http://www.nouse.co.uk/2007/01/23/seeing-through-the-hypno-babble-the-sceptic%e2%80%99s-guide-to-hynotherapy/ Award-winning University of York Student Newspaper and Website Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:59:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.nouse.co.uk/2007/01/23/seeing-through-the-hypno-babble-the-sceptic%e2%80%99s-guide-to-hynotherapy/#comment-38259 jesse Sat, 27 Jan 2007 19:24:35 +0000 http://www.nouse.co.uk/2007/01/23/seeing-through-the-hypno-babble-the-sceptic%e2%80%99s-guide-to-hynotherapy/#comment-38259 Very nice article. It was a good well balanced handling of hypnosis. I am a certified hypnotist and have even been known to do the occasional stage hypnosis show. One thing jumped out at me about your article. Having "amnesia" about the trance experience as you described is universally recognized as evidence of very deep trance. It sounds like you may have experienced that. I would be curious to know how long you think you were hypnotized and how long it actually was. You might ask your therapist about that. Often people who are very deep think it was just a few minutes when it was actually much longer. Also keep in mind that if you really want to give up swearing that you may need a few sessions to be effective...but it begs the question. Do you really want to stop or would you rather have a suggestion from a hypnotist that you swear less or only in acceptable situations? Glad you enjoyed the experience and hope you will want to write about hypnosis again. Very nice article. It was a good well balanced handling of hypnosis. I am a certified hypnotist and have even been known to do the occasional stage hypnosis show. One thing jumped out at me about your article. Having “amnesia” about the trance experience as you described is universally recognized as evidence of very deep trance. It sounds like you may have experienced that. I would be curious to know how long you think you were hypnotized and how long it actually was. You might ask your therapist about that. Often people who are very deep think it was just a few minutes when it was actually much longer. Also keep in mind that if you really want to give up swearing that you may need a few sessions to be effective…but it begs the question. Do you really want to stop or would you rather have a suggestion from a hypnotist that you swear less or only in acceptable situations? Glad you enjoyed the experience and hope you will want to write about hypnosis again.

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