Platinum Programme for Hypnotherapy Manual

Adam Eason School of Therapeutic Hypnosis Platinum Programme for Hypnotherapy Manual www.adam-eason.com Hello and welcome to this manual. Let me welcome you to this manual — this manual gives you all the handouts that are used in class for you to refer to. It also gives you scripts for group hypnosis sessions and exercises done in class on the videos that you do not get to witness in the video footage. Divided into each module, this manual is also going to give you some essential further reading and some exercises to further your skills. That is your introduction and warm welcome over with. Let’s roll our sleeves up and crack on, shall we? Contents Module One ��p3 Module Two ��p19 Module Three ��p37 Module Four ��p39 Module Five ��p43 Module Six ��p52 Module Seven ��p59 Module Eight ��p64 Module Nine ��p70 Module Ten ��p76 Platinum Programme for Hypnotherapy Manual Copyright 2012 Adam Eason. All rights reserved. p2 Module One A Very Brief History of Hypnosis: Ancient Culture — Indian, Greek and Egyptian Sleep Temples, the Bible Many accounts date back to the Bible with references of relieving pain and healing by touch. Hysteria is first referred to in Ancient Egyptian history. It was thought of as a result of a moving uterus in women. Later became known as the ‘wandering womb.’ The term hysteria used for women may still be partly responsible for some women being characterised as hysterical. This condition was often treated with prayer. Egyptians were known to have sleep and dream chambers designed to induce trance-like states. There’s also suggestions in history of ancient Greek temples where the ill would go and when they were ready to be healed they were given substances like poppy seed and led into the temple where there was music, incantations, and suggestions, otherwise known as magic spells. The ill person would then go to sleep and ‘hypnos’, the god of sleep, was believed to visit the sleeper in the night. Dark Ages During the renaissance, people previously termed as having hysteria, came to be considered as possessed by demons and in need of exorcism. Hysterical symptoms defied the constraints of physical possibility. Right up to the 18th Century, where the most historical related figure was Father Johann Gassner, whose exorcisms bore uncanny resemblance to stage hypnosis perform- ances. 1493–1541 Paracelsus — Magnet Healing Paracelsus was a Swiss medical doctor and the first known physician who used magnets or Lode- stones (naturally occurring magnets) for healing people. He would pass these magnets over the bodies of the ill to begin the healing process. 1628–1666 Valentine Greatrakes Greatrakes was an Irish man, who according to many sources in history would heal people by placing his hands over their bodies and passing magnets over them. Many people referred to his as ‘the Great Irish Stroker’, he was known for massaging or stroking problems out of the body. Platinum Programme for Hypnotherapy Manual Copyright 2012 Adam Eason. All rights reserved. Module One • p3 1734–1815 Franz Anton Mesmer (student of Hehl’s) ‘Mesmerism’ Mesmer was a student of a Jesuit priest known as Father Maximillian Hehl (1720-1792). Hehl or sometimes spelt ‘Hell’, who not only had an amazing name, but also practised magnet healing and gave Mesmer a set of his magnets to study and make use of. Mesmer (also termed as the ‘father of hypnosis’) came to the conclusion that there was no true magnetism involved but another universal force at work. In 1766 he wrote a book on a theory he termed ‘Animal Magnetism’. The work of Sir Isaac Newton was of great interest to Mesmer and ‘Animal Magnetism’ was about the influence of the moon and planets on the human body in relation to human illness. Mesmer stated that illness was caused when a disturbance in the universal energy flow was disrupted. He held group sessions in Paris salons, these salons had many large tubs (called Baquets) filled with water, iron filings and large rods believed to be magnetised by Mesmer. The clients would gather round and with the help of Mesmer’s many assistance would apply the rods to their affected areas and would have all manner of interactions from crying, convulsing, hysteria and looking glazed over in their eyes. Dramatic crisis was a major term of this era (later now referred to as ‘abreaction’, whereby the client re-experiences negative emotion and ‘releases’ it). Allegedly Mesmer abandoned the use of these magnets when one day they were not at hand so he had to reach for a stick instead (Hypnosis, James, Flores and Schober 2000) and later opted for slow passes with his hands over the patient’s body. Here also is the first glimmer of a divide in believe when an enquiry labelled ‘the Franklin Enquiry’ because of Benjamin Franklin being the American Ambassador at that time in Paris 1784. Mesmer refused to co-operate with the enquiry and eventually the commissioners (amongst many were Antoine Lavoisier and Joseph Ignace Guillotin) worked with a student of Mesmer’s Named Charles Deslon. Many experiments were performed with participants classed as susceptible to mesmerism. The participant in one experiment was informed that magnetic force had been applied to trees in an orchard, where they had been no such force applied and the participants responded accord- ingly and collapsed, having a ‘crisis’. Another experiment was performed with the opposite, where a ‘mesmerist’ stood behind a screen and passed magnets in front of the participant who failed to respond to the actions. When the screen was removed and the same technique was used at the same distance the participant responded. The commissioners of the experiments concluded that terms such as ‘animal magnetism’ and other such creation need not be created and that the critical factor in mesmerism was the patients believe and use of imagination. These were some of the very first controlled psychological experiments. Remember the pictures I showed you in class? Remember the mention of convulsions? Everyone heard this is what happened and so it happened. There were also pictures on walls of people having convulsions and people in hysterical states during his healing sessions. I have included a book on Mesmer for your reference if you’d like to research further. Platinum Programme for Hypnotherapy Manual Copyright 2012 Adam Eason. All rights reserved. Module One • p4 1751–1825 Marquis De Puysegur — ‘Artifical Somnambulism’ Puysegur practised Mesmerism and brought us the term ‘Artifical Somnambulism’ as opposed to the emotional crisis used by many mesmerists. 1756–1819 Abbe de Faria — ‘Lucid Sleep’ Rejecting the notion of ‘Animal Magnetism’ and termed a state with what he called ‘lucid sleep’ and went on to mesmerise 5,000 people and stated that only one fifth of them were capable of ‘lucid sleep’ (Medical and Dental Hypnosis, Heap & Aravind). This figure is equivalent to the 10–20% of the population that are considered highly susceptible to hypnosis today. Faria stated that, “We cannot induce concentration in individuals whenever we desire; rather we need to find people who are inherently susceptible”. He also replaced passes of the hands or other object such as magnets over the patient’s body with the use of verbal suggestion and one of his induction techniques involved having the subject concentrate on the concept of sleep. If the person was susceptible to this method then they would eventually enter into a ‘lucid sleep’ state. 1791–1868 John Eliotson — Use of hypnosis in surgery Eliotson was quite a strong willed character, quite irritable at times and quick to make snap judge- ments. And later on an aggressive opponent of James Braid. Eliotson invented the modern day Stethoscope we use today and, as a senior physician at The London University College Hospital and Professor of Medicine at The University of London, he promoted using ‘mesmerism’ and spe- cifically in surgery. He later lost his position because of his use of Mesmerism as a pain control and anaesthetic method. 1795–1860 James

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