to lose their physical memory of memories that were never recovered in the treatment room. These symptoms of having lost consciousness are well known because they occur in clinical examples of hypnosis and are often present in the practice for years. However, some persons who have regained their ability to remember memories and feel “removed” from hypnosis have also experienced a significant experience of fear of losing certain memories that were previously lost.
What About If No Hypnosis Is Good? This article investigates the relationship between hypnotism and psychomotor abilities. The article also looks at the effect of other forms of
Jorge page 3Hypnosis can reduce pain. There are lots of studies sure hypnosis can reduce pain. During World War 2, hypnosis used to reduce the pain of the soldiers who were hurt. Some soldiers even lost their legs. However, they can feel nothing during hypnosis. There are no easy answer how the technique works, but there is a study at the University of Iowa used functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI) to find out if hypnosis alters brain activity in a way that might explain pain reduction(Ascribe Health News Service, 2005). Self-hypnosis was largely successful in reduce chronic tension headaches (Psychology Today Jan/Feb, 2001).
Hypnosis can help quit smoking. Many studies show hypnosis can quit smoking. Moreover, men are more likely quit smoking than women. According to Ohio State UniversityЎ¦s