Hypnosis experiment showed how we could

stimulate the body's healing mechanism

By Jose Silva

 

 We began our research into the human mind by studying psychology. That led me to the term hypnosis, so I began to study hypnosis.  This produced a lot of valuable information for us.

 

 For instance, I was testing an individual at one time, for positive hallucination. Positive hallucination means that the person would experience more than was actually present in the environment.

 

 Here is how I did it:

 

 Fooling the body

I took my subject to a deep theta level. Even though he was deeply hypnotized, he had his eyes open and was watching me. Then I told him that I was going to touch him with a red hot iron. I picked up a piece of stainless steel with a pair of pliers, and touched the back of his hand with it.

 

Even though the piece of stainless steel was not hot, when I touched him with it, he screamed. He felt the burn. He felt the heat...he experienced a positive hallucination...he was sensing more than what was there. The piece of stainless steel was still at room temperature. Not only did he feel the pain, his body responded as if it has been burned.

 

Ninety percent of the subjects you do this to develop a little red spot, little red dot, as if they were burned with boiling water, or something like that. Ten percent develop a blister. I was lucky to see that phenomenon. My subject developed a blister.

 

I asked myself, "What happened here? I didn't burn him. Did I fool the healing process, the natural healing process of the body, to send healing chemistry to a spot that did not need it?"

 

 I realized that that's exactly what happened. My suggestion caused his healing mechanism to build a blister, build new skin under it, and get rid of that burned skin. But the skin was not actually burned. Then I wondered, "Could we send in extra healing chemistry to accelerate the healing process?

 

Of course you can do that. If you can do one, you can do the other. No question there.

So, so many things came through in experimenting with hypnosis. But there are shortcomings. For instance, I found that the deeper a person went, the more they forgot. At a certain level, they start forgetting. If you want them to forget everything, then you suggest to them that they forget everything. If you don't want them to forget, then you tell them to remember everything, and they will.

 

But you leave it alone, the deeper they go, the more they forget, until they forget everything. They remember nothing. If you want them to remember, you have to tell them to remember, then they will. But naturally, they won't.

 

We kept on working with our subjects hour after hour after hour after hour after hour, until finally they started remembering a little bit, the way they did before, earlier in their training).  Then we continued for even more hours, and they started remembering more, and more, and more. It was as though they had dreamed it. Eventually, they reached the point that they could remember everything that took place while they were at deep levels of hypnosis.

 

 

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