Recently, I was sitting on a panel of hypnotists, next to a friend of mine. A man in the audience asked us to tell about failures we've had with our clients. My friend was the last to answer and his answer taught me something about discharging resistance.... http://www.hypnosis101.com
Hypnotic Amnesia?... Forget It! http://www.hypnosis101.com Every so often I get a question like this one... "Can you make me forget something? I had this bad thing happen to me (a car wreck, a romantic breakup or someone dying) and I want to get it out of my mind, obliterate it, never think about it again." When people hear that amnesia is possible with hypnosis they sometimes start thinking about what they'd like to forget...
What is the Stroop effect and why should we care? http://www.hypnosis101.com The Stroop Effect is a widely studied phenomenon that looks at how the brain reacts when presented with conflicting information. In a Stroop test, the subject very quickly looks at a word and tells the tester what color the letters are. It's ingrained in us, at a very deep level, to process the meaning of words, no matter what the color of the letters. It's an automatic, conditioned, ingrained, unconscious response. The Stroop Effect is extremely difficult to overcome with conscious effort. There's not much you can do to change it, except... With hypnosis. Studies show that hypnosis can overcome the Stroop effect. In fact, Dr. Amir Raz, who helped conduct a study on hypnosis and the Stroop effect says..."This means that, using suggestion -- in this case post-hypnotic suggestion -- we were able to 'un-ring ' Pavlov's bell,"
An abreaction is a negative emotional response that occasionally occurs during hypnosis. It can happen as a result of spontaneous regression. http://www.hypnosis101.com Simply put, an abreaction is when someone gets upset during hypnosis. Now a lot of hypnotists are scared of abreactions but they can be handled easily. Here are some guidelines...
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