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Dawn Harrison

Locality: Perth, Western Australia

Phone: +61 422 908 687

Address: The Vines 6069 Perth, WA, Australia

Website: www.dawnharrison-reeve.com.au/contact_me.html

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22.01.2022 History of Hypnosis Mind-Body Medicine and mind-body healing, as we now call it is not new. The term hypnosis has been around since the 1840s, but healers began using this technique, or some form of it, centuries earlier. We have records of hypnosis going back 2,500 years in ancient China and Egypt. In ancient Greece, the physical remnants of the sleep healing temple of Asklepios still exist. The physician Asklepios created a sleep healing temple where people would enter a... dimly lit stone room (called an Abaton) and recline on a stone bench that was elevated on one end, much like a chaise lounge. (This bench was called a klini, which is the origin of our word clinic.) The patients were prepared for several days in advance with purifying waters, baths, and fasting. They learned to relax into a peaceful calm. Then on the day of their treatment they would enter the Abaton. They were instructed to recline on the klini, to enter their calm reverie and silently await Asklepios. He would then come into the chamber and whisper his intention to them, based on their illness or condition. He might say, I’m going to take your headaches away, or You can eat anything you want now, free of discomfort, or You will sleep well now. After his gentle touch and affirmative words he would then leave. We believe his treatments worked because his patients carved testimonials into the stones and rocks around the temple telling of their cures. Although not yet known as hypnosis, this kind of treatment continued throughout history, from practitioners such as the Persian physician Avicenna around 1000 A.D., the Swiss physician Paracelsus in the 16rh century, and others. Yet the person who had the most influence on modern hypnotism was Franz Anton Mesmer, an Austrian physician who lived from 1734 to 1815. *watch this space for more on the History of Hypnosis See more

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12.01.2022 French and British physicians in the mid-1800s discovered that whatever healing occurred was not the result of anything magnetic but because of the power of suggestion. Mesmer’s patients, whom he was able to induce into a very relaxed, dreamy state, responded to his suggestions so that their bodies responded appropriately in some unknown way that healed their condition or illness. This discovery led the British physician, John Elliotson, who was president of the Royal Medica...l and Chirugical [Surgical] Society of London to become more interested in mesmerism. He founded and edited a magazine called The Zoist about this new technique, but he, too, was ridiculed because of his interest in it. Many believe that in 1843, James Braid, a Scottish surgeon, coined the term hypnosis from Hypnos, the Greek god of sleep, in the mistaken notion that someone in a hypnotic trance is asleep. We’re on the edge of many more and greater discoveries in the field of neuroplasticity, or the brain’s ability to reorganize itself according to various stimuli. As studies performed with Tibetan monks and other long-time meditators have shown, brain changes occur in response to meditation done over long periods of time. Many other studies have demonstrated that exercises, activities, and even thoughts will cause physical changes in the brain. Hence we now have a new mantra; ‘neurons that fire together, wire together’. We are indeed what we think! In large part, this explains the same thing happening with hypnosiswe change based on what we tell our brainsor more accurately, what we tell the subconscious mind so that the physical brain reacts accordingly. With hypnosis and other methods, we use the power of our minds to physically influence our brains for healing and enhancement of body, mind, and spirit. See more

07.01.2022 Around 1770, Franz Anton Mesmer, an Austrian physician began investigating what was then called animal magnetism, which was the practice of using magnets to move energy around people to heal them. (It had nothing to do with animals; instead, animal referred to sentient beings as opposed to the vegetable and mineral classes.) In one reported experiment, Mesmer cut a patient and after he passed a magnet over the wound, the bleeding stopped. However, the bleeding also stoppe...d when he used a stick of wood instead of a magnet. In time, he created trance-inducing methods including touching and stroking patients, as well as staring into their eyes and waving magnetic wands that he believed would remedy the cosmic fluid imbalance in their bodies. He was convinced that these techniques could banish illness and suffering, and they often did if the patient was susceptible to this mesmerism. Mesmer became very popular, and he let this go to his head. He grew eccentric, wearing caps and gowns decorated with stars and crescent moons, and often made a spectacle of himself by waving around an iron rod. In 1784, other physicians petitioned King Louis XVI of France to investigate Mesmer and his techniques, to which many people of the time objected. Louis appointed a commission to do this work; it included Benjamin Franklin, who then lived in France; the chemist Antoine Lavoisier; and Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, the peaceable man for whom the guillotine was later, and unfortunately, named (even though it was his brother that invented it). The commission ultimately decided that Mesmer’s methods had no medical meritremember that medical practices at the time included scientific methods such as blood-letting and applying leechesand Mesmer was discredited. However, other French and British physicians in the mid-1800s who were interested in the excellent results Mesmer obtained with his patients studied his work and techniques. See more