Look into my eyes........

11 Jan 2007

.....not around the eyes...
5,4,3,2,1, you're under!:shock:
Right, I was in the middle of shutting down the computer when one of those thoughts came into my head-and I just had to throw it open to a wider pool of experience.
Hypnotism-does it work?
Call me an old cynic, but I'm a little sceptical to say the least- but as always I have an open mind.
So have you, or anyone you absolutely know wasn't pulling a fast one ever been hypnotised-for either stage or medical reasons?
5,4,3,2,1, you're back in the room. rolleyes

11 Jan 2007

winchy I work within the NHS & with collegues who do hypnotise clients who suffer with PTSD & other reasons.
never had it done myself though :shock:

12 Jan 2007

I was hypnotised for one of those shows - but I'm too embarrased to say what they had me doing !!! redface

ops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:

12 Jan 2007

Quote by Sgt Bilko
I was hypnotised for one of those shows - but I'm too embarrased to say what they had me doing !!! ops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:

Wearing womens knickers over your trousers?? dunno

12 Jan 2007

Quote by Sgt Bilko
I was hypnotised for one of those shows - but I'm too embarrased to say what they had me doing !!! ops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:

I'm actually less interested in what they had you doing- and more interested about it being really genuine! :shock:
But as you insist- go on then, do tell!

12 Jan 2007

come on sarge divuldge you secrets - promise it will be confidential to only 450,000 viewers of this site lol

12 Jan 2007

I went to a guy over 20 years ago to stop smoking. I was on at least 40 a day. No 6 King Size with vouchers. Had 2 sessions costing about £10 each and have never smoked again. He put me under, told me that I would be violently ill no matter where I was, what I was wearing or who I was with. Have never wanted to attempt to prove him wrong.
jon

12 Jan 2007

I had hypnosis to lose weight and it worked in that my arms went heavy and I felt as though I`d woken from a lovely sleep when the woman brought me back but I`d actually been aware of my surroundings throughout he session. At one point she told me (to prove I was under) that I`d lose all feeling in my right hand and arm, then she told me to open my eyes and I saw that she had picked up my hand by nipping the skin together on the back of my hand and was waving my arm around, I really couldnt feel a thing and had no idea what she was doing til I`d opened my eyes.
But as for the weight loss thing......well that didnt work. She tried to tell my brain that every time I saw a red car that I would be put off chocolate and my will power would be bolstered..................that didnt work either! She said she picked on the red car thing as there are alot of them about(my own car was red at the time) so my brain would recall the message often. Didnt quite recall it as I was driving along eating chocolate soon after though! rolleyes

Maybe it was me and my brain just didnt respond to it properly but as far as I was concerned it was a waste of money for me. Somebody said to me that I have to want it to work but I cant imagine why they think I`d fork out a few hundred for a whole course of sessions and NOT want it to work .
Ah well--have had to find other ways to lose the weight.

12 Jan 2007

Quote by Sgt Bilko
I was hypnotised for one of those shows - but I'm too embarrased to say what they had me doing !!! ops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:

Now you just HAVE to spill the beans !!!! rotflmao

I'd love to try it to give up the fags but I don't like the thought of not being in control of myself. Needless to say I've never tried drugs or get pissed too often for that very same reason confused

12 Jan 2007

Quote by Shireen
I was hypnotised for one of those shows - but I'm too embarrased to say what they had me doing !!! ops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:

Wearing womens knickers over your trousers?? dunno

Nope! Wearing women's knickers on his head!! :giggle:
Fee
XX

12 Jan 2007

I havent been hypnotised or know anyone that has but I am thinking about it to try and help mestop smoking..

12 Jan 2007

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15 Jan 2007

Anybody can be hypnotised you just have to want to. The hypnotist only guides you into hypnosis. You take yourself into hypnosis. We go into hypnosis naturally all the time. Have you ever been driving and suddenly can't remember the last 5 - 10 minutes or so and yet you have driven safely? You were in hypnosis. Have you ever been so engrosed in a book or the TV that you did not hear somebody saying your name until the said it for the third or fourth time? You were in hypnosis. In hypnosis you loose awareness of your suroundings and concentrate on one thing.
The hypnotherapist does not have some sort of wierd control over you once you are in hypnosis. You will remember everything that happened during the hypnosis session.
An decent hypnotist will make sure you are in hypnosis before he or she carries on with their work.
Anyway hypnosis is now old hat. The new one is Emotional Freedom Technique or EFT for short. With EFT you are fully awake but it does still deal with the subconcious mind like hypnosis.

15 Jan 2007

Quote by Sgt Bilko
I was hypnotised for one of those shows - but I'm too embarrased to say what they had me doing !!! ops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:

Dont be embarrased Sarge, were not lol

:lol:
My sis went to see a stage hypnotist and he did a bit about giving up smoking with the whole hasnt smoked since! My other sis went to see one privately for giving up smoking, worked for a about a month...
xanaisx

15 Jan 2007

I used to work as a dental receptionist and one of our dentists was able to hypnotise patients. The technique was reserved for only the most nervous of patients and it didn't work on everyone although I would say about 95% of patients would be hypnotised.
I had been sceptic until I saw this actually happen.
A friend of mine has also informed me that she has been a chicken in front of 250 people confused

I don't think it's something I would ever volunteer for mind ;)

15 Jan 2007

Quote by thetiggler
Anybody can be hypnotised you just have to want to. The hypnotist only guides you into hypnosis. You take yourself into hypnosis. We go into hypnosis naturally all the time. Have you ever been driving and suddenly can't remember the last 5 - 10 minutes or so and yet you have driven safely? You were in hypnosis. Have you ever been so engrosed in a book or the TV that you did not hear somebody saying your name until the said it for the third or fourth time? You were in hypnosis. In hypnosis you loose awareness of your suroundings and concentrate on one thing.
The hypnotherapist does not have some sort of wierd control over you once you are in hypnosis. You will remember everything that happened during the hypnosis session.
An decent hypnotist will make sure you are in hypnosis before he or she carries on with their work.
Anyway hypnosis is now old hat. The new one is Emotional Freedom Technique or EFT for short. With EFT you are fully awake but it does still deal with the subconcious mind like hypnosis.

Nope. VW golf. :smug:

15 Jan 2007

Quote by Sgt Bilko
I was hypnotised for one of those shows - but I'm too embarrased to say what they had me doing !!! ops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:

Its OK Sarge I wont tell anyone what I saw that night in Germany wink

15 Jan 2007

Quote by thetiggler
Anyway hypnosis is now old hat. The new one is Emotional Freedom Technique or EFT for short. With EFT you are fully awake but it does still deal with the subconcious mind like hypnosis.

I've heard of this - and practiced it on myself. Do you do stuff with chakras too?

15 Jan 2007

*Off to google Emotional Freedom Technique*
Unless anyone can enlighten me? biggrin

Fee
XX

15 Jan 2007

Quote by Darkfire

Anyway hypnosis is now old hat. The new one is Emotional Freedom Technique or EFT for short. With EFT you are fully awake but it does still deal with the subconcious mind like hypnosis.

I've heard of this - and practiced it on myself. Do you do stuff with chakras too?
I have done hun!
Love
Fire xx

15 Jan 2007

Quote by LadyFeeBee
*Off to google Emotional Freedom Technique*
Unless anyone can enlighten me?
Fee
XX

There's laods of info on the net Fee, I dont know enough to try to explain it to others yet, but, in essence EFT is based on the belief that emotional traumas (from this life and past ones) are stored (a bit like an internal scar) in particular parts of the body and cause 'blockages' in energy flow (positive thinking, self-belief, confidence kinda energy). To unblock these channels, you repeat a mantra type statement while simultaneously tapping on a sequence of specific points on the body (similar pricipals to acupuncture/ pressure points , but in EFT these are called Meridians (energy channels) ) . The 'tapping'alledgedy releases the blockage and so allegedly aids the expulsion of a particular trauma emotion. dunno

A member of my family practices this full time and swears by it, she gave me the technique to use for exam stress & self-belief during a rough patch at uni. I dont understand it properly at all , but, I passed all the exams and had none of the usual 'oh my god i cant fookin do this' type panic!
:dunno:

15 Jan 2007

look into my eyes
your balls are paralysed :kick:
sorry couldnt resist used to do this to the boys in the playground redface

Earthy xx

15 Jan 2007

Ah right I get it now, thanks Dark. I've heard of something similar before and its said that emotional blockages can cause physical problems too.
I'm off to watch "trust me I'm a healer" in 10 mins! Fascinating programme if at times a bit far fetched.
Fee
XX

15 Jan 2007

Quote by Darkfire
*Off to google Emotional Freedom Technique*
Unless anyone can enlighten me?
Fee
XX

There's laods of info on the net Fee, I dont know enough to try to explain it to others yet, but, in essence EFT is based on the belief that emotional traumas (from this life and past ones) are stored (a bit like an internal scar) in particular parts of the body and cause 'blockages' in energy flow (positive thinking, self-belief, confidence kinda energy). To unblock these channels, you repeat a mantra type statement while simultaneously tapping on a sequence of specific points on the body (similar pricipals to acupuncture/ pressure points , but in EFT these are called Meridians (energy channels) ) . The 'tapping'alledgedy releases the blockage and so allegedly aids the expulsion of a particular trauma emotion. dunno

A member of my family practices this full time and swears by it, she gave me the technique to use for exam stress & self-belief during a rough patch at uni. I dont understand it properly at all , but, I passed all the exams and had none of the usual 'oh my god i cant fookin do this' type panic!
:dunno:
then you so need to teach me this before May :shock:
Earthy xx

15 Jan 2007

<<<<<<<<<< avatar has been here for a while now.
I keep trying to change it, but something in my head tells me not to.
lol

Ian

15 Jan 2007

Ian

15 Jan 2007

Quote by earthchild
look into my eyes
your balls are paralysed :kick:
sorry couldnt resist used to do this to the boys in the playground
Earthy xx

:shock: ooouuuuchh! :giggle:

15 Jan 2007

Ooo, after the mini-hijack (sorry Winchy), actually, I do know someone here who's been hypnotised & had regression therapy , dunno the outcome though...... off to the pm box with a pointer to this thread lol

Juniper_cpl wrote

To cut a long story short, this gentleman informed me that i was a 1/1000 that could not be hypnotised, it is to do with stuborness and being a control freak apparently those types cant let go enough and allow others entrance to the whole mind.

that explanation works for me :thumbup: I dont believe that anyone can be hypnotised , you have to 'allow' it first dunno

anyone else got a story to share? does hypnotism work? :dunno:

16 Jan 2007

As a natural born sceptic i'd always been a bit suspicious of the acts you see on TV, then a couple of years ago i had to film a leading hypnotherapist and was quite shocked how easy he put people under. My brain was telling me it was all an act but this was part of a lecture workshop for masters degree students so common sense keeps telling me it's legit. It was certainly fekin surreal though :shock:

Quote by LadyFeeBee
I was hypnotised for one of those shows - but I'm too embarrased to say what they had me doing !!! ops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:

Wearing womens knickers over your trousers?? dunno

Nope! Wearing women's knickers on his head!! :giggle:
Fee
XX
:rotflmao: :gagged:

16 Jan 2007

My wee sister used to suck her thumb when she was younger, which carried on into high school. She used to do it all the time, even when she was in classes ( I don't know how anyone didn't take the piss out of her for it a t the time!)
My parents tried everything, all that minging tasting nail polish on her thumb nail, shouting at her, ignoring it etc, then our friend who is a gp suggested trying hypnotherapy that he was trained in.
He used the technique on his own daughter who had chronic arthritis, any time she felt pain from it, she could say a little rhyme that he'd used during the hypnotherapy and it would help to dampen down or take away her pain.
Anyway, having sucked her thumb up to the age of 14, it worked wonders and she stopped immediately!
The effects now seem to have worn off though now she's 22 and she doesn't give a shit, so she's back to it now, but it certainly stopped her at the time!
I would love to try it in a stage show as i am often skeptical about them, and the ridiculous things you're made to do- i suppose it's something you have to experience for yourself.
I do believe in general that hypnotherapy works, and i often do relaxation therapy - which works like a type of hypnotherpy, for patients that have chronic pain and can't get away from it.
The regression therapy I'm not so sure about- did you go to france before or after it?!?!?!?!
m xx