Roy Masters established the Institute of Hypnosis in Houston, Texas. In 1963, he founded the Foundation of Human Understanding, first in Los Angeles and later moved to Portland, Oregon. There is something new at the website. There are free videos (previews) of lectures as well as a hypnosis demonstration. The link for the hypnosis demonstration is on the right-hand side of the page.
I would be afraid to be hypnotized. Has anyone in the forums ever been hypnotized? Do you think it’s a good tool for addictions such as smoking and overeating? Does anyone know of someone that has had success with hypnosis?
I have not had any experience with it but I’ve heard it’s very much like meditation, something with which I have had experience. Essentially, your physical senses are shut off but your mind isn’t. This heightens your mental awarness. There’s no need to be afraid because you’re more mentally aware than normal. Therefore, if you hear something you don’t agree with you’ll have an even easier time blocking it out. As for addictions, I wouldn’t know. However, only you and you alone can overcome an addiction.
I’ve practiced some degree of self hypnosis and done a fair amount of research on it, but the exacts still escape me. by principle it is very simmilar to a very deep state of guided meditation. within tha trance you can recive suggestions that are effected on the subconcious level and from there they take form.
How effective it is would probably depend on the person being hypnotized more than anything else, after all if you don’t beleive the change is possible than nothing can happen can it?
I’ve heard about people who’d been medically hypnotized, for medical purpose. It was much like a possitive affirmation, but instead, it was the repetition from a calm, confident source, which instilled belief solidly in another, and thus the conscious controlled the sub-conscious. Hypnosis is the personal, direct version of propaganda itself, of repeated concept, meant to alter the roots of the mind in long-term.
This post is old so this may not be of use. I have had success with hypnosis in the sense that I have ‘hypnotized’ my friends. From what I’ve learned from hypnosis it is incredibly powerful. I’ve experimented with Post hypnotic suggestions such as you can’t leave this room until I say a certain word “after” you wake (which really isn’t awaking) from the sleep (which really isn’t sleep). They could not, and would not leave until I said the key word. But yet they were there total conscious selves.
Post hypnotic suggestions can change a person; but in bad ways as well. This is why I’ve recently quit hypnotizing friends, even though my town has nothing to do and it’s extremely fun to do at parties. I could seriously mess someone’s psyche up. Even without trying to bury a suggestion in the subconscious, such as if they had an abreaction.
I can honestly say it does work, and it’s a highy powerful tool. It could very well change your life, if you have bad habits you’ll need to see a hypnotist ever so often because strong habits even conscious can suggest to move back to old habits. You don’t feel like having cake, but cake was once your favorite food before hypnotherapy, so you think I must have liked cake, let me try cake, cake isn’t that bad, I’ll keep eating cake, maybe hypnosis doesn’t work, etc. I think that’s why i’ve heard some stories where hypnotist tell people they’ll get ill when wanting something bad for them… then these people end up sick for a year and are ready to file a lawsuit.