Forensic Hypnosis

December 27, 2013 / Ulf Sandström / Articles

Locating missing children through the Science of Hypnosis
– Walking between worlds …….

How did you rope in hypnosis for finding missing persons ?

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When a child goes missing and there remains absolutely no clue, even the police and the parents remain helpless. Under such circumstances, the science of hypnosis can be the only help. Hypnosis is a state of focussed concentration to access our subconscious mind. Our ability to enter this unique state of consciousness opens the door to countless possibilities for healing, and treatment of psychosomatic disorders. Regressive hypnosis is the technique used to retrieve and erase past life memories that may still be negatively influencing a patient’s present life. When our subconscious mind can be used to access memories of past lives , then why not use it to access memories of other person. Since the subconscious mind is not limited by the barriers of logic, time and space, It can remember everything from any time. It can transmit creative solutions to our problems. This science definately aids greatly in tracking a missing person.

How do you do that ?

By establishing soul connection. As I said earlier, the subconscious mind has no barriers of time and space. It can remember anything from any time. It can be made to travel to any place and any time period. By sending a person to deep trance, a hypnotist can access his subconscious mind and his soul can be connected with a missing soul .

Actually the process involves the major role of two operators – a hypnotist and a clairvoyant.

By sending a clairvoyant to deep trance, a hypnotist can connect him with the soul of missing person and make him travel to that particular place and time of mishap . The missing scene ,sequences and incidents become visible to clairvoyant and he goes on giving vital clues like name of the criminal , information about his appearance , vehicle number , or the hiding place. With the help of these clues the police can trace the criminal.

What is Clairvoyance ?

Clairvoyance is a process in which a trained hypnotist uses a psychic media i.e. a person who has the ability (a form of extra-sensory perception) to gain information about an object, person, location or physical event through means other than the known human senses. Clairvoyance is a natural phenomenon. 33% of our population has the ability to go to deep trance . In that very few have the ability to become clairvoyants . i.e. they get connected to souls instantly. A clairvoyant is identified by sending to trance and testing for suitability.

Who can become a clairvoyant ?

Usually the people close to victim like the mother, father , siblings or close friends can be tested for clairvoyance. Because of their close attachment with the victim they get easily connected with the missing soul. If not any good psychic media who wishes to help can volunteer.

Can you elaborate the process/procedure?

What sort of information can be elicited ?

By recreating the crime scene some of the vital clues like the date – day of abduction, appearance – name of abductor, process of abduction, vehicle number and model or the hiding place details can be elicited.

How authentic would the elicited information be ?

About 70% accuracy. I keep a margin of 30 % to rule out the acting of conscious mind at times.

Are there any risks or side effects involved ?

Side effects are nil when conducted by a qualified and an experienced hypnotherapist. However, the risk is that the clairvoyant may get deeply concerned about the connected soul and that may affect him. Hence bringing the clairvoyant out of trance with appropriate suggestions is of utmost importance. Other potential risks may be for the forensic hypnotist from the criminals’ side. Hence it is very important to maintain absolute confidentiality about the cases.

What is your advice for people interested in pursuing this ?

I really want more and more hypnotists to take up this amazing science to help benefit the world at large. In most of abduction cases, it has been seen that it is mostly the people who are known to the family , the close associates getting involved. As they have easy access to homes and children, it becomes very difficult to suspect or trace them. With no clues at hand the parents and police are left unawares. Hence hypnosis would be the only option left.

But a hypnotist wishing to pursue this, should get trained adequately as great caution needs to be exercised in identifying and using a clairvyant. Getting a suitable psychic media would be the major challenge. The awakening and follow up suggestions are to be taken care of to not negatively affect the clairvoyant. Also the victim will definitely need a few healing sessions to help overcome the trauma and resume normal life.

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Mental Strategies & Tools

November 26, 2013 / Ulf Sandström / Articles

This is a collection of slides from our workshops and seminars. Share whatever you find useful. Let us know if we should add something?

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Technological Principles In Hypnotherapy

November 12, 2013 / Ulf Sandström / Articles, Wildcard

Prof. Jacob Raju – India
USE OF MODERN TECHNOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES IN HYPNOTHERAPY

Prof. Jacob, you have said that you use modern technological principles in therapy sessions. Can you explain this a little more?

Yes. For me a therapy session consists of two major objectives: first is to overcome the subconscious resistance of the clients by removing their limiting beliefs; and the second is to install the outcome they want.

In my country, most people believe in horoscopes that predict the personalities and destinies of each individual based on the astrological positions at the time and place of their birth. It is the belief that everything about a person is decided at the moment of birth and no intervention whatsoever would help to change it. Then there is the belief in superstitions and black magic. All these together erect a formidable barrier against any kind of change work. A therapist’s first endeavour is to break this barrier. This is what I call the subconscious resistance. I have to shatter this resistance first before I guide them to the outcome through the therapy session.

How do you manage that?
An interesting thing is that many of these superstitious people are well educated. They also believe in scientific truths and processes alongside their superstitions. It is a question of how to convince their mind. The resistance is not conscious; it comes from the subconscious mind of the client as high negativity, low suggestibility or superstitious beliefs. To tackle this I turn to science and technology. Human technology is created by the mind, and the subconscious mind understands it better than anything else. If we apply this technology back to the mind, it will accept and use it to initiate and sustain the change we want.

I ask them what technology or skills they are familiar with, that they use in their profession. As their mind is convinced of the results they get using those skills and technology, I tell them to apply the same to their own mind to get the outcome they want. Very often it works because the mind is easily convinced of the efficacy of it.
People who use Adobe Photoshop, for example, are convinced that it can also work in editing mental images. Sometimes this mental software may vary depending on their profession. An architect may use ‘3DSMAX’ to edit these mental images; it may be ‘Sketch Up’ for a landscape artist, or ‘Movie Maker’, Coral Draw’, or ‘Paint’ for others.

I have helped some clients who are auditory to create in their imagination a ‘Dolby Sound Filter’ to remove the unwanted sounds and self-talk. Other scientific concepts I have used in therapy are the atomisation of elements, the effect of centrifugal and centripetal spin, psychedelic lights, frequencies of sounds, the secretion of endorphins in the brain, and so on.

Can you elaborate on how you apply these principles in therapy?
It is actually very simple. First I explain what the concept means. For example, to people who hear voices in their head, I explain how we cannot hear any sound below or beyond certain frequencies. It is a scientific concept they believe in. I remember a client who kept hearing in his mind a voice telling him: ‘life is not worth living, life is not worth living’. He tried to commit suicide three times before he came to me. After explaining the sound frequency concept, I told him to close his eyes and repeat the words ‘life is not worth living, life is not worth living’ faster and faster, louder and louder in his mind. After sometime he opened his eyes. When I asked him why he stopped, he answered: ‘I told myself to shut up.’ And the mind did shut itself to those voices!

How did you come across this idea?
A few years ago a man called Ibrahim (name changed), visited me regarding hypnotherapy. He was originally from Pakistan and was working in London. He was an employee in a sensitive government department dealing with national security risks. After a terrorist attack in London, he was dismissed from his job for security reasons. He had many friends in India. So, while returning to Pakistan, he decided to go via India and visit some of his Indian friends. When he was in Bangalore he found my website and came to me.

I tried several techniques with him to delete his negative memories but he would retrieve them immediately. Finally I asked him how he would permanently delete files from his computer. He smiled and told me that we cannot permanently delete any files from the computer; we only cut their links to the monitor; the information still remains in the hard disc. His job was to collect and extract information from discarded hard discs to see whether there was any incriminating evidence. I understood why he kept on retrieving the deleted memories. Then I asked him how their department would permanently destroy the files that they do not want to keep. According to him there is powerful software available with which they can overwrite the information several times so that it will be permanently deleted. Now I knew what might work for him. I asked him to overwrite the mental files that he wanted to destroy. He was surprised to see that he could thus delete all the unwanted memories from his mind.

I had another similar client who also overwrote his memories. I was curious to know how he overwrote his memories. According to him he put all his problems on a hard disc and as he was overwriting it he could see the disc slowly being ground into a paste until the bad memories disappeared permanently.

You said you were a professor in a college in Bangalore. What made you land in hypnosis?
Yes, I taught French there for 27 years. During my early years of teaching I knew I had to change myself a lot, because I was not happy with the way I was managing myself. I did not know how to initiate that change. I began to attend several personality development programmes that were available at that time. But they did not answer my needs.
When I heard about NLP, I said to myself: “This is what I was looking for.” I was told that NLP is mostly the suggestion part of Ericksonian Hypnosis. That is how I went all the way into Hypnosis and even got a Hypnosis Trainer Certification.

What is your background in NLP and Hypnosis?
I joined a 21-Day NLP Master Practitioner Training Programme by Dr. Richard McHugh. I did other parallel courses also with him like Meta Programme I & II, NLP and Health, Tools of the Spirit, Gestalt Therapy, etc. In Hypnosis, I have been trained by the California Hypnosis Institute in Basic, Advanced and Clinical Hypnotherapy. In 2004 I got my Hypnosis Trainer Certification from the same Institute. I read, discuss, practise NLP and Hypnosis, and help others to change. I continue to update myself with other International Masters as well.

How popular is hypnosis in India?
Hypnotherapy is not very popular in India because there are many misconceptions, mysteries and fears of misuse built around hypnosis in the mind of the public. But, in reality, if the therapists say anything that is against the beliefs and values system of the clients, their subconscious mind will resist and they will quickly come out of the hypnotic state. Whenever I use or talk about hypnosis my first priority is to remove or reduce these misconceptions.

According to you what is hypnosis?
First of all, hypnosis is a state of mind. It is a physically relaxed, mentally alert, extremely aware and intensely focused state of mind where the subject is completely in control. It is neither a sleepy nor an unconscious state. Hypnotherapists do not have any access to the subconscious mind of their clients. They know only what is revealed to them by the subject. They are not like medical surgeons who can ‘cut open’ the subconscious mind, make some necessary changes, close it up, and tell the clients that everything is taken care of. Hypnotherapists guide their clients to access their own subconscious mind and make the necessary changes. Every hypnotic session is training in self hypnosis. That means the therapists do not hypnotise the clients. The clients hypnotise themselves under the guidance of the therapist to access their own subconscious mind and initiate and sustain the change they want.

What is the most essential element of Hypnotherapy?
The most important part of hypnotherapy is the hypnotic suggestion. It is not merely a verbal affirmation. It is the art of installing a complete thought with mental images, inner dialogues and accompanying feelings in the subconscious mind of the clients. A hypnotic suggestion will initiate a change. If you want to sustain the change, the suggestion has to be repeated.

How does one become a Hypnotherapist?
First of all, one needs to be trained under an able Master. Hypnosis is only one of the available tools. To be successful a therapist may need many other tools. Psychotherapy, NLP, meditation, yoga, etc., also may be useful. Personal skills like awareness of the present moment, listening and observation, rapport building, etc., are also very important.

Can Hypnotherapy backfire?
Hypnotherapy practised by an expert cannot backfire. It will have no side effects. It is a drugless form of therapy and the therapists use only words that can either be accepted or thrown out by the client.

Do you have a handy advice for others?
The secret is how to think. Happiness and success in life come to you only if you think about them. If you think only of negativity, mediocrity and failure in life your mind will achieve only that for you. So think about what you want and avoid thinking about what you do not want. That is how you will start getting what you want.

Body-Mind Massage Hypnosis

June 18, 2013 / Ulf Sandström / Articles

Body-Mind massage techniques

This training is the result of a long cooperation between a massage therapist Tone Lyche and myself. She kept coming to the point where massage didn’t “reach all the way” and partly with clients that “simply wanted to talk”. After we had worked with these clients in a joint venture she asked “can you teach me the essentials for helping them mentally as I work with their bodies?

From this came Body-Mind Massage Hypnosis and applied Neuro Linguistics. But it is much more than this. It is Trauma Tapping and a flavor of Clean Language skills added to a basic understanding of the power of language and behavior.

In a two-day workshop we trained:

Applied hypnosis during massage therapy
Basic therapy setting rapport with non-verbals
Clean language symptom elicitation
Trauma Tapping for emotional discharge neutralization
Applied NLP for understanding Nocebo/Placebo effects

Quote:
I did it again – a Eureka moment…
I treated a friend with tapping and Clean Language… her metaphor changed from a hole in her chest, to a black ball, to a small ball. It is in a sunny part of the garden, and she can pick it up and bounce it whenever she needs to… and her chest feels “fluffy”…. 😀

Quote in Swedish:
Ja, kursen har inspirerat till både egen forskning och tankar i arbetet med mina klienter. Upplever att jag fått en mycket mer avspänd attityd för att våga möta det tunga och svåra som ibland kan komma upp i medvetandet under en massagebehandling. Tappingen är helt unik i sin enkelhet och samtidigt kraftfulla metod att skapa harmoni och lugn igen.

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HOAM – Hands On Anxiety Management

February 28, 2013 / Ulf Sandström / Articles, Certifications

HOAM is a general methodology and technique for anxiety management in health care, that can be learned in a short time by health care professionals and provides immediate results, avoiding over-use of relaxants and faster healing processes in many cases.

HOAM for fear of injections is a simple one-day training. Contact us for more info >>

HOAM for excellence in dental care is a two day workshop that teaches simple but very efficient hands on hypnotic techniques, Trauma Tapping and applied Neuro Linguistics for dental workers. It is designed to allow you to handle your patients as effortlessly as possible in regards to being comfortable from the moment they arrive until they leave.

In this training you will get an understanding of the basic mechanics involved in how we perceive pain, and how we can create and de-learn phobias. You may be surprises how simple it can be to avoid them and help your patients lose their unwanted responses.

According to NetDoctor almost half of the grown people that go to the Dentist feel uncomfortably about it.

The material involves theoretical knowledge, but the main focus is on practical application of the techniques involved, and how you by being aware of the special stimuli that meet your patient in the dental environment in the form of smell, sound and light can use two main methods to deter phobias and sensations of pain.

Our training is based on M.D. Ph.D Ronald Rudens dekonstruction of how Post Traumatic Stress and phobias are learned and can be de-learned, applied in Trauma Tapping in combination with alpha-theta breathing and body relaxation for tapping into the parasympathetic nervous system. We are inspired by the methods used by Dr Krauss Baruch at the Childrens Hospital i Boston about calibrating each patient, catching their focus and directing it to an area of interest far away from their experience of pain. Read more about Dr Krauss Baruch here >> and here >>.

The part involved with applied Neuro Linguistics is based on the principles that the words we use, and how we use them can be used intentionally to activate thought processes and states of mind that simplify the communication between patient and the person treating them in everything from understanding alternative treatments and being relaxed before treatment.

Theoretical parts

The mechanics of stress, PTS and the nervous systems
How we perceive pain depending on mental focus
Basics of hypnosis
Basics of somatic therapy, here as Tapping
Basis of Neuro Linguistic Programming

Practical parts

Combi induction in the dentists chair with hypnosis/tapping
De-learning phobias with the Movie Game
Trauma Tapping Technique
Priming before treatment from reception to chair
How to approach a patient worried about economy and treatment
How to approach patients with fear of pain
How to handle patients family with the Yellow Tape method
How to approach and calibrate with children

Pricing & Certification

After training you will be able to certify trough a theoretical test in combination with reports from 20 hours of practical case reports.

Courses are scheduled on demand.
Prices for HOAM trainings vary depending on application and group size from 200-1.000 Euros per person.

P.S. Read about the removal of eight teeth with roots using advanced HOAM and the surprising healing procedure in English and Swedish.

Hypnosis Peak Performance in Studio

February 24, 2013 / Ulf Sandström / Articles

Tales from a session of Ulf Sandström

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I got a call from a producer who wanted to test hypnosis to find the perfect state of mind for recording a complex vocal track in the new album of Marie Lala, and I thought it made a lot of sense – hypnosis is deeply focused state of mind where you can be both relaxed and active at the same time.

In this session I hypnotized Marie, a talented and open minded young singer, in the studio just before the take of a pretty complex tune to find her “inner golden tap” for channeling the exact right emotions into her rendering of Deep Dark Blue.

This included gathering her best moments on stage, experiencing what it would feel like to sing it inside her favorite artist, having a very special person in the imagined audience and listening to it 50 years from now and getting the very same feeling again.

Normally a complex song track can be recorded any number of times in search of the “right” feeling and take – and normally in the end the result is a matter of slicing the best parts from all takes into the best take. This can take hours at no end and sometimes its a sound puzzle asking for the skills of an audio surgeon involved.

She did three straight takes after another, each as good and with multiple subtle qualities…. Both she and the producers said her perfomance was beyond what they hoped for or had believed could happen. They didn’t need to say – I heard.

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This is her experience in her own words:
“This song, Deep dark Blue, is about that place between awake and asleep one can get stuck in. You know that place where sadness and worries can grow from little seeds to take over your whole existence. And also this song is about the beauty of finally falling asleep, of dreaming, of being able to meet your lost ones.

We wanted to get the feeling of me acually being close to sleep when i sang this song, and when the idea came up to try hypnosis we all got very excited. I have always wanted to try hypnosis and felt this was the perfect time to do it. I didn’t know what to expect, but thought that it would definately be worth a try.

It was amazing! I have never been so free and present during a recording.

This song is a very hard song to sing, and I guess that I would have had to spend a lot of time on it on a normal recording session. But it all went really easy, I sang it from beginning til end three times in a row, and then it was done.

The experience of singing under hypnosis has given me a lot. Even though I can’t put myself back into that calm and pure state of mind yet, I am definately moving towards it. All the vocals that were recorded after the hypnosis session went smoother and I was less hard on myself then I have been in the past. Highly recommended! :)”

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Past Life Regression

February 11, 2013 / Ulf Sandström / Articles

Most therapists working with clients in hypnosis will sooner or later encounter the strange and often quite surprising phenomena labelled as spontaneous regression.

Being well trained, the therapist immediately follows the client keeping in mind Milton Erickson’s advice “Accept and Utilize”. This regression can be to the clients’ childhood or, even further back in time, to a past life. I remember well the first time that happened to me. I had my client in deep hypnosis doing free associations, i.e. remembering situations in her childhood. It seemed to me that a lot of these memories centered around her angry and impatient father. Their relationship was, and had always been, strained. Suddenly the picture changed and the client, without missing a beat, describes how she (then a he) is advancing on an angry and highly exited crowd. Being the officer in charge my client commands the crowd to disperse but that seemed to make them even angrier. In the tumult that ensued my client stabs one of the main agitators in the chest but gets, at the same time, a terrible blow to the head and dies there on the street.

There were other benefits resulting from the session as well but I can’t nowUpon returning to normal awareness a few things were immediately clear to my
client. The man she, as the officer in charge, had killed was her father in a past life. Within minutes her animosity to her father melted away and she clearly understood why their relationship was so dysfunctional. She also understood and resolved her fear of crowds.

remember exactly what they were. My client was delighted but at the same time
completely surprised. She had never really given the idea of a past life a thought. Now, was this a true past life, a concoction of the mind or something else entirely?

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As a clinical hypnoanalyst I have to say that I don’t particularly care what it was – the important thing was that my client was tremendously benefited by the session.

However, I have had the opportunity to research some clients past life experiences with the help of historians – some of these regressions were filmed and shown on national television – and my present understanding is that at least with some clients the information given to them about a past life is correct. What is unclear is where that information comes from. I can think of several sources but none of theme are less “metaphysical” than the theory of past lives.

In my practice I have done many, many hundreds of past life regressions and have seen the good therapeutic results of these sessions. For an experienced hypnotist it is surprisingly easy to bring somebody back in time to a past life but it takes some skill to bring about the “moment of enlightenment” when everything falls in place.

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Rebel Against The System?

January 24, 2013 / Ulf Sandström / Articles

This came to us from a Rebel who Learned How, and wishes to remain anonymous, reason stated in the end…

For years when I was growing up I didn’t want to become a part of the system… so I chose to drop out of college… not go to school… I wanted to be a rebel… and I was convinced that I could make great money doing that and in doing that I learned because I had such great disdain for the system and I rebelled against it so much that I thought I was out of the system…

Turns out I only became a part of another system, a more deprived part of it, because we do not partake in any of the excesses of the actual system… right then and there I realized no matter where I go there is a system… even a counter system… or the counter culture as it’s currently called

“I’m a rebel… I’ll never do that otherwise I’m a sell out…”

That is the refrain that is commonly repeated.

“Rebel against the system…”

First mistake: Rebel!
That was my first mistake, rebelling against the system… because when I used to get tickets or protest my taxes I lost all legal recourse against the system… because I rejected the system, and the system was more powerful.

Second mistake: Slave…
When I started to obey the law because I made it my master I started to learn that there were many things out of my control and they would just happen to people and because that was the law. I never fought it so I was a victim of circumstance…

Insight: Utilize The System!
Then I learned it was about utilizing the system… which was hard for me because, you have to remember: I had started out as a rebel and then learned to obey it… and then I learned laws were made to be were made to be utilized …

When I was in college one time I had gotten straight A’s… 6 classes in a row… and I paid my money… took the classes… gotten the grades… But when it came time to get my grades… Half of them were taken away… why?

The Victim

Unbeknownst to me I had broken the rules. And I was pissed off and angry and felt like a complete victim.

I was like

“fuck it! I’ve been screwed over… I’ll never get them back this is just another example of the system kicking Me around…”

And then a woman… actually the one I went to complain to about this… listened to me and how fair my plight was… and I told her how unfair it was and then she told me she was sorry but there was nothing that she could do for me… Shit… I was on the brink of tears… it was so god damn unfair… but as she finished telling me there was nothing she could do for me… she said

“You know what you should do? You should appeal it…”

and I told her it will never work… I’ll just end up getting fucked over by the system like I already have… it’s just a waste of money… but then she looked at me and said:

“it probably is but, you should appeal it, it’s not a lot of money (it was only like 3 bucks)”

And she pushed the form towards me and she was like:

“it’s really not a lot of paper work all you have to do is get your professors to sign off…”

So I was like

“fuck it… I’m not going to get it anyways but it’s only a few bucks and I might as well try anyways.”

I went home that day feeling absolutely miserable in every way… and couple weeks later I was still sour on what happened. I went to my post box. Quite frankly I had already assumed those grades were gone… I pulled out the letter fully expecting the hear I was denied only to see that the university gave them all back!

And that’s only one example of how I almost missed the train. Rebel…

Today I work with clients in a drug and alcohol program, and for the most part they perpetually try to fight the system.

Not because the program they are in is correct but because there is a system that is involved… remember, a system is an over arching organizing structure. It’s the thing that keeps things from being messy… and to those of you who know how messy things can be imagine no structure…

Cause and Effect

When I was in the marines there was a system you did x, y, z,… when you were told do and if you chose to rebel or to break the rules the system had ways of dealing with you in order to put the system in balance…

Now let’s bring it back to a more individual level… there are things that you do… and you do them… they are like rules that you HAVE to adhere too… it’s like a run a way train… you can either choose to break those rules or to try to circumvent or even try to obey them but for most people after they do all that they still have their same problem…

My recommendation to you is to utilize these rules… and to know there will never be a right answer but there will be a right enough answer that will allow you to proceed.

Remember my school grades? I almost lost that battle, because I wasn’t in my right answer to them. Let’s face it: I broke the rules, I just didn’t know I did. Thanks to good advice I managed to be right enough in my response so things ended up working out. They can for you too rebel. If you rebel the right way: utilize the system…

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Hypnosis Vs Yoga?

January 24, 2013 / Ulf Sandström / Articles

Clinical hypnosis and Patanjali yoga sutras 
Shitika Chowdhary, Jini K. Gopinath Department of Psychology, Christ University, Bangalore, India

Abstract

The trance states in yoga and hypnosis are associated with similar phenomena like relaxation, disinclination to talk, unreality, misrepresentation, alterations in perception, increased concentration, suspension of normal reality testing, and the temporary nature of the phenomena.

While some researchers consider yoga to be a form of hypnosis, others note that there are many similarities between the trance in yoga and the hypnotic trance. The present study aimed to find similarities between the trance states of hypnosis and Patanjali’s yoga sutras.

The trance states were compared with the understanding of the phenomena of trance, and the therapeutic techniques and benefits of both. An understanding of the concept of trance in Patanjali’s yoga sutras was gained through a thematic analysis of the book Four Chapters on Freedom by Swami Satyananda Saraswati. This led to an understanding of the concept of trance in the yoga sutras.

The obtained concepts were compared to the concepts of trance in hypnosis (obtained through the literature on hypnosis) to investigate whether or not there exist similarities.

The findings of the study show that there are similarities between the trance in hypnosis and the trance in Patanjali’s yoga sutras in the induction and deepening of the trance states in hypnosis and that of Samadhi, the phenomena present in hypnosis and the kinds of siddhis that are obtained through Samadhi, and the therapeutic techniques and the therapeutic process in Patanjali’s yoga sutra and hypnosis.

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Stress – One breath away?

January 6, 2013 / Ulf Sandström / Articles

According to a lot of recent medical research, stress is one of the biggest threats to public health today. We’re not talking about “positive” or “negative” stress, we’re talking about cortisol. The kind of stress that affects your inner chemical environment and sooner or later will lead to physical symptoms. Aching neck, pain in the back, heart problems, stroke and some forms of cancer. This is what medical research is battling today. Stress.

What is your stress strategy?

Do you keep loading on stuff until the load falls over, do you live on merits of health long overdue or are you spending two minutes a day actually experiencing your life?

There are many simple ways of handling stress, and the three most common are probably:

– Plan (both work and pleasure)
– Say No (to everything that isn’t important)
– Delegate or sub-contract (everything you can afford to)

It may seem too simple to be true… but then again, you may find yourself thinking that this doesn’t apply to you – because your situation is “different”?

If so, in exactly what way do you mean that your situation is different?

Are there external parameters you really can’t do anything about that you are choosing to perceive in ways that lead to stress?

Ok. There is one more rule:

– What you cannot affect: Drop It Now!

Again, there is meditation and mindfulness which you might consider being “new age flower power stuff” or something “you really want to check out when you find the time”…
Well, the “new age” factor of mindfulness is sub-zero. A psychologist came up with this concept after a lot of research around the links between stress, breathing and health, and behind all trendy news values involved in this repackaging of meditation and hypnosis you will find the most important knowledge of them all:

– If you make sure you stop and smell the flowers once a day,laugh at something and feel grateful just a minute, you will most probably live longer and have more fun…

If you don’t have that curiosity and sense of self preservation there is an even simpler approach: Alpha-Theta Breathing. Something so technical and scientifically healthy that you probably can’t help but try it:

1. Take a quick and deep breath through your nose.
2. Hold your breath for a moment.
3. Breath out as slowly as possible through tight lips, as if you are inflating the world around you, gently, as if it were a balloon… and at the same time, relax your shoulders and let them fall.

Do this twice. It will take approximately 30 seconds. You will lower your cortisol levels measurably, notice your breath and think of something funny. I promise. Or your breath back.

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