I will continue my more regular posts to help you on your journey in learning how to hypnotise in another week or so once I get settled back from my wanderings. You can also look forward to the release of my first eReport on developing profound hypnotic states in the new year.

In the meantime – look after yourself and as always …

Good trip

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The 300 delegates voted to supplement the world church’s Health Ministries department guidelines with a list of questionable treatments and therapies officially “discouraged” by the Adventist Church — among them hypnosis, magnet therapy, untested herbal remedies and pendulum diagnosis.

OK – I draw the line here when a religious institution puts hypnosis in the same sentence as ‘untested herbal remedies and pendulum diagnosis’. Come on folks, there are something like over 10,000 scientific papers in the 20th century alone on hypnosis and its effects. I actually have respect for the health institutions this organization has sponsored – but I believe here that they are responding to superstitious 19th century prescriptions against hypnosis (loosing control to the devil and all that rubbish) rather than the ‘evidence’ based claimed for their selection of treatments in the rest of the article.

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I AM about to have my left leg paralysed, my arm taken over by an alien force and, quite possibly, be made blind. I confess I’m a bit nervous. But also, strangely, I hope it all works.

These insults to my body will not be inflicted with a scalpel, but instead induced using hypnosis. The effects, if they occur, will only be temporary, my hypnotist, David Oakley, reassures me.

It’s all being done in the interest of science. Oakley is an emeritus professor at University College London …

This is definitely worth a read. I’m a little concerned with the validity of ‘only 10% are highly hypnotisable” idea, but other than that it’s great to see this sought of research occurring.

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Children can be taught to use their imagination to tackle frequent bouts of stomach pain, research shows.

A relaxation-type CD, asking children to imagine themselves in scenarios like floating on a cloud led to dramatic improvements in abdominal pain.

The US researchers said the technique worked particularly well in children as they have such fertile imaginations.

It has been estimated that frequent stomach pain with no identifiable cause effects up to one in five children.

The research, published in Pediatrics, follows on from studies showing hypnosis is an effective treatment for a range of conditions known as functional abdominal pain, which includes things like irritable bowel syndrome. – (BBC)

Hypnotherapists have known this for years – science is finally ‘catching up’. I’ve used these same hypnosis techniques on adults as well. The hypnosis bit helps to remove the ‘layers of adult conditioning’ and they can re-access their imagination to help them with pain control.

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Here we go … for a bit of light relief. Don’t be fooled … this really works. I grew up on a farm and we did learn to hypnotise rabbits, chickens and a few other “furries” as part of the natural slaughtering process. But that was years ago in a land far far away! This doesn’t mean of-course that this is the same mechanism at play in human beings .

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New research at the University of Geneva suggests that hypnosis alters neural activity by rerouting some of the usual connections between brain regions. Such neurological detours don’t happen when subjects merely imagine a scenario.

Check out this new article from ScienceNews. Too much information to repeat here but for those of you who think hypnosis is made up … read on!

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Swineshead on Watch with Mothers has made the most interesting observation about the hypnosis gig that that I’ve come across so far and also reflects some of my opinion as well. The TV hypnosis gig was a hoot (I like the performance that Derren puts on) and was a  great example of misdirection and something called ‘presuppositions’ (you’ll learn about those if you ever delve into the world of NLP).

If you have any visibility these days on TV then you must have a Social Media presence … this is where the ‘action’ is and your reputation is on display to the world for discussion.

Happy wanderings

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Phobias can be debilitating. Desensitization is a classic phobia technique – hypnosis and NLP work better in my personal experience – and are usually quite permanent. I specialized in phobias for a number of years getting between 3 and 5 phobics a week on average. If any of you are suffering from a phobia that is impacting your quality of life or well-being … GO GET IT SORTED!

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If you have any specific questions about how to hypnotise and what to learn to hypnotise at your own pace then you can always drop a line in the contact section.

All the best.

Wandering Hypnotist.

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OK, just came across this wonderful demonstration of silent hypnosis. Whoever thought that hypnosis was about what you said … think again!

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