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As of December, 2004 there are more than 5,000 clinical research studies having to do with hypnosis and its benefits currently being conducted worldwide?

(According to: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/)

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As of December 15, 2004 results from more than 3,000 clinical research studies are available showing positive benefits from hypnosis?

(According to: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/)

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According to studies done at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, suggestions given in a hypnotic state, even once, can produce actions in human

beings that are the same type of actions that would have resulted from more long-term conditioning and practice.

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In a research study on Self-hypnosis for relapse prevention training with chronic drug/alcohol users, (Am J Clin Hypn. 2004...

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     Recently a hypnotherapist received a call from the wife of a friend he had not seen for more than two years.  He knew that the friend had been treated surgically for cancer of the kidney, but he had heard that the operation had proved successful and all was well.  Unfortunately, this was not the case.

     The wife asked the hypnotherapist if he would see the husband and try to relieve the intense pain which was being suffered.  The therapist requested medical authority to enter into the case and was advised that the situation was terminal, and that everything possible had been done--any help in pain relief was more than welcome.  The prognosis was for about six months of life.

     The situation was such that the patient could not visit the office, so the hypnotherapist offered to make a house call.  He had some concern about the hypnotizability of the patient, since hypnosis usually requires an ability to focus attention as directed by the hypnotherapist in the fixation phase of the induction. ...

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     The human brain receives messages from several sources, each dealing with separate types of information.  Input dealing with everyday matters such as news, music, jobs, relationships, weather, etc., comes from the external environment.  Our own bodies provide data concerning movement, digestion, tension, pain, etc., all in the form of messages, sent to the brain.

     The conscious mind deals with reasoning and logic, decisions, goals planning and conscious activity.  The unconscious mind, which includes both the subconscious and the superconscious, wields the greatest influence.  It receives all the messages from our social, spiritual and genetic backgrounds and all the conflicts and disturbances which enter our consciousness each day.  The unconscious mind receives and holds its information, neither accepting nor rejecting the messages.  It does not evaluate.  That procedure is reserved for the conscious mind.

     From primitive times the human animal has possessed an escape mechanism that...

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