The common feature of all hypnotic phenomena is that they can occur spontaneously in a hypnotic session or as a result of a suggestion, in response to suggestion. Some hypnotic phenomena (for example, age regression and analgesia) cannot be achieved, even if many people go into a state of hypnosis. However, most people can easily go into a state of hypnosis that is sufficient for therapeutic purposes.
DISOCIATION
In any given situation, by focusing on a particular activity, we can mentally distract ourselves from other activities in the same situation. the ability and ability to escape. For example, let's say you are playing two pieces of music at the same time. If you can immerse yourself in one piece of music that you can hardly hear, your Dissociation skill is very likely very good.
Dissociation is one of the most important hypnotic phenomena. The more pronounced the dissociation, the more pronounced the person's hypnotic trance experience. A state of hypnosis can be achieved without providing relaxation. However, in order to talk about hypnosis, there must be a dissociative state.
People often have resources that they are not even aware of when it comes to helping themselves. These sources are usually dissociated from the person. In this respect, Dissociation has a very important place in the healing process (Yapko, 2003). Dossiation can be achieved with a direct suggestion. The sentence “As you go back to the age of 6 in feeling, other parts of your mind can stay in the here and now” is an example of dissociation suggestion.
There is a famous technique used by Milton Erickson in this regard. This technique is called the no place technique (Zeig, 1980). In this technique, one side of the mind is directed to a place called nowhere, while the other side of the mind is directed to stay here and now. Here's how this technique works:
It's easy to remember that a part of you is here when you're sitting that way. But the rest of your mind may go on a journey and you may not really know where you are going. Maybe you are in the middle of nowhere. There is no place or time. Only my voice and your thoughts can exist there. Here we can say nowhere. No place is a beautiful place to be. Because nowhere else is as free as this place. After all, you always have to be somewhere, somehow. But not now. Don't you think it's very enjoyable to be nowhere?
Dissociation has occurred if the client can divide their awareness into "here" and "there".
HALLUSINATIONS
Hallucinations are divided into two as positive and negative. Perceiving something that is not already there (with 5 senses) is called positive hallucination. Negative hallucination is the inability to perceive something that is already happening with the five senses. Like all other hypnotic phenomena, hallucinations may arise spontaneously during a hypnotic session, or may or may not be induced by suggestion. The point that the therapist should be careful about is this: Let's take a person who has a hallucination, for example, a person who claims to have been abducted by aliens. As he can more clearly visualize these hallucinations in a hypnotic trance state, he may begin to believe more and more that he has been abducted by aliens. The therapist should be very careful in this regard.
In an experiment they conducted, Spanos, Flynn, and Gabora (1989) suggested that 45 subjects who are very prone to hypnosis will still be in hypnosis when they open their eyes and they will see a blank white paper in front of them. was done. Instead of a blank white paper, a piece of paper with a very large writing 8 was placed in front of the subjects. Fifteen of the 45 subjects reported seeing the paper blank. After the subjects were brought out of the hypnotic state, another expert questioned what the subjects actually saw. The expert asked the subjects to draw what they really saw. 14 out of 15 subjects wrote 8 on paper.
The following conclusions can be drawn from this experiment:
1- The state of hypnosis probably does not actually produce negative hallucinations. However, it can make people say no to a question whose answer is yes.
2-You cannot destroy anything with hypnosis by doing hocus pocus. Everything that has been experienced remains somewhere in the brain.
AGE REGRSSI ON)
Aging is the mental regression of a person to a certain period of their life under hypnotic trance. The purpose of this flashback may be to remember some events from the past. However, scientific research shows that not everything remembered in hypnosis has to be true. Yes, in the case of hypnosis, a person can use their memory a little more clearly. This is true. But thanks to the increased imagination in the state of hypnosis, people can also remember things that did not happen as if they had happened. As a result, hypnosis increases the probability of remembering, but since it also increases the margin of error, the recall in hypnosis does not differ much from normal recall in terms of importance.
During regression, people may speak childishly, and the pictures they draw may be childish. Even the sucking reflex and the Babinski reflex are observed. Despite all this, we cannot say that the person has completely gone back to that age. When you apply age regression in hypnosis to a person who spent his childhood in Germany, even if he remembers a few words in German, if he cannot speak German in daily life, he will not be able to speak German during age regression. In this respect, there is no age regression in the phenomenon of age regression. What is in question is a quality and effective journey made by the brain towards the past. ) to provide. The process done here is to give a new and more accurate meaning to the old memory. Sewing a new and more accurate dress to an old memory, of course, affects our feelings and thoughts and changes our psychology.
In terms of age regression, there are more facilitating techniques rather than direct suggestion to the client, "You are 7 years old now". available. For example, age regression is facilitated by using imagery techniques. The client may be asked to imagine himself in a vehicle. This vehicle can be a train, airplane, time machine, spaceship or an elevator. It is said that this special tool will take the client on a journey into the past. After the client imagines himself on the train, he slowly travels. Details are depicted. The therapist may suggest that you go a little further back as you pass each station. And when you get off at the last station, the person is somewhere in the past.
Pay attention, this approach does not take the client to a day or time in the past. Thus, although the client cannot achieve age regression, this poses no problem in terms of the therapy process. Since not every hypnotist can be successfully teleported to a time in the past in terms of age or time, the indirect approach is more accurate in this regard. Yes, hypnotic phenomena are real. However, it should be noted that not every hypnotic phenomenon should be expected to be observed in every person. However, it is not the right approach to index the therapy strategy to a single hypnotic phenomenon.
When age regression is done too much directly (for example, now I'm lowering my age by 15 years) and fails, the client can be both hypnotized and hypnotherapist. His self-confidence in hypnosis also decreases. However, if the confidence of the person mentioned in the previous sentence had not decreased, perhaps that person would have been very successful in the age-advancing technique, not in age regression. It's time for the age progression phenomenon.
AGE PROGRESSION
The therapist helps the client focus on a future time in the age progression technique. tries to be The means of transportation such as trains, airplanes, and spaceships, which are explained in the section on age regression, go forward, not backwards in time.
In age progression, the therapist helps the client to reinvigorate himself in the future. In a sense, this is the future rehearsal of healthier emotions, thoughts, and psychology. When the client revives the future and returns to the present thanks to the age-progression technique, the feelings of the present are no longer the feelings of the present a little bit. Because the emotions of the present have experienced the future at a deep level, they are almost forced to change.
In age regression, the client imagines himself in the future after the change in therapy. This dream includes how he tackles old problems with a new strategy. Age progression also means that therapy can be terminated or terminated. indicates that it cannot be broken. For example, although the client can imagine and feel the future, if what he sees in the future is “the same bowl, the same bath”, it is clear that therapy cannot be ended yet.
In fact, any mental journey we make is psychologically healing. Non-mental journeys (holidays, annual leave, etc.) are also healing. Because every journey interrupts our mental sets. A mental journey to the past or future with a good therapist can be curative. In the state of hypnosis, the mind does not simply travel to the past or the future. In the state of hypnosis, we can also take an imaginary trip to a place we love, which we call dissociation.
HYPNOTIC AMNESIA (HYPNOTIC AMNESIA)
Hypnotic amnesia is the power of the client in hypnotic state to forget some materials. However, in the case of hypnosis, this type of forgetting brought about by suggestions is not forgetting forever. Hypnosis cannot completely erase such information from memory, but it can ensure that it is stored in a certain region of our memory. Thus, some memories from the past do not wander under our feet in daily life. It should be noted that the brain cannot delete data like a computer. In reality, the working principles of a computer and a brain are both very similar and very different.
By the way, my girlfriend, whom I broke up with, has become an obsession, and I can't help but think about what I do. We come across many requests such as help me forget her with hypnosis. The client wishes that he does not even remember the name of his lover. In reality, however, it is not an easy thing for a hypnosis or hypnotherapist to achieve. Because what is wanted to be forgotten is not just one thing. A lover, especially a long-term relationship, leaves a lot of emotional and intellectual traces in your brain. You may have thousands of memories with that lover. Thousands of memories, emotions etc. How can the therapist find one by one and destroy them with suggestions? Of course, hypnosis doesn't work that way. Well, hypnosis doesn't help people in this situation. The benefits of hypnosis for people in this situation can be as follows: We do not try to destroy or burn a bad book we read at home. We'll put that bad book out of sight. brain
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