There is no limit to how many sessions you can do. We do not follow a protocol or a calendar cycle. All we respect is the need of the person who started the hypnosis sessions to follow their own needs for clearing and completing the cycle of self-awareness. It is worth telling you here that my own average is about three sessions per person.
<p align=”justify”>I would describe hypnoscopesis as a radical alternative therapeutic approach and this is because it begins where other approaches end. Because it goes to the root of the problem and because it is not confined to the environment of an office or the stiflingly narrow context of the 50-minute session. Hypnoscopesis breaks vertically with the established psychotherapeutic approach not only because it uses differentiated states of consciousness, but also because it uses the physical elements of the environment to achieve its purpose.</p>
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<p align=”justify”>The “session” can take place on top of a mountain, on a beach or in a cave. The “pathology” of urban dwellers who are trapped in modern and inelegant concrete cities cannot easily find their way into an office, no matter how tasteful it may be. Elements such as the running water of a spring, the sound of the sea, the smell of the earth after rain, the source dance and the sounds of genuine music may be more important than the way to bring a person in touch with his or her being. I believe that many of the disorders that afflict our fellow human beings are purely due to chronic alienation from the natural environment.</p>
<p align=”justify”>Another reason that hypnoscopesis breaks with psychotherapy (as it is practiced today) is that it does not place the person with a problem opposite but next to the therapist and it does this without treating him as a patient by putting him in the DSM’s little drawers.</p>
<p align=”justify”>The talk-therapy that dominates as a trend today is ineffective because it is based on the dialogue (or rather the monologue of the patient or client), i.e. the chattering level of the consciousness and does not dare to go deeper into the deeper layers of consciousness and address its shadow side.
If many of our fellow human beings have turned their backs on this approach it is because they were not convinced by the detached, distant and “fastidious” approach. “If it’s the role of the psychologist” said one friend “that of the mirror in my house then I’m telling a friend”.
<p align=”justify”>An approach that does not take into account the existence of a spiritual world or treats it with derision is doomed to see the world one-dimensionally. Biological reductionism that tries to attribute everything to bioelectrochemical reactions and interactions of neuronal synapses is anywhere from ridiculous to sad. Frankly, I would like one of these Nobel Prize winners to “prove” to me in mathematical, physical, biochemical or any other way he wishes what was going on inside Mozart’s head when he was writing the Requiem. And since Mozart’s brain has long since become food for soil, let them take any modern living musician and show us with their phantasmagorical techniques ( CT scans, MRIs, EEGs, analyses and whatever else they want) how could any of us become such a genius…</p>
<p align=”justify”>Here I am not questioning the progress (rather revolution) of modern science and medicine. I am questioning its arrogant approach and its supposed omniscience. We still have a long way to go to understand how the human brain works in its biological dimension, let alone in its mental dimension…</p>
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<p align=”justify”>Hypnosis is a technique of bypassing analytical thinking and critical brain functioning in order to establish focused and selective attention, thus making the unconscious mind receptive to suggestion. To put it in simpler terms. Hypnosis is a pleasant state during which deep physical and mental relaxation occurs, where :</p>
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<li>Our consciousness expands and perceives other dimensions.</li>
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<li>We are aware of reality all the time and of course we are always in control.</li>
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<li>This facilitates communication with our unconscious and access to its infinite powers.</li>
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<li>Usually a mechanism is activated by the hypnotist to identify the root of our problem which seems to be effective.</li>
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<li>Any suggestion by the hypnotist is rejected if it conflicts with our moral code.</li>
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<p align=”justify”>According to the Britannica encyclopedia…”<em>Hypnosis refers to a peculiar and complex form of unusual but normal behaviour that can be induced not only in all normal people but also in all those who suffer from various behavioural disorders. It is basically a differentiated psychological state with specific physiological characteristics, where it only superficially resembles sleep and where it is characterized by functions of perception that differ from those we know at the normal conscious level.”</em>.</p>
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If today, such a pattern is still alive today, it is purely due to Hollywood movies that perpetuate this image. The great truth is that after the banishment of hypnosis from the scientific community during the interwar period, it was the stage hypnotists who kept the flame of its secrets and power alive, and who captivated their audience with the impressive phenomena they produced, leaving even the most critical observer speechless (a phenomenon completely unknown in Greece). Of course, scientists never lost their interest in the research of these phenomena, but they were silenced in front of the fear of stigmatization and identification with the “peddling charlatans”. It took until the end of the 50s for medical associations to begin to restore hypnosis and accept it as an adjunctive therapy. But in order to do this they stripped it of its ‘metaphysical’ character and gave it another more ‘digestible’ dimension. They have identified hypnosis with physical and mental relaxation, going to the other extreme by ignoring phenomena such as reversible amnesia, partial or total insensitivity to pain, prolonged muscle contractions, the execution of commands at a predetermined time after waking and increased extra-sensory perception (ESP). They also turn their backs on the ever-repeated and experimentally verified phenomenon of ‘past life’ flashbacks.</div>
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Although some are blinkered because the restrictive drawers of their worldview cannot accommodate phenomena that overturn much of what they know or have learned to date, yes, it is possible for someone to recapture a past life. As psychiatrist Brian Weiss put it when he was unwittingly confronted with such a spontaneous flashback phenomenon “nothing in my educational background had prepared me for it. I was literally speechless as the events unfolded before my eyes.”</em>. Πριν αρχίσουμε καλά-καλά, μπήκαμε στα βαθιά χωρίς να έχουμε δώσει τον ορισμό της ύπνωσης.</div>
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<p align=”justify”>Yes, most of them, except those who have been classified by medical science as epileptic and psychotic. Clinical measurements and estimates (but not substantiated scientific statistical studies) show that only one fifth of the population can reach deep hypnotic levels of hypnosis (amnesia), while about 10% of the population is not hypnotized.</p>
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<p align=”justify”>Yes, although there are disagreements about them. But there is general agreement that there are three levels, each with two stages. So we have light, moderate and deep or hypnotic levels of hypnosis.</p>
<p align=”justify”><strong>Α. Light hypnosis.</strong>
1. Occlusion of the eyelids and inability to move some muscles.
2. Occlusion of specific muscle groups (e.g. arm) and a feeling of swinging or heaviness.
<strong>Β. Medium Hypnosis.</strong>
3. Occupation of much of the body and alteration of the senses of taste and smell.
4. Induction of amnesia, analgesia and partial anaesthesia in various parts of the body.
<strong>C. Deep hypnosis.</strong>
5. Positive illusions (seeing something that is not there).
6. Inducing total anaesthesia, sleepwalking and negative hallucinations
(not seeing something that exists).
We call the first three stages (1-3) mnemonic because we retain our memory and the next three (4-6) amnesic.
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<li>Avoid coffee or stimulating drinks several hours before the session.</li>
<li>Do not make an appointment after the session. It is very important to be alone, listen to your experience and evaluate it.</li>
<li>Be prepared for some introspection that usually comes after a hypnosis session.</li>
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