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Hypnotherapy,
Rebirth Of An Ancient Miracle
By Charles
Wm. Skillas, Ph.D., DD, BCH, FNGH, CI
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Hypnotherapy is the
only modality that allows direct access to the subconscious
mind and that's where all the problems are!
According to Dr. John C. Hughes
(NGH), Hypnosis today is experiencing the greatest upsurge
of widespread public acclaim that has been seen in the
two centuries since Franz Mesmer had the French aristocracy
agog with his healing miracles in the 1790s. Institutions
now teach hypnotherapy. Bookstores are filled with a
proliferation of hypnosis publications and its wonders.
Medical doctors are recommending their patients to Hypnotherapists.
Membership in the National Guild of Hypnotists, the
worlds premier Hypnotherapy Organization, has increased
by 6000 per cent over the last six years.
WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?
People are looking for alternative forms of healing
and they have discovered the power of Hypnotherapy to
change their lives for the better. It Boils down to
the fact that hypnosis is the only healing modality
that allows direct access to the subconscious mind where
all illness starts, and many authorities say that 85%
of all illness is psychosomatic... some say 99%.
WHAT IS HYPNOSIS?
There is no need to believe in hypnosis; any more than
one need believe in electricity to toast his bread for
breakfast or turn the light on. It just works. Hypnosis
operates on its own. One simply uses it, the same way
you plug in any electrical appliance when you require
it. A Scottish physician, Dr. James Braid, coined the
term hypnotism in 1841. Braid noticed that trances occurred
when the subject was relaxed, eyes closed, in a state
resembling sleep. So, he called this state "Hypnosis"
from the Greek word "Hypnos", meaning sleep.
Hypnosis is definitely not sleep, Whatever sleep is,
hypnosis is not.... Hypnosis is an altered state in
which one approaches peak concentration ability. Hypnosis
may look like sleep but, it is really nearer to total
concentration that obstructs irrelevant sensory data.
It is like the concentration experienced when engrossed
in a very fascinating book. If you get very involved,
you might not hear anything else.
Hypnosis is not sleep because
the hypnotized person is awake and alert. Measured brain
waves of a hypnotized person are those of one who is
awake and not of someone asleep. Actually, in hypnosis
you are more alert than in your normal state of awareness.
The subconscious mind and the conscious mind are completely
inaccessible in sleep. In hypnosis, the subconscious
is very accessible and highly suggestible. Rather than
a form of sleep, hypnosis is actually an induced receptiveness
of the subconscious mind in which awareness is focused
and concentrated. Technically, hypnosis is simply bypassing
the critical factor of the conscious mind and establishing
selective thinking. The hypnotized person just stands
back and lets whatever is there come through unencumbered
by judgments, evaluation or analysis. It is just what
is there in the imagination, as the imagination under
hypnosis is the subconscious mind.
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