This hypnosis presentation explores the western view and development of hypnosis through time from healing sleep temples and faith healing, through mesmerism and auto-suggestion, to modern conversational hypnosis techniques of influence and persuasion, used in every walk of life, where you can hypnotize people secretly, without them knowing it You can now Experience hypnosis with the free hypnosis download, you can get here http://www.deeptrancenow.com/news.htm

1. Hypnosis
From Healing and
Self-Improvement to
Influence & Persuasion
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2. Western hypnosis traces its roots
to Egyptian, Greek and Roman
healing, sleep temples.
Aesculapius
often threw his
patients into deep
sleep and relieved
pain by stroking
their hands.
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3. In the 10th century, a great physician,
Avicenna, expounded his view that
“imagination of man
could act not only
on his own body,
but also on other and
very distant bodies.”
Today we call this
“remote influence”.
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4. In the 16th century, Paracelsus was
persecuted because he dared state that
“imagination and
faith can cause
and remove disease.”
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5. Edward the Confessor introduced the
“Royal Touch” to England.
Thereafter, it
became a custom of
the King to cure
people by touching
or stroking.
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6. In the 17th century, a famous Irish
healer Valentine Greatrakes,
who believed that
all disease was
caused by evil
spirits, obtained
many healings by
casting out evil
spirits.
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7. The history of modern hypnosis in the
West begins in 18th century
with the arrival of
Franz Anton Mesmer.
Mesmer believed that
all disease was
caused by imbalance
of “magnetic fluid”.
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8. He called the invisible force “animal
magnetism” and performed numerous
spectacular healings.
His healing techniques
incorporated the use
of magnets and
mesmeric passes.
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9. Many influential people flocked to be
cured by Mesmer. French queen, Marie
Antoinette was his follower, as was
Mozart, who
performed musical
play in Mesmer’s
honor.
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10. Benjamin Franklin went to investigate
what Mesmer was doing and
decided that the
power that made
it all happen was
“the power of
imagination”.
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11. One of Mesmer’s followers, Marquis de
Puysegur, while experimenting with
a simple peasant boy,
produced the “sleeping
stage”. He discovered
that in this state, the
boy talked more
intelligently than when
wide-awake.
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12. Portuguese monk, Abbe Faria, learned
to produce somnambulist state
by gazing steadily at
the patient and then
shouting “Sleep!”
He proclaimed that the
cause of trance rested
with the patient and
not with the operator.
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13. Dr. James Esdaile began to experiment
with mesmerism in India.
He performed several
thousand minor and
300 major operations.
He reduced death rate
from 50% to 5% using
mesmerism.
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14. Dr. James Braid attended a public
performance of mesmerism with
intent to expose Swiss
mesmerist Lafontaine
as a charlatan. He was
astounded to find that
the phenomena of
trance were real.
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15. He concluded that “sleep” resulted
from the fatigue of eyes and
coined the word
“hypnotism” after the
Greek god of sleep Hypnos. He soon realized
that hypnosis was not
sleep, but the name
persisted to this day.
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16. Jean-Martin Charcot, French
neurologist, at the Salpêtrière hospital,
used hypnotism to
treat hysteria and
other abnormal
mental conditions.
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17. Hyppolite Bernheim and August
Ambroise Liebault, in France,
were the first to regard
hypnosis as a normal
phenomenon.
They concluded that expectation is
the most important factor in the
induction of hypnosis.
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18. Another Frenchman, Emile Coué
pioneered the use of auto-suggestion.
He is famous for the
phrase “Day by day in
every way I am getting
better and better.”
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19. More recently, the leading hypnosis
authority was Dr. Milton Erickson.
He devised countless
innovative and creative
ways to help people.
A master of indirect
hypnosis, he used
metaphor, surprise and
humor.
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20. Teachings and techniques of
Dr. Milton Erickson were widely
popularized by Richard Bandler and
John Grinder, who initiated the
development of Neuro-Linguistic
Programming (NLP).
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21. Ericksonian Hypnosis, also known as
conversational hypnosis, and often
promoted as “hypnotize them without
them having a clue they’re hypnotized”
is today used in all
walks of life, from
therapy to sales
and advertising to
speed seduction.
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22. Whether you want to influence
and persuade your own subconscious
mind with healing and
empowering ideas or you
want to influence and
persuade others, hypnosis
and NLP techniques are
your indispensable tools
for success.
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23. Presentation created
Laura De Giorgio
Hypnotherapist &
NLP Master Practitioner
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