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| 12 Dec 2008 03:17:43 pm |
 Horses, Humans & Hypnosis - part 3 |
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Humans and Hypnosis – A Natural Solution
Humans have an entirely natural ability to use hypnosis. Like the flight, fight or freeze response it’s part of our human inheritance. Although we must have always utilised trance states, the first records of humans deliberately using hypnotic phenomena date back about 4000 years to the Egyptian priest, Imhotep who used hypnosis in his ‘Sleep Temples’ and to the ancient Greeks who dedicated their ‘Sleep Temples’ to the healing god Æsclepius.
In spite of its early associations with sleep, hypnosis is not sleep – it’s a natural suspension of awareness somewhere on a continuum between wide-awake and fast asleep. Modern biofeedback methods show that when we use hypnosis, we slow our brainwaves from mostly beta to alpha and theta. The advantage of this, as the ancient civilisations discovered, is that the slower brainwaves create physiological and psychological changes that enhance our natural human resources. Alpha brain patterns for example are associated with an increase in the production of serotonin (the ‘molecule of happiness’) and theta brainwaves offer us potential for behavioural change along with heightened levels of learning, memory and creativity.
A Mind to Ride and my Equinimity Self-hypnosis audio CD are available worldwide. For more information you can contact me via www.theconsultingrooms.co.uk
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