Aloha kakou,
I am going to begin posting an assortment of hypnosis "scripts" which can give an idea of the kinds of ways we can use hypnosis for healing, decreasing stress, helping us live a healthier way, and so on.
The scripts are very haole kine
In an effort to begin to transmit some of what I learned this weekend regarding medical hypnotherapy, I went back to Nana I Ke Kumu, because I remembered Mary Kawena Pukui and Samuel Elbert making mention of trance states, suggestibility, etc.
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While not legally allowed as a replacement for medical or psychiatric treatment, there are many complementary uses of Ho'akaku, also called Hypnotherapy or Hypnosis:
Medical: to help ease pain or discomfort caused by various conditions, to give sugg
Aloha kakoua,
I am making a separate discussion thread for this, which is very speculative. One thing I learned this weekend is that people in emergency situations are thrown into a sort of involuntary trance state (perhaps as a part of the "shock" p
Aloha kakou,
The idea behind this group is to put a wonderfully adaptable healing method into the hands of "the people," free of charge. I am a newly certified hypnotherapist in the San Francisco Bay Area, and I have learned so much about hypnosis an
Trance states are natural to human beings. They are based on various brain waves. People often go into a light trance when they are daydreaming, watching TV, or driving "on autopilot." In this discussion, we will talk about the various trance states,