Mind Power News
Issue No. 145 / Friday, October 20, 2006
Edited by Andreas Ohrt /
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In this issue:

SEVEN UNUSUAL POWERS OF HYPNOSIS:
Hypnosis has many faces, which is part of its fascination as a career... One of the most incredible things about hypnosis is all its unusual uses.

MEDICAL HYPNOSIS CURES PHOBIAS, ADDICTIONS AND PAIN: "It has taken centuries for medical hypnosis to regain credibility... In the 1950s, reliable measures of hypnotizability were developed, which allowed this research field to gain validity. We've seen more than 6,000 articles on hypnosis published since then in medical and psychological journals.

MAGIC QUESTIONS TO GET INSIDE THEIR HEADS: These four hypnotic questions will give you tremendous insight into anyone you meet while effortlessly creating instant repport.

HYPNOSIS MAY CURE A TYPE OF BALDNESS: After treatment with a minimum of just three to four sessions of hypnotherapy, 12 patients experienced hair growth on at least 75% of their scalp, and nine of these 12 experienced total hair growth...

THE STRAIGHT TRUTH ABOUT HYPNOSIS: There are a lot of myths about hypnosis that I'm going to blow apart right here.



Seven Unusual Powers of Hypnosis

By Johnny Blue Star and Iain Legg
Creators of The Dream Life Club

Hypnosis has many faces, which is part of its fascination as a career. It is conceivable that a single hypnotist could cover all of its facets. Some hypnotists actually combine hypnotherapy with a career on the stage but one of the most incredible things about hypnosis is all its unusual uses.

1. Hypnosis can effectively enhance memory recall, allowing subjects to experience past events very vividly, even to the point of believing that they are consciously present at these events. How far can this go? And as you may have heard, some people think hypnosis can recover memories from a past lifetime.

2. Forensic hypnosis has been used often in enhancing the memory of participants in criminal court cases, primarily with victims or witnesses to enhance the memory of the event. It was used in the cases of Ted Bundy, Sam Shepherd and Albert DeSalvo, the Boston Strangler. In the case of DeSalvo, it was used with the defendant himself.

3. Hypnosis can induce a partial or almost complete state of anaesthesia, making subjects or patients oblivious to the surgeon's knife, a state presumably similar to that of an Indian fakir, who can stick needles into his arm or lie on a bed of nails without experiencing pain.

4. Another, scientifically verifiable aspect of hypnosis is the ability to create positive hallucinations. When I was in elementary school, I read a book on hypnosis that claimed that the hypnotist had created, for himself, a little pink elephant that followed him around all the time. The trouble was that he couldn't get rid of it right away. He had forgotten to suggest the possibility for removal of that little pink phantom. That really impressed me as to the potential of hypnosis.

5. Hypnosis can be used to create relaxation during contractions in childbirth. It also helps to create a positive, trusting attitude toward the labor and birthing processes. Stress hormones are eliminated that are fundamentally responsible for the pain in childbirth. Instead, wonderful endorphins that are your body's natural pain relievers (and nature's love drug) are elevated, thus keeping the laboring mother in a state of relaxation and having a sense of well-being.

6. One extraordinary use of hypnosis is involved with overcoming specific phobias. Phobias are deeply held unconscious fears which affect a person?s whole life and psychological well-being.

7. Perhaps one of the most important aspects of hypnosis is its ability to suggest and influence courses of action to people both inside of and outside the hypnotic trance. A suggestion given within a state of hypnosis that will have effect outside is called a post-hypnotic suggestion. These types of suggestions can have a profound and meaningful effect when trying to influence discordant habitual behaviour like smoking or gambling.

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Medical Hypnosis Cures Phobias, Addictions and Pain

By Melissa Beattie-Moss
Source: Penn State University

You're growing tired. Your eyelids are getting heavy. You're feeling very sleepy...

Most of us recognize these words as the Hollywood script of a hypnosis session. Typically portrayed as the tool of comics and hucksters ("At my command, you will crow like a rooster") or nefarious, mind-controlling villains, hypnosis has a serious type-casting problem to overcome.

Beyond the stereotypes, is there any validity to hypnosis as a therapeutic technique?

Hypnotherapy -- or medical hypnosis -- has a long history as a controversial treatment for physical and psychiatric ailments. Many leading medical figures since the 18th century (including Austrian physician Franz Mesmer, for whom the verb "mesmerize" was coined) experimented with putting patients into trance states for healing purposes. Determined to know whether this new medical treatment was genuine or a hoax, King Louis XVI of France commissioned a panel of experts, including Ambassador Benjamin Franklin, to investigate Mesmer's claims. In 1784, the "Franklin commission" released its report, which found "mesmerism" to be "utterly fallacious" and without merit.

"It has taken centuries for medical hypnosis to regain credibility," said Penn State psychology professor William Ray. "In the 1950s, reliable measures of hypnotizability were developed, which allowed this research field to gain validity. We've seen more than 6,000 articles on hypnosis published since then in medical and psychological journals.

Today, there's general agreement that hypnosis can be an important part of treatment for some conditions, including phobias, addictions and chronic pain."

Ray's own research uses hypnosis as a tool to better understand the brain, including its response to pain. "We have done a variety of EEG studies," said Ray, "one of which suggests that hypnosis removes the emotional experience of pain while allowing the sensory sensation to remain. Thus, you notice you were touched but not that it hurt."

Despite increasing recognition by the medical establishment, popular myths about hypnosis persist, such as the belief that it is a truth serum, that it causes subjects to lose all free will, and that hypnotists can erase their clients' memories of their sessions.

In truth, hypnosis is something most of us have experienced in our everyday lives. If you've ever been totally engrossed in a book or movie and lost all track of time or didn't hear someone calling your name, you were experiencing a hypnotic trance.

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Magic Questions to Get Inside Their Heads

These four hypnotic questions will give you tremendous insight into anyone you meet while effortlessly creating instant repport

By Jack Ellis
Author of Forbidden Patterns

These were somewhat popular back in the ‘good old days’ of alt.seduction.fast – but have fallen out of favor in recent years, mostly due to the popularity of ‘The Cube’.

These are much easier to remember than the Cube and can be done quickly.

Best of all, it gives you insight into the girl you are talking to. One time I had a girl answer the ‘beach’ question by saying ‘I would run and hide!’ Needless to say I didn’t spend much more time trying for her.

To lead into these is quite simple. Just say your friend showed you a really cool personality test, or that you always ask people this instead of exchanging resumes first.

The Magic Questions

Here they are, ask them in this order:

  • 1. Visualize yourself in a white room. You’re in a bed and everything is white. How do you feel?
  • 2. What is your favorite animal? What qualities do you see it as having?
  • 3. What is your favorite color? How does it make you feel when you think about it?
  • 4. Imagine yourself on a beach. Nobody is around and the ocean is right in front of you. What do you do?

What Their Answers Mean

  • 1. This is how they view death and dying.
  • 2. This is how their friends view them.
  • 3. This is how they view themselves.
  • 4. This is how they view sex.

I’ve turned around some of the coldest women I’ve ever encountered using this routine, so enjoy it!

Jack Ellis is the Author of Forbidden Patterns . Learn how to enter any person's mind with the exact techniques made famous in Neil Strauss's best-selling seduction book "The Game." Learn more here: Forbidden Mind Contol Patterns

 

 



Hypnosis May Cure a Type of Baldness

Source: Times of India

People with a patchy form of hair loss called alopecia areata might be helped with hypnosis, a preliminary study suggests.

"Hypnotherapy may enhance the mental well-being of patients with alopecia areata and it may improve clinical outcome," Dr Ria Willemsen, of Free University in Brussels, and colleagues write in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.

Alopecia areata is an auto-immune disease characterised by sudden, recurrent hair loss in round spots from the scalp or any part of the body that has hair.

Psychological factors, such as stressful events and psychotrauma have also been reported to play a role in the onset of the condition, but few studies have looked at the efficacy of psychological treatments.

Willemsen's team explored hypnosis as a treatment for 21 individuals with extensive hair loss on 30% or more of their scalp that had lasted for at least three months.

These patients, all of whom previously failed to respond to treatment with steroids, were followed for anywhere from six months to six years.

In most cases, the study participants received hypnosis along with some other medical treatment. During the hypnotherapy sessions, which took place once every three weeks, study participants were given various suggestions, such as to imagine healing effects of the sun's warmth.

After treatment with a minimum of just three to four sessions of hypnotherapy, 12 patients experienced hair growth on at least 75% of their scalp, and nine of these 12 experienced total hair growth, Willemsen and colleagues report.

None of the patients reported any negative side effects due to the hypnotherapy. Yet, five study participants experienced a significant relapse during the follow-up period, four of whom experienced enough hair loss to return them to their pre-treatment status, the researchers note.

In other findings, all of the patients for whom the pertinent data was analysed scored lower on a measure of psychological symptoms, including phobia, hostility and interpersonal sensitivity, after their hypnotherapy treatment.

They also scored lower on items that specifically looked at symptoms of anxiety and depression, study findings indicate.

In the past, researchers have shown that the hypnotic suggestion to improve blood flow in the scalp was linked to an actual increase in blood flow and skin temperature of the scalp.



The Straight Truth About Hypnosis

By Kent Sayre
Kent Sayre Hypnosis MP3

Here's how hypnosis works. With hypnosis, you have a relaxed, focused awareness. When you're in this relaxed state, you're mind can accept suggestions. These suggestions go directly into your mind and take hold so that your thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes are permanently changed. All action comes from someone's thoughts. When you think differently, you'll behave differently...and get the results that you want.

There are a lot of myths about hypnosis that I'm going to blow apart right here.

Myth #1: You lose consciousness in hypnosis
Wrong, wrong, and wrong. Hypnosis is a state of relaxation where you're always aware of what's going on around you. You have full control over whether you accept or reject a suggestion. In fact, you can come out of hypnosis any time...if you wanted to.

Myth #2: Hypnotized people act crazy
The people who believe this most likely have seen a stage hypnosis show. Stage hypnosis is an extreme form of hypnosis...and it's meant to entertain. On my hypnosis programs, the hypnosis is designed to permanently change your life for the better. What this means to you is that you won't do anything you wouldn't normally do. Sorry, no clucking like a chicken for you!

Myth #3: You're "under" my power
Nothing could be further from the truth. You cannot be hypnotized against your will. Nobody can be hypnotized to do anything they wouldn't normally do. If I could (I can't) put people under my power, I would go up to the prisons and hypnotize all the inmates to become model citizens.

Myth #4: People reveal their deepest, darkest secrets in hypnosis
No, no, and no. You won't do anything in hypnosis that you wouldn't normally do outside of hypnosis. Your secrets stay locked in the vault.

Myth #5: People get stuck in hypnosis
Nobody can get stuck in hypnosis. Your mind always functions in your best interests. If you're deep in hypnosis and one of my audio program ends, you'd simply fall asleep or realize that there no one was speaking and your mind would bring you back to conscious awareness.

Myth #6: Not everyone can be hypnotized
Everyone can be hypnotized. Some people do it easier from the start and other people have to practice relaxing a few times before it becomes very easy for them. No matter who you are, you can be hypnotized. In fact, most people don't even think they are hypnotized during a session. However, after the session, they later report noticing positive changes in their lives.

About the author: Kent Sayre is the creator of Hypnosis MP3's which you can download immediately to change your life. Kent says: "You Must Get Tremendous Results In Your Life Or You Don't Pay!
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