Hypnosis

Students of the readings of Edgar Cayce, capable of showing us step by step the procedures to use hypnosis for personal change. The skills found can give you powerful hardware for the achievement of your spiritual, mental and physical ideals. The topic of hypnosis is controversial; we speak about clinical hypnosis administered by a professional.

These MP3's can help you to remove many of these fears, especially in the field of phobia hypnosis, which is the principal approach.

You will discover as your control of forces of change stimulated by the skills and knowledge of hypnosis. While hypnosis programs are consistent with many other therapies, it will be necessary to be free of fear, and afraid of nothing for this approach to work with the unconscious mind or subconscious.

In fact, you are developing a cooperation relation with your interior being, a relation that very probably will lead you to great rewards and to a major satisfaction for your life. Hypnosis has been a topic surrounded with mysteries that provoke certain fears and misunderstandings provoked by certain Hollywood movies.

The term "Hypnosis" originated with the work of the Scotch surgeon James Braid who worked in 1840. The term comes from the Greek word hypnosis (that means sleep). He refers to the state of conscience that is many ways is like the sleep, but allows a variety of behavioral and mental reactions that can be manipulated by stimulation.

In answer to suggestions of the unconscious, the conscious memory can also be changed. When the person is hypnotized it seems as if the person stops being his usual normal self, since in accordance with the given suggestions the fact is that one sees, feels, smells and tastes things in a different manner. Depending on the depth of the hypnotic state and of the force of the suggestions, the person can accept as real certain distortions of the memory and the perception offered by the hypnotist.

The hypnotic skills have been used since hundreds of years, certain curative therapies led by priests in ancient Egypt, Greece, and China, very similar to the current hypnosis skills. The modern rediscovery of hypnosis is attributed to Dr Franz Mesmer (1734-1815) an Australian doctor who worked in Vienna and Paris. At the end of 1700: he discovered that many sick people were obtaining progress when magnets were placed close to their bodies.

The patients were ordered to sit down in group near a container filled with water in which magnetized metal bars were at placed. Occasionally it was possible to see that a patient was entering a sleepy state, and after recovering consciousness, he was much better and even cured.

Later Mesmer discovered that the magnets were unnecessary. He also thought that the results could be obtained, in some cases, simply by touching the patient or by touching the water. In his mind by touching the water "it was magnetized".

Mesmer theorized that he and another people had "animal magnetism". Since they had access to certain mysterious stored as "fluid" and it could be transferred to others, so the remedy was realized. Soon more than a hundred groups arose in France that realized similar remedies; they were called "The society of the harmony".

Benjamin Franklin and Dr. Joseph Guillotin were some of those who took part in this committee. His conclusion was that the mysterious magnetic "Fluid" did not exist and although any of the renowned remedies carried out by Mesmer and his followers could not be denied, the committee attributed the remedies as "Mere imagination".

Owed to a great extent to what found the committee, hypnosis, it fell down in bad reputation and the later scientific investigations were useless. In the early decades of the 19th century "The skills of Mesmer kept on being practiced by some.

It was Dr. James Braid who gave us the modern hypnosis term and also he contributed with his work in the hospital with which he came to critical ideas about the nature of the hypnotic skill. While he was remembering that the magnetic fluid was not involved in the process, he was reaffirming that a slightly significantly therapeutic value was involved. In an effort to separate this phenomenon of the theory of the animal magnetism, he imposed that the concentration and the attention in only one approach was the principal factor in the stimulation of the hypnotic effect. At the end of the century arose another big interest in hypnosis.

The Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud learned of the skills during his visits to France and remained impressed by the possibilities of hypnosis to treat neurotic disorders.

He used hypnosis to help some of his patients to remember annoying events of their past. Nevertheless, since his psychoanalysis system began to take form, he pushed the state of deep hypnosis back in favor of the skill of the level of relaxation of free association.

This could be partly for the difficulties that he found after certain patients hypnotized. In the century twenty there is an impressive quantity of experimental investigation on these hypnotic phenomena, nevertheless, a theory universally accepted by the practitioners does not exist. In general two fields exist between the professionals who work with hypnosis.

First those are that believe that hypnosis is the state different from shaken conscience; in many ways similar to the sleep. In this shaken state of alert, the subject answers mostly to the automatic suggestion and not to the criticism. The approach of this theory is the one that proposes a shaken reality of the states of conscience.

Later those are that believe that it is unnecessary to theorize about other conscience states as it forms of explaining the works of hypnosis.

The people that perspective works from this one usually explain the stress behavior during the hypnotic episodes in terms of social or interpersonal dynamics and learned behaviors. As examples they indicate the effect placebo, which is demonstrated when a patient obtains remedy of a neutral or inert tablet provided by the doctor, simply because the patient has expectations of which the remedy provided by the doctor works.

Another example of this point of view can be the easy thing that cans - a child or an impressionable student - change his way of thinking about the opinion expressed about a progenitor or admired teacher. In accordance with this one the second theory the hypnotic answers are seen therefore like the mere result of interpersonal influences; subtle types of learning which do not need of the concept of shaken conscience.

The perspective of hypnosis, which we find in the readings of Edgar Cayce, are in favor of the first theory. Although there is an investigation that he supports for the second one with clear clinical evidence of which physiological changes happen in the nervous system during hypnosis.

The demonstrated reality of the suggestions post hypnotic (for example conduct behaviors when the hypnotist can neither know nor be interested in the later behavior of the subject) also indicates a little about a relation merely interpersonal can influence the work of hypnosis . Certainly if we consider the possibility of the Cayce hypnosis we will be able to accept the first theory.

The readings of Edgar Cayce can turn in accordance with hypnosis that involves the different shaken states of conscience which can be induced in an interpersonal relation by a trained therapist or can be a car administered. What says the psychological research to us about the hypnotic state? an ingredient that it helps is that the subject creates it or I accepted it. The responsibility increases to a certain extent if the individual who is hypnotized believes that this is possible.

The effect of deep hypnosis is increased also to a certain extent if the patient feels that it can perspire during the hypnotic meeting and corresponds to his "desires". Another way of saying this is using a more familiar language of the readings of Edgar Cayce and that corresponds to "The ideals". The investigations also show that the appropriate preparation is important. The introduction of the procedure in an engraved cassette player, can be as effective as "The voice live" or an experience with the hypnotist.