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Hypnosis: An artificially induced dream state that leaves the person open to suggestion, hypnosis is a technique that helps people manage various conditions …Read This Article

But tests on more than 60 sufferers showed seven out of 10 benefited from hypnosis sessions. And there is now an 18-month waiting list of people lining up …Read This Article

The shiny pocket watch swings back and forth.

“You’re getting sleepy,” the hypnotist whispers. “Sleeeeeepy.”

Forget all that. Real therapy-based hypnosis is nothing like the TV version. In fact, chances are, almost all of us have been very close to our own hypnotic state, without ever seeing a hypnotist.

Have you ever been driving, only to realize that you don’t have any recollection of the last 20 miles? Yet you were awake and alert enough to change lanes and stop at intersections.

That’s very much like hypnosis — you’re awake, yet in an altered state of consciousness.

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ScienceDaily (Jan. 10, 2008) — Brain scans of hypnotized people that are taken as they forget and are triggered to remember have revealed neural circuitry that is key to the memory suppression and recall process. The researchers who conducted the study said their insights into the memory suppression and recall process may yield insight into the mechanisms underlying amnesia. Read This Article

Be sure to check out Christina’s blog about her experience here.

It’s been dismissed as a bag of tricks. Nothing more than mere entertainment, but many people seek it as a cure for a lot of different things: Chronic pain, addictions, bad habits…some athletes even use it to get out of slumps.

Fox 21’s Christina Salvo underwent several weeks of hypnosis to see if it could cure her of her phobia of snakes.

Q: Dr. Neuger “So what are your goals for today or for our time together Christina? What do you hope to accomplish?

A: Ideally, to be free of this phobia. To be in the same room as a snake. To be able to look at a snake without getting a panic attack.

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Hypno-thief robs Italian businesses

ANCONA, Italy, March 24 (UPI) — Italian authorities are searching for a thief who allegedly uses hypnosis on employees to steal cash, police said.

The most recent report of hypnosis-thievery was in the Italian city Ancona, where a bank teller was allegedly coaxed into giving a robber more than $1,000, The Daily Telegraph (Britain) reported Monday.

In all of the hypno-robberies, workers reportedly can only remember a man saying, “Look into my eyes,” prior to discovering their registers are missing cash. Read This Article

Behind-the-scenes hypnotists help get to the bottom of brands.

Volvo equals safety. In focus group after focus group, participants said the same thing. So, Euro RSCG Worldwide, New York, did the obvious thing: It called in a hypnotist.

Members of these unique Volvo focus groups were asked to test-drive the car. Immediately afterwards they were hypnotized and asked their true feelings about the brand. It wasn’t pretty: Many revealed that Volvo also equals being middle-aged. That idea “for some people was suffocating,” said Michael Fanuele, head of planning at Euro. “Hypnosis helped get past the clichés. We needed the conversation to get to a deeper, more emotional place.”  Read This Article

News flash: 15 minutes of hypnosis can reduce post-surgery pain!

Mesmerizing news for breast cancer patients: Just 15 minutes of hypnotherapy can reduce the amount of anesthesia needed during surgery and the pain, nausea, and fatigue afterward. Read This Article

 A lecturer, when explaining stress management to an audience, raised a
glass of water and asked, “How heavy is this glass of water?”
Answers called out ranged from 8oz. to 20oz.The lecturer replied, “The absolute weight doesn’t matter.  It depends
on
how long you try to hold it.”  

“If I hold it for a minute, that’s not a problem.  If I hold it for an
hour,
I’ll have an ache in my right arm.  
 
If I hold it for a day, you’ll have to call an ambulance.”

“In each case it’s the same weight, but the longer I hold it, the
heavier it becomes.”

He continued, “And that’s the way it is with stress management. If we
carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later, as the burden becomes
increasingly heavy, we won’t be able to carry on.”

“As with the glass of water, you have to put it down for a while and
rest before holding it again.  When we’re refreshed, we can carry on
with the burden. ”

“So, before you return home tonight, put the burden of work/life down.
Don’t carry it home.  You can pick it up tomorrow.”

“Whatever burdens you’re carrying now, let them down for a moment if you
can.  Relax; pick them up later after you’ve rested.
 
Life is short.  Enjoy!”

And then he shared some ways of dealing with the burdens of life:

1 * Accept that some days you’re the pigeon, and some days you’re the
statue

2 * Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat
them.

3 * Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the
middle of it.

4 * Drive carefully.  It’s not only cars that can  be recalled by their
Maker.

5 * If you can’t be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.

6 * If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it wa s
probably worth it.

7 * It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a
warning to others.

8 * Never buy a car you can’t push.

9 * Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time, because then you
won’t have a leg to stand on.

10 * Nobody cares if you can’t dance well.  Just get up and dance.

11 * Since it’s the early worm that gets eaten by the bird, sleep late.

12 * The second mouse gets the cheese.

13 * When everything’s coming your way, you’re in the wrong lane.

14 * Birthdays are good for you.  The more you have, the longer you
live.

15 * You may be only one person in the world, but you may also be the
world to one person.

16 * Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.

17 * We could learn a lot from crayons.  Some are sharp, some are pretty
and some are dull.  Some have weird names and all are different colors,
but they all have to live in the same box.

18 * A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.

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