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    This document discusses behaviors and applications of hypnosis. It describes hypnotic analgesia as an actual change in brain perception demonstrated by brain tests, where hypnosis reduces pain through expectation of relief rather than as a placebo. It also discusses posthypnotic suggestions, amnesia, age regression, and imagined perception as behaviors influenced by hypnosis. The document outlines medical and therapeutic uses of hypnosis and hypnotherapy to reduce pain, anxiety, and address health issues. Meditation programs are also described as a way to lower school stress through relaxation techniques.

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    This document discusses behaviors and applications of hypnosis. It describes hypnotic analgesia as an actual change in brain perception demonstrated by brain tests, where hypnosis reduces pain through expectation of relief rather than as a placebo. It also discusses posthypnotic suggestions, amnesia, age regression, and imagined perception as behaviors influenced by hypnosis. The document outlines medical and therapeutic uses of hypnosis and hypnotherapy to reduce pain, anxiety, and address health issues. Meditation programs are also described as a way to lower school stress through relaxation techniques.

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    BEHAVIOURS IN HYPNOSIS

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    This document discusses behaviors and applications of hypnosis. It describes hypnotic analgesia as an actual change in brain perception demonstrated by brain tests, where hypnosis reduces pain through expectation of relief rather than as a placebo. It also discusses posthypnotic suggestions, amnesia, age regression, and imagined perception as behaviors influenced by hypnosis. The document outlines medical and therapeutic uses of hypnosis and hypnotherapy to reduce pain, anxiety, and address health issues. Meditation programs are also described as a way to lower school stress through relaxation techniques.

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    This document discusses behaviors and applications of hypnosis. It describes hypnotic analgesia as an actual change in brain perception demonstrated by brain tests, where hypnosis reduces pain through expectation of relief rather than as a placebo. It also discusses posthypnotic suggestions, amnesia, age regression, and imagined perception as behaviors influenced by hypnosis. The document outlines medical and therapeutic uses of hypnosis and hypnotherapy to reduce pain, anxiety, and address health issues. Meditation programs are also described as a way to lower school stress through relaxation techniques.

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    Some key takeaways from the passage are that hypnosis can be used for pain management and therapeutic purposes through hypnotic suggestion and influencing the subconscious mind.

    The two main types of hypnotherapy mentioned are suggestion hypnotherapy, which uses suggestions to manage a problem, and analytical hypnotherapy, which aims to resolve deeper issues through psychotherapy with hypnosis.

    Some medical uses of hypnosis mentioned are reducing pain through hypnotic analgesia, reducing fear and anxiety, and helping patients deal with health problems and undergo surgeries with less pain and faster recovery.

    BEHAVIORS IN HYPNOSIS:

    1. Hypnotic Analgesia
    It is an actual change in the perception of the brain as demonstrated by
    brain tests while people are undergoing hypnosis.
    It is the suggestion inside a hypnotic framework, or at least the expectation
    of pain relief, which leads to reduction of pain.
    Hypnosis does not act as a placebo and is not a state of sleep.
    2. Posthypnotic Suggestion
    A suggestion which is given during hypnosis for an action or response to
    take place after the hypnotic experience.
    The desired goal must be within the person's physical, mental, spiritual
    and emotional capabilities.
    To help people achieve their goals (example: losing weight) or stopping
    an addiction or unwanted behavior.
    Donald Robertson: Hypnotic suggestions are simply ideas which are
    accepted as beliefs at a particularly "deep" level.
    The hypnotist should not suggest things against the persons belief system
    or personal values.
    3. Posthypnotic Amnesia
    Selective amnesia after being in a hypnotic state of events occurring
    during hypnosis or of information designated by the hypnotist
    Does not occur unless it has been specifically suggested to the subject
    Even if the hypnotist had suggested to someone that he or she never
    remember, he or she eventually will. The time frame of remembering is
    specific to the person.
    4. Age Regression
    Refers to people under hypnosis being asked to regress to an earlier age
    such as early childhood.
    Can be done so the subject can experience the event all over again
    Allows the patient to find the cause of their current blocks and eliminate
    their past traumas.
    Allows for the patient to interpret their current situation with new
    insights
    Example: Panic Attacks and OCD
    5. Imagined Perception
    Refers to experiencing sensations, perceiving stimuli, or performing
    behaviors that come from ones imagination.

    MEDICAL AND THERAPEUTIC APPLICATIONS
    A. How is hypnosis used?
    Stage Hypnotism = a show designed purely to entertain audience.
    The subjects are really hypnotized. They are likely to respond because there
    is a great deal of pressure to perform.
    Hypnotherapy
    A form of therapy that uses hypnosis as the basis of its techniques.
    It has been used to send message to the unconscious mind to find a solution
    to a problem.
    Main types of hypnotherapy:
    1. Suggestion Hypnotherapy = involves the hypnotherapist giving an
    individuals unconscious mind a series of suggestions.
    2. Analytical Hypnotherapy = can be effective in dealing with deeper issues
    and involves psychotherapy using hypnosis.
    o Where as Suggestion manages a problem, Analytical aims to resolve it.
    How hypnotherapy works:
    o Freud believed that the conscious mind is the top or shallowest part of the
    mind and is responsible for making sense of the things we are directly
    aware of like stress levels.
    o The subconscious mind is below consciousness most of the time, a deeper
    level it is therefore not so easily accessible and controls how we may
    feel or react to certain situations or circumstances, based on what we have
    learnt through experience, in the past. It also controls and regulates our
    essential bodily functions, such as breathing.
    o The unconscious mind is the deepest part of our mind and is much more
    difficult to reach.
    o Through physical and mental relaxation, self-hypnosis can allow people to
    bypass their conscious minds and introduce positive thoughts and ideas
    into their unconscious. Upon awakening from the hypnotic state the new
    thoughts and ideas in the subconscious will, eventually, affect the
    conscious mind and can, in turn, lead to changed behaviors.
    Self-hypnosis
    Hypnosis which is self-induced, and normally makes use of self-
    suggestion
    Technique: inducing relaxation and suggesting to one self that the
    problem at hand is not as bad as believed. Through positive suggestion
    the person can be made to believe that the pain that is being felt or will be
    felt is going to be bearable.

    B. Medical Uses
    Can be used to reduce pain through hypnotic analgesia
    To reduce fear and anxiety
    To help patients deal with health problems
    Benefited many patients undergoing painful surgeries (recovery)

    C. Therapeutic and Behavioral Uses
    Useful in helping clients reveal their personalities
    Gain insights into their lives
    Arrive at solutions to their problems
    Has been successfully used to reduce pain, decrease asthma attacks, and relieve
    tension.
    Hypnotherapy leads to successful outcomes when used in therapeutic settings.

    MEDITATION AND SCHOOL STRESS
    Transcendental Meditation = program designed to lower school stress
    A technique for avoiding distracting thoughts and promoting a state of
    relaxed awareness.
    Person sits in a comfortable position with eyes closed and silently repeats
    a mantra without moving the lips or making a sound for about 20
    minutes, two times a day.
    Can lower blood pressure, reduce stress & anxiety, and improve heart
    health.


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