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became very fast friends and we
supper club which serves lots of food and I
corresponded after I came back to California
can tell you that there are many, many rats in
for quite a period of time. Eventually she
this place and when the lights are turned out
divorced and remarried. As you can see, if
they run all around the place.
you keep calm, and realize that they haven't
I saw her begin to frown - the message
gone anywhere except inside themselves,
got through - so I said, Now you've made
you are the best person to deal with them,
this choice you want to stay in this trance
because they have a special relationship with
and I'm going to help you tell me what it is
you and nothing untoward can happen. I
that keeps you from coming up from your
have had a dozen cases like that and dealt
trance.
with them all in similar ways.
She said, I don't want to face it.
there is no response. You must avoid,
ordinary mistakes, and keep anyone else
that's around from getting involved. Some
RELUCTANT TRANCE
people will say, Throw a glass of water in
TERMINATION
his face, or they want to smack them on the
Now let's go back to the trance
face and say Wake-up, wake-up, wake-up.
termination for those people who are a little
Keep them away you are in charge. You
bit reluctant.
induced the trance and you are fully
responsible so long as you are working with
Suppose you count from one up to five
that person. Don't let anyone else interfere,
and the person's eyes remain closed. What is
you are in charge.
the first thing you do?
So now you have counted from one to
Count again, slower this time and if they
Five, and blown on the eyelids. Next count
still don't respond, if it is possible and
from one up to ten double your count, and
practical for you to leave them in the trance
do it twice before deciding that they are not
for awhile, you might say to them, All
going to come up. Now you are down to the
right, you have chosen to stay in this trance,
final one.
so I am going to let you rest in this trance for
fifteen minutes longer, then I'll come back
It goes like this, Now it is important
and squeeze your shoulder three times and
that you come up from trance at this time.
tell you to terminate the trance and at that
So this time I am going to do it differently, I
time you can do so. If they are in their own
am going to count from one up to ten and at
home, or in your home or where it is safe
the count of ten your eyes are open, you are
and convenient, that's a good thing to do and
calm, rested, refreshed, relaxed, you feel
almost always when you come back they are
wonderfully good in every way. If however,
ready to awaken. I like that method because
you continue keeping your eyelids closed
it gives them a great deal of freedom. It says
after number ten I am going to continue
to them that they are in charge of this and I
counting except that each number I count
know it and I am prepared to leave them in
past ten, I'm going to tap your head with my
charge.
finger, like this. Give a good rap on the top
of their head with your finger, so that it's felt
The very first thing you do is to count
but it is not going to inflict pain.
from one up to five, if there is no response
you count from one to five again but no
Each number I count past ten, I am
response. Next, position yourself so that
going to tap your head like this. TAP.
your mouth is about twelve to fifteen inches
With each number I count and each time I
away from and directly in front on their
tap your head, it is going to begin to feel like
closed eyelids. Fill up your lungs and expel a
a steel mallet hitting your head. With each
very long breath, sharply against their closed
number I count past twelve all the muscles
eyelids, Sh-h-h-h-h. Do that four or five
in your head neck and shoulders will begin
times and for reasons that I cannot explain,
to tighten up and begin to feel more and
and I don't think they can be explained
more painful.
easily, that is effective seventy five percent
As I continue counting upwards from
of the time; especially if you have had garlic
ten you get the worst headache you've ever
for lunch.
had in you r life and each time I tap your
Now let's assume that you do that and
head it feels as if there's a white hot wire
around your temples that is being tightened. eyes your head is clear, fourteen.
Now the instant that you open your eyes, They open their eyes.
your head becomes clear and you feel
I have never had to go past thirteen and I
wonderfully good. All right we're going to
have only done that a few times in my
begin.
career. Now be very careful. I know that all
When you get to number ten you say, of you are very creative and very inventive
O.K. This is your chance now - open your and you like to modify things.
eyes and feel wonderfully good.
Years ago I used to say, You are getting
If they don't open their eyes, say, All a knot in your stomach, it's drawing up,
right I am going to start counting upward tighter and tighter and tighter now.
now - get ready, Number eleven. TAP - you
I was standing in front of a person when
hit them on top of the head.
I did this and they leaned forward and threw
Then you say, All the muscles in your up all over my legs. So be sure that you
head, neck and shoulders now are growing stand behind them and tell them that the
tight, they are tightening up and you head is discomfort is in their head - not their
beginning to pulse and to pound, number stomach.
twelve. TAP - you hit them again.
You will not experience difficulty very
That pulsing, beating, pounding, often, but when you do, Stay Calm.
hurting, pain is growing stronger now,
Maintain your authority and use the
thirteen. TAP - It's like a white hot band
principles discussed in this lesson.
of steel around your head growing tighter
and tighter and the instant you open your
DEFINITIONS OF HYPNOSIS
By the Recognized Experts
The greatest discovery of my generation than, he can in the ordinary state of
is that human beings can alter their lives by awareness. In all probability this ability
altering their attitudes of mind. derives from intensity and restriction, of
attention to the task in hand, and the conse-
William James
quent freedom from the ordinary conscious
tendency to orient constantly to distracting,
even irrelevant, reality considerations.
Actually, the hypnotic state, like the
conscious state and the sleeping state, is
Encyclopedia Britannica
extremely complex and involves so many
physiological, psychological, and
interpersonal factors that no one theory has Hypnotism is simply exaggerated
yet been able to account for all the intricate suggestibility.
operations that take place within its range.
George H. Estabrooks
This does not at all hinder our practical
employment of this interesting method. In
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