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    Hypnosis an altered level of consciousness in which an individual sheds his or her voluntary action and is instead under the vulnerable suggestion of a hypnotist. While an individual is in a hypnotic trance, the hypnotist may preform several redolent techniques that are designed to modify behavior for both short and long term periods of time. (Cardena, 2014) For example, chronic smokers often seek hypnosis in order to discard their unhealthy habit. In order to fully understand how it developed, its

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    Imagine being able to relax and do your best through hypnosis for caregivers. When you are a caregiver, it is normal to feel anxiety. Taking care of someone is stressful. You are responsible for making sure they are happy and healthy. Over time, that stress can hurt your own health. You feel tired and depressed because of your job. It seems like you have no time to recharge or relax. “Are you struggling to understand your feelings?” “Is it hard to cope with stress, sadness and guilt?” “Is your

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    any command, no matter how strange or unreasonable, muttering, “Yes, master.” This popular representation is what is shown of hypnotism in movies and television, but in fact, it is so much different. People have been pondering and arguing over hypnosis for more than 200 years, but science has yet to fully explain how it

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    and the risks involved with some choices you will have to make in childbirth. When doing the class one will not need to take any other childbirth classes, in fact, taking another class is detrimental and may cause issues in you reaching your full hypnosis state (I will talk more about that soon!). Along with teaching you the steps

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    When you think of hypnosis you often think back to a magic show where you watched people go up on stage and do an act of commands without even realizing. For many Americans  hypnosis may be more of a magic show than a means for therapy or forensic investigation. Recently hypnosis has been relied on to get answers, whether it be for getting over a fear or remembering memories for a court case. In both fields the subject of hypnotherapy is controversial. Hypnotherapy may lead to pseudomemories that

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    Informing The consultation process should be concerned with two primary aims; knowing the person and informing the person. The latter is somewhat less involved and aims to ensure that the client has a clear understanding of the therapist, the nature of hypnosis, and the guidelines within which both are framed. Clients need to know that they are dealing with a

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    My second method was researching the professional and incredible hypnotist Richard Barker, and looking at interviews that he has done, his website, and videos of him performing hypnosis. Some background information about Richard Barker is that for the last 20 years he has worked his “magic” of hypnosis on thousands of patients around the world. One of the reasons that Richard Barker is an all around renown hypnotist is because of his unique style of hypnotism. His style brings many new angles to

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    mind control that they used were, fear induced and hypnosis. To begin, Big Brother controlled people by inducing fear. The induced fear made them scared to act out. As the following statement says, “Changes in emotional state are known to alter neuronal excitability and can modify learning and memory formation” (Liu 1). The statement explains how inducing fear can change the way a person acts. In the book, Big Brother watched every move and

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    Hypnotherapy: Reputable or Misleading? At some point in our life we may be faced with the question, “Is hypnosis real?” The question can be presented anytime and anywhere. Whether it takes place before your eyes at the county fair or in the office of a psychiatrist, hypnotherapy is sure to raise some interest. The issue at hand, for most individuals, is trying to debunk as to whether or not one can actually rely on hypnotherapy. Does hypnotherapy truly resolve a problem or is the whole act just

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    When people hear the word “hypnotism”, most of them think that it is somewhat like a trick, a magic or an illusion. Some of them believe that a simple look at the eyes of a strange person can hypnotize them. Some of them think that a person who hypnotize uses a pendulum-like object that catches the attention of his victim. Lots of incidents were recorded that hypnotism is said to be used in robbery. Stories tell that strangers talk to their victims and look at their eyes. They will tell something

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