Trance States Resulting from Trauma - Does this apply to long-term effects of occupation???

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

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Ho'akaku - Hypnosis, Noho, and Ho'oulu 'ia. What are differences?

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. On pa

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Welcome to everyone who has joined

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

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