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Hypnosis and Health
Imagine having a tool at your disposal that allowed you to make alterations to your habits, including habitualized thoughts and emotions, not just behaviors. Would you use that? What if you were using it anyway and just didn’t know it? What if others were using it to influence you to do their bidding? Wouldn’t you want some say over how much others are allowed to influence you?
Increases in hypnotizability resulting from a prolonged program for enhancing personal growth, a journal article from the 1970s by Doctor Charles Tart was discussing not only the benefits, but that the more one engages, the better they become at the process. It seems like as much as we know about hypnosis, as a tool it has not advanced as much as other technologies.
We’ve known about hypnosis since at least the 18th century, when Franz Mesmer was playing around with it. We could argue different religious practices were employing versions of this way earlier, whether that be engaging in meditations or Gregorian chants.
Biofeedback, mindfulness, neural feed back, meditations, music, and nature all ping in on our subconscious minds and influence us in a myriad of ways all the time. TV and news affects us. There is overwhelming evidence it keeps us in a…
