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Not sure where to put this question, but has anyone here been hypnotised, and if so can you describe it, was it 'real'?
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Possibly worth a read . . .
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but be wary of stage hypnotists on ships . . .
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but be wary of stage hypnotists on ships . . .
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My cousin was. She used it to give up drinking. She didn't and never has had an alcohol issue except being able to say no when offered a drink :-) anyway....she hasn't touched a drink in over 4 years. Lost loads of weight as well....
She said it was like a normal conversation where he was doing the talking and she was just listening but what he was saying was intensely interesting...
She said it was like a normal conversation where he was doing the talking and she was just listening but what he was saying was intensely interesting...
I'm reading a biography of the German filmmaker, Werner Herzog. He made film called 'Heart of Glass' (great film), at one point he wanted his actors to move as in a dream "as walking through water" and having learned how to hypnotize, put them all in a trance. He told one actress she would be able to speak, but with difficulty, as if she couldn't find her words, which she did. When he awakened her, she still spoke indistinctly, so he put her back in a trance and told her when she woke she would speak with great eloquence, he woke her and she spoke with unusual clarity, expressing herself better than she did normally.
It seems like an enormous mystery. I wonder if I dare try it.
It seems like an enormous mystery. I wonder if I dare try it.
I was hypnotised to give up chocolate, and avoid sugar in drinks and on cereal.
I wore headphones, and my therapist played ambient music through them and spoke to me, along with several other voices which drifted in and out.
He advised me that I could listen to any of the voices, or none of them, as my subconscious was hearing them without my being aware of it.
The session lasted for about half an hour, I was aware and conscious throughout. The session was simultaneously recorded onto a CD which I took home and played once every night for three weeks to embed the messages.
From that day forward - it was eighteen months ago - I have not touched chocolate, having lost all desire to taste it, and even a vague feeling of nausea when I see large displays of it in supermarkets.
I have also stopped having sugar in tea and coffee because the taste is horrible, but sadly, I don't enjoy the taste of tea or coffee without sugar, so my consumption is down to maybe two coffees a day now.
I wore headphones, and my therapist played ambient music through them and spoke to me, along with several other voices which drifted in and out.
He advised me that I could listen to any of the voices, or none of them, as my subconscious was hearing them without my being aware of it.
The session lasted for about half an hour, I was aware and conscious throughout. The session was simultaneously recorded onto a CD which I took home and played once every night for three weeks to embed the messages.
From that day forward - it was eighteen months ago - I have not touched chocolate, having lost all desire to taste it, and even a vague feeling of nausea when I see large displays of it in supermarkets.
I have also stopped having sugar in tea and coffee because the taste is horrible, but sadly, I don't enjoy the taste of tea or coffee without sugar, so my consumption is down to maybe two coffees a day now.
I tried it when I used to smoke. I was talking to someone at work who had been to see him and never touched a cigarette again after just one session even though he was told to have three sessions. The hypnotherapist was a nice old guy who used to be a clinical psychiatrist. I sat in the chair while he said all the usual things but I just didn`t switch off from the outside world (traffic outside etc) so it didn`t work for me. I never went back for the other sessions because my Dad died two days later and I had other priorities.
237SJ - //I just didn`t switch off from the outside world (traffic outside etc) so it didn`t work for me.//
It is not possible to hypnotise someone who does not wish to be hypnotised.
This applies to someone like yourself who is nominally accepting of the procedure, but something in your subconscious rejected the method of putting you into a light trance, and so it failed.
It is not possible to hypnotise someone who does not wish to be hypnotised.
This applies to someone like yourself who is nominally accepting of the procedure, but something in your subconscious rejected the method of putting you into a light trance, and so it failed.
Checking out Chris' links, the first one is to a guy with a lot of letters after his name, none of which sounded familiar, 'Dip H' - nothing, 'Dip NLP likewise (but maybe), all I got for 'HPD' was, Histrionic Personality Disorder, HC - zilch, and FDAP is a federation of Drug and Alcohol Practitioners, whether they are curers or users I'm not certain.
The second link leads to a chap who in front of an audience started to masturbate on stage - though he hadn't actually been asked to do so.
The second link leads to a chap who in front of an audience started to masturbate on stage - though he hadn't actually been asked to do so.
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