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Comment on The Most Powerful Mind Control Myth Of All by The Bait | Red SAID FRED!

The Bait | Red SAID FRED! — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 08:11:48 +0000

[...] you on this one. It says you are! In fact, some suggest that the more you think you aren’t, the more you are. These aren’t the simplistic ads of [...]

Comment on The Most Powerful Mind Control Myth Of All by The Bait « Jack-In-the-Brain

The Bait « Jack-In-the-Brain — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 07:57:03 +0000

[...] you on this one. It says you are! In fact, some suggest that the more you think you aren’t, the more you are. These aren’t the simplistic ads of [...]

Comment on A Drone Trance Induction by Phil

Phil — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 20:23:04 +0000

I think you already know how I feel about it! More, please…

Comment on Is Hypnosis The Same As Meditation? by Trance-formation

Trance-formation — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:12:10 +0000

Hi Chris. I am a big fan of the Betty Erickson method, and use it regularly as a form of meditative practice or as a prelude to other practices.

Comment on Is Hypnosis The Same As Meditation? by Chris Harrison

Chris Harrison — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 21:20:27 +0000

I agree with you that the difference between meditation and self-hypnosis is more about how the process is setup rather than within the actual trance itself.

Have you tried Betty Erickson’s Self hypnosis method?

Comment on Self Hypnosis For Health, Wealth and Pleasure by Charm and Charisma (part II) » Trance Formations

Charm and Charisma (part II) » Trance Formations — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:46:12 +0000

[...] we are looking to weave a light, relaxed state suitable for meditative work. I personally find the Betty Erickson Self Hypnotic Induction excellent for this sort of purpose, as it combines elements of focusing on external and internal [...]

Comment on Knowing Where To Tap Part II by Phil

Phil — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 10:54:38 +0000

Brilliant. You are a dervish.

Comment on Hypnosis and Placebo by Trance-formation

Trance-formation — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 09:22:08 +0000

This is true… but what happens as a consequence of the process of hypnosis (the resultant changes) is far more observable. And when you throw other psychological changework modalities into the equation (as most therapists do) it is fairly clear that we are working on a level of belief and expectation, to a significant if not exclusive degree. I simply suggest that just because hypnosis has a similar response in similar cases to the giving of a placebo treatment, to equate the one with the other is logically flawed.

Comment on Hypnosis and Placebo by Phil

Phil — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:12:03 +0000

The truth is, what exactly happens in hypnosis is largely unknown…but with recent rapid changes in the science of observing the brain, that may change. For all I know, that knowledge base may already be changing significantly enough to create a tipping point about understanding what happens to the brain/body in hypnosis, and whether or not there are direct correlations between hypnosis and desirable treatment outcomes.

For now, it is my opinion that to say hypnosis can or cannot be equated with placebo is all speculation. I am open to being corrected on that based on empirical data.

Comment on Hypnosis and Past Life Regression by Rev. Lynn DeLellis

Rev. Lynn DeLellis — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:18:21 +0000

I have seen past life regression therapy be very helpful in brining to the conscious mind the memories that are causing present day problems. I consider it to be similar to psychic readings or mediumship in that it is not 100 perfect or accurate,but in the end, does it job very well.

Comment on Building a Pain Control Dial by Idella

Idella — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:44:45 +0000

This is an excellent script. I am a wellness student and I appreciate being able refer to someone who knows the way in my classwork. Yes, I gave you credit! Thanks again.

Comment on The Maker of Maps by Walter Ford

Walter Ford — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 03:18:25 +0000

The traveler. Am I the traveler or a villager or perhaps the map? At what part of the story do I now find myself? I think this metaphor leaves me at the position of having left my city behind and beginning to notice more joyful days then fearful days. The fearful days although, are much more easily noticed. This story I hope will teach me to look harder at my joyful travels and to learn to share my joy and my experience freely and lovingly and to seek an honest wage and to differ any praise beyond reality.

Comment on Hypnosis and Past Life Regression by dreamguardian

dreamguardian — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 10:07:08 +0000

I would describe a persons memory recall during hypnosis is not necessarily historically accurate but rather what the individual ‘percieved’ at the time.

Past life … Tricky one for me. It naturally depends on ones personal belie systems. There’s a lot of evidence to disprove many cases, particulary high profile ones. The celebrity tv cringe programmes that certainly don’t aid the investigations. I always inform clients for past life regression (PLR) that my own beliefs are not important to the process.

The art of interviewing someone is essential as you’ve already described. Suggestion is far more powerful & far reaching than is often realised. Clients have described to me after PLR that their recall was exactly the same as recalling their personal life experiences as opposed to ‘fantasying’ with creative imagination techniques.

There is of course a seperate theory that DNA has an influence & that the memories of past relations are being recalled rather than the individuals past lives.

Personally, I’m not convinced of it’s validity. I certainly have no agenda when using PLR.

Comment on Experimental Meditation by Hypnosis, Trance States and Spiritual Development | Trance Formations

Hypnosis, Trance States and Spiritual Development | Trance Formations — Mon, 31 May 2010 15:49:45 +0000

[...] One such example of the sort of experiment one can develop in this field produced my trance session Receiving The Wisdom Of The Guru Self, in which the Guru Self refers to a future self that has acquired a wisdom from the experience of these trans-personal states and is able to pass that back through time to the present self. I wrote about the strategy here. [...]

Comment on Creative Problem Solving: The Problem Reframe by Adam Sargant

Adam Sargant — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:59:54 +0000

I would like to place some reasonable limitations on the concept. If I’m in a plane and the engine cuts out, I don’t want the pilot to be thinking “Hey, this is fun… how might a dolphin deal with this one eh?”. Though I would like him to be thinking of it as a challenge requiring some very rapid creative responses (assuming all the uncreative, manual ones had not worked) :-)

In day to day living, where most problems tend to the centre of the bell curve of normal issues, however, I find it is perfectly legitimate to ask myself “How could this be fun? What are the opportunities this presents to me?”. And it becomes possible to feel gratitude for the circumstances that give rise to all those possibilities. And then all sorts of resources can come into play :-)