Self-hypnosis

Nonpharmacologic interventions are classified as behavioral interventions and include relaxation, biofeedback, self-hypnosis, cognitive distraction, guided imagery, and systematic desensitization. 

Memorization is much easier if you approach the task with the expectation that you will remember what you see. Call it positive thinking, self-hypnosis, or concentration— it doesn t really matter as long as you get results. When you run through the practice questions in this book, prepare your mind before you start. Tell yourself over and over that you will remember what you see as you study the images. Your performance level will rise to meet your expectations. 

My dinner party hostess, who happened to be a descendent of Mary Arnold-Eoster, sent me home with her copy of Studies in Dreams, where the technique of lucid dreaming and its psychedelic delights are described in detail. I was as attracted by the idea of flying in my dreams as I was by the power of self-hypnosis, so I followed Arnold-Eoster s prescription. I simply put a notebook by my bedside, so as to be able to record my dream recall, and told myself, before going to sleep. I ll pay attention to my consciousness, which I would know to be dreaming because of the bizarre discontinuities and incongruities of time, place, and person. 

Second, it clearly demonstrates that we can master simple, safe, and economical self-hypnosis techniques. This observation has broad implications for psychiatry, for medicine, and for human behavior generally. That a voluntary practice can influence even so highly automatic and... 

If people have relatively strong egos and feel reasonably secure in themselves, they may be able to tolerate or even benefit from one or another therapeutic technique, whether it is role-playing, dream analysis, free association, cognitive therapy, behavioral therapy, self-hypnosis, relaxation techniques, biofeedback or whatever. But disturbed people will experience anything that is rote, contrived, or repetitive as one more humiliating insult, and even as an assault. 

For patients with simple complaints, perhaps related to food or beverage consumption, avoidance or moderation of dietary intake may be preferable. Nonpharmacologic interventions are classified as behavioral interventions and include relaxation, biofeedback, self-hypnosis, cognitive distraction, guided imagery, and systematic desensitization. 

Weinfurter referred mostly to the Mystic J.B.Kerning, and it is quite apparent that he did not understand him totally. In my opinion, the Letter-Exercises of SebottendorfAVeinfurter are nothing else but a form of Self-Hypnosis, where in the course of this, they turn into hallucination. 

Use of distraction methods such as blowing bubbles, providing music by headphones, relaxation, imagery, self-hypnosis, or having parents present for the procedure can be helpful. 

Stress management, relaxation training, yoga, massage, biofeedback, and self-hypnosis... 

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