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If you don’t like the idea of someone
“talking” to your sub consciousness (in spite of me convincing
you of its harmlessness), but you want to use many advantages of the
hypnosis, the solution is self hypnosis induction.Standard method for self hypnosis induction is to use mp3 tapes with hypnosis
suggestions, there are lot of specialized tapes for e.g. weight loss or
stop smoking etc.
But this way of hypnosis is not really effective because
mp3 tape doesn’t know when you really are hypnotized and when it should
start with suggestions - it depends from person to person (suggestibility,
concentration, power of visualization etc.). I am working on biofeedback
self hypnosis - the hypnosis method where you using taped instructions,
but you are also connected with computer which measures you brain wave frequency
and indicates your state of mind. Computer controls taped instructions and
gives you just the instruction you need at the specific moment. I believe
that this approach will make revolution in self hypnosis area.
Suggestibility increasing techniques are known since the 18th century when they were widely used in pain level reducing (there were no anesthetics at those time) during the surgically procedures and especially in dentists. Those techniques are in basic some relaxing suggestions that influence on decreasing of the examinee critical consequence level and its sensor perception. When the examinee critical consequence level is very low we talk abut hypnotic trance, and the process of getting the examinee in that state is called hypnosis. In the state of hypnotic trance the examinee is much opened to suggestions and instructions then in awareness.
Today, hypnosis is from medicine accepted technique that is used for treatment of different psychological disorders, but it’s also widely used to achieve painless labors, addiction quitting, phobic curing etc.
In dependence of consequence critical level we differs several hypnosis stages:
- Somnolence: brief trance state, feeling relaxed. The examinee cans clearly talk; EEG shows mostly beta waves (frequencies between 14 Hz and 30 Hz).
- Hypothalamic: almost all attention is focused on hypnotists, examinee is highly suggestible. Examinee can later recall this phase. EEG shows mostly alpha waves (frequencies between 8 Hz and 13 Hz).
- Somnambulizam: the examinee is very relaxed, even lethargic and cataleptic, talks unclearly; there are will be holes in memories; EEG shows mostly theta waves (frequencies between 4 Hz and 7 Hz).
- Comatose state: breading is very slow, complete anesthesia, the examinee is extremely suggestible. This state can be hard to achieve at some persons because they are afraid of losing their own will; EEG shows mostly delta waves (frequencies between 0.4 Hz and 4 Hz).
For a success of hypnosis process it is necessary to have a complete confidence of the examinee to an examiner, also the examiner should be a person with a great verbal skills and great authority. This is the reason for popularization of self-hypnosis techniques.
Self hypnosis techniques are based on taped hypnotic suggestions which the examinee can listen without presence of the examiner. Because of great popularity and easy production market is today overflowed by different self-hypnosis tapes. However, the efficiency of this method is questionable because there is no mechanism that could adapt suggestion to examinee consequence state or to the stage of hypnosis; hypnosis process in not individually adapted to the examinee which is necessary because every person has its own suggestibility level. If, for example, the examinee gets panicked during the hypnosis process (it is pretty usual because during the hypnosis process the examinee gets feeling of losing control on his mind, so panic is completely normal) it is necessary to adapt suggestion to calm down the examine, and get back few steps in hypnosis process. Experienced hypnotist knows when to do it, but tape just goes on and hypnosis process gets failed.
To improve self-hypnosis methods I developed bio-feedback self hypnosis system. It is based on using EEG data to control hypnosis process. Developed self-hypnosis application gets data from EEG, makes Fourier transformation on collected data and toward to data spectrum gives hypnosis suggestion over a computer speaker or headphones.
Application user can tape the suggestions himself before he starts the hypnosis procedure and set the application to play each suggestion in desirable hypnosis phase. Hypnosis phases are determined by application which analyze EEG data spectrum. Using this application examinee gets just right suggestions that he needs at the moment. In case of panic application will detect panic and the right suggestions will be given. Also, speed of hypnosis process will be completely adapted to the examinee.
Self hypnosis application
I am planning to improve the application so it will have a lot of predefined taped suggestions; also I am planning to do some research and create a manual with detail information on how to use the application and with lot of practice examples of real hypnosis sessions done using the application.
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