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
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
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
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,
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