Readings

I really believe that your mindset has a lot to do with the outcome of the situation you are in. Hypnosis seems to help people enter the mind of positive outcome when a lot of people have a negative outlook. The anemic lady that Pearce talks about is a great example of hypnosis at its best. He said that she weighed 70 pounds and while in her altered state had a couple of doctor’s sit on her while only her head and feet were supported. She could support their weight because she was told that she had amazing strength. This amazes me that an altered state can do that much to you. Another thing that Pearce mentioned at the beginning of his chapter was the low blood sugar group. After fasting for a couple of days their blood sugar was very low. They were then given imaginary meals and their health immediately improved. Would this be possible in other circumstances? Instead of being supervised by doctors and in a situation like your boat wrecks and they can’t find you and you have no food. Would the effect be the same if you imagined that you were eating real meals?

One of my parent’s friends has a hypnosis business. They help a lot of people and I know that both my brother and my father went to them for help. My brother has never been a motivated student and was about to fail out of high school simply because he didn’t want to do the work. He is very smart and my parents saw that it was the lack of motivation. They enlisted the help of their friends and he went to several sessions of hypnosis. It helped him improve a lot for a while and he stopped going. He was given a tape to listen to while he was going to sleep but he also stopped using that and his grades slipped again. What really ended up changing his life was when he entered the military. My dad went to hypnosis for depression and I do believe that it has helped him a lot. My family situation was about to fall apart when he started going and he has improved so much after he went.