HYPNOSIS INFORMATION
Visual Self
Hypnosis Therapy
If you WORK on
the computer for 2 or more hours per day.. come here and relax your eyes &
mind. you must do it 1 time every hour TO KEEP YOUR
eYES HEALTHY!

Visual self hypnosis using image animation. An excellent way to relax your mind
and eyes when you are under stress or just have eye fatigue from being on the
computer too long. Just let your eyes gaze into the center of the hypnotic image
animation and let yourself go! Self hypnosis can be a powerful tool to unlock
your mind. Try self-hypnosis therapy.
With a little
practice, most people can be hypnotized and can use self-hypnosis. Hypnosis
allows us to experience thoughts, fantasies and images as almost real (Soskis,
1986). The hypnotized person knows the experience is not real, however, because
he/she doesn't act like it is real. Under hypnosis we may vividly imagine being
at the beach but we don't take off our clothes and try to jump into the water.
Yet, by experiencing a situation differently, e.g. seeing public speaking as a
way of influencing minds, we may act and feel differently (more positive, less
scared).
The mental scenes can seem very real to us but we know it is all just in our
head. It is the same experience as watching a film and feeling we are there, we
really get "into it" and become afraid, inspired, sexually aroused, very sad and
so on. This imagery is something we do, not something done to us. It used to be
thought that the hypnotist gained power over the subject through "animal
magnetism." Actually, there can be no hypnotic experience without the subject's
agreement and participation. Thus, all hypnosis is in a sense self-hypnosis.
Could anyone force you against your will to get deeply emotionally involved in a
good book or movie? No. But you can do it by yourself...and feel wonderful.
No one knows who discovered hypnosis. No doubt a storyteller thousands of years
ago. We do know that hypnosis was used to treat illness long before Christ.
During the Middle Ages, priests used self-hypnosis to make God more real to them
and to intensify their relationship with God. Hypnosis has been used by
physicians and faith healing by preachers to cure people. In the early part of
this century, a Frenchman, Emile Coue' (1922), popularized the idea of
auto-suggestion. His most famous self-instruction was, "Every day in every way
I'm getting better and better."
At first, you are likely to believe that an experienced hypnotist could perform
impressive feats but you couldn't possibly do much. That is a reflection of the
stories you have read and movies you have seen. Research has shown (Fromm, 1975)
that some people reach deeper trance states in self-hypnosis than with a
hypnotist. They have more vivid, richer imagery. Self-hypnosis costs nothing, is
easy to produce, and allows the person to make changes in the procedures so that
they work best for him/her. So, again, an old therapy technique may become even
more effective in the hands of an informed self-helper (Fisher, 1991). Alman &
Lambrou (1991) also provide a self-hypnosis induction method and specific
self-instructions for several specific problems, like self-confidence, pain
relief, weight loss, phobia reduction, etc.
It is not necessary to be hypnotized in order to have vivid imaginary
experiences. Daydreams are vivid. The basic idea of hypnosis and mental imagery
is this: if you want to do something, imagine yourself doing it over and over.
This is also called goal rehearsal. The idea is father to the act. Books by
Lazarus (1977) and Fanning (1988) are filled with examples of visualization
(without hypnosis) serving many purposes.
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