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Put your mind to it Hypnosis can help to change self-destructive behavior

‘Guided imaging’ may help with pregnancy, gambling addiction, smoking, compulsive eating or pain.

Vivian Guggenheim’s experiences with the powers of hypnosis date back to when she was only 10 years old. Her father, a forward-thinking Los Angeles internist, took his young daughter to a hypnosis seminar for doctors, and was chosen from the audience to participate.

“I remember going into a very relaxed state and having my right arm rise up,” said Guggenheim, who has been a certified hypnotherapist in Riverdale for nearly four years, after practicing in Beverly Hills for two.

The poignancy of that childhood experience left an indelible impression on Guggenheim and in 2006, while working for the Los Angeles school system, she enrolled in an intensive yearlong certification course at the Hypnosis Motivation Institute in Tarzana, Ca. After the course, Guggenheim was honored with the school’s Academic Achievement Award and the Director’s Award.

With her newly acquired knowledge of hypnosis, a bachelor’s degree in biology as well as the experience of raising three children, Guggenheim felt more than ready to help people to help themselves.

“People come to me to make positive changes in their lives,” she said. “They use hypnosis to gain control of their behaviors, emotions and physical wellbeing, and often see very quick results.”

Guggenheim has used hypnotherapy — what she also calls “guided imagery” — to help dozens of people quit smoking and deal with compulsive eating or gambling problems. She has also worked with clients to overcome pain from surgery or illness. Other issues she treats include insomnia, fears and phobias regarding test taking, public speaking and even medical and dental procedures.

Barbara Harris had been smoking for about 30 years before her first visit to Guggenheim two years ago.

“I had tried the patches and well as prescription medication and good old fashion will power and none of them worked,” said Harris. “Vivian helped me recognize triggers that made me smoke, and the post-hypnotic suggestions that would get me over the urge to smoke.”

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Hypnosis Quacky or Qualified?

A closer look: the ability to be hypnotized seems to be a distinct trait with varied degrees of suggestibility across the population. Photograph: Ebby May/Getty Images

Hypnosis is the eccentric uncle of cognitive science. It was once part of the mainstream – studied by scientists and clinicians alike in its 1960s heyday – but it slowly fell into disrepute as it was picked up and popularized by tacky stage hypnotists and quack practitioners in the following decades.

In recent years, hypnosis has seen something of a rebirth, and neuroscience studies using the technique are now regularly published in some of the most respected scientific journals. Curiously, though, it hasn't shaken off the stigma entirely. While writing this article I contacted several researchers who have published neuroscience studies using hypnosis, and not one replied. The reticence is understandable. Like the study of consciousness 20 years ago, hypnosis is still considered by some to be a "career-limiting move". Consequently, scientists make sure they stick to the most conservative and orthodox form of research – academic journals, occasional conference presentations, and definitely nothing that hints of hype, or indeed, public exposure.

The lack of wider discussion is a pity, as hypnosis – or rather suggestibility – is a remarkable aspect of human psychology. The ability to be hypnotized seems to be a distinct trait that is distributed among the population, like height or shoe size, in a "bell curve" or normal distribution: a minority of people cannot engage with any suggestions, a minority can engage with almost all, and most people can achieve a few.

The key word here is "engage", as, contrary to popular belief, hypnosis cannot be used to make people do something against their will, even though the effects seem to happen involuntarily. If this seems paradoxical, a good analogy is watching a movie: you don't decide to react emotionally to the on-screen story, but you can choose to turn away or disengage at any time. In other words, the effects of the film, just like hypnosis, require your active participation.

The most difficult suggestions to achieve are those which affect the fundamentals of the mind, such as memory and perception, meaning that while highly hypnotisable people can experience temporary hallucinations and amnesia after suitable suggestions, low-hypnotisable people may only be able to experience temporary changes in their volition or movements – such as an arm feeling heavier than usual, perhaps.

It seems, however, that there is very little that can be done to make you more or less hypnotisable – the hypnotisability trait is the primary factor in how successfully you can experience the effects. We know that there is a genetic component to this trait and that several studies have indicated that highly hypnotisable people show structural and functional differences in the brain when compared to low-hypnotisables, but the question of why we have a varying ability to have our reality changed by suggestions remains a mystery.

Due to their ability to have their mental processes temporarily altered in ways previously not thought possible, highly hypnotisable people have become key in scientific studies. Amir Raz and colleagues at McGill University in Montreal reported that it was possible to "switch off" automatic word reading and abolish the Stroop effect – a psychological phenomenon that demonstrates a conflict between meanings, such as where we are much slower to identify the ink colour of a word when the word itself describes a different hue. Furthermore, when this experiment was run in a brain scanner, participants showed much lower activation in both the anterior cingulate cortex, an area known to be particularly involved in resolving conflict between competing demands, and the visual cortex, which is crucial for recognising words. Although this may seem like a technicality, to the scientific world it was a strikingly persuasive demonstration that hypnosis could apparently disassemble an automatic and well-established psychological effect in a manner consistent with the brain processes that support it.

Neuro imaging has also proved key in answering the question of whether hypnotized people are pretending to experience the effects. When people are asked to fake hypnosis, to the point where observers cannot tell the difference between them and the genuinely hypnotized people, the two groups are clearly distinguishable by their brain activity.

Taking the science one step further, researchers from the Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science in Sydney have published a series of studies in which they have used hypnosis to temporarily simulate genuine conditions where patients may hold false beliefs or lose awareness of a problem after brain injury. One such condition, called somatoparaphrenia, can occur after right-sided brain injury and can result in the patient denying ownership of a limb. Literally, the patient believes that their arm is not theirs, has been replaced, or belongs to someone else – something which both challenges our intuitive ideas about how we perceive our body and can pose a practical problem for post-injury rehabilitation. In highly hypnotizeable volunteers, the Macquarie team momentarily instilled a similar feeling of limb alienation to examine whether healthy people could rationalize such a counter intuitive idea, finding that participants remained consistent in their explanations even when challenged with visual evidence.

A special issue of the respected journal Cortex will shortly be dedicated to the neuropsychology of hypnosis, additionally pointing to the growing momentum of the scientific revival. The wider public, however, still base their knowledge on the watches and weight-loss stereotype, meaning it is likely to be a while before neuroscientists feel comfortable about breaking their self-imposed silence

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All Hypnosis is Self Hypnosis, Not A Hypnotist's Power

Hypnosis is not the hypnotist's power, everyone is able to hypnotize him/herself.

What is the difference between a hypnotizer and a hypnotist?  Well, there is a  stereotype that a hypnotizer  hypnotizes for the purpose of entertainment and a hypnotist use hypnotism as a cure for patients. But actually there is no difference at all between this two words.

Hypnotism is a process of hypnotizing. Still is not clear what is the point of it.

- Hypnosis is unclassified process", says New York City hypnotist Alexandre Ivlev -Nobody really knows why a human is entering the hypnotic trance. But we do know that hypnotism is a natural state and it's safe", says Alexandre.

Thus hypnosis is a natural force and it's not a hypnotist's or a hypnotizer's power.
That's why anyone can induce hypnosis him/herself. Very first medical hypnotist  James Braid used to hypnotized himself many times before offering self hypnosis to his patients.

Self hypnosis doesn't have any side effects and easy to induce, the benefits of self hypnosis are priceless: better sleep, better memory, better health, better life,"

All in all All Hypnosis is self Hypnosis, think of it as the Hypnotherapist is the pilot flying the plane and the client is the co pilot, both need eachother in order to move forward. 

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Hiv and Hypnosis

If you are suffering from HIV/AIDS, then you know just how disheartening this disease is. Fortunately, hypnosis can help you improve the quality of your life in a number of important ways.

On an emotional level, it can help you come to terms with your diagnosis. It can help you reduce and even banish feelings of fear, anxiety and depression. And since these can all impair the functioning of your immune system, this can even lead to an improvement in your physical well-being.

Hypnosis can also be used to reduce the side-effects of any treatments you are having. For instance, it has been proven to be particularly effective when dealing with rashes and digestive disorders.

It can also be used to help you sleep more soundly, eat a more nutritious diet, and even implement a sound exercise program.

It has also been clinically proven to help you reduce any pain you may be feeling. And this in turn can lead to a significant reduction in the amount of medication you need to control this pain.

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HIV/AIDS Fact Sheet

This is where the body gets infected by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) which then causes the immune system to slowly fail, exposing the body to all sorts of opportunistic infections and diseases that will eventually lead to death.

Causes

• having unprotected sex with someone who is infected;
• being born to a mother who is infected;
• drinking the breast milk of someone who is infected;
• getting tattooed or pierced by equipment that was previously used on an infected person (and was improperly sterilized);
• using a needle that was previously used by someone who is infected (and was improperly sterilized);
• sharing a toothbrush, razor or anything that may contain blood with someone who is infected.

Symptoms

• a progressive decline in the number of CD+4 T-cells;
• a progressive increase in the amount of Human Immunodeficiency Virus in certain bodily fluids;
• fever;
• diarrhea;
• rashes;
• sore throat;
• muscle pain and stiffness;
• swollen lymph nodes;
• sores in the mouth and esophagus;
• frequent infections (such as yeast infections);
• a lowered resistance to common illnesses.

How Hypnosis Can Help You

If you have HIV/AIDS, then hypnosis is ideally suited to helping you deal with this condition because:

• it can help you come to terms with your diagnosis and make any necessary changes to your life;
• it can give you a greater sense of control over your life;
• it can enhance your innate capacity to heal yourself;
• it can boost the functioning of your immune system;
• it can help you eat better and begin a sound exercise program;
• it can improve your ability to follow sound medical advice and work with your physicians;
• it can help to reduce the amount of medication you require to manage your symptoms;
• it has an analgesic effect and can help block pain and discomfort;
• it can improve your sleeping patterns and overcome insomnia;
• it can help you to deal with the emotional aspects of your illness;
• it can reduce feelings of stress, anxiety and depression;
• it can help by allowing you to dissociate yourself (focus your mind and attention elsewhere) from your condition so you don't dwell in it too much;
• it can help if there is a link between a specific emotional trauma and the onset of your condition;
• it can help if it involves any subconscious and state-dependent processes.

Some Research That Proves These Claims...

The scientific research is conclusive. If you are capable of entering into a moderately deep state of hypnosis (something 70% of the population can achieve), then hypnosis can help you. Here is a summation of some of these studies...

Hypnosis for Terminal End Stage AIDS: Easing the Passage to Death.

This paper discusses the many ways that hypnosis can be used to improve the quality of life for AIDS patients who are in the terminal stage of this illness. The most important being that it can help to relieve their pain and suffering. This in turn has a ripple effect because it reduces feelings of stress, tension, and anxiety. And since these emotions have been proven to impair the functioning of the immune system, this can help them to live longer. Hypnosis can also be used to help them to deal more directly with their emotional distress. And when these patients are taught to do self-hypnosis, this can be particularly empowering because it teaches them that they have more control over their physiological and psychological states than they had previously thought. This in turn gives them a greater feeling of control over what is happening to them, so they no longer feel so helpless.

The Use of Hypnosis with Asymptomatic HIV Infected People.

The author of this paper reports on the use of hypnosis in their clinical practice to help those who are HIV positive "cope with interpersonal relationships and such issues as anxiety, fear of death and dying, sense of powerlessness and loss, and reaction to stigmatization." Based on their observations and the feedback they received from those involved, the authors concluded that hypnosis was particularly effective when it came to relieving stress and learning how to develop the necessary coping skills for dealing with this illness. They also noted that it can be very counterproductive and possibly even harmful if the hypnotist implies that hypnosis can heal them of HIV, or prevent HIV from turning into AIDS.

Hypnosis for the Control of HIV/AIDS-Related Pain.

Five adults suffering from AIDS were recruited for a 12-week study to determine if hypnosis could help them deal more effectively with the pain associated with their illness. By the end of the study 4 of them had been able to significantly reduce the amount of medication they needed to manage their pain.

Boosting the Immune System

Hypnosis is a Modulator of Cellular Immune Disregulation During Acute Stress. 

This study involved 33 medical and dental students who were selected because they were considered to be susceptible to hypnosis. Initial samples of their blood were taken during a period of low stress. Then they were then split into two groups: one serving as the control group, and the other receiving training in hypnosis for relaxation. The group that received hypnosis, on average, did not show the same decrease in CD3+ and CD4+ T-lymphocytesinterleukin 1 (which plays an important inflammatory role against infections) as the control group. It was also noted that an increase in the use of hypnosis for relaxation was associated with higher levels of CD3+ and CD4+ T-lymphocytes. This study concluded that hypnosis can help reduce the negative effect highly stressful situations have on our immune system.

Self-Hypnosis and Exam Stress: Comparing Immune and Relaxation-Related Imagery for Influences on Immunity, Health and Mood. 

Medical School students were recruited for this research project to study the effect that training in self-hypnosis has on mood, health and the functioning of the immune system during exam time. They were broken into two groups where they were trained in 3 weekly group sessions and then given a self-hypnosis audio-recording and encouraged to listen to it at home. The control group received 'relaxation-related-imagery' training, while the study group received 'immune-related-imagery' training. The participants then had samples of their blood taken during exam time to determine the levels of various lymphocytes (CD3, CD4, CD8, & CD19), natural killer cells (CD56). Those students who had received the 'immune-related-imagery' reported lower levels of viral illnesses, such as colds and the flu, than those who had only received the 'relaxation-related-imagery.' The 'immune-related-imagery' group also did not experience the same lowering of the levels in their lymphocytes as the other group did. This study concludes that self-hypnosis can improve the functioning of the immune system and lead to improvements in well-being.

Individual Differences in Personality, Immunology and Mood In Patients Undergoing Self-Hypnosis Training for the Successful Treatment of a Chronic Viral Illness, HSV-2. 

This study examined the effects of self-hypnosis training among patients who were suffering from severe and chronic outbreaks of the herpes simplex virus and genital herpes. They were assessed both before and after a six-week training program where it was found that self-hypnosis cut the rate of recurrence by almost 50% in the group as a whole, and that it benefited 65% of those involved. Those who responded well also showed an increase in the ability of their natural killer cells (NKC) to kill the herpes virus. It was also found that the more hypnotizable a subject was, the more they responded to this treatment.

Monocyte Chemotactic Activity in Sera After Hypnotically Induced Emotional States.

A number of studies have shown that both psychological and emotional factors can affect the functioning of the immune system. As a result, the researchers involved in this study wanted to find out the effect that certain emotional states, when induced by hypnosis, can have on “monocyte chemotaxis and endocrinological parameters.” They selected 11 highly hypnotizable subjects, put them into a deep trance and then given them suggestions to relive previous moments in their life when they experienced intense bouts of anger or depression. At the end of the hypnosis session they were then given suggestions to experience feelings of happiness. Blood samples were taken before the hypnosis session, after each emotional state and when the session was over. They found that the chemotactic activity (the movement of a microorganism in response to chemical stimulation) that occurred when the subjects were in a depressed state was significantly lower than it was when they were in the angry state. They also found that the chemotactic activity in both of these emotional states (angry and depressed) was significantly lower than that of the 'happy' state.

Modulation of Type 1 Immediate and Type IV Delayed Immunoreactivity Using Direct Suggestion and Guided Imagery During Hypnosis.

Eight highly hypnotizable volunteers were recruited for this study (based on how well the did on the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility, Form A). It was found that when the members of this group were given suggestions to decrease their reaction to a histamine prick test, there was a significant reduction in flare-ups when compared to a control group. This study confirmed numerous anecdotal reports that hypnotic suggestions can decrease allergic skin reactions.

Hypnotizability and Immunological Response to Psychological Intervention in HIV.

Twenty-two subjects who were HIV positive, were put into two groups. Thirteen were given 4 weekly hypnosis training sessions (2 hours each) and told to practice self-hypnosis on a daily basis, while 9 subjects (the control group) were given similar training in a Japanese healing art called Johrei. None of the participants had ever used any anti-viral medication. This study concluded that the most important factor in predicting a successful outcome, was hypnotizability. This was because those who were highly hypnotizable ended up with significantly higher the levels of CD4+ t-lymphocytes when compared to those who were not hypnotizable.

Can Relaxation Training and Hypnotherapy Modify the Immune Response To Stress, and is Hypnotizability Relevant?

Twenty-four healthy subjects were assigned to either relaxation training that involved hypnosis or to a control group. The subjects were brought back three times where they were given various psychological tests and had samples of their blood and urine collected. On their second visit (20 days after the first) they gave samples of their blood and urine before and after they were exposed to a “stressor.” Those who had received the hypnotic relaxation training had a better immune response (as measured by “lymphocyte responsiveness and IL-1 secretion”) than the other group. However, after further analysis it was found that among the members of this group, there was a direct correlation between those whose immune systems performed the best and those who had the highest scores on the Creative Imagination Scale (one of the tests often used to assess hypnotizability).

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What is Transpersonal Hypnosis?

This is for many a scary concept and for some this may go against your religious belief's, if this is the case please do not be offended by this information, it just means it's not for you. 

My qualifications are Clinincal Hypnotherapist Transpersonal, but what is the Transpersonal bit all about ?

Well in essence it is Natal Regression (inside the womb) Past Life Regression (past lives) and also Life Between Life Regressions (The spiritual side of our past)

I know you may be thinking why on earth would we want to go back inside the womb? What information could we possibly gain there that is relevant to the here and now.

Answer is rather a lot!

I had a fear of dying and when I was regressed back to the cause I found myself curled up in a ball and a loud booming noise in my ears.

What I could hear was her heartbeat.

I found out that my mother was terrified she was going to miscarry and that I would not make it, interesting as we don't have a good relationship, and I never felt close to my mother.

Once i could see my fears were based on my mothers emotions I was able to let go of that and move on.

I called my mother later that day and she couldn't believe what I told her, indeed she was told I was never going to make it and that she should prepare to loose the pregnancy, for this reason she never bonded with the pregnancy or me.

She had never spoken of this before I called her that day.

A past life is when we have lived before and sometimes we carry, beliefs and emotions into the next lifetime, but these do not make sense in this lifetime and can be rather confusing and a cause for us to seek help in uncovering what the cause is.

I suffered headaches and had no idea why, after a regression the, be there now lead me back inside the womb (this is a long running theme for me by the way) and I was being aborted, the reason for the headaches were because I was 6 months and it was a back street job,

When I passed away I was in so much pain because my head had suffered the most unimaginable trauma, being such a small baby I didn't know what was happening and as a result had stayed present until the very end.

I was guided back before the injury took place and left my body before it happened, healing the headaches.

I know this is so shocking and to me at the time it was but I also gained insight into why this was happening and I felt no hatred towards my mother at the time, only love and compassion.

It is Imperative we are all at peace when we pass, I have lived with the physical karma of a past life and I do not want any other person to go through what I did. (I am available for spiritual counseling for this very reason) For me being able to be authentic about what I have experienced has made me a very good counselor in helping those near the end of their life to be at peace, this also is incredibly healing for the family left behind to really know it's not goodbye it's see you later.

Sound crazy ? Yes it probably does but I can assure you it was 100% true, I have 10 witness to prove it.

Life between life regressions are when we want to know the purpose of life and or who our soul group is.

We go back to the life before and past the death scene (not as bad as you may think) and we experience the soul returning to "home" this is where we are met by a guide and taken back for regeneration and a conversation about how much we learnt in that lifetime and what we could have done better.

In essence this is what Transpersonal Hypnotherapy is.

We need to be clear where we want to go to, and what we want to accomplish, example the past life most affecting me today, or if you want to find out why you have an aversion to a person or place.

Dr Brian Weiss MD has written many books in this fascinating subject. here is a link to his website. http://www.brianweiss.com/  He has many teachings on the subject and interesting you tube profile.

Yes transpersonal may not go well with certain belief's but for the most part it can be the answer to something you have been dealing with a long time, If i had not been brave enough to look back would still be suffering today.

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What Hypnosis Really Does to Your Brain

Most people agree that hypnosis does something to your brain — specifically something that makes people make fools of themselves at hypnotist shows. But how does it actually affect the human brain? Can it make people recall events perfectly? Are post-hypnotic suggestions a bunch of baloney? What is the truth about hypnotism?

A History of Hypnosis

Nearly every culture in the world has a history of hypnotic trances. Some only considered them spiritual or eerie, but most began to make use of them as soon as they were discovered. India and China have ancient records showing hypnotic trances being used to relieve pain during surgery. The practice migrated to Europe, where in 1794 a young boy having an operation for a tumor was put under. The boy was Jacob Grimm, who grew up to write about quite a few hypnotic trances in his and his brother's book of fairy tales.

As ether and anesthesia came in, hypnosis went out. The medical community at large rejected its claims to pain reduction and hypnotic suggestions. Meanwhile, Hollywood embraced it as a plot device, adding on fantastic properties that made it seem still more outlandish to the public. It finally settled in the entertainment industry, where it does have the power to make people do extremely silly things, with extreme sincerity. (Watching some dead-serious kids give Grammy speeches as if they were Ricky Martin convinced me that hypnotism must have power over people.) But the extent of its power has always been debated.

How Hypnosis Affects the Brain

A person in a hypnotic state will appear tuned-out, and one of the marks of true hypnosis is a decrease in involuntary eye movement to the point where deeply hypnotized people will have to be reminded to blink. This gives an observer the impression that the hypnotized aren't paying attention. In fact, they're playing hyper-attention. Compared to a resting brain, many areas come online when a person is put into a hypnotic trance. All the areas that flare to life during hypnosis are also engaged when a person is concentrating on mental imagery — except one. Like many areas of the brain, the precuneus lights up during many different tasks, all of them having to do with a consciousness of self. It also deals with visuospatial aspects of the brain, letting us know where we are in space.

In essence, when we're hypnotized, people are able to concentrate intensely on self-created imagery (or imagery that suggested to them) but do not place their selves as part of that imagery. They've lost the reminder of what they personally do and what normal judgments they make, while increasing their ability to think about a whole range of imaginary situations. This explains the way adults can act out under the influence of hypnosis, or how they might remain calm and collected in situations that would otherwise terrify them. But how far does it go?

The Power of Hypnosis

One of the most incredible feats people under hypnosis are supposed to perform is the ability to remember details of a past event that a person has consciously forgotten. In movies everyone, under hypnosis, suddenly has a photographic memory (right up until they try to see the killer's face). There is debate, and some hypnotherapists claim that they have helped people retrace their steps through hypnosis and remember locations of, say, lost items or valuable papers.

But a larger study at Ohio State University cast doubt on whether hypnosis can actually enhance your memory to such an extent. When two groups of students, one hypnotized and one only relaxed, were asked about the dates of certain historical events, the groups performed equally well. The only difference was, when they were informed that there were some errors in their answers, the hypnotized group changed fewer answers than the unhypnotized group. Hypnosis got a more infamous reputation when it was used by psychologists to 'recover' lost memories, often of childhood abuse, that never happened.

But hypnosis does have the power to tap into memory in ways that other techniques do not. Most importantly, it has the ability to induce temporary, reversible amnesia. This condition is extremely rare, as many amnesiacs don't recover their memories, and some unlucky ones can't make new memories.

Although not all hypnotized patients can have their memories suppressed, and no one suppresses their memories unless they're told to, the effects can be startling. For one thing, the entire memory can be brought back with a word. This indicates that hypnosis doesn't obliterate memories, it just temporarily shuts off the retrieval system. One woman was told she couldn't remember the word 'six,' and so answered 'seven' to mathematical questions. A man forgot his own name. Any memory could be suppressed.

But the memory didn't go away. A group of students were hypnotized and told to forget a short film they had just watched. While unable to answer questions about the film, they had no problem remembering if the film was, for example, shot on a handheld camera. It was only the content that was suppressed. This ability to remember and react to the context of a thing without remembering the thing itself is the post-hypnotic suggestion. It's a suggested habit that makes sense in context (like reaching for a cell phone when hearing a ringtone) but not at that moment (if you deliberately left your cell phone at home). It just doesn't occur to the person to think of what they're reacting to before they react.

Another amazing hypnotic ability is, supposedly, suppression of pain. While it makes sense that people might feel less self-conscious, what with the part of their brain that feels self-consciousness offline, and that their perception might be altered by the part of the brain that governs perception, but pain is different. One of the primary functions of pain is to force someone out of the reverie they're in and make them pay attention to reality. Pain is the outside world breaking in.

But scientists studying perception think our experience is shaped far more by what we expect the stimulus to be than the stimulus itself. There are ten times as many nerve fibers carrying information down as carrying it up. Most people will have experienced feeling a shape in their pockets and being disoriented until they remember that it's a wadded up receipt, at which point the sensations seem familiar.

More to the point, most people will remember an itching or sting that, when they see a more serious injury than they expected, will blossom into pain. A hypnotized person undergoing surgery, for example, may be able to convince themselves that they're experiencing the discomfort of a bug bite instead of a scalpel. That, along with a state of enforced relaxation, can make all the difference.

But the shadiest aspect of hypnotism — what it can make an entranced person do — is still shrouded in mystery. Most hypnotists take pains to stress that no one is enslaved when they're in a hypnotized state, and that they can't be made to do something they don't want to do. Of course, that is the line they'd take. Scientists are, understandably, reluctant to give people the suggestion to murder someone under hypnosis, and test the results. Perhaps the best test of this isn't science, but history. Although there have always been legends of people under the direction of an evil puppet-master committing unspeakable acts against their will, there have been no actual cases. So don't worry about going to those hypnotist shows. Just . . . don't sit in the front.

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