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Hi Grace,
I think that there are two sides to every story, and they are most visible at the extremes. You mentioned an example from one extreme, now let me mention one from the other.
I am writing this from an in-patient psychiatric unit at New ...
And, if they try to restrict the free exercise of hypnosis, then again in Shakespeare's words,
"Cry 'Havoc!' and let loose the hounds of war!"
Most psychologists don't care diddly-squat about hypnoiss because of their theoretical blinders, so of course they don't know anything about it either.
Don
Well, there is still a practical use for having a legitimate Ph.D.if you are willing to pay your "pound of flesh" to get one. It's called money. I
f you have a doctorate from an institution which is recognized by the appropriate regional body tha...
These groups are where the creativity is. Their academic journals are typically dry as sawdust, and, as my wife said, they even manage to make sex boring!
Henxy and James,
After the late Ernest Hilgard founded the Division of Psychological Hypnosis in the American Psychological Association, things began to change, but it took a while. Behaviorists still can't explain hypnosis, but at least they're ...
Got the M.A. and Ph.D. at Claremont Graduate School (now Claremont Graduate University), 1964 and 1968 respectively. Don.
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- Hometown:
- Manahawkin, NJ
- Hypnosis Experience:
- Part Time Practice
- What are you looking for on this site?
- Networking, and exchanging information about new uses for hyperempiria, multimodal suggestion, and mystical trance.
- Areas of Specialty:
- I originated the "Best Me" technique of multimodal suggestion, and was the first to identify the process of hyperempiria, or the suggestion-based enhancement of experience, as a catalyst for growth and change
- About Me:
- I was born in Portland, Oregon, and have lived in several parts of the U.S. because my father was in the military. I received my Psychology training at the University of California, Riverside, and Claremont Graduate University. I have taught at the University of Portland, the University of West Georgia, and DeSales University, where I was Chairman of the Psychology Department.
I have written five books, presented at professional conferences, published in scholarly journals, and am a co-author of the chapter on hypnotic induction procedures in the forthcoming new edition of the Handbook of Clinical Hypnosis, published by the American Psychological Association. I also initiated the petition to establish the Division of Humanistic Psychology within the American Psychological Association.
I am a licensed psychologist in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and am currently employed in corrections by the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. I am a partner at the New Center for Counseling and Psychotherapy on Long Beach Island, NJ.
- Hobbies:
- Writing, research, and working with clients for the alleviation of physical and emotional pain and the fulfillment of their human potential.
- Website:
- http://www.hyperempiria.com
Experience as an Art Form: Hypnosis, Hyperempiria, and the Best Me Technique
The "Best Me Technique" is a form of hyperempiria, or suggestion-enhanced experience, which involves your whole person in the content of a suggested event. Every letter in "Best Me" corresponds with an element of suggestion, and these elements can be applied in a variety of ways: to enter hypnosis, to pre-experience the accomplishment of a goal, and to conclude a hypnosis session. It's the versatility and the thoroughness of these elements that makes the "Best Me Technique" distinct from meditation and visualization exercises. Instead of merely picturing something in the mind’s eye, the Best Me Technique enables us to paint upon the canvas of human experience almost any masterpiece we may desire. Among other applications, you can use "Best Me" suggestions to pre-experience the rewards of future goals now, at full strength in the present when they are most needed for motivation, reducing or eliminating the need for will power.
The Best Me Technique can also enrich the quality of your present relationships. When you're ninety, you probably won't remember your best day at the office. But most people, if they are fortunate enough, will recall a few special moments spent with a loved one which warm the heart forever. Now, imagine what your lives will be like -- and what sorts of memories you will have to look back upon -- when you and a loved one are able to create experiences like this almost any time you wish.
Just as a painter works with brush upon canvas and a sculptor works with chisel upon stone, couples are able to utilize multimodal suggestion to create a total union of body, heart, mind and soul -- to enhance the setting for lovemaking, evoke the proper mood, maximize responsiveness and desire, and increase the length, depth, and frequency of climax, blending together all the elements of physical intimacy to create whatever masterpiece of fulfillment a loving couple may desire. When the lovers' ability to mutually satisfy each other has been interfered with by age or disability, or when their desires are not equally matches for other reasons, hyperempiric suggestion can provide a full measure of gratification for both partners by restoring the needed balance. And for those whose closeness would appear to be incapable of further improvement, the greatest surprises of all may be in store; for it is those who have the greatest abilities who also possess the greatest potential.
The Best Me Technique also makes it is possible to experience many of the finest achievements of history, art, literature, and popular culture, as if they were actually happening right now. We can not only guide our trance partners through the experience of being Harry Potter jousting on his broom, or Indiana Jones in pursuit of hidden treasure, or Juliet on her balcony, or anything else he or she would care to live out, we can also specify how it will feel, how it will be remembered, and how much they will enjoy (and want to repeat) these adventures, for the facilitation of personal growth, the ennoblement of the human spirit, and the enrichment of human existence.
More information on applications of the Best Me Technique is available at my blogs:
www.hyperempiria.com
www.bestmetechnique.blogspot.com
The Best Me Technique can also enrich the quality of your present relationships. When you're ninety, you probably won't remember your best day at the office. But most people, if they are fortunate enough, will recall a few special moments spent with a loved one which warm the heart forever. Now, imagine what your lives will be like -- and what sorts of memories you will have to look back upon -- when you and a loved one are able to create experiences like this almost any time you wish.
Just as a painter works with brush upon canvas and a sculptor works with chisel upon stone, couples are able to utilize multimodal suggestion to create a total union of body, heart, mind and soul -- to enhance the setting for lovemaking, evoke the proper mood, maximize responsiveness and desire, and increase the length, depth, and frequency of climax, blending together all the elements of physical intimacy to create whatever masterpiece of fulfillment a loving couple may desire. When the lovers' ability to mutually satisfy each other has been interfered with by age or disability, or when their desires are not equally matches for other reasons, hyperempiric suggestion can provide a full measure of gratification for both partners by restoring the needed balance. And for those whose closeness would appear to be incapable of further improvement, the greatest surprises of all may be in store; for it is those who have the greatest abilities who also possess the greatest potential.
The Best Me Technique also makes it is possible to experience many of the finest achievements of history, art, literature, and popular culture, as if they were actually happening right now. We can not only guide our trance partners through the experience of being Harry Potter jousting on his broom, or Indiana Jones in pursuit of hidden treasure, or Juliet on her balcony, or anything else he or she would care to live out, we can also specify how it will feel, how it will be remembered, and how much they will enjoy (and want to repeat) these adventures, for the facilitation of personal growth, the ennoblement of the human spirit, and the enrichment of human existence.
More information on applications of the Best Me Technique is available at my blogs:
www.hyperempiria.com
www.bestmetechnique.blogspot.com
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Hypnosis as an Aid to Rational Thinking
In ancient Greece, if you were anxious, fearful, or depressed, you would consult a philosopher. The philosopher would probably start by asking you what you believe about life -- about yourself, the world, and the future. When you would get to an idea which appeared to be irrational or downright wrong, the philosopher would debate with you until you had cast out this irrational belief and, when this was done correctly, your depression, fears, and anxieties would almost invariably vanish.
Albert… Continue
Albert… Continue
Posted on November 14, 2009 at 4:16am — 3 Comments
"Looking at the World Through Mud-Colored Glasses:" Hypnosis for Cognitive Distortions
Most of us have heard the saying, "looking at the world through rose-colored glasses," which refers to the tendency of some over-optimistic people to see the world around them as or more positive than it actually is. But there are many others who have problems with anxiety or depression are inclined to look at the world through mud-colored glasses, regarding people and events as more negative or more threatening than they really are.
Following is a list of some of the more commonly use… Continue
Following is a list of some of the more commonly use… Continue
Posted on October 18, 2009 at 2:27am — 3 Comments
A Personal Account of Hypnotic Sexual Exploitation
Much as we may hate to admit it, the reputation that hypnosis has in the eyes of the public as a potential source of sexual exploitation is sometimes accurate.
Carla Emery's book, entitled, Secret, Don't Tell! The Encyclopedia of Hypnotism, published in June, 1998 by Acorn Hill Publishing Co., is indeed a one-volume illustrated encyclopedia of hypnotism (she also wrote The Encyclopedia of Gardening), but it has another purpose. It would appear that the author is intent on prov… Continue
Carla Emery's book, entitled, Secret, Don't Tell! The Encyclopedia of Hypnotism, published in June, 1998 by Acorn Hill Publishing Co., is indeed a one-volume illustrated encyclopedia of hypnotism (she also wrote The Encyclopedia of Gardening), but it has another purpose. It would appear that the author is intent on prov… Continue
Posted on October 12, 2009 at 12:30am — 18 Comments
Anton Chekhov as Experiential Hypnotist
Anton Chekkov, the Russian author, understood the power of suggestion to reaffirm and strengthen one's identity, focusing and crystalizing a person's existing belief systems to turn them into a more powerful engine for achievement and personal growth. (Today, this position is referred to in therapy as "constructionism.")
Here is an excerpt from Checkov's writings, in which Kovrin, a deeply religious man to begin with, has an encounter with "The Black Monk" – a hyperempiric experience of a sort… Continue
Here is an excerpt from Checkov's writings, in which Kovrin, a deeply religious man to begin with, has an encounter with "The Black Monk" – a hyperempiric experience of a sort… Continue
Posted on September 20, 2009 at 3:30am — 3 Comments
Charles Dickens, Master Hypnotist
Most of us are familiar with Dickens' story, "A Christmas Carol," in which the miserly Scrooge has a dramatic personality change after he is visited by three spirits: the Ghost of Christmas Past, who shows him the innocence of his youth and the girl he almost married; the Ghost of Christmas Present, who shows him both the good and evil in his life as it exists today; and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, who shows the merchants fighting over every scrap of his belongings after his death, and t… Continue
Posted on September 19, 2009 at 12:00pm — 8 Comments
Comment Wall (15 comments)
- At 10:48am on March 23, 2009,
Linda Gadbois, Ph.D., CCHt said… - That's okay! Believe it or not I get called Laura a fair amount, Lisa also? Must be the "L".
Linda :)
- At 12:06pm on March 22, 2009,
Linda Gadbois, Ph.D., CCHt said…
- Don,
Thanks for your generous comments! I appreciate them!
Linda
- At 6:58am on February 2, 2009,
Steve Lovold said… - Hello Don, just introducing myself here, I must say you have an impressive wall here, great job.
~ Aloha
- At 4:45pm on January 29, 2009,
Dawn said… - Hi Don. I used to visit Manahawkin when I was a kid.
I am going to read your best me technique right NOW,
Thanks : )
- At 7:05am on November 9, 2008,
Conrad Cook said… - What would your aliens have to say?
I've given this a great deal of thought, and I'm positively convinced that my aliens would say: "Bloop... nook.. kiiw, kiiw... snorki, snorkuwa... bloop... bloop.."
Great thread,
Conrad.
- At 2:14pm on July 22, 2008,
Iona Miller said… - My specialty is creativity and extraordinary human development with the proof in the pudding. Based on your separate correspondence, perhaps you'll find the taxonomies of my brilliant mentor Dr. Gowan useful in formulating your program.
http://www.csun.edu/edpsy/Gowan/
TRANCE, ART, AND CREATIVITY;
OPERATIONS OF INCREASING ORDER AND OTHER ESSAYS ON EXOTIC FACTORS OF INTELLECT, UNUSUAL POWERS and ABILITIES, ETC.;
DEVELOPMENT of the PSYCHEDELIC INDIVIDUAL A Psychological Analysis of the Psychedelic State and Its Attendant Psychic Powers
A Psychological Analysis of the Relationship Between the Individual Ego and the Numinous Element in Three Modes: Prototaxic, Parataxic, and Syntaxic
Keywords: archetype, art, biofeedback, collective unconscious, creativity, dissociation, dream, drug effects, ecstasy, ESP, glossolalia, hallucination, hypnosis, meditation, myth, mysticism, numinous element, parapsychology, peak experience, psychic, ritual, self-actualization, tantra, trance.
- At 1:56pm on July 22, 2008,
Iona Miller said…
- Induction of the Void & Plenum
http://www.geocities.com/iona_m/Virtualtantra/tantrascripts.html#Hypnotic%20Induction%20of%20the%20Void
This script is a long voyage into co-consciousness which is a guided tour to the Void and the experiential fullness of Nature, as the Plenum. Tantric love-making automatically induces a condition of suspension of thoughts at the moment of climax -- a momentary experience of what both Hinduism and Buddhism has termed the Void. But conditioning or training in hypnotic induction of the Void can lead to deepening this state and adding to spontaneity.
This script was developed by Bernard S. Aaronson, Ph.D. and presented at the American Society of of Clinical Hypnosis in 1969. It appeared in the Journal of the American Society for Psychosomatic Dentistry and Medicine in 1979 (Vol. 26, No.1). The void experience, the central experience of Eastern and Western mysticism, was analyzed as a state resulting from a separation of self from one's senses, from one's concept of self, and a loss of opposites and polarities. Suggestions are also given for ego-expansion, an experience of the Plenum.
In the quasi-anatomical mapping of consciousness characteristic of kundalini yoga, the seventh chakra, the center of consciousness located at the top of the head and associated with nirvana, contains the void as a central area. This experience of the void is the core experience of introvertive mysticism. It is an intensely positive experience without empirical content, except a consciousness of consciousness itself -- the ground state of the nature mind, in Tibetan tantra. All mental and physical objects are obliterated from consciousness, the self becomes aware of itself as the bare unity of the manifold of consciousness. It has been called "the Supreme Good. It is One without a second. It is the Self." Suzuki quotes the Great Prajnaparamita Sutra, saying,
"Thus, Sariputra, all things have the character of emptiness, they have no beginning, no end, they are faultless and not faultless, they are not perfect and not imperfect. Therefore I Saiputra, here in this emptiness there is no form, no perception, no name, no concepts, no knowledge. No eye, no ear, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind. No form, no sound, no smell, no taste, no touch, no objects...There is no knowledge, no ignorance, no destruction of ignorance. ..There is no decay nor death; there are no four truths, viz, there is no pain, no origin of pain, no stoppage of pain. There is no knowledge of Nirvana, no obtaining of it...When the impediment of consciousness are annihilated, then he becomes free of all fear, is beyond the reach of change, enjoying final Nirvana."
The experience comes with the letting go of the concept of the self as a distinct and separate entity, and breaking down the separation imposed by concepts and logic, and a unifying vision. The conditions included are (1) meditation, (2) ego-loss, (3) loss of opposites, (4) meditation and ego-loss, (5) meditation and loss of opposites, (6) ego-loss and loss of opposites, and (7) the void.
Subjects reported (1) a sense of unity which becomes at its extreme pure awareness without empirical content; (2) transcendence of time and space; (3) deeply felt positive mood; (4) sense of sacredness; (5) a sense of intuitively gained insightful knowledge which is also authoritative; (6) paradoxical or logically contradictory experience; (7) ineffability or inability to express the experience in words; (8) transience of the experience; (9) persistent positive changes in attitude and behavior.
The alternative induction is the experience of cosmic unity, or the Plenum, a letting go into the flow of imagery. Subjects report feelings of joy, peace, spirituality, feeling in closer touch with the world afterward. The fact that spiritual experience can be produced in this fashion opens the possibility for study of the technology of mysticism and the development of an experimental and experiential psychology of spirituality.
- At 8:46am on July 7, 2008,
Fable Goodman said… - Hi Don,
I enjoyed reading 'Hypnosex' (pathways to ecstacy) a good few years ago, and again more recently.
I was reminded a lot of some of the stuff by Masters and Heuston.
Good to be able to communicate with you throught this medium.
Hugs,
Fable
- At 3:49pm on June 22, 2008,
Roy Hunter said…
- Hi Don,
It took me a while to find you on the group, as I'm just now getting familiar with how this site works.
Thank you for telling me about it!
Best wishes,
Roy
- At 7:14am on June 20, 2008,
Caitlin Roth said… - i have always been able to see and manipulate energy and work with alot of diffrent energy therapies but im always open and interested to learning as new methods
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