Hypnosis Truth! is a personal narrative of the accomplishments in a fifty-year career in many technical areas of E.W. "Scotty" Berry who at the age of seventy-six is the top man in technical electrical instruction working every day in the field as a consultant and instructor while most of his peers have retired to their lazy-Boy. Scotty credits most of his abilities and wonderful full life to his use of subjective reasoning under a self induced hypnotic state. This book will explain the how to do it aspects of self hypnosis and why anyone could and should use this wonderful art to better themselves in all of their endeavors.
Hypnosis Truth!
The Philosophy of Everyday Auto Suggestions
By E. W. "Scotty" BerryAuthorHouse
Copyright © 2002 E. W. "Scotty" Berry
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4033-3972-0Contents
FOREWORD, xi,
PREFACE, xiii,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, xv,
BIOGRAPHY, xvii,
DISSERTATION, xxi,
INTRODUCTION, xxiii,
PART I PERSPECTIVE ON CLINICAL DISEASE, 1,
Modern Medical Practices, 3,
PART II BIOLOGICAL AND TARGETED THERAPEUTICS, 11,
Modern Intelligence Practices, 13,
Education, 15,
The Hypnotic Operator, 17,
The Subject, 18,
Lesson Plan: Induction of the Hypnotic State, 20,
Hypnotist Ethics, 26,
PART III PREVENTION OF MAJOR DISABILITIES: IMPROVEMENT IN HEALTH OUTCOMES, 29,
Everyday Self-Hypnosis, 31,
Physical Fitness, 45,
PART IV NOVEL APPROACHES, 49,
Stage Hypnosis, 51,
The Show, 55,
Age Regression, 94,
PART V PRACTICE GUIDELINES, 169,
Hypnosis: The Mother of Metaphysics, 171,
Usage and Practice, 173,
The Mind as an Electrical Aggregate: Bio-feedback, 179,
The Future of the Hypnotic Arts, 187,
PART VI APPENDICES, 191,
Letter of Commendation, 193,
Poem: Top of the Hill, 195,
Order Forms, 198,
CHAPTER 1
MODERN MEDICAL PRACTICES
James Braid, 1795-1860, a Scottish surgeon, coined the name "hypnosis" after the Greek word for sleep, "hupnos." Braid, after viewing a demonstrative show of what at the time was called mesmerism, was quite skeptical of the phenomenon. Nevertheless he continued his investigation and experiments.
Braid became convinced that he could cause genuine sleep by a method of a fixed stare. Braid found success in treating nervous ailments with his newfound skill, and is now considered the father of the modern study.
Beneficial hypnosis is now for the most part a medically accepted treatment. This includes the mind-probing techniques of the psychologist and psychiatrist, the anesthetic inductions of surgeons, and the soothing ministrations of holistic preparations. Hypnosis may be used in fostering relatively painless childbirth or bloodless surgery, including tooth-extraction or other traumatic work. It is the pain reliever which facilitates the medical practitioner.
The use of medical hypnosis is widespread around the world today. Treatments include: control of pain, i.e., painless childbirth, painless dentistry, induced anesthesia, dental problems; moral problems, bed wetting, physical therapy, training in the use of prostheses (artificial limbs and dentures), memory loss, and the removal of warts. The list could go on and on but if you look at the examples that I have given above, you will readily see that training in more than one area is required to treat these ills. Physicians can use hypnosis as part of medical treatment, yet no one should be treated by hypnosis alone. It is also against the law to practice "medicine" unless you are a licensed doctor.
Only a fool would allow a stage hypnotist or a stranger to "treat" an illness by the use of hypnosis. Yet time and time again I have had people ask in all sincerity for me to hypnotize them and treat their illnesses or physical impairments. I do not and will not! Pain can be removed under hypnosis, but it is not a good idea unless you absolutely know the source of the pain. This can be better determined by a medical doctor, and then the hypnotist and doctor may work hand-in-hand, if possible. Hypnosis is a wonderful medical tool and, in the hands of a medical practitioner, it can work wonders. Medical hypnosis affects many cures for today's illnesses, especially those that are psychosomatic or imagined. My own doctor is a trained hypnotist, but he would never treat an illness with hypnosis alone, but also with the tools and medicines of his profession.
I have assisted doctors in some treatments but strictly as the operator. I would never try to "treat" an illness, not even my own. I have faith in my doctors and their profession; I just wish that "sometimes they had a little faith in mine." Hypnotists do not generally work with doctors, who are unfortunately among the worst skeptics. Doctors find it to their advantage to use drugs to achieve the sleep-state. Some few doctors, however, are expert hypnotists and are well trained in the art. And while a hypnotist may be able to treat medical problems alone, they should be properly treated by your medical doctor as well.
My son-in-law stopped by my home just a few minutes ago, and asked that I accompany him to purchase an automobile. As we were seated in the dealer's office, a gentleman entered and he was bent over and wracked with pain from a lower back ailment. He stated to the sales representative that he was in so much pain that he might not be able to conduct his business with her.
The salesperson, a friend of mine, asked if I could help this gentleman and he gave permission for me to try. He stated that when this back pain occurred he always went to his chiropractor, who could relieve the symptoms after only a few days of treatment. I stood at the man's back and asked him to lean back against my hands and follow my hands back as I moved them. He groaned in pain but complied, as he moved back against my hands, which I had not moved at all.
He stood erect at my direction and I massaged his shoulders and back, suggesting that the pain was leaving his body and entering my hands. In a few seconds he screamed aloud, "Damn, what did you do?" "Nothing," I said, "You did it." I assured him that the pain would no longer bother him, however I advised him to continue seeing his doctor for medical treatment, because I had not cured his ailment.
As I left the office, the gentleman was walking and shouting my praises, trying to ascertain my fee for payment. I told him that I hate to see people needlessly in pain and that by way of payment he should include me in his prayers that night.
While this was a success story, one should also be aware that in the majority of medical office treatments the patient may very well become so dependent upon the hypnotist that he or she will respond only to him or her. After a time, with increased sessions, this could very well replace one problem with another. The patient subjected to long-term and repeated hypnotic treatment should be made independent of the hypnotist as soon as possible. The patient should be taught to control his or her own suggestive treatment through the use of autosuggestion or self-hypnosis, which can be taught gradually by the practitioner.
Sickle Cell Anemia
This disease is an inherited malady generally associated with people from the Mediterranean and African nations. The African-American people suffer this most common serious genetic disorder in large numbers. There is no proven cure. The effect of the illness can cause strokes and a number of other life-threatening complications; the red blood cells of the victim are distorted into half-moon shapes and block the smaller blood vessels, depriving the muscles and bones of oxygen. This causes an intense pain, unpredictable, intermittent, and life-long misery.
Until now, heavy narcotics have been the only treatment available. The extended use of narcotics such as morphine and codeine can cause addiction. Parents, as well as medical personnel, are reluctant to prescribe and administer these drugs in large doses over an extended period of time, as sometimes even this measure is ineffective. Hypnosis is considered an alternative method of treatment...