What have you been up to? How are you using hypnosis in your daily ife?

Hi

thought I better post before Google delete this fledgling blog before it has even started because of a lack of activity.

Summer is definitely over for me in the UK. There is a chill in the air and Christmas tat it available in the shops. It has been a busy one. Lots of UKHTC training courses with my father Freddy Jacquin, plenty of creative work on the HeadHacking side with Kev Sheldrake on new ideas for both books, stage and TV has made the last few months really fun and productive. Recently I have had the chance to work on a couple of TV ideas and take hypnosis into new territory, for me at least. I can't say too much on either project but will give you the details as soon as I can. All I will say is one is therapy based and the other is not :)

Amnesia and pain and are two areas I have been concentrating on a lot over the last year . I am using them as a vehicle to get a better understanding about the neurology of hypnosis an area I know little about. What seems clear is that more and more studies are demonstrating clear patterns in the brain when hypnotised and often this comes back to a change in activity in a particular area of the brain the anterior cingulate cortex, often this is a decrease in activity. The same finding occurred in a BBC study into acupuncture. Forget Chi. That needle going in your hand leads to a huge decrease in activity in the part of your brains pain matrix that is 'bovvered'. Not the part that actually communicates the stimulus but the one that dictates the 'emotional' response to it.

I believe Hypnosis has the same effect. The signal is still there but the relationship to it has changed. I am convinced it is exactly the same kind of process when hypnosis is used to give someone amnesia. The information is still there but the relationship with it has been broken/changed. Same with positive and negative hallucinations.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080109173842.htm - Amnesia and suppression of brain activity
http://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2006/07/hypnosis-and-pain-control.html - blog about hypnosi and the ACC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2006/01_january/21/medicine.shtml - BBC Kathy Sykes Documentary about acupuncture and the suppression of brain activty.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080930/sc_livescience/twistedsciencepaincausesarthritis - article about how pain causes arthitis, not just the other way round.

Another study has demonstrated how pain causes arthritis ot just arthritis causing pain. If this is true then hypnosis has huge potential in this area because one thing everyone can agree on is hypnosis is an effective ay of reducing pain.

How do you deactivate that part of the brain using suggestion?

Well you can start by hypnotizing them and telling their brain 'it ain't bovvered'.

Anthony Jacquin
www.anthonyjacquin.com