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Hypnosis can keep
you from feeling the pain, even though it is there!
Hypnotherapists use
hypnosis in therapy because hypnosis allows direct access
to the subconscious mind where all the negative forcing
functions reside that causes our problems. Hypnosis
itself is an altered state of consciousness, which has
some collateral effects, which are useful in pain control.
These effects are analgesia and anesthesia. Analgesia
is elimination of pain and anesthesia is the elimination
of all sensation.
The degree to which
analgesia and anesthesia occurs is dependent upon the
hypnotic trance depth that the subject can reach. There
are many methods of judging trance depth, but the most
commonly used are: Davis-Hubbard (30 levels); LeCron-Bordeaux
(50 levels); Stanford Scale (12 levels) and the Arons
Depth scale (6 levels). The Arons Depth Scale is used
by the NGH and is what I use in my practice. At one
time only three levels were considered important, Light/Medium/Deep.
This was found to be inadequate because greater degrees
of differentiation were needed to determine levels needed
to accomplish: dental work, surgery, childbirth and
even Regression and Spirit Releasement Therapy.
Under the Arons Depth
Scale, analgesia will begin to occur at Stage-4. This
stage is also the beginning of the Amnesic stages. Subjects
will actually forget their name, address, etc. The subject
will not feel pain, but will feel touch. Stage-4 subjects
can undergo dental work and most minor surgery without
discomfort. Stage-5 is the beginning of somnambulism
and complete anesthesia. The subject will feel neither
pain nor touch. Positive hallucinations, where the subject
sees things that are not there, will also occur at this
stage. Stage-6 subjects experience profound somnambulism,
anesthesia and negative hallucinations, where they will
not see or hear things that actually are there. Beyond
Stage-6 are the Hypnotic Coma and the newly discovered
Esdaile Level.
Surgery can be performed
without discomfort on Stage-5 and up level subjects.
Dr. Esdaile, a British surgeon, performed thousands
of major surgeries on patients in India in the 1800s
when he noted that patients under chemical anesthesia
had a very high mortality rate. Under hypnotic anesthesia,
the mortality rate was very greatly reduced.
Not everyone can reach
the Stage-5 trance depth. In my practice, it is about
60%. Everyone has a trance depth that they can reach,
and this depth is not usually reached during the first
few hypnotic episodes. It can take up to 12 hypnotic
episodes to reach maximum depth. These episodes can
consist of self-hypnosis as well as external hypnosis.
I know people who quite easily have root canals under
self-hypnosis. I have read and heard about people who
have had open-heart surgery under hypnosis. Surgeons
are beginning to take note of hypnotic anesthesia because
of patients who cannot tolerate chemical anesthesia.
Fortunately, much hypnotherapy
can be done on subjects in the very light stages (Stages-1-3)
and more than 95% of all people can easily obtain these
depths.
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