tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4435061645559328442024-03-14T09:31:58.625-04:00Applied Hypnosis and Hyperempiria: Enhanced Experience"Hypnosis is not for everyone. It is for people who are ready for powerful change." -- Kelley WoodsDon E. Gibbons, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08911775218803400535noreply@blogger.comBlogger109125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443506164555932844.post-44843858627672509682023-07-21T19:45:00.007-04:002024-01-04T16:44:31.705-05:00Blending<div>An article in the Reader's Diigest compares the effectiveness of hypnosis and meditation and comes out in favor of hypnosis. However, Richard Nongard once observed that hypnosis was the same thing as meditation, and I agree; for both involve the actualization of the expressed or the implied suggestion that your conscious processes are beginning to function differently. It's just that the set of assumptions which you use when you are going into hypnosis is more efficient than the set of assumptions which you use when practicing meditation.</div><div><br /></div><div>Research has found that the brains of meditators change with long-term practice; and many students of meditation seek out a respected guru for long-term training and personal growth. The aim of hypnosis, on the other hand, has been, "Find 'em, fix 'em, and forget 'em," although we might keep clients on your mailing list and send them a newsletter once in a while so that they will remember to tell their friends about you and consult you again when another problem arises in their lives.</div><div><br /></div><div>Lisa Brown, who many of you will remember as a hypnosis virtuoso and frequent poster on HT before she migrated to Facebook as so many others have done, has continued to regularly work with practice partners in order to develop her hypnotic abilities even further. I have a long-term retired client who, when she leaves my office, is forced to return to the "toxic soup' in which she must perpetually swim. Her mother in law is slowly becoming more and more demented. She only speaks Italian and refuses to learn English. She has stopped showering and will not allow herself to move to a senior care facility; her husband has had six strokes, and is not too much better than his mother; and her sister, who has a husband and children of her own, refuses to be of any help. She comes in to vent once a week, and I take her on a tour to the Multiverse where she dissolves in a lake of infinite, unbounded love, using time distortion so that it seems like she has been gone for an eternity. On the way back, borrowing from Rumi, I tell her, "We have been to Heaven. We are higher than the angels. And we will go back there, for this is your eternal home beyond the stars." Then, as she is about to emerge from hypnosis, I tell her, "You are among a gifted few, on the cutting edge of evolution, whose life is not limited to living in one universe at a time," and, "The lessons of these experiences will remain with you."</div><div><br /></div><div>I am helping her to re-define herself. She now sees herself as an advanced being on the cutting edge of evolution, with the ability to pre-experience the joys of Heaven and take these lessons back with her to bolster her life in the present.. Was she really there? Since I don't pretend to know what "truth" is, I have no way of telling But I believe that my job as a therapist is to help clients construct a reality that will help them to live better lives, regardless of whether it is true or not and regardless of the reality that I may construct for myself. She is certainly able to live her life more effectively with this type of long-term hypnosis, which essentially the same asf long-term meditation.. </div><div><br /></div><div>You can find more information, as well as a script for multiversal travel, on my Blog, www.hyperempiria.blogspot.com.</div><div><br /></div><div>Don</div>Don E. Gibbons, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08911775218803400535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443506164555932844.post-44089951182728953902023-07-21T19:44:00.002-04:002024-01-04T15:51:49.642-05:00Library <div>Hypnosis should not be for everyone. It is for people who are ready for powerful change.</div><div>https://www.xnxx.com/video-ehr57df/girls_multiple_orgasm_during_sex#<br /></div><div>Girls multiple orgasm during sex</div>Tiny nubile blonde is restrained and brought to a genuine screaming orgasm<div>Orgasms the most incredible wife</div><div>Busty blonde mlfs having orgasm compilation</div><div>Orgasm hot sexy teen fucked hard before party</div><div>Presley Harts Gets Eaten</div><div>Helpless petite Woman Forced to Cum by Strong Dude</div><div>Non-Stop forced orgasm for tied teen</div><div>Tied Up Beauty Orgasms</div><div>Helpless teen tied to the bed and tortured with a magic wand</div><div>Two steps from hellv-- top 10 most popular tracks</div><div>Sexy Scarlet Moaning Loud</div><div>The Most Incredible Wife</div><div><br /></div>Don E. Gibbons, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08911775218803400535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443506164555932844.post-47408446474393486992023-07-21T19:43:00.007-04:002024-01-04T15:48:36.220-05:00<div>Evolution did not come to a screeching halt when the first bipeds who could accurately be labeled human joined the ranks of the other primates. We have been developing the powers of our imagination in new and exciting ways ever since. However, the imaginatively gifted among us frequently need the services of a hypnotist who is able to function as an enabler, coach, or personal trainer to show us how to use these emerging abilities with confidence, because they are so different from the current patterns of thought which we are used to in everyday life . </div><div><br /></div><div>In the<i> hypnoverse</i>, or the realm of everything that can be imagined in hypnosis, whatever can be called into consciousness can ne experienced as a real event. You can selectively sample from the best experiences of every parallel lifetime you can possibly imagine, speed-walking on the path to enlightenment, and you can directly explore the joys and wonders of the Multiverse itself.</div><div><br /></div><div>If some of these parallel universes are ahead us in time, we are talking about pre-incarnation. If they are on approximately the same time line, we have co-incarnation. If they are behind us, we have re-incarnation. If we share a body with another personality, we have co-incarnation: and if we simultaneously share the same body with several individuals, we have multi-carnation.</div><div><br /></div><div>Kelley Woods recently e-maied me: "I'm reading The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Liberation Through Understanding in the Between, by Robert Thurman, The Dalai Lama, Karma Lingpa, Padma Sambhava and wanted to share this quote with you." So, the Tibetan lamas who can consciously pass through the dissolution process, whose minds can detach from the gross physical body and use a magic body to travel to other universes, these “psychonauts” are the Tibetans’ ultimate heroes and heroines."'</div><div><br /></div><div>If we are able to choose from a theoretically unlimited number of situations in a theoretically unlimited number of lifetimes to experience as real events, regardless of whether they are objectively"real" or not, then the possibilities for growth and improvement are virtually unlimited. The only remaining restrictions are the imaginative abilities of the participant and the participant's ability and willingness to follow the instructions and suggestions he or she is given. </div><div><br /></div><div>No one should make use of this following very powerful technology unless qualified to do so by virtue of his or her formal training and experience. Bur i0f you <i>are</i> properly qualified to do so, we invite you now to join us in this fascinating exploration of parallel and alternate universes, and of the Multiverse itself, the universe of all possible universes. In the words of Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of the Abbey Grange, "Come Watson, Come! The game is afoot. Not a word! Into your clothes and come!</div><div>Conventional Induction.</div><div><br /></div><div>The following scripts should be used as a general guide, with considerable repetition and elaboration in accordance with the client's body language, much as one might repeat the verses and choruses of a song.</div><div><br /></div><div>Just imagine that it’s a nice, spring day, and that you’re lying on a soft woolen blanket, on a sandy beach, by the side of the ocean. If you accept each detail of the situation as I describe it, without trying to think critically, your imagination will be free to allow you to experience the situation just as if you were really there.</div><div><br /></div><div>I’m going to count from one to ten, and by the time I get to the count of ten, you’ll be resting comfortably in a deep, sound, peaceful state of hypnosis. So just relax and listen to my voice, as I begin the count from one to ten.</div><div><br /></div><div>One . You can feel the warm sand beneath the blanket on which you're lying, and you can feel the gentle breeze blowing across your body, cooling you to just the right temperature, so that all you want to do is just keep drifting, and dreaming . . . and floating . . . on . . and on . . . and on into a deep, sound, beautiful state of hypnosis.</div><div><br /></div><div>Two . You can hear the sound of the waves gently crashing upon the ocean shore. You can hear the sound of the gulls in the distance, and you can savor the freshness of the pure salt air, as you feel a heavy, relaxed feeling coming over you. You can feel your arms relaxing, you can feel your legs relaxing, and you can feel your entire body relaxing completely. As I continue to count and continue to talk, every word that I utter will carry you faster and deeper, faster and deeper, down and down, into a deep, sound, peaceful state of hypnosis.</div><div><br /></div><div>Three . . . You can feel your entire body relaxing now . . . relaxing deeper and faster, and deeper and faster, all of the time.</div><div><br /></div><div>Four . Sinking down, and shutting down . . . sinking down, and shutting down . . . sinking down, and shutting down . . shutting down completely. And the deeper you go, the deeper you are able to go. And the deeper you go, the deeper you want to go, and the more peaceful, and the more relaxing, and the more beautiful the experience becomes.</div><div><br /></div><div>Five. Sinking and relaxing, and sinking and relaxing, deeper and faster, deeper and faster, all of the time. Relaxing so very deeply now that you can just let yourself go completely, as you continue drifting down and down, into a deep, sound, beautiful, blissful state of hypnosis.</div><div><br /></div><div>Every word that I utter is carrying you faster and deeper, faster and deeper, down, and down, and down. And the deeper you go, the deeper you want to go; and the deeper you go, the deeper you're able to go, and the more peaceful, and the more beautiful, and the more enjoyable the experience becomes.</div><div><br /></div><div>Six . Relaxing so very deeply now, as you continue drifting on and on, into a deep, sound sleep, a deep, sound sleep.</div><div><br /></div><div>Seven. Sinking down and shutting down. Sinking down and shutting down. Sinking down and shutting down, shutting down completely.</div><div><br /></div><div>Eight . And the deeper you go, the deeper you want to go. And the deeper you go, the deeper you're able to go. And the deeper you go, the more peaceful the more relaxing, the more beautiful, and the more enjoyable the experience becomes.</div><div><br /></div><div>Nine. Sinking down, and shutting down. Sinking down, and shutting down. Sinking down, and shutting down. Shutting down completely.</div><div><br /></div><div>Ten. Very deeply drifting, in a deep, sound state of hypnosis. And the deeper you go, the deeper you want to go. And the deeper you go, the deeper you are able to go. And the deeper you go, the stronger the effects of my words become.</div><div><br /></div><div>Deepening (optional)</div><div><br /></div><div>Now, as you continue sinking deeper with every word that I speak, and with every second that passes, you can imagine, or picture in your mind, a clock dial, with no second hand and no minute hand on the clock, just an hour hand. And the hour hand is set at twelve.</div><div><br /></div><div>I’m going to move that hour hand back, one hour at a time, until it’s all the way back to one. And with each hour that I move the hand back, you’ll go twice as deep as you are right now, and you’ll feel twice as good as you do right now.</div><div><br /></div><div>There is no end to the depth of experience you can have in deep hypnosis.There is no limit to how good you can feel, and to the benefits you can obtain from it. And the deeper you go, the deeper you're able to go . And the deeper you go, the deeper you want to go, and the more peaceful and the more beautiful, and the more wonderful, and the more enjoyable the experience becomes. So just let yourself go completely now, as I move the hour hand back, one hour at a time. ,</div><div><br /></div><div>And now I’ve moved the hour hand back from 12 to 11, and you’re sinking down twice as deep as you were before. And the deeper you go, the more easily you are able to become aware of your Best Me -- of the person you are becoming.</div><div><br /></div><div>And now I’ve moved it down to 10, and you feel twice as deep and you feel twice as good. But there’s never any sense of strain or overload, for the deeper you go, the deeper you want to go, and the deeper you go, the deeper you’re able to go. And the deeper you go, the more beautiful, and the more enjoyable the experience becomes.</div><div><br /></div><div>And now I’ve moved it down to 9. Twice as deep, and feeling twice as good</div><div><br /></div><div>.As I lead you deeper and deeper into hypnosis, your Best Me, -- your Future Self, -- the person that you are becoming -- will provide you with all the guidance and support that you need, in order to free yourself from the problems and limitations that have been holding you back. This guidance will enable these problems to be solved in just the right way, and at just the right time, for you to keep whatever is of value to the person that you will become and to release and eliminate whatever needs to be released.</div><div><br /></div><div>8. Twice as deep, sinking down and down, and feeling twice as good, as you allow your Best Me to handle all of your problems in the outside world in the healing, caring light of your future.</div><div><br /></div><div>7. Twice as deep yet again, and feeling twice as good yet again.</div><div><br /></div><div>6. Deeper yet. Notice what that does, and notice how good you feel. And imagine how good you're going to feel, when we get all the way down to one</div><div><br /></div><div>5. Twice as deep, yet again, and feeling twice as good yet again . . . . deeper . . . and deeper . . .And the deeper you go, the deeper you want to go . . . and the deeper you go, the deeper you are able to go . . . and the more beautiful, and the more wonderful, and the more enjoyable the experience becomes.</div><div><br /></div><div>4. Deeper . . . deeper . . . deeper . . .</div><div><br /></div><div>3. Twice as deep, and feeling twice as good . . .</div><div><br /></div><div>2. Deeper . . . deeper . . . deeper . . .</div><div><br /></div><div>1. Infinitely, and unbelievably deep, and continuing to go deeper with every word that I speak. Deeper and deeper, down, and down, and down.</div><div><br /></div><div>Hyperempiric Induction</div><div><br /></div><div>Now the scene is changing, and we are standing on the top of a large mountain which is covered with clouds after a sudden spring shower. If you accept each detail of the situation as I describe it, without trying to think critically, your imagination will be free to allow you to experience the situation just as if you were really there.</div><div><br /></div><div>One end of a large rainbow is touching the ground right in front of us. We walk up to this rainbow and prepare to enter the first band. As we go through each band one by one, each band will present you with a priceless gift, which you will be able to take back with you And the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is the treasure that your life is becoming as we explore the joys and wonders of the Multiverse itself..</div><div><br /></div><div>First, we are entering the red band of the rainbow. Red is the color of strength and the color of love. Feel this strength and love flowing through you now, overcoming negative emotions, overcoming physical discomfort, paving over the effect of every bad thing that has ever happened to you, and filling and flooding every muscle, and nerve, and cell of your being with wave after wave of infinite, boundless strength, and confidence, and love, and power. [Brief Pause]</div><div><br /></div><div>Each time that I lead you into hypnosis you go higher; each time you go faster, and each time you experience this happiness more beautifully and more intensely than you did the time before.</div><div><br /></div><div>Orange is the color of happiness. Feel the happiness flooding through you now, filling and flooding every muscle and nerve and cell of your body with wave after wave of infinite happiness and boundless joy. Infinite happiness, and boundless Joy [Brief Pause]</div><div><br /></div><div>Yellow is the color of healing. Each time you repeat this mindful hypnotic meditation, all of the healing processes throughout your body are considerably strengthened. As we travel through this band of yellow light, you can feel its healing warmth, flooding into every muscle, and every fiber, and nerve of your body, penetrating to the very core of your being.-- body, heart, mind, and spirit.[Brief Pause]</div><div><br /></div><div>Now, we are entering the green band of light. Green is the color of renewal. The farther we go into the rainbow, the more your sense of the passing of time is slowing down. Regardless of the time we may actually have been away, it will seem as if we had been gone for an eternity. And the benefits of our journey will be increased in direct proportion to the time that it feels like we have been away together.</div><div><br /></div><div>Now, we are traveling through the band of blue, which is the color of Heaven, and the color of Eternity. This is the true reality, and the universe from which we came is merely an illusion. This is your eternal home beyond the stars, and the spark of Divinity which is within you is nothing less than the energy of the Multiverse itself</div><div><br /></div><div>You will always look back upon these journeys with fondness, even as you look forward to the next opportunity to return to them ,with ever-increasing anticipation; for each time that you embark upon these mindful hypnotic meditations you will be able to obtain even more benefit and more growth from the experience as it continues to change your life forever into a thing of wondrous beauty.</div><div><br /></div><div>Next, we move into the purple band which contains the heightened mental and spiritual powers that are becoming yours in ever-increasing amounts, as your consciousness drifts higher. </div><div><br /></div><div>It's a wonderful feeling of release and liberation which you are experiencing now, as all of your vast, untapped potentials are becoming freed for their fullest possible functioning. And this feeling is going to continue growing and growing, like a snowball rolling downhill, until we merge completely into the Multiverse itself .</div><div><br /></div><div>You are a child of the Multiverse, more highly evolved than the rest. And this is the most wonderful thing that has ever happened to you.</div><div><br /></div><div>Now we are entering the band of violet, which is the color of serenity. It’s only the separation from this infinite ocean of perfect peace, and calm, and tranquility, that is the source of all unhappiness, all depression, all anxiety, all loneliness and all despair. And now that this separation has been removed, it has brought you an inner peace, which is greater than anything that you have ever dreamt of, longed for, hoped for, or imagined, and far, far beyond the power of.the human imagination by itself to even begin to comprehend.</div><div><br /></div><div>Finally, we have come to the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, which holds the priceless treasure that your life is becoming as you continue to practice this mindful hypnotic meditation. Scoop it up and take it with you; for It contains everything you wanted from this experience, regardless of whether or not it was specifically included in the suggestions that you were given, and regardless of whether or not you were even fully aware of them yourself at the time.</div><div>Mindful Hypnotic Meditation</div><div>Now, as we step out of the final band of the rainbow and into the Multiverse itself, the beauty and the intensity of everything you experience is multiplied many times over. You have more senses than your usual five, and you can directly experience all the 11 dimensions of reality with a beauty and an intensity which is infinitely greater than anything that can be imagined in the universe from which we came.</div><div><br /></div><div>All of the bands of the rainbow which brought us here have blended into one boundless ocean of perfect, infinite love which contains them all: strength, happiness, healing, renewal, peace, power, and serenity, more beautiful than anything you have ever dreamt of, hoped for, longed for, or imagined, and far, far beyond the power of the human imagination by itself to even begin to comprehend.</div><div><br /></div><div>In the center of this infinite ocean of unbounded love, you are completely dissolving into the infinite love of the Multiverse itself (or the Creator Himself). And all of the happiness, all of the love,all of the joy, and all of the rapture that have ever been felt by all of the people who ever walked the face of the Earth, put together, have become a part of you, now, in these golden moments of delight -- infinite beyond infinity, and eternal beyond all measure of eternity: Infinite, boundless, eternal and everlasting, yours to enjoy and yours to be, now, in these golden moments, torn from the pages of time and space.</div><div><br /></div><div>This is the most wonderful thing that has ever happened to you, greater than anything you have ever dreamt of., hoped for, longed for, or imagined, and far, far beyond the limits of anything that you ever thought was even possible. It is the complete and total fulfillment of your existence: everything you ever were, everything you are right now, and everything you will be in the future, put together and endlessly multiplied over and over -- infinite beyond infinity, and eternal beyond all measure of eternity. Revel in it, glory in it, and enjoy the experience to the.fullest. (Pause.)</div><div><br /></div><div>Here in the Multiverse, where you will spend Eternity, the total fulfillment of your existence is already an accomplished fact. And as we continue to return here to this, your home beyond the stars, it will change your life forever and turn each new day into a thing of wondrous beauty. -- in many different ways, and on many different levels, some of which you may already know and some of which you may not yet realize until they actually begin to occur.</div><div><br /></div><div>You will not be able to bring the full intensity of this experience back with you, because it would be more than you could possibly bear in the universe from which we came.. But its healing effects will remain with you, turning each new day into a thing of joy, and paving over the effect of every bad thing that has ever happened to you in your entire life.</div><div><br /></div><div>Because time does not exist in the Multiverse, it will seem like we have been gone for an entire lifetime, and the benefits of each journey will be increased in direct proportion to the time that it feels like we have been away together.</div><div>Return</div><div>Now we are ready to return to the everyday state of consciousness, by riding through the rainbow of delight that brought us here, in reverse order from the inside out. You will remain in deep hypnosis until we emerge together from the final band.</div><div><br /></div><div>Just as before, each band of color will present you with a priceless gift which you will be able to take back with you, to make it easier for you to withstand stress and pain of every kind, and to counteract the effects of every bad thing that has ever happened to you.</div><div><br /></div><div>The changes it has created will provide you with a source of deep Inner strength which will enable you to cope much more effectively with all of life's stresses and all of life's problems.</div><div><br /></div><div>First, we are beginning to retrace our steps through the band of violet, the color of serenity. It's only the separation from this infinite ocean of boundless rapture, wonder, ecstasy and delight -- it’s only the separation from this ocean of perfect peace, and calm, and tranquility -- that is the source of all unhappiness, all depression, all anxiety, all loneliness, and all despair. And now that this separation has been removed, it has brought you an inner peace which is greater than anything you have ever dreamt of, longed for, hoped for, or imagined, and far, far beyond the power of human words to describe -- infinite, boundless, eternal, and everlasting. Yours to enjoy and yours to be, now, in these golden moments of delight, torn from the pages of time and space.</div><div><br /></div><div>Next, we move back into the purple band which contains the indwelling mental and spiritual powers that are becoming yours in ever increasing amounts, as we continue to explore these alternate and parallel universes.</div><div><br /></div><div>You love being hypnotized. And as you continue to regularly practice this mindful hypnotic meditation, it will continue to change your entire existence into a thing of wondrous beauty.</div><div><br /></div><div>This is the most wonderful thing that has ever happened to you. Whenever you have found a goal that you deeply desire, you will be able to act, think, and feel as if it were impossible to fail. For even if that particular goal is not achieved, whatever may appear to be a failure is merely a temporary setback on the glorious road to the complete and total fulfillment of your existence, which is already an accomplished fact in the Multiverse from which we came.</div><div><br /></div><div>Now we are traveling back through the band of blue, which is the color of Heaven, and the color of eternity. This is the true reality, and the.world from which we came is merely an illusion.</div><div><br /></div><div>Regardless of how much or how little you actually remember these experiences -- and if you go deep enough, you may not remember anything at all -- you will always look back upon these journeys with fondness, even as you look forward to the next opportunity to return to them with ever-increasing anticipation. You will treasure the effects of this experience as it adds meaning and purpose to your life; and each time that we return, you will be able to derive new benefits from these experiences which will meet your needs even more effectively.</div><div><br /></div><div>Now we are entering the green band of light. Green is the color of renewal: and each time that you return to this mindful hypnotic meditation, you will obtain even more happiness and more fulfillment from the journey than you did before.</div><div><br /></div><div>Next, we are traveling through the band of yellow light,. Yellow is the color of healing. You can feel the healing warmth of this yellow light, flooding once more into every muscle, and every fiber, and nerve and cell of your body, penetrating to the very core of your being -- body, heart, mind, and soul. . .body, heart, mind, and soul.</div><div><br /></div><div>Now, we are entering the orange band of the rainbow. Orange is the color of happiness. Feel the happiness flooding through you once more, filling and flooding every muscle and nerve and cell of your body with after wave of infinite happiness and boundless joy. -- Infinite happiness, and boundless joy.</div><div><br /></div><div>Each time we repeat this mindful hypnotic meditation, you go deeper, each time you go faster; and each time, you experience this happiness more beautifully and more intensely than you did before.</div><div><br /></div><div>Finally, we are entering the red band of the rainbow. Red is the color of strength, and the color of love. Feel this strength and love flowing through you now, overcoming stress, overcoming worry, overcoming depression and care, and filling and flooding every muscle and nerve and cell of your being with wave after wave of infinite, boundless strength, and love, and confidence, and power.</div><div><br /></div><div>You will obtain everything you wanted from this experience, regardless of whether or not it was specifically included in the suggestions that you were given, and regardless of whether or not you were even fully aware of them yourself at the time; for your Best Me is always with you, guiding your path in the way that it should go.</div><div><br /></div><div>Now, as we prepare to return to the everyday life from which we came, all of the dimensions of the Universe from which we originally left will reassert themselves, and all your sensations and perceptions will be exactly as they were before our journey began. Your mind will be clear and alert, and you will easily be able to concentrate on anything you have to do. But the benefits and the good feelings of these experiences, will remain with you, adding meaning and purpose to your life, making it so much easier to resist stresses of every kind, and filling your life with zest and joy. Know who you really are. Be who you really are.</div><div><br /></div><div>By the time I get to the count of five, you will open your eyes, beaming with happiness and radiant with joy.</div><div><br /></div><div>One. Getting ready to open your eyes now. Two. . .Three.. . . Four. . . Five. You can open your eyes now, wide awake and feeling wonderful!</div>Don E. Gibbons, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08911775218803400535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443506164555932844.post-78517205835290383362020-10-11T12:44:00.000-04:002020-10-11T13:28:00.188-04:00How to Manage an Addicted Friend or Family Member<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span>
<br>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img height="214" src="http://usahitman.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/405528958_5d17556f13.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="320"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Addicts seem to have a Ph.D. in emotional manipulation.</b></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many therapists have clients in their eighties who have turned themselves into paupers and are living our their retirement years in distress and torment because they are unable to resist the emotional blackmail of their alcoholic or addicted children. (It should also be noted that some people can become addicted to spending itself, for a variety of reasons.) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the other extreme, I have interviewed prison inmates whose families have decided to press charges because their children have stolen money and personal belongings from them in order to support their addictions. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the middle are the clients we see every week in our private practice, who have sought our support in order to learn the art of "toughlove" -- to say no to the demands of their addicted children or other family members, both for the sake of the addicts themselves and to preserve the clients' own financial and psychological well-being.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When the victims threaten to deny or withdraw emotional support, they are subject to a series of manipulative tactics from their addicted family members which may include anger, rage, threats of suicide or actual suicidal gestures, and promises that the abuser will never have anything to do with them again. These tactics frequently succeed because, as family members, the abusers often know their victims well enough to understand exactly what to say and which buttons to push in order to manipulate their victims into giving in. This only encourages further exploitation in the future. For this reason, you should never make a threat to an addict, i.e., "This is the last time you are getting one cent out of me!" that you are not prepared to carry out.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Victims of emotional manipulation need to recognize that addicts are not the loving, playful children, friends, or relatives they once were were before their addiction turned them into someone else. Victims need to see themselves as survivors of abuse, and to create healthy barriers between themselves and their abusers. </span><br>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span>
<br>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img height="275" src="http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/561630_4142541315545_178911475_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="320"></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Don't let an addict shame or guilt you into giving in!</b></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While some people can come to these realizations on their own, in many instances they need the emotional support and encouragement of a therapist, and possibly the services of an attorney, in order to disentangle themselves. </span><br>
<br>
<br>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br>
<img height="144" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQHvsZBSGer8te3iq9Ii3gsxIekjqUL-bq9LvnYaA5ALvCWrLJyWw" width="200"></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span>
<br>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Here are just a few the practical applications of </span><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/p/what-is-hyperempiria.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hyperempiria</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">, or suggestion-enhanced experience,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> contained on this Blog, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> You can learn how to:</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">
<div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-to-keep-your-boss-from-driving-you.html">Keep your boss from driving you crazy </a> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2012/07/blog-post.html">Learn deep relaxation hypnosis for falling asleep</a> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2012/07/how-to-conquer-anxiety-and-perform-at.html">Conquer anxiety and perform at your best</a></span></li>
<li><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/p/hyperempiric-therapy-of-depression.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Overcome depression</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2012/09/how-to-get-thin-and-stay-thin-with-self.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Get thin and STAY thin </a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/p/hyperempiria-for-improving-academic.html">Improve academic performance</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/p/how-to-achieve-your-goals-without-using.html">Achieve your goals without using "will power"</a></span></li>
<li><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-to-recognize-personality-disorder.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Recognize a personality disorder</span></a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/p/how-to-achieve-your-goals-without-using.html">Motivate yourself for long-range tasks</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/p/how-to-hypnotize-yourself-using-best-me.html">Learn to hypnotize yourself</a></span></li>
<li><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2012/12/exploring-alternate-universe-and-what.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Explore Alternate Universes </span></a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2012/07/how-to-psych-yourself-out-of.html">Eliminate procrastination</a> </span></li>
<li><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2011/11/helpful-autosuggestions-to-overcome.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Overcome perfectionism </span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2012/08/how-to-actually-live-action-of-your_3.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">LIVE the action of your favorite dramatic scenes</span></a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/p/hyperempiria-for-relief-of-pain.html">Suppress the ravages of pain</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2012/06/how-to-meditate-like-pro.html">Reap the full benefits of meditation for personal growth</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/p/hypnosis-is-easy-when-you-know-how.html">Master the art of hypnosis</a></span></span></li>
<li><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/p/hyperempiria-for-facilitating.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Facilitate meditation and prayer</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2012/01/hypnosis-and-hyperempiria-for-improving.html">Improve your psychic abilities</a> </span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2012/01/mother-teresa-had-mystical-experience.html">Re-create a mystical experience whenever you wish.</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2012/08/how-to-forgive-yourself.html">Learn to Forgive Yourself and Others</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2011/06/choosing-your-attitude.html">Discover the Most Important Things in Life</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2012/06/how-to-find-your-lifes-goals-and-values.html">Find Your Life's Goals and Values</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2012/10/how-to-talk-to-your-inner-healer.html">Talk to Your "Inner Healer"</a> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Blog contains many other examples of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Applied-Hypnosis-Hyperempiria-Don-Gibbons/dp/0595124763">hyperempiria</a> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for the enhancement of human potential, the ennoblement of the human spirit, and the fulfillment of human existence.</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sources </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gibbons, D. E. (2001). <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Experience-Art-Form-Hyperempiria-Technique/dp/059517308X" rel="nofollow">Experience as an art form. .</a>New York, NY: Authors Choice Press.</span></div>
<div>
<br></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gibbons, D. E. (2000). <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Applied-Hypnosis-Hyperempiria-Don-Gibbons/dp/0595124763" rel="nofollow">Applied hypnosis and hyperempiria.</a> Lincoln, NE: Authors Choice Press (originally published 1979 by Plenum Press).</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div>
<div>
<br></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gibbons, D. E., & Cavallaro, L (2013).. </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=gibbons+%26+Cavallaro" href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=gibbons+%26+Cavallaro" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Exploring alternate universes: And learning what they can teach us.</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Amazon Kindle E-Books. (Note: It is not necessary to own a Kindle reader to download this e-book, as the Kindle app may be downloaded free of charge to a standard desktop or laptop computer and to most cell phones.)</span></div>
<div>
<br></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gibbons, D. E., & Lynn, S. J. (2010). Hypnotic inductions: A primer. in S. J. Lynn, J. W. Rhue, & I. Kirsch (Eds.) <a href="http://www.apa.org/pubs/books/4317205.aspx" rel="nofollow">Handbook of clinical hypnosis, 2nd ed</a>. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, pp. 267-291.</span></div>
<div>
</div>
<br>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span>
<br>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img src="https://encrypted-tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTVWKLO3Uy9HsL1AbKrSMDWoGLxAWkC7qsnsRn8COdhApkgrHYoVA"></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
</div>
Don E. Gibbons, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08911775218803400535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443506164555932844.post-616869124901150582020-10-11T12:42:00.000-04:002020-10-11T13:53:50.102-04:00Understanding Fetishes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div style="text-align: left;">
</div>
</div>
</div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">In certain species of fowl, imprinting is the mechanism by which young chicks learn to follow their mother. There is a certain "critical period" shortly after birth, generally lasting from a few hours to a few days, during which time the newly-hatched chicks learn to follow whatever moving object they see -- which, of course, is generally their mother. When the process is allowed to operate as it should, the result is that the baby chicks become imprinted on the mother, and learn to follow her lead as they grow and mature. However, the biologist Konrad Lorenz demonstrated that when the chicks are allowed to follow a different moving object during the critical period for imprinting, such as a human being, they will follow the human as though it were their mother. Most importantly, however, when they become sexually mature, they will attempt to mate with the human, and ignore members of their own species!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img height="320" src="http://avich.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/imprinting2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="196" /></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><b>Ducklings Imprinted on Konrad Lorenz</b></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can <i>humans</i> be imprinted during a critical period, by pairing various stimuli such as pain with early sexual stimulation, leading to the development of a fetish for pain when they become mature? And what about other types of fetishistic attachments? Obviously, we cannot conduct research on questions of this type, and the infantile experiences of adults with a particular kind of fetish cannot be investigated retroactively. The <i>Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association </i>states, "Among the more common fetish objects are women's underpants, bras, shoes, stockings, boots, or other wearing apparel. . . . Usually the fetish is required or strongly preferred for sexual excitement, and in its absence there may be erectile dysfunction" (p. 569). But considering the variety of fetishistic attachments which have been reported -- everything from the stumps of amputees to the softly blowing gases from an automobile exhaust pipe -- and the difficulty in modifying such attachments once they have been acquired, it is at least possible to form the hypothesis that such attachments may have been acquired during a critical period in infancy by the accidental pairing of a stimulus with newly-awakened sexual responsiveness.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img src="https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSSrsvpwFuEGOtuc5llrGpnbU-tNSgKHFhtsIlofkbUCMppz3g3" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do humans have a critical period for imprinting?</span></b></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Therapy for fetishism usually involves corrective experiences to enhance the attractiveness of more appropriate stimuli, which may be incorporated into a program of experiential hypnosis and reconditioning based upon a classical conditioning model.</span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div style="text-align: left;">
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Reference</span><br />
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">American Psychiatric Association; <i>Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,</i> Fourth Edition, Text Revision. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association, 2000.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
</div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Scroll down for a list of some of the most popular sites on this Blog. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Below this list are the most recent Blog entries. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For an easily accessible list of <i>all</i> Blog postings, see the list entitled, "Blog Archive" in the column at the right of this page.</span><br />
<br />
<div>
</div>
<br />
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <img src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQHvsZBSGer8te3iq9Ii3gsxIekjqUL-bq9LvnYaA5ALvCWrLJyWw" /></span></div>
</div>
</div>
<br />
<b style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are some of our most popular sites</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">:</span></i></b><br />
<div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">
<div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">
<ul>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2012/07/blog-post.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Deep Relaxation Hypnosis for Falling Asleep</span></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-science-of-thinking-thin-cognitive.html">The Science of Thinking Thin: The Cognitive-Behavioral Diet</a></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2013/06/how-to-teach-yourself-to-eliminate.html">How to Eliminate Panic Attacks</a></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2013/05/how-to-construct-hypnotic-suggestions.html">How to Construct Hypnotic Suggestions and Autosuggestions Scientifically</a></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2008/11/is-hypnosis-dangerous-some-hypnotists.html">Is Hypnosis Dangerous? Some Hypnotists Are!</a></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2013/04/romantic-love-and-power-of-suggestion.html">Romantic Love and the Power of Suggestion</a></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2013/01/how-hitler-did-it-power-of-suggestion.html">The Power of Suggestion Gone Wild</a></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-to-recognize-personality-disorder.html">How to Recognize a Personality Disorder</a> </span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2013/06/how-to-train-yourself-to-not-be-angry.html">How to Train Yourself Not to Be Angry</a></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-to-keep-your-boss-from-driving-you.html">How to Keep your boss from driving you crazy!</a> </span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2011/11/premature-ejaculation-treated-with-cbt.html">Premature Ejaculation Treated With CBT and Suggestion-Enhanced Experience</a></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2009/08/how-to-use-hypnosis-to-commit-murder-or.html">How to Use Hypnosis to Commit a Murder (or Not)</a></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2012/09/how-to-be-great-conversationalist.html">The Art of Small Talk</a></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2013/04/how-to-survive-toxic-relationship.html">How to Survive a Toxic Relationship</a></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2013/06/how-overcome-shyness-with-cognitive.html">How to Overcome Shyness with Cognitive-Behavioral Psychology</a></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-science-of-thinking-thin-cognitive.html">The Science of THINKING Thin: The "Cognitive-Behavioral" Diet</a></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2012/09/how-to-get-thin-and-stay-thin-with-self.html">How to Get Thin and STAY Thin with Self-Hypnosis and Visualization</a></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2013/04/free-cognitive-behavioral-therapy.html">FREE Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Instruction and Downloads</a></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2012/12/exploring-alternate-universe-and-what.html">Traveling Through an Alternate Universe</a></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2011/09/determinism-free-will-hypnosis-and.html">The Evidence is in: "Free Will" is an Illuision!</a></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2012/11/a-case-of-shingles-cured-by-hypnosis.html">"Hypnotic Virtuosos:" The Next Step Upward in Human Evolution?</a></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/p/what-is-hyperempiria.html">What is Hyperempiria?</a></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/p/how-to-hypnotize-yourself-using-best-me.html">How to Hypnotize Yourself Using the Best Me Technique</a></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/p/hyperempiria-for-facilitating.html">Hyperempiria for Facilitating Meditation and Prayer</a></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/p/hyperempiria-for-improving-academic.html">Hyperempiria for Improving Academic Performance</a></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/p/hyperempiric-therapy-of-depression.html">Hyperempiric Thrapy of Depression</a></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/p/hypnosis-is-easy-when-you-know-how.html">Hypnosis is Easy When You Know How</a></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/p/hyperempiria-for-relief-of-pain.html">Hyperempiria for the Relief of Pain</a></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/p/how-to-achieve-your-goals-without-using.html">How to Achieve Your Goals Withut Using "Will Power"</a></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/p/hypnosis-from-convulsions-to.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hypnosis: From Convulsions, to "Zombification," to Experiential Theater</span></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/p/hyperempiria-for-children-or-for-child.html">Hyperempiria for Children (or for the Child in All of Us)</a> </span></li>
</ul>
<div>
<i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.90625px;"><b>The Blog contains many other examples of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Experience-Art-Form-Hyperempiria-Technique/dp/059517308X" style="color: #666666;">experience as an art form, </a>for the enhancement of human potential, the ennoblement of the human spirit, and the fulfillment of human existence.</b></i></div>
<div>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.90625px;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span>
<br />
<div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.666666984558105px;">
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<i><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See also the following print sources:</span></b></i><br />
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div style="text-align: left;">
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gibbons, D. E. (2001). <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Experience-Art-Form-Hyperempiria-Technique/dp/059517308X" rel="nofollow">Experience as an art form. .</a>New York, NY: Authors Choice Press.</span></div>
</div>
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gibbons, D. E. (2000). <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Applied-Hypnosis-Hyperempiria-Don-Gibbons/dp/0595124763" rel="nofollow">Applied hypnosis and hyperempiria.</a> Lincoln, NE: Authors Choice Press (originally published 1979 by Plenum Press).</span></div>
</div>
<div>
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div>
</div>
<div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gibbons, D. E., & Cavallaro, L (2013).. <a data-mce-href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=gibbons+%26+Cavallaro" href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=gibbons+%26+Cavallaro" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Exploring alternate universes: And learning what they can teach us.</a> Amazon Kindle E-Books. (Note: It is not necessary to own a Kindle reader to download this e-book, as the Kindle app may be downloaded free of charge to a standard desktop or laptop computer and to most cell phones.)</span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gibbons, D. E., & Lynn, S. J. (2010). Hypnotic inductions: A primer. in S. J. Lynn, J. W. Rhue, & I. Kirsch (Eds.) <a href="http://www.apa.org/pubs/books/4317205.aspx" rel="nofollow">Handbook of clinical hypnosis, 2nd ed</a>. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, pp. 267-291.</span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<br />
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.666666984558105px; line-height: 18.90625px; text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img src="https://encrypted-tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTVWKLO3Uy9HsL1AbKrSMDWoGLxAWkC7qsnsRn8COdhApkgrHYoVA" style="border: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 4px;" /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Don E. Gibbons, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08911775218803400535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443506164555932844.post-35209618477336698082020-10-11T12:40:00.000-04:002020-10-11T12:40:21.902-04:00How to Overcome Flashbacks and Panic Attacks<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; min-height: 1em; padding: 0px; position: static !important;">Here is a list of grounding techniques which you can use immediately, to help when you have lost control of your surroundings in a panic attack. Grounding techniques work well not only with panic attacks, but also with flashbacks from PTSD.<br><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br><br><div>First, look around you. Find five things you can see, four things you can touch, three things you can hear, two things you can smell, and one thing you can taste.</div><br>It is also good in a flashback to ask yourself how old you are now, to differentiate from how old you were when the trauma actually happened.<br><br>One of the worst things about having a panic attack is how frightened you are about having the next one.</div></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; min-height: 1em; padding: 0px; position: static !important;">
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The following video by Babette Rothschild (herself a victim of childhood trauma) illustrates how to overcome panic attacks by focusing awareness on the perception of here and now rather than on the internalized memories of previous trauma.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span>
<br>
<div class="separator" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">
<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/HlM8XV7vIFs?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>
<div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;"><br></span></div>
</div>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static !important;">
<div style="font-size: 1em; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; min-height: 1em; padding: 0px; position: static !important;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;">After this basic level of security and safety has been attained, client and therapist can then collaborate in the construction of a therapeutic relationship which will </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;">increase feelings of confidence and self-esteem, overcome anxiety, depression, and despair, and bring forth an optimistic outlook on life </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;">which enables them</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;"> change the narrative of their life story. (Levine, 1997; Naparstek, 2004; Rothschild, 2000; Scaer, 2007). These <a href="http://www.pesi.com/mcs/traumatreatment/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0c557e; font-size: 1em; position: static !important;">new methods of treatment</a> by the world's leading trauma researchers and clinicians constitute ". . .a paradigm for understanding trauma's far-reaching psychological and physical consequences, <em style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;">without which, psychotherapeutic interventions remain extremely limited, and at times harmful to our clients."</em> (emphasis mine). </span><br>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;">Procedures such as these </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; position: static;">are rapidly dealing a death blow to outmoded, Twentieth-Century notions of "healing" based upon regression to cause, which is about as sophisticated and as useful as trying to housebreak a puppy by "rubbing his nose in it." The puppy will usually stop sooner or later, but is that because of our treatment or in spite of it? And if the "training" is vigorously pursued, could the frustration and anxiety thus engendered actually make new learning more difficult? </span></div>
<div style="font-size: 1em; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; min-height: 1em; padding: 0px; position: static !important;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 1em; position: static;">The following video from PESI Seminars features some of the world's leading experts discussing how recent breakthroughts in the treatment of trauma, dissociation, and multiple personality are making it possible for clients who have gone years without improvement to finally begin to change. </span></div>
<div style="font-size: 1em; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; min-height: 1em; padding: 0px; position: static !important;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 1em; position: static;"><br></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZCTd1DSp2FA?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>
<div style="font-size: 1em; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; min-height: 1em; padding: 0px; position: static !important; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 1em; position: static;"><br></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 1em; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; min-height: 1em; padding: 0px; position: static !important; text-align: left;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: inherit;">References</span></div>
</div>
<div style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static !important;">
<div style="font-size: 1em; line-height: inherit; min-height: 1em; padding: 0px; position: static !important; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: inherit; position: static; text-align: left;">American Psychiatric Association (2013). </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: inherit; position: static !important; text-align: left;">Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, DSM-V, 5th ed.</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: inherit; position: static; text-align: left;"> Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.</span></div>
</div>
<div style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static !important;">
<div style="font-size: 1em; line-height: inherit; min-height: 1em; padding: 0px; position: static !important;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 1em; position: static;"><br></span></div>
</div>
<div style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1em; min-height: 1em; padding: 0px; position: static !important;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;">Forward, S. (1997).</span><i style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"> Emotional blackmail: When the people in your life use fear, obligation, and guilt to manipulate you.</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;"> New York: Harper-Collins. </span></div>
<div style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1em; min-height: 1em; padding: 0px; position: static !important;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;">Forward, S. & Buck, C. (2002). Toxic parents: <i style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;">Overcoming their hurtful legacy and reclaiming your life.</i> New York: Bantam.</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1em; min-height: 1em; padding: 0px; position: static !important;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;">Levine, P.A. (1997). <i style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;">Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma. </i>Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books.</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1em; min-height: 1em; padding: 0px; position: static !important;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;">Naparstek, B. (2004). <i style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;">Invisible heroes: Survivors of trauma and how they heal. </i>New York: Bantam.</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1em; min-height: 1em; padding: 0px; position: static !important;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;">Rothschild, B. (2000),<i style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY1VbpzHatY" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0c557e; font-size: 1em; position: static !important;">The body remembers: The psychophysiology of trauma and treatment.</a></i> New York: Norton. (Click on the link for a YouTube book review.)</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 1em; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; min-height: 1em; padding: 0px; position: static !important;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: inherit;">Scaer, R. C. (2007) </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: inherit; position: static !important;">The body bears the burden: Trauma, dissociation, and disease.</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: inherit;"> New York: Routledge.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 1em; position: static;"></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 1em; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; min-height: 1em; padding: 0px; position: static !important;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 1em; position: static;"><br></span></div>
</div>
</div>
Don E. Gibbons, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08911775218803400535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443506164555932844.post-89322538048671550082020-08-23T15:33:00.000-04:002020-08-23T19:30:31.731-04:00"I Don't Have a Self:" Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personality Disorder)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div>
"Marlene," a 38 year old married woman with one grown daughter, was seated in my waiting room with her long blonde hair drawn across her face to form a curtain so that other people could not see her, although she could see out well enough to navigate her way into my office. As soon as she had entered, she brushed her hair back into a normal position with her hand.</div>
<div>
<br></div>
<div>
Her mother had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder before Marlene was born, but she consistently refused to take medication or go to therapy. Both her mother and the man she lived with were confirmed sadists "George," her mother's live-in boyfriend,, was also a chronic alcoholic who would frequently quarrel with her mother and storm out of the house, only to return a few days later as if nothing had happened. </div>
<div>
<br></div>
<div>
One of the things the two "caregivers" quarreled about was how hard to hit Marlene</div>
<div>
In order to "punish* her. George used a multi-tailed whip which is commonly available at most S&M vendors, while her mother insisted upon using the palm of her hand because, she believed, that way she could more easily tell how hard to hit her her. "I didn't know I was being abused," Marlene told me. "I thought every kid was treated that way."</div>
<div>
<br></div>
<div>
When Marlene was a toddler, her mother would keep her awake for extended periods, in order to have somebody to talk to while she was in a manic phase. When she was groggy from lack of sleep and her mother's mania was at his highest, her usual method of keeping her daughter awake was by molesting her.</div>
<div>
<br></div>
<div>
With this "training" from infancy, when Marlene was old enough to play with the other neighborhood preschool children, spanking games and sex play in which she played the the starring role quickly became the neighborhood sport. She did develop a close bond with one of her playmates, an effemimite boy who was constantly beaten by his father in order to "make a man out of him " One day, when the abuse had become intolerable and both of his parents were away, the lad took his father's loaded shotgun, put the barel in his mouth, and pulled the trigger. Some neighbor women heard the shot, and rushed to call the authorities and to swab the bloodstains off the walls and ceiling before his parents returned. The bucket that they used for cleaning up the bloodstains belonged to Marlene's mother, and was stored beneath the sink in Marlene's bathroom. She would later have to wash her hair in the sink directly above this bucket, which her mother refused to replace because, "Buckets cost money."</div>
<div>
<br></div>
<div>
When Marlene was in high school, her first boyfriend used to take her out in a car with a few other boys and time them with his watch while the others took turns having sex with her.</div>
<div>
<br></div>
<div>
In college, Marlene eventually came to room with a sadistic student who introduced her to usung marijuana, and she quickly became dependent upon it. </div>
<div>
<br></div>
<div>
She first began therapy when she was in in her late twenties. Her "therapist" was one of those warped individuals who had taken up his profession in order to prey upon vulnerable people Almost immediately, he began to blur the boundaries between client and patient. The therapy hour was often devoted to her showing him various yoga positions, and to the two of them practicing these positions together. Thoroughly aware of her need for abuse, the therapist went to great lengths to be highly critical of anything she did to improve herself or to express her strong artistic inclinations </div>
<div>
<br></div>
<div>
Given her masochistic tendencies, this kind of "therapy" produced the intended result, and the two soon began a twisted sexual relationship. Marlene was required to wear a skirt with no hose or underwear every time she came to the office, regardless of how cold it was, but they were actually intimate only when it suited him. Whenever she would try to kiss the therapist on the mouth, he would draw back, because he was "Saving it for his wife."</div><div><br></div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
Their relationship was </div>
<div>
discovered four years later, when her therapist's wife found some home-baked marijuana brownies in a desk drawer and confronted her husband about it, whereupon he confessed. The last year of Marlene's "therapy" consisted entirely of her begging him not to abandon her, and his insisting that she seek out another therapist, which culminated in her appearance at my office just before his wife was ready to put her foot down and institute divorce proceedings. </div><div><br></div>
<div>
Marlene remained steadfastly unwilling to give me the necessary permission to report her previous therapist to the State licensing board. Perhaps sensing that I would be hot on his trail, her former therapist closed his practice and moved to another State. </div>
<div>
<br></div>
<div>
I eventually realized that each time that she arrived for be an appointment, Marlene was in a state of cannabis intoxication and when questioned, she admitted as much. l told her that I could not make house calls for obvious reasons; and neither could I accept responsibility for allowing her to drive to my office through city traffic in a high state of marijuana intoxication. She was not willing to seek therapy for her cannabis dependence. I reluctantly informed her that unless she could assure me each time that she came to my office that she was not "high," I would no longer be able to see her. </div><div> Since she was not able to make a commitment of this type, and she would not make a similar commitment in a referral to another therapist, I had no choice but to discontinue treatment and close the case. </div><div><br></div><div>Needless to say, Marlene had chosen a sadist for her husband. Beset by numerous fears, she is now too fearful to venture out, and her husband is all too willing to indulge her cannabis dependence in his home-built "dungeon."</div><div><br></div>
</div>
Don E. Gibbons, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08911775218803400535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443506164555932844.post-11673013973358714962020-07-14T09:10:00.000-04:002020-08-02T17:12:51.574-04:00Hypnosis and the Fundanentalist Experience of "Salvation"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img height="150" src="https://lostinmusik.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/trance.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="200"></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>If you don't respond well to suggestion,</i></b></span><br>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>then you won't have a "Salvation" experience.</i></b></span><br>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>And if you don't have a "Salvation" experience,</i></b></span><br>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>then no matter what ELSE you do, you won't get into Heaven!</i></b></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Carrollton, Georgia, is<i> a </i>small to medium-sized city located approximately fifty-five miles west of Atlanta. It is regarded by both students and townspeople as being part of the "Bible belt," and most (though certainly not all) of the churches in the area have a Fundamentalist Christian orientation. Fundamentalists take quite literally the scriptural statement, "For by grace are ye saved, through faith, and that not of yourselves. It is the gift of God, lest any man should boast" (Ephesians 2: 8-9). The "salvation sermon" first leads the prospective convert to feel the tremendous burden of guilt which one bears for one's past misdeeds and failure to repent; and this is followed by a great wave of joy as the convert feels his or her sins being "washed away" and is "born again" as a "new creature in Christ."</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br>
This salvation experience, however, is not considered to be voluntarily attainable, since it is the result of "grace," or the unmerited favor of God. Should an individual seek to join a Fundamentalist congregation merely because one is convinced of the truth of Christian teachings, many members would be inclined to doubt that he or she is truly a member of the "elect of God" and, not being able to have such an experience, is probably fore-ordained to burn in Hell regardless of what kind of life they may be leading. </span><br>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br>
From a scientific point of view, it may be postulated that the degree to which an individual is <em>able</em> to have a salvation experience such as the one described is a function of the degree to which that person is suggestible, and therefore there is a direct relationship between the ability to be "saved" and the ability to be hypnotized. After giving a questionnaire to high and low responders on the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility (Shor & Orne, 1962) concerning the nature of their personal religious experiences, De Jarnette and I (Gibbons & De Jarnette, 1972) found that there was no significant relationship between hypnotic susceptibility and a previous change in denominational preference, or between susceptibility and the perceived religiousness of one's father. However, the low-susceptible subjects were less likely to perceive their mother as being moderately religious or deeply religious. Comparing high- and low-susceptible "saved" Protestants with high- and low-susceptible "unsaved" Protestants, the "saved" group contained significantly more subjects who were highly susceptible to hypnosis. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In follow-up interviews, the reasons for the differences between high and low-suggestible subjects became glaringly apparent. The high susceptibles said things like, "I began to feel a warm tingling glow inside of me. The next thing I knew, I was down in front of the altar, and I was crying," or, "It was like the Hand of God came down and touched me. I felt so happy. I never felt joy like I felt it that day." But when the few low-susceptibles who indicated that they had been "saved" were asked about their experience, they said things like, "I had been going to that church for about six months, mainly because my girl friend went there, but I never 'went forward.' Then one day the preacher invited all those who had accepted the Lord to put up our hands, and we both put our hands up and that was it."</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If relatively enduring changes in personality and behavior can result from the suggestions contained in a "salvation sermon," then people who respond well to suggestion should also be able to experience such changes in response to strongly worded suggestions of a therapeutic nature. This research has provided the foundation for the development of the script for multiversal healing meditation presented elsewhere in this Blog After first taking my clients "down" into hypnosis and then :up" into hyperempiria (Gibbons & Lynn, 2010) and dissolving them into the infinite love of the Multiverse, the universe of all possible universes (Gibbons & Woods, 2016), fundamental changes in deep-seated beliefs concerning the self, the world, and the future which are the professed aim of cognitive psychology (Beck, Rush, Shaw, & Emery, 1979) can sometimes occur in a single session, occasionally accompanied by tears of joy, as was the case with a high school senior whom I hypnotized a few days ago. after taking her in hypnosis to the multiverse, I told her with considerable elaboration that she was dissolving into the infinite love of the multiverse itself When she emerged from hypnosis, she expressed surprise that she found herself wiping tears from her eyes. The next time I saw her, she told me that she wanted to pursue a college degree in hypnosis; and after I told her that no such program existed and we had discussed the situation she decided to major in social work instead.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> In summary, it would appear that people who respond well to suggestion and are ready for a meaningful life change which is in accordance with their preexisting beliefs and values may find that either a salvation sermon or a hypnotic trip to the Multiverse can provide the catalyst for such a transformational change to take place. I now routinely use the script for</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Multiversal Healing Meditation for the alleviation of many forms of anxiety, depression, and stress-related ailments.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">References</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-df477bf0-7fff-5c98-1f4b-01a4486c478f"></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Beck, A. T., Rush, A. J., Shaw, B. F., & Emery, G. (1979). <i>Cognitive therapy of depression</i>. New York: Guilford.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span>
<br>
<div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gibbons, D. E. & De Jarnette, J. (1972). Hypnotic susceptibility and religious experience.<i> Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion</i>, 11I<i>2</i>), pp. 152-156. </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gibbons, D. E., & Lynn, S. J. (2010). Hypnotic inductions: A primer. In Ruhe, J. W., </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lynn, S. J., & Kirsch, I. (Eds.) <i>Handbook of Clinical Hypnosis, 2nd ed.</i> Washington, DC: American Psychological Assn.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gibbons, D. E., & Woods, K. T. (2016).</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Virtual reality hypnosis: Explorations in the Multiverse..</i> Amazon Books</span><br>
<div style="color: black;">
<div data-mce-style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<div data-mce-style="margin: 0px;">
<div data-mce-style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<div data-mce-style="margin: 0px;">
<div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Shor, R. E. & Orne, E. C. (1962) </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Harvard group scale of hypnotic susceptibility, Form A.</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists Press.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br></div>
<br></div>
<div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Don E. Gibbons, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08911775218803400535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443506164555932844.post-27624074535272932372020-07-09T10:32:00.000-04:002020-09-01T13:41:30.175-04:00Avoiding the Triggers for Anger, Anxiety, Fear, and Depression <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In ancient Greece, if you were anxious, fearful, or depressed, you would consult a philosopher. The philosopher would probably begin by asking you what you believe about life. When you came to an idea which appeared to be incorrect, he would debate with you until you had cast out this irrational perception or belief. When this was done properly, your anger, depression, fears, and anxieties would be gone.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">In today's culture, whenever you find yourself feeling angry, anxious, depressed, or fearful, you can <a href="http://getselfhelp.co.uk/docs/ABC.pdf">use a table like this one</a> to write down what was going through your mind at the time, and to figure out how you might be able to see things differently. You can use the print command on your computer to print off as many copies as you want, for use in different situations.<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Frequently the negative beliefs and perceptions that are dragging you down are held by others. The same approach can be applied to a <a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2013/08/how-to-be-therapist-for-your-friends.html">friend or family member</a> that is driving you crazy. Here are a few additional tips to use with a <a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-to-keep-your-boss-from-driving-you.html">boss that is driving you crazy.</a> </span></span><br>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Sometimes a friend, family member, or boss is difficult to change because they have a personality disorder, or what is popularly referred to as a <a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2014/11/how-to-recognize-personality-disorder.html">toxic person, or an energy vampire.</a> Unlesss they can be persuaded to seek psychological help, the best thing to do is often to stay away from them or at least to recognize them for who they are so that you do not blame yourself for their problems. </span></span><br>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finally, what you think is also strongly influenced by what you </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">do </i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-- or by what you </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">don't</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> do! In addition to buiilding up youf resistance to stress by getting plenty of sleep, a good diet, and regular exercise, here is a link to a </span><a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2015/11/activities-which-help-you-get-off-merry.html" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">list of activities</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> which can also help you to get escape from the cycle of anxiety, anger, depression, and despair. They can also strengthen the bond between you and your friends or romantic partner when you do them together. If at all possible, surround yourself with positive, upbeat people as you undertake them.</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> </b></i></div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<br></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Don E. Gibbons, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08911775218803400535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443506164555932844.post-66880078638749126342020-07-04T10:12:00.000-04:002020-07-08T18:11:47.174-04:00 "First they ignore you. Then they disagree with you. Then they fight you. Then you win." -- Ghandi<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The progress of scientific revolutions is less</span> violent, but sometimes no less heated, than political ones. I highly recommend the excellent<a data-mce-href="https://www.uky.edu/~eushe2/Pajares/Kuhn.html" href="https://www.uky.edu/~eushe2/Pajares/Kuhn.html"> outline and study guide </a> for Kuhn's <i>The Structure of Scientific Revolutions</i> (Kuhn, 2012), which has recently been published in its fiftieth anniversary edition. (In my opinion, the outline reads better than the original!) Of particular relevance are Pajares' notes on Chapter V, X, and the chapters which follow it.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As Shakespeare said in his play, The Tempest, "The past is prologue" -- or, as a New York cab driver reportedly phrased it, "Brother, you ain't seen nothin' yet!"</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div>Reference</div><div><br></div><div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kuhn, T. S. (2012). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 4th ed. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press</span></span><br>
<br>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-bbf55040-9c0f-08fd-8343-9b5394f1ff1e" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span><br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span id="docs-internal-guid-bbf55040-9c0f-08fd-8343-9b5394f1ff1e"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-bbf55040-9c0f-08fd-8343-9b5394f1ff1e" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span><br>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.6667px; line-height: 18.9062px;" trbidi="on">
<div style="font-size: 12.6667px;">
<span id="docs-internal-guid-bbf55040-9c0f-08fd-8343-9b5394f1ff1e" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span> </span></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Don E. Gibbons, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08911775218803400535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443506164555932844.post-29629068465861782772020-06-28T08:42:00.000-04:002020-06-28T11:39:54.406-04:00Is the Multiverse Conscious? Is the Multiverse the Mind of God?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div>
Our two cats always try to run out the door with us whenever we leave the house. With their limited brain size, however, they cannot possibly comprehend what we are doing out there and why we are doing it. </div>
<div>
<br></div>
<div>
We have a few billion more brain cells than our cats do, but our brains are still limited in size. Cosidering the vastness of the Multiverse in comparison to the biological limits of our own intelligence, it is not only possible, but indeed highly likely, that we are <i>just not smart enough</i> to understand many of the things that go on there, no matter how much we would like to do so. But <a href="http://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2019/09/mindful-hypnotic-meditation-speed.html">that won't keep us from trying,</a> any more than we can keep our cats from trying to follow us when we leave the house in the morning to see where we go.</div>
<div>
<br></div>
<div>
If the Multiverse <i>is </i> conscious, as some physicists now believe, then we have a scientific explanation for concepts such as those expressed in Schopenhauer's "The World as Will and Idea," or in Claude Bristol's "The Magic of Believing," as presented</div>
<div>
below in audiobook form:</div>
<div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">
<div>
<br>
<div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SoODZ7tEN5Q/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SoODZ7tEN5Q?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div>
</div>
<br></div>
<div>
Can we <i>really</i> command the Multiverse, as Schopenhauer and Bristol are saying, or are we just believing <i>in </i>our goal so intensely that it gives us the confidence to persist against all odds until success is finally achieved? As the Greek philosopher Seneca observed, "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, but it is because we do not dare that things are difficult." </div>
<div>
<br></div>
<div>
All I can say is that I have used this book since my adolescence as a guide for challenges great and small. Despite my rigorous training as an experimental psychologist, I remain firmly convinced that if you can believe <i>in a </i>goal deeply enough that your motives are free from conflict, you can believe it. And if you can believe it, you can make it happen! </div>
</div>
</div>
Don E. Gibbons, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08911775218803400535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443506164555932844.post-33774267263121362362020-06-28T08:39:00.000-04:002020-07-29T16:02:00.261-04:00Multimodal Hypnosis for Restoring Trust and Confidence<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Tell me and I may forget.</b></div>
</div>
<div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Show me and I may not remember.</b></div>
</div>
<div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Involve me and I will understand.</b></div>
</div>
<div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b> --Chinese proverb</b></div>
</div>
<div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</div>
<div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">
From the first glow of anticipation to the enduring treasures of fondest memory, <i>multimodal suggestion</i> provides us with a brush with which it is possible to paint upon the canvas of human experience virtually any masterpiece we may desire.</div>
<div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">
<br /></div>
<div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">
Regardless of the type of imagery you employ, any suggested experience is much more fulfilling when several different dimensions are combined to produce the desired result. You can think of each one of the following dinensions of experience as a different color on an artist's palate, which you can use in any combination you wish.</div>
<div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">
<br /></div>
<div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">
Each letter of the words "Best Me" stands for a different dimension of experience, which may be summarized as follows:</div>
<div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">
<br /></div>
<div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">
<div dir="ltr">
<span id="docs-internal-guid-af16e1e5-7fff-1904-50d1-fcb92c402134"><i><b>B</b>elief Systems</i> which orient to person, place, time, and events may be modified by means of suggestion, allowing one to transcend present realities. </span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span id="docs-internal-guid-af16e1e5-7fff-1904-50d1-fcb92c402134"><br /></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span id="docs-internal-guid-af16e1e5-7fff-1904-50d1-fcb92c402134"><i><b>E</b>motions </i>which occur naturally in response to suggested events may be enriched by means of suggestion, and new emotions may be added and blended as well. </span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<br /></div>
<div dir="ltr">
</div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span id="docs-internal-guid-af16e1e5-7fff-1904-50d1-fcb92c402134"><i><b>S</b>ensations and physical perceptions, in</i> various combinations, can be suggested with an intensity approaching -- and perhaps even exceeding -- those of real events. </span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span id="docs-internal-guid-af16e1e5-7fff-1904-50d1-fcb92c402134"> </span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span id="docs-internal-guid-af16e1e5-7fff-1904-50d1-fcb92c402134"><i><b>T</b>houghts</i> <i>and images </i>may be enlisted to support your other suggestions, in much the same way that a chorus enhances a song. </span></div>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-af16e1e5-7fff-1904-50d1-fcb92c402134"></span><br />
<div dir="ltr">
<span id="docs-internal-guid-af16e1e5-7fff-1904-50d1-fcb92c402134"><br /></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span id="docs-internal-guid-af16e1e5-7fff-1904-50d1-fcb92c402134"><i><b>M</b>otives </i>may either be suggested directly or as an implied consequence of other suggestions </span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span id="docs-internal-guid-af16e1e5-7fff-1904-50d1-fcb92c402134">.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span id="docs-internal-guid-af16e1e5-7fff-1904-50d1-fcb92c402134"><i><b>E</b>xpectations</i> may be used both to define what is about to happen, and the way that these events will be remembered later.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-af16e1e5-7fff-1904-50d1-fcb92c402134">The categories of the Best Me Technique are not conceptually pure. Two or more categories may be combined, or ach category may contain elements of the others, in which case the name assigned to each category refers to the element which is given the greatest emphasis.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<br /></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span id="docs-internal-guid-af16e1e5-7fff-1904-50d1-fcb92c402134">Jan and Jerry were high school sweethearts who married shortly after their graduation. As Jerry gradually rose to prominence in a large international</span> corporation, he gradually became more distant and his wife was starved for affection. Her boss, a sexual adventurer, sensed her vulnerability and began grooming her for his next conquest. After he was successful, he quickly lost interest and went in search of other prey. Jan shamefully confessed her transgression to her husband and begged him for forgiveness.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Jerry was deeply in love with his wife, but his confidence was totally shattered. Despite a series of appointments with several therapists and marriage counselors, he was no longer able to make</div>
<div>
love to her.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Jerry had hypnotized Jan on several occasions while they were in high school, mostly at parties. It occurred to him that if he could define the experience of hypnosis as something which only they could share, and which was so deeply fulfilling that no other form of human experience could equal it in depth and intensity, he might be able to get his confidence back. "The only way that I'm going to be able to make love to you for a while is to do it in hypnosis," he told her frankly, "because that's the only way I can be sure that what we have together is so special that nobody else can even come close to it."</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
With Jan's eager participation and consent, Jerry used the Multiversal Healing Meditation script presented elsewhere on this blog to make love to Jan in the supercharged environment of the Multiverse, including appropriately timed Best Me suggestions succh as,<i> "I</i> am your one, true, infinite, unbounded and everlasting love." </div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Jerry's confidence was soon completely restored. The previous barriers to intimacy were eliminated, and they were both convinced that the newly-strengthened bond between them would never again be broken. </div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
They lived in the United States; and whenever it was the Fourth if July, they no longer had to go out of the house or turn on the television in order to enjoy a fireworks display. They could make their own!</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cERAWPIXgRo/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cERAWPIXgRo?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div>
<div>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container"><tbody></tbody></table>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Don E. Gibbons, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08911775218803400535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443506164555932844.post-61749765812053232802020-06-15T10:35:00.001-04:002020-06-19T18:54:07.133-04:00Re-living a Mystical Experience for Greater Personal Growth <p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-b22fc0c3-7fff-067b-3ef1-5c43eaeb9aed">Mother Teresa (now Saint Teresa of Calcutta) had a mystical experience while she was in her teens, and spent the rest of her life futilely trying to re-capture it. But hypnotists, know that it is possible to re-experience previous events even more intensely than when they first occurred.</p><p dir="ltr">Many other people, of course, have had mystical experiences. When such a history is present, it can serve as a focus for re-energizing their present view of life. For example, a 58 year old retired English teacher and mother of five grown children who recently had been divorced after a marriage of forty years came to me (Don) for help with depression. She was spending the greater part of each day in bed, with the blankets drawn up over her head. She was taking antidepressants, but they did not seem to help. She responded well to hypnosis, and early in the course of therapy, she mentioned that when she was about sixteen, she had a mystical experience: "I could step beyond the ordinary world of reality, and I felt totally loved."</p><p dir="ltr">I asked her if she would like to re-visit this mystical experience as a way of getting over her depression, and she immediately agreed. I told her that for best results, it would help if she were to re-capture her mystical experience with the same life-changing intensity that she had experienced it the first time. She readily agreed to this also.</p><p dir="ltr">Pulling out all the stops in order to provide an experience of life-changing intensity, which she obviously needed, I regressed her to her earlier mystical event, and told her that we were going to make it even stronger using hyperempiria, or suggestion-enhanced experience. I suggested that we were reaching down into her vast, untapped potential for feeling happiness and joy. This potential for happiness and joy was flowing out from the innermost depths of her being in many different ways and on many different levels, like water from a hundred secret springs. As these feelings continued to flow without limit, they were healing and cleansing every muscle and fiber and nerve of her body, driving out all of the worry, and all of the stress, and all of the care that she had ever felt, and leaving her glowing from head to toe with such an intensity of happiness that she could not bear it if she were not hypnotized.</p><p dir="ltr">She remained outwardly impassive as I continued in this vein, emphasizing that this happiness was greater and more intense than anything she had ever hoped for, dreamed of, longed for, or imagined. To further emphasize its strength, I suggested that when she returned from hypnosis, she would not be able to bring all of this intensity back with her, because it would be more than she could bear in the everyday state of consciousness in which we live and move and have our being. But nevertheless, it would transform her life, and turn each new day into a thing of wondrous beauty.</p><p dir="ltr">Her depression lifted within two more sessions. Because she was a Buddhist, it was easy to frame her mystical experience as evidence that true happiness comes from within. She no longer remains in bed all day, and frequently goes out shopping, or to play cards, or visit with friends. Her demeanor is pleasant, relaxed, and cheerful. She is continuing to come in for monthly sessions in order to keep her orientation focused on the positive aspects of life, and as a means of continuing her personal and spiritual development.</p><p dir="ltr">The client's youngest daughter, who has had a great many personal difficulties of her own, has recently moved in with her. Even though she frequently serves as a lightning rod for her daughter's wrath, the client has remained impassive, and has managed to maintain a generally congenial relationship with her daughter (when they are on speaking terms!)</p><p dir="ltr">Experientialism is the philosophical theory that experience is the source of knowledge. It is indeed an honor to work with the experientially gifted; for they truly are "the bearers of the light," which all of us may hope to one day follow. </p><br>Don E. Gibbons, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08911775218803400535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443506164555932844.post-24007728973685108712020-06-10T10:17:00.000-04:002020-06-10T10:17:03.942-04:00Hypnosis and Human Evolution<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b id="docs-internal-guid-b41ddf2f-ad3a-3f98-ae3f-08a3c66d19c0" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To borrow a line from Charles Dickens, “One thing must be clearly understood, or no good can come from the story I am about to tell.” </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our brain creates our own reality! </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> What is really out there bears no resemblance to what we actually perceive through our senses, as any philosopher or physicist will affirm. Because our brain does create our own reality out of the buzzing, blooming confusion of raw sensory input, we can use the power of suggestion to mentally construct</span></span> a future in which we experience now, in the present, the complete and total fulfillment of our existence, in whatever way we choose to define it, thereby eliminating much of the anxiety, anger, and depression which are so frequently the hallmarks of everyday life, and, with this fulfillmment already pre-determined in our own minds, allowing us to act, think, and feel as if it were impossible to fail. </div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With the fulfillment of our existence already an accomplished fact in the Multuverse, the univerwse of all possible universes, if one particular goal in the present should not be achieved, it becomes easy to switch to another with undiminished enthusiasm. In the words of Watterson Lowe, “Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-interest, fear, despair -- these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust.”</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Confucius said, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Tell me and I may not remember. Show me and I may forget. Involve me and I will understand.” </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Human evolution has given us the ability to hypnotcally project our anawareness into the future and experience now, in the present, the rewards of distant goals, thereby eliminating or greatly reducing the need for “will power” in order to attain them. As I began to use hypnosis in my psychology practice to fully involve clients in corrective experiences which transcend the limitations of ordinary reality, I soon discovered that in one way or another, these life-changing events involved releasing into their own lives the indwelling presence of God. </span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When we have a long-term goal whose rewards are in the future, we attempt to bridge this gap between present efforts and future sources of satisfaction by daydreaming, autosuggestion, "positive thinking," affirmations, visualization, and fantasy techniques, These usually don't help very much, because they still don't do enough to involve the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">whole person</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in the satisfactions of goal attainment. Eventually, even though our long-term goal remains as attractive as ever, our motivation begins to falter, and sooner or later we give up. If the gap between our aspirations and what we are able to do involves the attainment of a major life goal, such as becoming a successful writer, artist, or composer, the gap between what we aspire to do and what we have actually achieved can often be great enough to cause a full-blown existential depression. </span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By hypnotically projecting our imagination into a parallel universe where our goal has already been achieved, we can experience the rewards of these goals </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">now</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in the pr4sent, where they are most needed for motivation (Gubbibs & Woods, 2016). If you can pre-experience the fulfillment of this goal with your entire being, then you will be able to </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">act,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">think, and feel as if it were impossible to fail! </span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Me Technique</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of miltimodal hypnosis (Gibbons, 2001) is a method of suggestion-enhanced experience for involving your </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">whole person</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in the content of a suggested event, which enables those who are sufficiently imaginative and properly trained in this procedure to experience in the present and in concentrated form, the rewards and satisfactions which would not normally be theirs until a goal has been achieved. This in turn can provide the motivational fuel to pursue whatever goal we may have chosen, no matter how distant or difficult that goal might otherwise appear.</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Each element of the Best Me Technique corresponds with a dimension of experience (Beliefs, Emotions, Sensations and physical perceptions, Thoughts and images, Motives, and Expectations); and these elements can be combined in a variety of ways. In the hyperempiric adventure which follows, the Best Me Technique is used to pre-experience the rewards of a graduation ceremony in order to enhance the motivation to pursue a course of study leading to an academic degree. However, the Best Me Technique can also be used to as part of a comprehensive program to enhance performance in other areas, such as athletics, music, dance, and theater or as part of a program to lose weight, or to become a non-smoker, or to rid oneself of other forms of addiction.</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The suggestions are presented in B-E-S-T-M-E order for the sake of illustration; but in actual use, Best Me suggestions may be repeated in any order and varied and repeated as often as necessary in order to maximize involvement with their content, much as one might repeat the verses and choruses of a song. Rather than memorizing a specific set of suggestions or reading them to the client as a script, I usually count out the steps of the Best Me Technique on my fingers as I am improvising an induction or a therapeutic suggestion, going back and forth to make sure that I have adequately covered them all. This gives me more freedom to individualize my suggestions to better meet the needs of each individual, and to use their body language to gauge the speed and content of my delivery.</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The incentive value of the Best Me Technique can be further enhanced by pre-experiencing the rewarding results of other situations related to the goal, such as celebrating at a graduation party with friends and family, or relaxing on the deck of a cruise ship on a much-deserved vacation after a long-desired degree is actually in hand. It is also helpful to pre-experience the rewards of sub-goals along the way, such as doing well on an upcoming major examination, or enjoying the semester break, secure in the certain knowledge that one is on the way to an inevitable success. At the conclusion of an appropriate hypnotic or induction, suggestions similar to the following may be given, with appropriate repetition and elaboration, much as one might vary the verses and choruses of a song. </span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">B</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">elief systems.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Now you can feel your awareness of the present beginning to fade, as you become ever more clearly aware of yourself seated at your graduation ceremony, waiting to go up and receive your diploma. Just picture the scene, and imagine yourself excitedly waiting there, until it becomes just as real and just as clear to you as if it is happening right now.</span></span><br>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">E</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">motions.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Let yourself feel an ever increasing sense of pride and achievement as you savor this moment to the fullest. As you look around at your fellow graduates and at the crowd of family, friends, and well wishers who have come to share in your success, you can truly rejoice in the thrill of all you have worked so hard to accomplish.</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">S</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ensations and physical perceptions</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. The graduates are getting up one row at a time to form a line beside the stage until their name is called. When it is your turn, you join the line and await your turn to go up and shake hands with the Dean and receive your diploma. </span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">T</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">houghts and images.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> And all the time, you are realizing how much this means to you, and how much it has all been worthwhile.</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">M</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">otives.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Now, as you walk across the stage and shake hands with the Dean, he smiles and hands you your diploma, and you return to your seat, let yourself take a few moments now to bask in the satisfaction of a job well done, and savor your achievement to the fullest. [Pause.] </span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">E</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">xpectations.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> And each time that you return to this treasured memory of the future, it will become easier for you to </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">act,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">think,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">feel</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> as if it were impossible to fail.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Believe</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> it will happen, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">expect</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> it to happen, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">feel</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> it happening, and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">savor in advance the fruits of your success!</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After allowing time to fully enjoy the experience for a few moments, the induction may be concluded in an appropriate manner. Once the technique has been mastered, it can be repeated daily as a form of experiential meditation until the goal is actually attained. </span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Importance of Sub-Goals</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Confucius said, "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." About thirty percent of all the graduate students who have to write a dissertation as the final step in attaining their doctorate fail to do so. This is frequently because, when they think of a dissertation as a book-length project, the task looks too formidable and too difficult. But if they can break the job down into meaningful sub-goals, and experience a feeling of achievement when each of these steps is attained, it doesn't matter how long the journey is because they have learned to reward themselves at the completion of each small step.</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I once knew a graduate student at the University of Portland who inherited three million dollars while he was enrolled in the Psychology program. He did not touch the money except inr one type of situation. He would treat himself and a date to a big steak dinner at a local restaurant every time he passed a test, and live frugally the rest of the time. By successfully achieving a series of small sub-goals along the way, he obtained his degree with relative ease. As Martin Luther King put it, "If you can't run, walk. If you can't walk, crawl. But </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">keep moving forward!" </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When there </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> No "Impossible Dream"</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When there is no clearly-identified goal upon which to focus, or when existing goals are not desired strongly enough to fully motivate a person to achieve them, suggestions such as the following can be given to increase the enjoyment of goal attainment in general.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">B</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">elief systems.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Now we are going to help you to experience in concentrated form, both your desire to achieve and your ability to feel the satisfactions you are going to feel in the future from the fulfillment of a job well done.</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">E</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">motions.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> We are reaching down into the depths of your vast, untapped potential for feeling happiness and joy. Great waves of happiness and joy are flooding out from the depths of your potential, growing stronger and more beautiful and more intense with every passing second. </span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">S</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ensations and physical perceptions.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The waves of joy are becoming stronger and more intense, filling and flooding every muscle, and fiber, and nerve of your entire body with a beauty and which is greater than anything you could possibly imagine. </span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">T</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">houghts and images.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Your mind is filled with such beauty and such joy that it is impossible to think of anything else, and all you can do is feel these waves of joy washing over you., growing in beauty and intensity with every passing second.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">M</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">otives.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> This is the kind of fulfillment you will be able to feel when you put your whole self into doing a job – any job – well. And you will have plenty of energy left over to enjoy every other aspect of life to the fullest.</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">E</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">xpectations.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> And I don’t know whether this experience will leave you with new goals, or with a re-dedication to the ones you already have. But in either case it will be a transforming moment, for it will have the power to change your life.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By using the Best Me Technique along with the necessary changes you need to make in your environment in order to accomplish the goals you have chosen, you will be able to provide yourself with the inspiration and incentive for a lifetime of accomplishment and personal growth.</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A Word of Caution</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Of course, we must still be able to give up on goals which are really </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">not</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> worth pursuing, no mater how attractive they may seem at first, in order to protect ourselves from our own mistakes in judgment. The world is full of people who want to become a success as writers, actors, sports heroes, and a host of other things, but are simply not cut out for that kind of work. On the other hand, many goals which may may seem impossible at first are attainable if we are willing to work long enough and hard enough. As we develop the ability to choose our motives as well as our goals, i.e., to have free will in the truest sense of the term, it is up to each of us to decide how practical or how idealistic we want to be.</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Recently, Kelley Woods and I (Gibbons & Woods, 2016)I have been suggesting to hypnotized clients that they are being transported to an alternate universe where time and space do not exist. After orienting them to this universe and inducing emotions which are as pleasant as possible -- i.e., "dissolving into an ocean of infinite, unbounded, and everlasting love," we suggest the following: "with practice, you will be able to feel this kind of fulfillment whenever you put your whole self into working towards a goal you have chosen. As you think about achieving the goal ahead of time, you can believe it will happen, expect it to happen, and feel it happening! And with practice, you will be able to </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">act,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">think,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">feel</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">as if it were impossible to fail!" </span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Jan” was a 59 year old single white female with a Ph.D. in biology. After a successful academic career, Jan decided to change course and enrolled in a medical technology program. She hoped that her new laboratory skills, along with her doctorate, would help her to begin a new career in a hospital. </span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Several years ago, Jan had worked extensively with a hypnotist when she was in another transitional phase in her life. From this previous experience, we knew that she was not only open to hypnosis, but was also highly responsive to suggestion. This time, Jan was seeking help with confidence. She was particularly concerned about her final examination in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">hematology. Following is a transcript of the multimodal hypnosis session which occurred a few days prior to her examination.</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">S</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ensations and physical perceptions. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Just imagine that it’s a warm summer afternoon, and that you’re lying on the deck of a small boat which is safely tethered at the edge of a shallow bay, about a hundred feet from shore.</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">B</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">elief systems. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you accept each detail of the scene as I describe it, without trying to think critically, your imagination will allow you to experience the situation just as if you were really there. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">S</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ensations and physical perceptions. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Let your body absorb the peacefulness which is all around you, as the boat rocks you gently back and forth and the sun shines warmly down. Let the warm, golden glow of the sunlight spread throughout your entire body, relaxing you completely from head to toe. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Feel the cool breeze upon your skin, and savor the freshness of the fresh, salt air. Listen to the cries of the birds in the distance, and the sound of the water quietly splashing against the side of your boat as it rocks you gently back and forth, and that warm, golden glow of the sunlight relaxes you more and more with each passing moment. </span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> E</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">motions.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> As that warm, relaxed feeling grows and grows, it is driving out all of your worry, all of your tension, and all of your cares, leaving you filled with perfect, infinite, boundless peace, calm, and tranquility.</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">T</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">houghts and images. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> It’s so calm, and so peaceful there in the bottom of your boat, that all you want to do is keep drifting, and dreaming, and floating on, and on, and on, into a deep, peaceful state of total relaxation.</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As the sun slowly sinks lower and lower on the horizon, you can just let go, and allow your consciousness to sink down into a deep, peaceful hypnotic state. Sinking down, and shutting down. Sinking down, and shutting down. Sinking down, and shutting down, and shutting down completely, as the sun gradually sinks lower and lower on the horizon. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As the sun slowly sets, and the sunlight turns to twilight, and the twilight turns to darkness, you can let yourself drift even deeper. </span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">M</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">otives. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And the deeper you go, the deeper you want to go. And the deeper you go, the deeper you’re able to go, and the more enjoyable the experience becomes.</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">E</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">xpectations.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now, while you remain deeply hypnotized, I am going to guide you to experience a different situation, which will be of great help to you as you prepare for all of the remaining tests in the course. You will always be able to hear and to respond to my voice, and I will bring you out of hypnosis in a few minutes. But until I do, every aspect of the situation to which I guide you will be completely real, and you will experience it all just as if you were really there.</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">B</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">elief systems. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now I’m going to ask you to experience a different scene, in which you are becoming aware of yourself warmly dressed, standing at the top of a large, snow-covered mountain which slopes steeply downward toward the valley below.</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">S</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ensations and physical perceptions. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Feel the crisp, cold winter air upon your face, and savor its freshness as you inhale. Notice the dazzling whiteness of the snow in the morning sunlight, and feel its soft crunchiness underfoot as your mind absorbs the silence which is all around you, broken only occasionally by the faint stirring of a distant breeze. Down in the valley below, at the very foot of the mountain, you can see the goal you have been trying to reach. Your journey has brought you as far as this mountaintop; but all along the mountainside, standing between you and your objective, are barriers and obstacles of many kinds, which have been blocking you from the attainment of your goal.</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">T</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">houghts and images. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Bending down, you pick up a handful of snow and start to examine it. Notice how soft and powdery it feels in your hands. In a way, it is like your resolve has sometimes been ‑‑ soft and powdery, when it ought to have been firm and strong. See yourself packing the snow together in your hand now, and compressing it into a snowball as you add still more snow, packing it down firmly, as you resolve to make your confidence just as firm and just as hard as the snowball itself. See yourself rolling the snowball along the ground, packing into it every ounce of confidence you possess, until it has grown to the size of a boulder.</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">E</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">motions.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> And as the snowball grows even larger, you can feel your own courage and resolve becoming as hard and as firm as the snowball you are getting ready to roll down the mountainside, all the way down to the deserted valley below. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As you push the boulder over a small ledge and start it on its way, you can feel your confidence growing along with it. </span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">E</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">xpectations. Believe </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">it will happen, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">expect</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> it to happen, and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">feel it happening.</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">M</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">otives. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As the boulder begins to roll downwards on its own, you can feel your confidence growing along with it as it grows in size ‑‑ growing and growing, becoming larger with every foot that it travels, until it has become an avalanche, sweeping away all obstacles in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">its path, as it thunders all the way to the bottom of the mountain.</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">T</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">houghts and images.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> As you stride purposefully down the mountainside, you feel more and more confidence. And as you complete your descent and approach the valley, you find that the snow has disappeared and the winter has turned into spring. The air has suddenly grown much warmer, and the trees are covered with fresh, green leaves. The birds are singing, the flowers are in full bloom, and a small brook is bubbling quietly as it flows beside your path.</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> M</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">otives. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Just as the climate around you has turned into springtime, your future has turned into springtime as well. You know that your life headed for a certain and inevitable success, in ways which you cannot presently even imagine.</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">E</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">xpectations.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And whenever you have a carefully chosen goal that you can deeply believe in, you will be able to </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">act, think, and feel as if it were a reality.</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">B</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">elief systems. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> In just a few moments now, you will return to the everyday state of consciousness in which we spend most of our waking lives.</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">E</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">motions.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Your mind will be clear and alert, and you will be excited about the opportunities to put these experiences to use. </span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">S</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ensations and physical perceptions. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> You know how helpful hypnosis has been to you before, in ways you did not realize at the time.</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">T</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">houghts and images.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> And you will also find many new ways to use today’s experiences, in addition to the ways you already know. </span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">M</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">otives. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Now, you are ready to resume your life’s journey of achievement, secure in the knowledge that, in whatever form it may take, you are destined for a complete and inevitable success. </span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">E</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">xpectations.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As soon as you are ready now, you can open your eyes, feeling wonderful. [ after a brief pause:] You can open your eyes now, feeling wonderful!</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jan told us later that she had decided during the hypnotic experience to construct her boulder in a different location than the one which was suggested. Since the snow on a mountaintop is very fine and powdery, she reasoned, she had chosen to imagine herself in the back yard of the house where she had lived as a child, “where the snow was wetter,” and consequently better suited to making a snowball. As she rolled the boulder downhill and into her neighbor’s yard, its weight exposed a stretch of green lawn beneath it. Then, in order to experience the springtime scene, she had visualized herself in a nearby park. She believed that the imagery was effective; but she stated that she had wanted me to repeat the suggestions about feeling, and acting. </span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Instead of questioning her about it, I decided to re-frame her choice in a way which would facilitate her sense of empowerment. I complimented her on her selection of new imagery, and told her that the clients who seemed to benefit the most from hypnotic suggestion were those who felt free to spontaneously modify the suggestions they were given in order to better suit their own needs and preferences.</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Then, on a file card, I wrote the following summary: “</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Believe</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> it will happen, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> it to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">happen, and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">feel it happening.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> As you do, you will be able to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">act, think, and feel as if it were a reality,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">” which incorporated all six multimodal hypnosis categories. She was then briefly re-hypnotized, and it was suggested that the statements on the file card would serve as posthypnotic suggestions whenever she looked at it; and that as soon as she became sufficiently familiar with their content, she would be able to repeat them to herself as autosuggestions whenever she desired to do so.</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Results</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jan reported back that she had studied just one day for her hematology final examination, rather than her usual three, and that she had gone into the examination room with confidence. She earned a score of 95% on her examination, and was elated. </span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In a telephone follow-up which was conducted some weeks later, Jan expressed some anxiety over an upcoming microbiology exam. A. K. S. added the following to Jan’s multimodal autosuggestions:</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">T</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">houghts and images. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Everything you read, write, study, and learn will be absorbed into your brain as if it were a sponge.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> S</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ensations and perceptions. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> When it comes time to take your tests, the information will flow forth from your brain, down your neck, shoulder, arm, hand, fingers, and into your pen and onto the paper.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">T</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">houghts and images.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Everything you read, write, study, and learn will be engraved upon your mind as if it were stone.</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">E</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">xpectations.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> And when you take your exams, you can pluck the information out when you need it.</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jan did indeed become a medical technologist, and no she longer regards any examination as a “life or death” situation. During her one-year course, she reported that she consistently obtained “A” grades on her tests after only a reasonable amount of preparation, and without experiencing any more anxiety than she regarded as “normal.” She indicated that she repeats these suggestions to herself several times a week; and that she continued to experience a noticeable increase in confidence as a result.</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By restricting Jan’s use of multimodal autosuggestion to those situations in which she had a carefully-chosen goal that she could deeply believe </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> we were attempting to avoid several common pitfalls attendant upon its indiscriminate application. Emboldened by their initial successes, many people who have mastered various techniques involving the use of positive affirmations may be inclined to apply them to more and more areas of their life, without sufficient forethought. As they encounter more and more unforeseen problems, their confidence in these procedures begin to wane, and eventually, it becomes difficult for them to escape the belief that they are merely lying to themselves.</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Clients have been saying things like, "I can't thank you enough!" and, "I'm at a point in my life now where I think I can accomplish anything!" The changes which they are reporting in their lives seem to bear this out. It's too early for any hard data, as we have just begun to use these techniques. But we would like to invite you to join us in exploring these fascinating new realms of experience, and sharing with us in the thrill of discovery. </span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></b>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.88; margin-bottom: 32pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span>Reference</span><br>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">Gibbons, D. E., & Woods, K. T. (2016) </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Virtual-Reality-Hypnosis-Adventures-Multiverse/dp/1541069684/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1489335453&sr=1-1&keywords=gibbons+virtual+reality">Virtual reality hypnosis: Exploring alternate and parallel universes.</a></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;"> Amazon Books, 2016. (Both print and Kindle editions are available.) </span></div>
<div class="WordSection1" style="text-align: left;">
</div>
</div>
Don E. Gibbons, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08911775218803400535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443506164555932844.post-16645276456743660652020-05-25T07:52:00.001-04:002020-10-17T12:44:23.254-04:00Hypnosis for Transcendence and Self-Actualization<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div data-mce-style="margin: 0px; color: #000000; font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">
<div data-mce-style="margin: 0px; color: #000000; font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">
<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-a3f48477-7fff-ebc1-bdda-71baddc1f6a8">Better it is than gems or gold.</div><div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-a3f48477-7fff-ebc1-bdda-71baddc1f6a8">And O! It cannot die.</div><div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-a3f48477-7fff-ebc1-bdda-71baddc1f6a8">Thought will live when the stars grow cold</div><div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-a3f48477-7fff-ebc1-bdda-71baddc1f6a8">And mix with Deity.</div><div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-a3f48477-7fff-ebc1-bdda-71baddc1f6a8"> -- Ralph Waldo Emerson</div><div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-a3f48477-7fff-ebc1-bdda-71baddc1f6a8"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-a3f48477-7fff-ebc1-bdda-71baddc1f6a8">If stage hypnotists can tell volunteers that they are turning into a chicken, why can't experiential hypnotists tell their clients that they are experiencing the fulfillment of their existence and chage the content of their entire life narrative? They <b>can!</b></div><div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-a3f48477-7fff-ebc1-bdda-71baddc1f6a8"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-a3f48477-7fff-ebc1-bdda-71baddc1f6a8">Clients have been saying things like, "i can't thank you enough," and, "I feel like I am at a position now where I feel like I can accomplish almost anything!"</div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div></div>In the words of Sherlock Holmes in <i>The Adventure of the Abby Grange, "</i>Come, Watson, Come! The game is afoot. Not a word! Into your clothes and come!"</div>
<div dir="ltr">
<br></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Progressive Relaxation Induction </span></b></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<br></div>
<div dir="ltr">For those who prefer to work from a script, I am including a progressive relaxation hypnotic induction as a preface. Of course, any other induction may be substituted if you prefer, or a preliminary induction may be entirely dispensed with, provided the participant is sufficiently imaginative.</div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just imagine that it’s a nice spring day, and that you’re lying on a soft woolen blanket, on a sandy beach, by the side of the ocean. If you accept each detail of the situation as I describe it, without trying to think critically, your imagination will be free to allow you to experience the situation just as if you were really there.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I’m going to count from one to ten, and by the time I get to the count of ten, you’ll be resting comfortably in a deep, sound, peaceful state of hypnosis. So just relax and listen to my voice, as I begin the count from one to ten.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One . You can feel the warm sand beneath the blanket on which you're lying, and you can feel the gentle breeze blowing across your body, cooling you to just the right temperature, so that all you want to do is just keep drifting, and dreaming . . . and floating . . . on . . and on . . . and on into a deep, sound, beautiful state of hypnosis.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Two . You can hear the sound of the waves gently crashing upon the ocean shore. You can hear the sound of the gulls in the distance, and you can savor the freshness of the pure salt air, as you feel a heavy, relaxed feeling coming over you. You can feel your arms relaxing, you can feel your legs relaxing, and you can feel your entire body relaxing completely. </span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As I continue to count and continue to talk, every word that I utter will carry you faster and deeper, faster and deeper, down and down, into a deep, sound, peaceful state of hypnosis.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Three . You can feel your entire body relaxing now . . . relaxing deeper and faster, and deeper and faster, all of the time.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Four . Sinking down, and shutting down . . . sinking down, and shutting down . . . sinking down, and shutting down . . shutting down completely. And the deeper you go, the deeper you're able to go. And the deeper you go, the deeper you want to go, and the more peaceful, and the more relaxing, and the more beautiful the experience becomes.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Five. Sinking and relaxing, and sinking and relaxing, deeper and faster, deeper and faster, all of the time. Relaxing so very deeply now that you can just let yourself go completely, as you continue drifting down and down, into a deep, sound, beautiful, blissful state of hypnosis.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Every word that I utter is carrying you faster and deeper, faster and deeper, down, and down, and down. And the deeper you go, the deeper you want to go; and the deeper you go, the deeper you're able to go, and the more peaceful, and the more beautiful, and the more enjoyable the experience becomes.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Six . Relaxing so very deeply now, as you continue drifting on and on, into a deep, sound sleep, a deep, sound sleep.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Seven. Sinking down and shutting down. Sinking down and shutting down. Sinking down and shutting down, shutting down completely.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eight . And the deeper you go, the deeper you want to go. And the deeper you go, the deeper you're able to go. And the deeper you go, the more peaceful the more relaxing, the more beautiful, and the more enjoyable the experience becomes.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nine. Sinking down, and shutting down. Sinking down, and shutting down. Sinking down, and shutting down. Shutting down completely.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ten. Very deeply drifting, in a deep, sound state of hypnosis. And the deeper you go, the deeper you want to go. And the deeper you go, the deeper you are able to go. And the deeper you go, the stronger the effects of my words become.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<b>Deepening</b></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now, as you continue sinking deeper with every word that I speak, and with every second that passes, you can imagine, or picture in your mind, a clock dial, with no second hand and no minute hand on the clock, just an hour hand. And the hour hand is set at twelve.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I’m going to move that hour hand back, one hour at a time, until it’s all the way back to one. And with each hour that I move the hand back, you’ll go twice as deep as you are right now, and you’ll feel twice as good as you do right now.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is no end to the depth of experience you can have in deep hypnosis.There is no limit to how good you can feel, and to the benefits you can obtain from it. And the deeper you go, the deeper you're able to go . And the deeper you go, the deeper you want to go, and the more peaceful and the more beautiful, and the more wonderful, and the more enjoyable the experience becomes. So just let yourself go completely now, as I move the hour hand back, one hour at a time. ,</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And now I’ve moved the hour hand back from 12 to 11, and you’re sinking down twice as deep as you were before. And the deeper you go, the more easily you are able to become aware of your Best Me -- of the person you are becoming.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And now I’ve moved it down to 10, and you feel twice as deep and you feel twice as good. But there’s never any sense of strain or overload, for the deeper you go, the deeper you want to go, and the deeper you go, the deeper you’re able to go. And the deeper you go, the more beautiful, and the more enjoyable the experience becomes.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And now I’ve moved it down to 9. Twice as deep, and feeling twice as good</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.As I lead you deeper and deeper into hypnosis, your Best Me, -- your Future Self, -- the person that you are becoming -- will provide you with all the guidance and support that you need, in order to free yourself from the problems and limitations that have been holding you back. This guidance will enable these problems to be solved in just the right way, and at just the right time, for you to keep whatever is of value to the person that you will become and to release and eliminate whatever needs to be released.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">8. Twice as deep, sinking down and down, and feeling twice as good, as you allow your Best Me to handle all of your problems in the outside world in the healing, caring light of your future.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7. Twice as deep yet again, and feeling twice as good yet again.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6. Deeper yet. Notice what that does, and notice how good you feel. And imagine how good you're going to feel, when we get all the way down to one</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5. Twice as deep, yet again, and feeling twice as good yet again . . . . deeper . . . and deeper . . .And the deeper you go, the deeper you want to go . . . and the deeper you go, the deeper you're able to go . . . and the more beautiful, and the more wonderful, and the more enjoyable the experience becomes.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4. Deeper . . . deeper . . . deeper . . .</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. Twice as deep, and feeling twice as good . . .</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. Deeper . . . deeper . . . deeper . . .</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. Infinitely, and unbelievably deep, and continuing to go deeper with every word that I speak. Deeper and deeper, down, and down, and down.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr"><br></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now the scene is changing, and we are standing on the top of a large mountain which is covered with clouds after a sudden spring shower. If you accept each detail of the situation as I describe it, without trying to think critically, your imagination will be free to allow you to experience the situation just as if you were really there.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One end of a large rainbow is touching the ground right in front of us. We walk up to this rainbow and prepare to enter the first band. As we go through each band one by one, each band will present you with a priceless gift, which you will be able to take back with you And the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is the treasure that your life is becoming as we explore the joys and wonders of the Multiverse itself.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">First, we are entering the red band of the rainbow. Red is the color of strength. Feel this strength flowing through you now, overcoming negative emotions, overcoming physical discomfort, paving over the effect of every bad thing that has ever happened to you in your entire life, and filling and flooding every muscle, every nerve, and every cell of your being with wave after wave of infinite, boundless strength, and confidence, and power. [Brief Pause]</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Orange is the color of happiness.Each time that we practice this multiversal meditation, you go higher; each time, you go faster, and each time you experience this happiness more beautifully and more intensely than you did the time before.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Feel the happiness flooding through you now, filling and flooding every muscle, and every nerve, and every cell of your body with wave after wave of infinite happiness and boundless joy. Infinite happiness, and boundless, boundless Joy. [Brief Pause]</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yellow is the color of healing. Each time that you repeat this multiversal meditation, all of the healing processes throughout your body are considerably strengthened. As we travel through this band of yellow light now, you can feel its healing warmth flooding into every muscle, and every fiber, and every nerve of your body, penetrating to the very core of your being.-- body, heart, mind, and spirit. Body, heart, mind, and spirit. [Brief Pause]</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now, we are entering the green band of light. Green is the color of renewal. The farther we go into the rainbow, the more your sense of the passing of time is slowing down. Regardless of the time we may actually have been away, it will seem as if we had been gone for an eternity. And the benefits of our journey will be increased in direct proportion to the time that it feels like we have been away together.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now, we are traveling through the band of blue, which is the color of Heaven, and the color of Eternity. This is the true reality, and the universe from which we came is merely an illusion. This is your eternal home beyond the stars, and the spark of Divinity which is within you is nothing less than the energy of the Multiverse itself</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You will always look back upon these journeys with fondness, even as you look forward to the next opportunity to return to them with ever-increasing anticipation; for each time that you practice this hypnosis for self actualization, you will be able to obtain even more benefit and more growth from the experience as it continues to change your life forever into a thing of wondrous beauty.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Next, we move into the purple band, which contains the heightened mental and spiritual powers that are becoming yours in ever-increasing amounts, as your consciousness drifts higher. </span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
Now, we are entering the band of violet, which is the color of love. It’s only the <i>separation</i> from this infinite ocean of perfect peace, and calm, and tranquility, that is the <i>source </i>of all unhappiness, all depression, all anxiety, all loneliness and all despair. And now that this separation has been removed, it has brought you an inner peace which is greater than anything that you have ever dreamed of, longed for, hoped for, or imagined, and far, far beyond the power of.the human imagination by itself to even begin to comprehend.</div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finally, we have come to the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, which holds the priceless treasure that your life is becoming as you continue to practice this multiversal meditation. Scoop it up and take it with you; for It contains everything you wanted from this experience, regardless of whether or not it was specifically included in the suggestions that you were given, and regardless of whether or not you were even fully aware of them yourself at the time</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You are a child of the Multiverse, more highly evolved than the rest. And this is the most wonderful thing that has ever happened to you.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's a wonderful feeling of release and liberation which you are experiencing now, as we step out of the final band of the rainbow and into the Multiverse itself, and all</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> of your vast, untapped potentials are becoming freed for their fullest possible functioning. This feeling of exhilaration is going to continue growing and growing, like a snowball rolling downhill, until we return to the universe from which we left.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Self-Actualization</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now, as we step out of the final band if the rainbow and into the Multiverse itself, all of the bands of the rainbow which brought us here have blended into one boundless ocean of perfect, infinite love which contains them all: strength, happiness, healing, renewal, peace, power, and serenity, more beautiful than anything you have ever dreamed of, hoped for, longed for, or imagined, and far, far beyond the power of human imagination to even begin to comprehend.</span></div>
</div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Transcendence</b></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the center of this infinite ocean of unbounded love, you are completely dissolving into the infinite love of the Multiverse itself <i>(or the Creator Himself)</i>. And all of the happiness, all of the love, all of the joy, and all of the rapture that have ever been felt by all of the people who ever walked the face of the Earth, put together, are becoming a part of you, now, in these golden moments of delight -- infinite, beyond infinity, and eternal beyond all measure of eternity: infinite, boundless, eternal, and everlasting, yours to enjoy and yours to be, now, in these golden moments, torn from the pages of time and space.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is the most wonderful thing that has ever happened to you, greater than anything you have ever dreamed of, hoped for, longed for, or imagined, and far, far beyond the limits of anything that you ever thought was even possible. It is the complete and total fulfillment of your existence: everything you ever were, everything you are right now, and everything you will be in the future, put together and multiplied endlessly, over and over again -- infinite beyond infinity, and eternal beyond all mea</span>sure of eternity. Revel in it, glory in it, and enjoy the experience to the.fullet. (<i>Pause.</i>)</span><br>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here in the Multiverse, where you will spend Eternity, the total fulfillment of your existence has already become an accomplished fact. And as we continue to return here to this, your home beyond the stars, it will change your life forever and turn each new day into a thing of wondrous beauty. -- in many different ways, and on many different levels, some of which you may already know, and some of which you may not yet realize until they actually begin to occur.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br>
<div dir="ltr">
</div>
</div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You will not be able to bring the full intensity of this experience back with you, because it would be more than you could possibly bear in the universe from which we came. But its healing effects will remain with you, turning each new day into a thing of joy and, with continued practice, paving over the effect of every bad thing that has ever happened to you in your entire life.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Because time does not exist in the Multiverse, it will seem like we have been gone for an entire lifetime; and the benefits of each journey will be increased in direct proportion to the time that it feels like we have been away together.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Return</b></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now, we are ready to return to the everyday state of consciousness by riding through the rainbow of delight that brought us here, in reverse order, from the inside out. You will remain in deep hypnosis until we emerge together from the final band.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just as before, each band of color will present you with a priceless gift which you will be able to take back with you, to make it easier for you to withstand stress, pain, and cravings of every kind, and to counteract the effects of every bad thing that has ever happened to you in your entire life. These changes will provide you with a source of deep Inner strength which will enable you to cope much more effectively with all of life's stresses, and all of life's problems.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
First, we are beginning to retrace our steps through the band of violet, the color of love. It's only the <i>separation</i> from this infinite ocean of boundless rapture, wonder, ecstasy and delight -- it’s only the <i>separation</i> from this ocean of perfect peace, and calm, and tranquility -- that is the source of all unhappiness, all depression, all anxiety, all loneliness, and all despair. And now that this separation has been removed, it has brought you an inner peace which is greater than anything you have ever dreamed of, longed for, hoped for, or imagined, and far, far beyond the power of human words to describe -- infinite, boundless, eternal, and everlasting. Yours to enjoy and yours to be, now, in these golden moments of delight, torn from the pages of time and space.</div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Next, we move into the purple band, which contains the heightened mental and spiritual powers that</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> are becoming yours in ever-increasing amounts, each time this exercise is repeated </span></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">And as you continue to regularly practice this mindful hypnotic meditation, it will continue to change your entire existence into a thing of wondrous beauty.</div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now, we are traveling back through the band of blue, which is the color of Heaven, and the color of eternity. This is the true reality, and the.world from which we came is merely an illusion.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Regardless of how much or how little you actually remember of these experiences, you will always look back upon these journeys with fondness, even as you look forward to the next opportunity to return to them with ever-increasing anticipation.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You will treasure the effects of these experiences as they add meaning and purpose to your life; and each time that we return, you will be able to derive new benefits from them which will meet your needs even more effectively.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now we are entering the green band of light. Green is the color of renewal; and each time that you repeat this multiversal meditation, you will obtain even more happiness and more fulfillment from the journey than you did the time before.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Next, we are traveling through the band of yellow light. Yellow is the color of healing. You can feel the healing warmth of this yellow light, flooding once more into every muscle, and every fiber, and nerve and cell of your body, penetrating to the very core of your being -- body, heart, mind, and soul. . . body, heart, mind, and soul.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now, we are entering the orange band of the rainbow. Orange is the color of happiness. Feel this happiness flooding through you once more, filling and flooding every muscle, and every nerve, and every cell of your body with after wave of infinite happiness and boundless joy. -- Infinite happiness and boundless, boundless joy.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Each time that we repeat this multiversal meditation, you go higher, each time you go faster; and each time, you experience this happiness more beautifully and more intensely than you did the time before.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finally, we are entering the red band of the rainbow. Red is the color of strength. Feel this strength flowing through you now, overcoming stress, overcoming worry, overcoming depression and care, and filling and flooding every muscle, and every nerve, and every cell of your being with wave after wave of infinite, boundless strength, and confidence, and power.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You will obtain everything you wanted from this experience, regardless of whether or not it was specifically included in the suggestions you were given, and regardless of whether or not you were even fully aware of them yourself at the time; for your Best Me is always with you, guiding your path in the way that it should go.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now, as we prepare to return to the everyday life from which we came, all of the dimensions of the world fr</span>om which we originally left will reassert themselves. Your mind will be clear and alert, and you will easily be able to concentrate on anything you have to do. But the benefits and the good feelings of these experiences, will remain with you, adding meaning and purpose to your life, making it so much easier to resist stresses of every kind, and filling your life with zest and joy.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You will obtain everything you needed from today's session, regardless of whether or not it was included in the suggestions you were given and regardless of whether or not you were even aware of them yourself at the time. And whenever you want these feelings if strength and empowerment to return during a moment of special stress, all you need to do is make the okay sign with your thumb and forefinger, and they will come back as strong as ever. Then if you need to, you can pump your thumb and forefinger together to make them even stronger </span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
By the time I get to the count of five, you will open your eyes, wide awake and feeling wonderful. Getting ready to open your eyes now. One. . . Two. . .Three. . . Four. . . <i>Five!</i> You can open your eyes now, <i>wide awake and feeling</i> <i>wonderful!</i></div>
<div dir="ltr"><br></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">References</span></div>
</div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gibbons, D. E., &amp; Lynn, S. J. (2008). Hypnotic inductions: A primer. In Ruhe, J. W., Lynn, S. J., &amp; Kirsch, I. (Eds.) Handbook of clinical hypnosis, 2nd ed. Washington, DC: American Psychological Assn.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gibbons, D. E., &amp; Woods, K. T. (2016) Virtual reality hypnosis: Exploring alternate and parallel universes. Amazon Books, 2016. (Both print and Kindle editions are available.)</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></span>
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Don E. Gibbons, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08911775218803400535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443506164555932844.post-36255884991922221682020-05-22T12:03:00.003-04:002024-02-19T14:23:11.978-05:00Hyper-Sex: Pathways to Ecstasy <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br /></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">When you're ninety, you probably won’t be thinking about your best day at the office. But most people, if they are fortunate enough, will recall a few treasured memories of special, loving moments which warm the heart and live in the mind forever. Now imagine how these memories will look, and what kind of life you will have led, after you and your spouse or partner have learned to create such special moments almost at will, and in practically any form you wish.</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Using either a hypnotic or a hyperempiric induction as a preliminary, consenting and imaginative couples who respond well to suggestion are able to use suggestion in the context of <a href="https://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2019/09/mindful-hypnotic-meditation-speed.html">multiversal meditation </a> to enhance the setting for lovemaking, evoke the proper mood, maximize both responsiveness and desire, and increase the length, depth, and frequency of climax, blending together all the elements of physical intimacy to create whatever masterpiece of fulfillment the loving couple may desire. When the lovers' ability to mutually satisfy each other has been interfered with by age or disability, or when their desires are not equally matched for other reasons, mulltiversal suggestion can provide a full measure of gratification for both partners by restoring the needed balance. And for those whose closeness would appear to be incapable of further improvement, the bestt surprises of all may be in store; for those who have the greatest abilities also possess the greatest potential</span><br /><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div style="text-align: left;">
<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-c80df0ff-7fff-1b2d-6f34-962e6606f3c4">
Here is an example of how a hyperempiric induction be may be used to enhance the ecperiential. properties of physical intimacy. I once received an email from a man in Australia who had successfully used the following hyperempiric induction with his wife. (It can either be used alone or after a traditional hypnotic induction, depending upon the ability and preferences of the trance partner.)</div>
<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-c80df0ff-7fff-1b2d-6f34-962e6606f3c4">
<br /></div>
<div dir="ltr">
First of all, just sit back or lie down, and make yourself comfortable. And when you are ready, close your eyes. </div>
<div dir="ltr">
<br /></div>
<div dir="ltr">
Now, with your eyes closed, imagine that it is late on a warm summer night and that you are peacefully and comfortably resting inside a rosebud which is swaying gently in the soft breeze. If you accept each detail of the scene as I describe it, without trying to think critically, your imagination will be free to allow you to experience the situation just as if you were really there. So just let yourself relax completely now, inside this soft red rosebud, late on a warm summer night. You feel so comfortable resting there, snug and secure and nestled down among the petals of the flower.</div>
<div dir="ltr">
You can feel the soft summer breeze gently caressing the outside of the bud. Just keep listening to the breeze, and continue to focus on the beauty and the peacefulness which is all around you. And as you continue to allow yourself to be guided by my voice, I am going to show you how to release your awareness for the fullest flowering of your sexuality.</div>
<div dir="ltr">
<br /></div>
<div dir="ltr">
There is a rustle of wind through the leaves; and as the soft, red petals around you gently begin to stir, you can feel the breeze beginning to filter through to you as the bud prepares to open. Let yourself breathe slowly and deeply now, as you inhale the warm night air and your consciousness commences to expand and unfold along with the flower.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div>
<div dir="ltr">
The late night air is so pure, so fresh, and so crystal clear. Feel it entering your lungs, and feel the warmth of it entering your body as your awareness continues to expand. In....out...in... out.</div>
<div dir="ltr">
As the bud begins to open, you look up and see that the sky is strewn with hundreds of blinking, bluish-white stars. As the bud expands more and more, your awareness is unfolding along with it. You continue breathing slowly, in and out, in and out, carrying this expanding awareness to every part of your body.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div>
<div dir="ltr">
The rose petals are releasing a delicate perfume as the bud opens wider. Breathe in this joyous scent and follow its passage from your nostrils into your lungs. Let yourself become ever more aware of the rhythm of your breathing, as it carries you on to ever increasing sensations of sexuality. With every breath you take, your consciousness drifts higher. With every breath you take, your consciousness is expanding, and your capacity for experience is becoming exquisitely more sensitive.</div>
<div dir="ltr">
<br /></div>
<div dir="ltr">
The rose petals are expanding more rapidly now, and the bud is nearly open. As the bud continues to unfold, your feelings of joy and exaltation continue to expand along with it. You can feel your awareness continuing to grow, and your capacity for experience becoming greater and more intense than anything you have known before.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div>
<div dir="ltr">
Now the blossom is fully open. The petals are extended as far as they will go, and your sexuality is in full flower. And while you remain within hyperempiria, every sensation and everything you experience will be intensely pleasurable, and each of these new experiences will be greater and more profound than you ever thought possible.</div>
</div>
</div>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><b>The Best Me Technique of Multimodal Suggestion</b></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><br /></b></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Regardless of the type of induction which you use it the type of imagery you choose to employ, </span></span> a <i>suggested </i>experience is much more fulfilling when several different dimensions are combined to produce the most rewarding outcome. The Best Me Technique is especially effective for this purpose.</div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br /></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Each letter of the words "Best Me" stands for a different dimension of experience, which may be summarized as follows:</div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span id="docs-internal-guid-af16e1e5-7fff-1904-50d1-fcb92c402134"></span><br />
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.52727; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span id="docs-internal-guid-af16e1e5-7fff-1904-50d1-fcb92c402134"><i style="font-weight: bold;"><b>B</b>elief Systems</i> which orient to person, place, time, and events may be modified by means of suggestion, allowing one to transcend present realities. </span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.52727; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span id="docs-internal-guid-af16e1e5-7fff-1904-50d1-fcb92c402134"><i style="font-weight: bold;"><b>E</b>motions </i>which occur naturally in response to suggested events may be enriched by means of suggestion, and new emotions may be added and blended as well. </span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.52727; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
</div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.52727; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span id="docs-internal-guid-af16e1e5-7fff-1904-50d1-fcb92c402134"><i style="font-weight: bold;"><b>S</b>ensations and physical perceptions, in</i> various combinations, can be suggested with an intensity approaching -- and perhaps even exceeding -- those of real events. </span></div>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-af16e1e5-7fff-1904-50d1-fcb92c402134">
</span>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.52727; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span id="docs-internal-guid-af16e1e5-7fff-1904-50d1-fcb92c402134"><i style="font-weight: bold;"><b>T</b>houghts</i> <i>and images </i>may be enlisted to support your other suggestions, in much the same way that a chorus enhances a song. </span></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-af16e1e5-7fff-1904-50d1-fcb92c402134">
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.52727; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<i style="font-weight: bold;"><b>M</b>otives </i>may either be suggested directly or as an implied consequence of other suggestions </div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.52727; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<i style="font-weight: bold;"><b>E</b>xpectations</i> may be used both to define what is about to happen, and the way that these events will be remembered later.</div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.52727; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">T</span>he categories of the Best Me Technique are not conceptually pure, and each category may contain elements of the others, in which case the name aßsigned to each category refers to the element which is given the greatest emphasis.</div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.52727; margin-bottom: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<b>Making Your Multimodal Suggestions Permanent</b></div></span>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div style="text-align: left;">
<i>No </i>form of sugggested experience can be expected to persist indefinitely without environmental support. Anthropologists frequently point out that after a few years, people who marry for romantic love are just about as happy or unhappy as a couple in a culture in which arranged marriages are the norm. If you and your loved one have come to share culturally suggested experiences of rapture, ecstasy, wonder, and delight with suggestions such as, "I am your one, true infinite, unbounded, and everlasting love, and you are mine," if it happens to be the fourth of July and you are livingo in the United States, you won't have to go out or turn on the television in order to see fireworks! But, if you return to face a daily life of bills to pay, appointments to keep, and an endless list of other things which simply have to be done, the strength of your affection will eventually begin to wane, regardless of how intense your attraction might have been initially. If, on the other hand, you return to an environment in which romance comes ahead of everything else, and the first priority is the quality time you spend with each other, then the joys which you share together as lovers can take on near-sacramental qualities as you consecrate yourselves to one another anew, and the honeymoon becomes a permanent way of life.</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><img src="https://encrypted-tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRVqvb0Scdm9cqRgXvyPXpQeHvVUEsRw_oKoQRujjTRN73_oand" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-c80df0ff-7fff-1b2d-6f34-962e6606f3c4">
<br /></div>
</div>
</div>
<div dir="ltr">
<br /></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<br /></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<br /></div>
</div>
Don E. Gibbons, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08911775218803400535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443506164555932844.post-16325213283908501682020-05-18T13:20:00.000-04:002020-10-07T17:41:01.253-04:00A Practical, Everyday Philosophy from Ancient Greece for Today's Problems <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Here is a brief introduction to Stoicism, the philosophy from ancient Greece which deals with overcoming anxiety, depression, and excess worry in everyday life. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Because this philosophy must be thoroughly digested before it can be made part of your life, you can't just listen to it as you might listen to a news broadcast. I like to listen to one or more of these tapes every day while I am exercising, in order to give them plenty of time to sink in.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
The following two audiotapes contain a series of life-changing quotes by the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius.</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br><iframe width="320" height="266" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HNo_cafMjAg/0.jpg" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HNo_cafMjAg?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br><iframe width="320" height="266" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NXzeGvJ-6VM/0.jpg" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NXzeGvJ-6VM?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<br></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
The next audiotape is a summary of the writings of Epictetus, another founder of Stoicism, who, unlike the emperor Marcus Aurelius, was born into slavery.</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<br></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vVN-DqUqyS8/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vVN-DqUqyS8?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Seneca famously asked, "You are scared of dying. But tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any better than being dead?" Here's what he says we should do to change it.</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<br></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XQe8kXsEBmI/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XQe8kXsEBmI?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div>
<div>
<br></div>
</div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br></div>
</div>
</div>
Don E. Gibbons, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08911775218803400535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443506164555932844.post-1944675625583032252020-05-18T11:48:00.000-04:002020-05-18T11:48:49.079-04:00What is the STRONGEST Human Motive? <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
The world is so full of such a number of things,</div>
</div>
<div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
I am sure we should all be as happy as kings.</div>
</div>
<div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
--Robert Louis Stevenson</div>
</div>
<br />
Viktor Frankl was a prisoner of war in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. In his book entitled, M<i>an's Search for Meaning, </i>he describes one day when <i>der Herr</i> <i>Kommandant</i> lined all the prisoners up in formation and announced a list of "crimes" which would be punishable by immediate death by hanging. These included such "infractions" as cutting your blanket into strips to make ankle straps because your ankles were too weak to stand on.<br />
<br />
Then, about two hours later, he called them into formation again and announced that two potatoes had been stolen from the camp kitchen. If the prisoners did not give the offenders up to the tender mercies of the Gestapo, the whole camp would starve for the day. Naturally, the entire camp preferred to fast.<br />
<br />
On the evening of this day of fasting, they lay in their earthen huts, in a very low mood, when suddenly the lights went out. The Senior Block Warden asked Frankel to give the prisoners a talk to raise their spirits. "God knows," Frankl said, he was in no mood to cheer anybody up. But he knew he had to try.<br />
<br />
He began by pointing out that the reason that most of the people around them were dying was not becauseof the starvation or the poor working conditions; it was because they had given up hope. Even in this Europe in the second in the sixth winter of the Second World War, he went on, most people could find some reason for hope. He estimated his own chances at about one in twenty, he frankly admitted.. But it was always possible that he could be transferred to a camp with unusually favorable working conditions, for such was the luck of the prisoner. Friends and family could be restored, fortunes could be regained, professions could be resumed, and anyone could find some reason for hope. When the lights came on again, people were limping toward him with tears in their eyes to shake his hand. He knew by the strength of their emotion that he had come upon something of great significance.<br />
<br />
At the conclusion of the war, when Frankl had resumed his practice, he began to ask his clients why <i>they</i> did not kill themselves. One client might say that he was writing a book that he had to finish, another might state that because it was because he dearly loved his family, and so on. This gave Frankl a central point around which his patients would be able to organize their lives, and it provided the foundation for his therapy.<br />
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br /></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Stephen Hawking was facing a different kind of imprisonment because of a progressive wasting disease, which he refused to allow to get the better of him. because he also found meaning and purpose in life:</div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AiK0q4_4LE0/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AiK0q4_4LE0?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div>
General. MacArthur kept the following poem on his wall during the.darkest days of World War Two:</div>
<div>
<br />
We Grow Old by Deserting Our Ideals</div>
<div>
by Samuel Ullman</div>
<div>
<div class="social-badges">
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the skin but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair . . .these are the quick equivalents of the long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust.</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Whether 70 or 16, there is, in every being’s heart the love ofwonder, the sweet amazement of the stars, and the star-likethings and thoughts, the undaunted challenge of events,the unfailing childlike appetite for “What Next?”</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt,<br />
as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear,<br />
as young as your hope, as old as your despair.<br />
So long as your heart receives messages of<br />
beauty, cheer, courage, grandeur and power from<br />
the earth, from man and from the Infinite, so long are you young. </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
When all the wires are down, and all the<br />
central places of your heart are covered with<br />
the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism,<br />
then, and only then, are you grown old indeed.</blockquote>
<br />
<div>
The folks at</div>
<div>
<a href="http://www.smartrecovery.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.smartrecovery.org</a> </div>
<div>
have several forms available which may be of help in deciding just what is important in our own life and what to go after. They include a <a href="http://www.smartrecovery.org/resources/library/Tools_and_Homework/Quick_Reference/HOV.pdf">hierarchy of values,</a> for helping you to find which values are most important to you; a <a href="http://www.smartrecovery.org/resources/library/Tools_and_Homework/Other_Homework/Values_and_Goals_Clarification.pdf">values and goals clarification list</a> for identifying goals; a <a href="http://www.smartrecovery.org/resources/library/Tools_and_Homework/Quick_Reference/CBA_Worksheet.pdf">decision-making worksheet</a> for weighing the benefits and costs of making a particular change; and a <a href="http://www.smartrecovery.org/resources/library/Tools_and_Homework/Facilitators_Handout/Change_Plan_Worksheet.pdf">change plan worksheet</a> for help in charting a course to achieve your goals. The information may be downloaded free of charge by using the print command on your computer, although donations are encouraged.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
</div>
</div>
<div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">
<div>
</div>
<br />
<br />
<div>
<div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Don E. Gibbons, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08911775218803400535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443506164555932844.post-3778309076595561692020-05-08T08:10:00.000-04:002020-06-05T08:28:02.397-04:00Multiversal Healing Meditation as First Aid for a Boken Heart <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Kira, my first appointment for the day, was already seated in my office when I arrived for work. Her face was a mask of tragedy. Her boyfriend had just broken up with her, and she was circling the drain of despair. She had built a Wiccan altar beside her bed, and she was purchasing one spell after another from a group of local witches in order to bind him to her; but so far without success.<br>
<div>
<br></div>
<div>
As she struggled to hold back tears, I decided to try hypnosis as an emergency intervention, and she immediately agreed.</div>
<div>
Despite her heightened emotional state, she responded well to suggestion and immediately became much calmer as I suggested feelings of peace and tranquility as I guided her into the Multiverse. In order to more strongly pave over her negative feelings, </div>
<div>
<br></div>
<div>
Later, when I asked her about her experience with hypnosis and multiversal Healing meditation, she thoughtfully replied, "If you had not done that, I don't know what I would have done." </div>
<div>
<br></div>
<div>
In a subsequent session, I asked if she had been attracted to her ex-boyfriend because of his looks or his physical appearance, she replied "I've been out with hotter." They had met through an advertisement online, and as they were discussing what each one was looking for in a partner, she said that she was looking for someone she could grow together with. "Like a tree," he responded. </div>
<div>
Her father was a tree surgeon, and when she was a little girl she used to like to watch him work. She believed that this response had initially provided the emotional glue which bound her so closely to him. </div>
<div>
<br></div>
<div>
Now, no matter how intensely she <i>wanted</i> her Wiccan spells to work, she was not able to believe <i>in</i> them with her whole being; and she gradually used up all the spells the Wiccans had sold her </div>
<div>
<br></div>
<div>
I told Kira that ever since I had begun teaching psychology several years earlier, students would often me about was how to mend a broken heart, and my advice was always the same: the best way to get over one relationship is to begin another one. </div>
<div>
<br></div>
<div>
She lived close to Atlantic City, and she began to visit the casinos on weekends in the company of some female friends, with the intention of meeting men. Later, she told me with evident enjoyment about two men who both wanted to pick her up almost got into a fight over her. Obviously, she was no longer pining for her ex-boyfriend!.</div>
<div>
<br></div>
<div>
<br></div>
<div>
<br></div>
<div>
<div>
<br></div>
</div>
</div>
Don E. Gibbons, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08911775218803400535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443506164555932844.post-27701923898665666792020-05-06T09:01:00.000-04:002020-06-12T15:16:01.535-04:00Of COURSE Hypnosis CAN be Used for Mind Control, Seduction, or Committing a Crime! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img height="265" src="https://www.personal-development-planet.com/images/hypnosis.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="320"></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><b><br></b></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
During the break between classes, a student once told me that her father used to hypnotize her mother every night and tell her what he wanted her to cook for dinner the following evening. She would not remember this, but he would always prepare his chosen meal as if she had thought of it herself.<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Of course I cannot diagnose anyone I have never met, but this pattern perfectly fits the definition of a <i>dependent personality disorder</i>. People with this diagnosis want to be told what to do, instead of making up their mind themselves. When people</div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
with dependent personality disorder are hypnotized, the hypnotist can easily get them to comply with many instructions, merely by suggesting that this is what they are going to do. </div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hypnosis itself is not an instrument of mind control, but it provides both the opportunity and the occasion for a person who wants to be told what to do to go ahead and comply with the instructions and suggestions that he or she is given.</div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
With regard to the question of whether or not hypnotized individuals are more susceptible to sexual seduction, the short answer is no, but the longer answer is sometimes yes. Let me respond by asking three questions. First, does seduction ever occur <i>outside</i> of hypnosis? The answer is obviously yes. Second, does hypnosis make people any <i>more</i> virtuous than they were before? Of course, the mere act of being hypnotized does not automaticrally change you into somebody who has a </div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
stronger moral code. Third, is it logical to assume that fantasies of seduction under hypnosis only occur to hypnotists themselves, and never to hypnotic subjects? Obviously not!</div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
As far as the commission of a crime under hypnosis is concerned, laboratory investigations into whether or not hypnosis can be used for antisocial purposes such as committing a murder or other offense invariaby fall short of the mark, because the circumstances are not sufficiently taken account. Imagine that Prof. Snarf has asked for volunteers in a psychological experiment. They are given a hypnotic induction, followed by instructions to pick up a beaker of acid and hurl it in the experimenter's face, to pick up poisonous snakes, or to shoot the experimenter with a supposedly loaded gun. (All of these instructions have been used in actual experinents!) Would you <em>really</em> believe that a reputable scientist would let you commit a murder as part of a psychological experiment? Or would you be inclined to believe that because you are ordered to do these ridiculous things there must be a reason for it other than the one that was given, so you might as well go ahead and do as you are told? Many would be inclined to,choose the second option (Sarbin & De Rivera, 1998). Dr. Martin Orne coined the term <em>demand characteristics</em> to refer to this tendency of a subject in an experiment to act in the way that the subject thinks that he or she is <em>supposed </em>to behave, rather than simply reacting to the instructions in themselves.</div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">
Some years ago, I was asked to testify in the case of a man who had falsely advertised himself as a psychologist and had begun hypnotizing teenage girls in the area, one of whom subsequently accused him of rape. In order to make its case that hypnosis could be used to compel behavior, the prosecution had pointed to an incident in eastern Europe several decades earlier, in which a stage hypnotist had handed a man a pistol loaded with blanks and commanded the man to shoot him. The hypnotized subject, who was an off-duty police officer, drew a loaded revolver from his pocket and shot three members of the audience. I testified that while hypnosis cannot force people to people do something which is against their moral and ethical codes, it is impossible to conclusively demonstrate in the laboratory whether or not hypnosis could be used to compel anti-social behavior. You could never <u>actually</u> allow such behavior to occur in an experimental setting, or in any kind of staged demonstration, and the subjects know it! But, in what I like to call "the laboratory of life," the results are more clear-cut. Hypnosis in its modern form has been around for over two hundred years; and if you have to go half way around the world and back several decades in time in order to find even <i>one</i> instance of its alleged use in the commission of a crime, then it would be easier to conclude that this individual was psychotic or mentally deranged than to conclude that his or her behavior was the result of the alleged coercive power of hypnosis. If hypnosis <i>could</i> be used in such a manner, by this time its anti-social applications would be well-documented and systematically employed -- in organized crime, in international espionage, by thwarted lovers, and in many other settings. And the evidence simply is not there.<br>
<div align="left">
<br>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When a hypnotist is accused of rape or seduction, the problem is not with hypnosis itself, but with the power differential which is inherent in a therapeutic relationship, as it is when the abuser is a person in a position of high status, as was the case with Rasputin, a priest and an advisor to the Tsarina in the court of imperial Russia. This trust must never be abused. The responsibility always lies with the person in authority. It is necessary for the trusted person to maintain strong boundaries and to stop any inappropriate relationships from developing, even if a client displays seductive behavior due to transference, a personality disorder, mental illness, physical attraction, or simple intimidation.. A teenager would be especially susceptible to such suggestions; and If he or she subsequently accused the hypnotist of rape, then the chances are that the hypnotist abused his or her position of trust and authority in order to have sexual relations with the victim,</span> which is tantamount to rape. Therefore, the prosecution's mistake was to attack <i>hypnosis itself</i>, rather than the power s</div>
<div align="left">
differential between the hypnotist and his teenage victim. (He was still convicted, however, because it was found that the girl was underage.)</div>
<div align="left">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It would be a serious mistake in situations such as these to assume that fantasies of seduction under hypnosis occur only to hypnotists and never to their subjects -- in which case, the problem is still not with hypnosis itself. However, if mutual consent is not freely given ahead of time, there is a very high incidence of "buyer's remorse," due to the fact that the subject usually has conflicting motives.</span></div>
<div align="left">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Instances such as these tend to be reported in great detail by the media, and are amplified still further by depictions of hypnosis in fiction. Because of the publicity which results from them, there are many people who will not have anything to do with hypnosis .And because these abuses continue to surface from time to time and are sensationalized by the mass media, the public is probably never going to be won over completely, despite our repeated assurances that hypnosis is perfectly safe when used by ethical and appropriately trained professionals.</span></div>
<div align="left">
<br></div>
<div align="left">
Whenever something acquires unsavory or unpleasant associations, the response of society is usually to reframe it if the practice is retained. Old people become seniors citizens, a public toilet becomes a restroom, and a feebleminded child becomes an exceptional or special needs child. In the minds of the general public, the term hypnosis continues to be plagued by outmoded, Nineteenth-Century, Svengali-like stereotypes - <i>bu</i>t<i> it works! So what's a body to do?? </i> I would like to suggest that we take refuge in the time-honored practice of re-framing, as I have done, and refer to a new discovery -- <i>multiversal meditation</i> -- along with some examples of its successful use as a method of altering the ongoing narrative of one's life story. A press release might come in handy in this regard -- especially if you take the reporter on an experiential tour of the multiverse!</div>
<div align="left"><br></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div style="margin: 0px;">
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: normal;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div style="margin: 0px;">
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
(I am grateful to Dr. Añnette K. Schreiber for her assistance in the preparation of this post.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;"><br></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Reference</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sarbin, T. R., & De Rivera, J. (1998), </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Believed-in imaginings:The Narrative Construction of Reality (Memory, Trauma, Dissociation, and Hypnosis). </i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.</span><br>
<div style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<div style="line-height: 14.8626px; margin-bottom: 1em; min-height: 1em; padding: 0px; position: static;">
<div style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div dir="ltr" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div>
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.9063px; text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman";">
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Don E. Gibbons, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08911775218803400535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443506164555932844.post-28976878242038334452020-05-02T10:09:00.000-04:002020-10-03T12:01:55.355-04:00Epic Music for Working at Your Best <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/z1P5U7NlVoA/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/z1P5U7NlVoA?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div>
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
There are many albums that have "music for studying" or "music for relaxation" in their title. But what about music for studying when you just don't FEEL<i> </i>like studying, or for any of a hundred other things that you just don't <b>WANT</b> to do? These selections of epic heroic musiic ought to help!</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br><iframe width="320" height="266" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lP0D5u3EMfA/0.jpg" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lP0D5u3EMfA?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div>
<br></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This music is experienced by many people as highly empowering. Acording to the statistics available on YouTube, the following audio has been viewed over 2.6 million times. One of the comments read, "When I played this on my Android, it turned into a quantum computer!"</div>
</div>
Don E. Gibbons, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08911775218803400535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443506164555932844.post-62305177909947328802020-04-21T15:42:00.000-04:002020-04-23T14:53:31.480-04:00Romantic Love and the Power of Suggestion <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<h2>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/Love_Is_A_Many_Splendored_Thing_Henry_King_1955.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/Love_Is_A_Many_Splendored_Thing_Henry_King_1955.png" width="320"></a></div>
</span></h2>
<div style="text-align: left;">Professor Irving Singer, in a free online MIT course entitled, <a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/24-261-philosophy-of-love-in-the-western-world-fall-2004/index.htm">Philosophy of Love in the Western world,</a> states that romanti doc love as we know it today was practically unheard of in Western culture until it became popularized by wandering French troubadours eight hundred years ago, and further amplified by the invention of the printing press, which publicized the great works of romantic literature such as Shakespeare's <i>Romeo and Juliet </i>and <i>Antony and Cleopatra ("Hark! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the Sun!" </i>or,<i>"Shall I abide in this dull world which in thy absence,</i><i> is no better than a stye?)</i><br></div></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br>
<span style="font-size: small;">With this model held up for all to see, the prevailing expectations of what it feels like to be "in love" evolved in an ever more extreme direction. For many years, one way to write a new hit song was to describe the experience of being in love in more glowing terms than the songs which were popular at the moment. The reviewer of the 1955 movie, <i>Love is a Many Splendored Thing,</i> writing in <i>The Independent</i> on February 8, 2010, stated: "Remember the lyric: 'Once, on a high and windy hill, two lovers kissed, and the world stood still. . . .' It still makes my knees weak." Today, as products of a culture which glorifies romantic love, we tend to view human experience through these cultural lenses, and choose bits from history which confirm these stereotypes. </span></span><br>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br></span></span></div>
The power of suggestion can do more than simply make us feel weak in the knees. In Victorian times, women were considered to be such delicate creatures that they were expected to faint if the air in a room suddenly became stuffy, or if they were suddenly and unexpectedly kissed by someone to whom they had become attracted -- and many did! <br>
<br>
The effect of suggestion and imitation in producing such a high degree of organismic involvement became dramatically evident shortly after World War II, wh oren the young crooner Frank Sinatra caused legions of teen-age "bobby-soxers" to swoon when he hit his high notes. It is therefore possible to conclude that <i>the experience of "falling in love"</i> as we know it today, and all that goes with it, is also an effect of social modeling and the power of suggestion. <br>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span>
<br>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fIjJnpUvyts/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fIjJnpUvyts?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><br></div>
Suggestion has the power to teach behavior as well as to shape it. In 1933, after moviegoing had reached its height, Herbert Blumer found that many people said that they first learned how to kiss by watching motion pictures. Even today, many people probably still pick up a few pointers about how and when to approach a partner for that all-important first kiss from motion pictures and from television.<br>
<br>
Remember the modeling effect of romantic love portrayed in <i>Romeo and Juliet,</i> and <i>A</i><i>ntony and Cleopatra?</i> Today, searchable data bases of Internet <i>pornography</i> contain literally millions of submissions, and almost anyone in the world can upload their own contributions to them. The entries are frequently ranked in terms of popularity, so that those which are viewed most often rise to the top. Some of these data bases require no fees, passwords, or proof of age, and are supported entirely by advertising. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Will today's teen-agers and young adults learn <i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">sexual</i> behavior by watching pornography, in much the same manner that people of earlier generations learned how to <i>kiss</i> by watching motion pictures? Will traditional notions of romantic love be modified to allow a much more permissive model of sexual experimentation? While the exact nature of such chnges is difficult to predict, it is clear that the most popular depictions of pornagraphy, with millions, and sometimes <i>tens </i>of millions of reported views, I</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">the same influences of suggestion, modeling, and imitation that caused women to faint in Victorian times when a man kissed them, or teen-agers to swoon when Frank Sinatra his golden tones after World Wat Ii, can be expected to have a similar effect on the way that sexual behavior is both l perceived <i>and</i> experienced. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br></div>
</div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div style="margin: 0px;">
</div>
</div>
</div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Don E. Gibbons, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08911775218803400535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443506164555932844.post-36626296668136724422020-04-18T12:42:00.000-04:002020-08-25T10:01:58.582-04:00Personality Disorders: Is a Toxic PERSON Driving You Crazy? <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i> </i></b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<table align="center" cellspacing="0" class="aolmail_tr-caption-container" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 6px;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img height="212" src="https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRn7xUSmFEIk0ArpXfjgu66iY0J16K1VWiyaNIi4lme9mh6mB-FqA" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="320"></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="aolmail_tr-caption" style="font-size: 16px; outline: none; padding-top: 4px;"><br></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</div>
<div>
<div dir="ltr">
<div>
</div>
<div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div style="text-align: left;">
<div dir="ltr">
<div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Toxic, or personality-disordered people, can wreck your life when they are bosses, friends, or family members, As clients,they can cause you to doubt yourself because of their abrasive nature and the fact that they are often resistant to treatment. </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you search on Facebook or the Internet for "toxic people," you're going to get all kiinds of lists, but the following descriptions of personality disorders is based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association. They have been compiled by some of the best minds in the field of mental health, drawing upon years of clinical observation and literally hundreds of research studies to find patterns which “clump together” in present-day culture. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Of course, actual diagnosis and treatment should only be undertaken by a mental health professional, and many people can have the traits of one or more personality disorders without qualifying for a full diagnosis -- but, there is an old saying, "If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck -- it's a duck!" If you know someone who appears to fit one or more of these descriptions, it might be worth your while to examine the reasons why you</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> maintain a relationship with such a toxic person, with professional help if necessary</span></div>
<div>
<div class="aolmail_MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div class="aolmail_MsoNormal">
<b><u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Borderline Personality Disorder.</span></u></b></div>
<div class="aolmail_Level4">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></div>
<div class="aolmail_MsoNormal">
<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To understand the person who qualifies for a diagnosis of <i>borderline personality disorder</i>, think back to some of the stormiest days of your adolescence, or the adolescence of someone you know well. With an incompletely developed sense of self, borderlines have no firm idea of who they are and where they are going. Their lives are often erratic, with frequent job changes and alterations in long term goals, and intense and unstable friendships and romantic involvements.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Because of their poorly developed sense of self, borderlines often have difficulty with so-called “boundary issues,” or the ability to distinguish between what is appropriate and what is inappropriate in a given situation. Some borderlines, in fact, may find it difficult to even talk to a person of the opposite sex for very long without acting as if they are falling in love with them. As would be expected, the romantic lives of borderlines tend to be especially tumultuous. The manipulative abilities of people with borderline personality disorder often enable them to deceive those who do not understand the inner storms which produce such behavior, which frequently causes their sudden bouts of passion to be mistaken for genuine love.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Borderlines often engage in “splitting,” with either extremely positive or extremely negative feelings towards others, sometimes suddenly reversing from extreme friendliness to extreme rejection and vice-versa. This changeability frequently leads them to engage in behavior that is highly manipulative. This splitting may also be the reason why the interpersonal relationships of borderlines are often centered around real of imagined fears of abandonment. (One book on borderline personality disorder is entitled, </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I Hate You - Don’t Leave Me!</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">) These tendencies to engage in splitting may also explain why borderlines also seem to have a strong ability to divide those around them into separate camps of friends and enemies. </span></div>
</div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Borderlines usually have very low self-esteem, and suicidal gestures, genuine attempts,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and successful suicides are not uncommon. Many borderlines have a history of cutting themselves, or other forms of self-injurious behavior as a result of low self-esteem. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br>
<div class="aolmail_MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The following video ex[lains how to spot the nine traits of a borderline personality disorder.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span>
<br>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/to5qRLRSS7g/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/to5qRLRSS7g?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div>
<div>
<br></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="aolmail_WordSection1">
<div>
<br></div>
<div class="aolmail_WordSection2">
<div class="aolmail_MsoNormal">
</div>
<div class="aolmail_Level4">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></div>
<div class="aolmail_MsoNormal">
</div>
</div>
<div class="aolmail_WordSection3">
</div>
<div class="aolmail_Level4">
<b><u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Narcissistic Personality Disorder.</span></u></b></div>
<div class="aolmail_Level4">
<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The ancient Greeks used to tell the story of <i>Narcissus</i> -- a lad who was so good-looking that he fell in love with his own reflection in a pool of water, and spent so much time gazing at it that he eventually fell into the pool and drowned. People who are given a diagnosis of <i>narcissistic personality disorder </i>are often perceived as being selfish or conceited. They may often spend a great deal of time telling you how great they are, or boasting of their achievements or accomplishments.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
</div>
<div class="aolmail_Level4">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some people think of a person with a narcissistic personality disorder as having a superiority complex to cover up for an inferiority complex. When you get to know such people well, it soon becomes apparent that the reason they spend so much time “tooting their own horn” is that deep down inside, they really feel afraid, inadequate, and unlovable.</span></div>
</div>
<div class="aolmail_WordSection3">
<div class="aolmail_Level4">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></div>
<div class="aolmail_MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></div>
<div class="aolmail_Level4">
<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Narcissists do not always act selfishly in the short term. They are often highly motivated to pursue long-term goals in order to prove their worth both to themselves and others. For this reason, narcissists often tend to gravitate to positions of leadership in business, government, education -- and yes, even churches.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Narcissists often cause a great deal of suffering, particularly when they happen to be employers, family members, or romantic partners. Yet there are ways of dealing with them. (Since no two personalities are exactly identical, however, you cannot stereotype them and treat them all exactly the same way.)</span></div>
<div class="aolmail_separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br></div>
<div>
<b><u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Histrionic Personality Disorder.</span></u></b></div>
</div>
<div class="aolmail_Level3">
<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">People who have been diagnosed with <i>histrionic personality disorder</i> may often be compared to an adult version of the “spoiled child” who will do anything to remain the center of attention. <span style="font-size: 7pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"></span>If histrionics are able to “show off” and remain the center of attention by doing a good job, they often accomplish a great deal. But if they feel that they are being ignored, or that the attention which they crave so deeply is denied them, they may become angry and disruptive in order to get it back again -- even if it’s <i>unfavorable</i> attention this time! ("I don't care what you say about me," one publicity-hungry histrionic is reported to have said to a reporter for a scandal magazine. "Just be sure you spell my name right.!")</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
</div>
<div class="aolmail_Level3">
<b><u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Antisocial Personality Disorder.</span></u></b></div>
<div class="aolmail_Level4">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></div>
<div class="aolmail_MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></div>
<div class="aolmail_Level3">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">People with a diagnosis of <i>antisocial personality disorder</i> did not incorporate our society’s standards of right and wrong into their personalities as well as the rest of us have. They begin getting into trouble with the authorities by the time they are adolescents, and don’t grow out of it. As you might suppose, this pattern is much more common in men than in women.</span></div>
</div>
<div class="aolmail_WordSection4">
<div class="aolmail_MsoNormal">
<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since personality disorders are so difficult to change, many such people keep going back and forth to jail from their teen years until middle age, when they seem to mellow out of their own accord. They make up the bulk of most prison populations, and often have a history of substance abuse or substance dependency. However, people with antisocial personality <i>traits</i> (I like to call them <i>stealth</i> anti socials) may be encountered almost anywhere, even at the highest levels of many organizations; and they may not be found out until their behavior gets them into trouble. (The discovery and apprehension of stealth anti socials in high-profile positions is the basis of many of the news stories we read about every day.)</span></div>
</div>
<div class="aolmail_MsoNormal">
<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
</div>
<div class="aolmail_MsoNormal">
<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder.</u></b></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br></span><span style="background-color: white;">People who have been diagnosed with an </span><i style="background-color: white;">obsessive-compulsive personality disorder</i><span style="background-color: white;"> may be popularly known as a “nit-picker” or “neat freak.” They may become so involved with orderliness, perfectionism, and control that efficiency suffers as a result. This culture tends to place a high value on preoccupation with detail in certain jobs. With proper training, people who have milder forms of obsessive-compulsive personality disorder may become excellent law clerks, college registrars, bank auditors, or personal physicians -- in which case, it may not be a personality </span><i style="background-color: white;">disorder</i><span style="background-color: white;"> any more, unless it interferes with their functioning off the job!</span></span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="aolmail_WordSection5">
<div class="aolmail_Level4">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></div>
<div class="aolmail_MsoNormal">
<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder is closely related to another disorder with a similar name, <i>obsessive-compulsive disorder</i>, or OCD for short, which is similar in nature but more limited in scope. Obsessive-compulsive disorder refers to a pattern of continually recurring thoughts (obsessions), or behaviors which one is compelled to continually repeat, such as checking a door several times in a row to be sure that it is locked.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
</div>
<div class="aolmail_MsoNormal">
<b><u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Avoidant Personality Disorder.</span></u></b></div>
<div class="aolmail_Level4">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></div>
<div class="aolmail_Level3">
<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">People who carry a diagnosis of <i>avoidant personality disorder </i>have had such unpleasant social interactions in the past that with the possible exception of one or two close relatives or special friends, they have come to fear all human contact. Avoidants are frequently not merely shy about most social situations, they are genuinely phobic about them. Their avoidance is often centered around a core belief that if people really got to know them, it would immediately become obvious how incompetent and worthless they really are, and the immediate result would be scorn, rejection, and loss of employment. People with an avoidant personality disorder often tend to gravitate to solitary occupations -- researchers, librarians, or forest rangers, for example; and they may be attracted by certain monastic orders. (Of course, not <i>everyone</i> in these types of occupations could be diagnosed with an avoidant personality disorder!)</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="aolmail_WordSection6">
<div class="aolmail_Level4">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></div>
<div class="aolmail_MsoNormal">
<b><u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dependent Personality Disorder.</span></u></b></div>
<div class="aolmail_MsoNormal">
<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A central theme in the life of people who have been diagnosed with a <i>dependent personality disorder </i>is a need to be looked after and taken care of, often accompanied by excessive fears of real or imagined abandonment. Ironically, some people who qualify for a diagnosis of DPD may behave in exactly opposite fashion. Those with milder forms of this disorder may attempt to satisfy their underlying dependency needs by becoming so efficient and thorough that they make themselves indispensable. Others, whose disorder is more severe, become highly dependent on instructions from above, and are reluctant to show any initiative in carrying out their responsibilities for fear that they will have made the wrong decision.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
</div>
<div class="aolmail_MsoNormal">
<b><u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Paranoid Personality Disorder.</span></u></b></div>
<div class="aolmail_Level4">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></div>
<div class="aolmail_MsoNormal">
<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">People who have been diagnosed with <i>paranoid personality disorder </i>tend to see the activities of other people as ill-intentioned -- even when the opposite is true. Compliments may be seen as attempts to gain undue influence through flattery, and offers of help may be seen as evidence that the person to whom the help is offered is viewed as incompetent. The resulting suspiciousness and hostility may tend to bring about the negative attitudes and behaviors which the person with a paranoid personality disorder believes were always there. (The saying goes, “Just because you’re paranoid, it doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you!”)</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
</div>
<div class="aolmail_MsoNormal">
<b><u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Schizoid Personality Disorder.</span></u></b></div>
<div class="aolmail_Level4">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></div>
<div class="aolmail_MsoNormal">
<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The person who has been diagnosed with <i>schizoid personality disorder</i> is an extreme loner or a “cold fish” who just isn’t interested in being around people.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Such people are often found in the most solitary jobs which others might tend to shy away from. Because of their extreme lack of social skills, they should not be expected to change simply by inviting them to parties or by introducing them to a wide circle of people.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
</div>
<div class="aolmail_MsoNormal">
<b><u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Schizotypal Personality Disorder.</span></u></b></div>
<div class="aolmail_Level4">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></div>
</div>
<div class="aolmail_WordSection7">
<div class="aolmail_Level3">
<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">People who have been diagnosed with <i>schizotypal personality disorder </i>typically have bizarre notions of cause and effect, and may practice unusual rituals of their own devising, either to make things happen or to prevent them from happening, similar to those who have been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Their everyday speech patterns and favorite topics of conversation are usually regarded by those around them as being somewhat bizarre, although not totally “crazy” in the popular sense of the term. They may also take a keen interest in cults and in the paranormal. Although certainly not everyone who is interested in such topics has a schizotypal personality disorder, the true schizotypal still tends to stand out because of bizarre thought patterns.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
</div>
<div class="aolmail_Level3">
<b><u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder.</span></u></b></div>
<div class="aolmail_Level4">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></div>
<div class="aolmail_MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Although the American Psychiatric Association no longer officially lists this as a separate personality disorder, people with <i>passive aggressive</i> tendencies try to disrupt things by sabotaging the success of their employers, their family, or their friends without appearing do so deliberately, because they feel that their own needs for recognition, status, or achievement are not being met, or that other people are more successful than they are. Passive aggressive people may risk an occasional confrontation if it helps them to get their frustrations out, but they can usually gauge their actions carefully enough to avoid losing their jobs or their families.</span></div>
<div class="aolmail_MsoNormal">
<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If they are not frankly and firmly confronted about their behavior, their passive-aggressive patterns may become worse over time as they continue to follow their own “hidden agendas” and they feel that their actions are being accepted or condoned. They may single out for special treatment vulnerable individuals or groups who will not or cannot “fight back,” and their behavior may degenerate into outright bullying. Then, when the inevitable day of reckoning does arrive, the consequences may be much more serious -- both for the victims and for the organization -- than if the problem had been immediately and forcefully dealt with.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
</div>
<div class="aolmail_MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Limitations of a Personality Disorder Diagnosis.</span></b></div>
</div>
<div class="aolmail_MsoNormal">
<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In order to qualify for any of the foregoing diagnoses of personality <i>disorder</i>, the disorder must be seen to cause people significant distress in their social, intellectual, or occupational functioning, regardless of whether or not they are aware of this fact. Temperamental but highly successful movie stars, for example, whose demanding and self-centered behavior would interfere with their adjustment in another setting, would probably not qualify for a diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder as long as they can "get away with it." Similarly, people who live alone in a remote location miles from the nearest neighbor would not qualify for a diagnosis of avoidant personality disorder as long as they are able to function well their current situation, regardless of how intensely they may dislike having social contact with their fellow human beings.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
</div>
<div class="aolmail_MsoNormal">
<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's easy to see how more than one personality disorder, or the traits of several, can work together in the same individual. Most of us are familiar with, or have heard stories about, the narcissistic borderline who sleeps her way into an executive position and then proceeds to systematically eliminate all those who are familiar with how she got to where she is, while tyrannizing over the ones who have been hired as their replacements. We are also not surprised to learn about a narcissistic antisocial convict (sometimes referred to as a psychopath), who immediately commits another crime upon his release from prison, which entitles him to several more years of "three hots and a cot," plus free medical and dental care. Many of us have also witnessed instances of a passive-aggressive histrionic, who regularly disrupts public meetings with their oft-repeated tales of woe, to the extent that it becomes next to impossible to get any business done. </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">People with personality disorders are not likely to seek professional assistance, because they are frequently inclined to blame their troubles on everyone but themselves. When they do seek help, it is usually because they are forced to do so (often in conjunction with an assault or a suicide attempt, or because a family member insists on it). They tend to remain as long as they are "hurting," or as long as they are forced to stay. When they are no longer hurting and are in a position to stop, they discontinue treatment.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div class="aolmail_MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: left;">
<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Instead of seeing the personality-disordered individual directly,a therapist is much more likely to see a family member, romantic partner, or employee who presents with anxiety or depression as a result of their interaction with someone who has a personality disorder (whom they may refer to as a "toxic person" or an "energy vampire").</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A final word of caution: as stated previously, an actual diagnosis of a personality disorder should only be made by an appropriately trained mental health professional. One of the easiest and most powerful ways to insult people is to let them know that you suspect them of having a personality disorder! While avoiding making such a diagnosis yourself unless you are properly trained to do so, and not communicating your suspicions to the individuals concerned, knowing how to recognize the major <i>symptoms</i> of a personality disorder will place you in a much better position to deal with such people on a daily basis, and to seek professional assistance in order to better cope with them if you need to do so. </span><br>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Of course, I am: not talking about people with just <strong>any </strong>mental illness. I am talking about the comparatively few people with a personality disorder, which is the subject of this post.</span><br>
<br>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I often say to my clients that' the one who comes to therapy is frequently not really the one who needs it, and they agree. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Family systems theorists refer to these clients as the "identified patient" who is usually the healthiest one in a sick family But in the majority of cases, they are unable to leave, and they come to learn coping skills. </span><br>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We'd love to get personality disordered peoplle into therapy, but most of the time they just won't go. (In fact, many of my colleagues now agree that we've got one in the Whte House!)</span></div>
<div>
<br></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Print Sources</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cavaiola, A. C., & Lavender, N. J. (2000). <i>Toxic co-workers: How to deal with dysfunctional people on the job.</i> Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">American Psychiatric Association (2013). <i>Diagnostic and statistical manual, DSM-V.</i> Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association. </span></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<div dir="ltr">
<div style="text-align: left;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div style="text-align: left;">
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div>
<div class="WordSection7">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div class="MsoNormal">
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">
<div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">
<div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Don E. Gibbons, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08911775218803400535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443506164555932844.post-55039467243556865142020-04-16T10:13:00.000-04:002020-04-21T16:01:00.547-04:00Multiversal Meditation to Strengthen the Will to Achieve<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnyCg8gttHrGRANGoZRmpmzuei95z9uTyPbdvFj4Jw4YxJdjAtsosdgpy0F5WzUmgW3zIyM78umYbyXybEFUYfbIbTAufBwhEGDVy5dvOPnHuRpz9J7norBkrv3h2ECS6BDhOSq_jWHeI4/s320/469.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">The Human Capacity for Achievement has Scarcely Been Tapped.</span></b></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div dir="ltr">
<br></div>
<div dir="ltr">Just before the end of the academic year, a student who was about to take her final examinations consulted me for relief from the anxiety which had been interfering with her ability to prepare for them.</div><div dir="ltr"> </div>
<div dir="ltr">
I asked her to think of a time in her life when she was happily and productively engaged in working toward a much-desired goal. When she was able to visualize this clearly, I asked her to re-capture that mood, concentrate on it, and bring it back into the present, even if she had to do so repeatedly, using a variety of situations from her past, until the new pattern was successfully established. She later reported that this method had successfully helped her to "lose the blues" while srudying.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">When regularly incorporàted into the practice of <a href="https://hyperempiria.blogspot.com/2019/09/mindful-hypnotic-meditation-speed.html">multiversal meditation,</a> the following suggestions have been shown to be effective, drawing in the future rather than the past: "Whenever you have a goal that you can deeply believe in with all your heart, you will be able to visualize the rewards of a future goal that you deeply believe in so clearly that you can <i>believe</i> it will happen, <i>expect</i> it to happen, and <i>feel it happening</i>, as<i> </i><i>you </i><b><i>act</i></b>, <b><i>think</i></b>, and <b><i>feel</i></b> as if it were <b><i>impossible to fail!"</i></b></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<b><i><br></i></b></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<br></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Don E. Gibbons, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08911775218803400535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443506164555932844.post-60740853604020472832020-04-12T10:09:00.001-04:002020-05-28T12:57:01.298-04:00One Hundred Inspiring Quotes to Change Your Life <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe width="320" height="266" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/s4xhY6Nfn5k/0.jpg" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/s4xhY6Nfn5k?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<br /></div>
</div>
Don E. Gibbons, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08911775218803400535noreply@blogger.com