March 24th, 2008
Hypno-thief robs Italian businesses
ANCONA, Italy, March 24 (UPI) — Italian authorities are searching for a thief who allegedly uses hypnosis on employees to steal cash, police said.
The most recent report of hypnosis-thievery was in the Italian city Ancona, where a bank teller was allegedly coaxed into giving a robber more than $1,000, The Daily Telegraph (Britain) reported Monday.
In all of the hypno-robberies, workers reportedly can only remember a man saying, “Look into my eyes,” prior to discovering their registers are missing cash. Read This Article
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March 24th, 2008
Be sure to check out Christina’s blog about her experience here.
It’s been dismissed as a bag of tricks. Nothing more than mere entertainment, but many people seek it as a cure for a lot of different things: Chronic pain, addictions, bad habits…some athletes even use it to get out of slumps.
Fox 21’s Christina Salvo underwent several weeks of hypnosis to see if it could cure her of her phobia of snakes.
Q: Dr. Neuger “So what are your goals for today or for our time together Christina? What do you hope to accomplish?
A: Ideally, to be free of this phobia. To be in the same room as a snake. To be able to look at a snake without getting a panic attack.
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March 24th, 2008
ScienceDaily (Jan. 10, 2008) — Brain scans of hypnotized people that are taken as they forget and are triggered to remember have revealed neural circuitry that is key to the memory suppression and recall process. The researchers who conducted the study said their insights into the memory suppression and recall process may yield insight into the mechanisms underlying amnesia. Read This Article
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March 13th, 2007
The shiny pocket watch swings back and forth.
“You’re getting sleepy,” the hypnotist whispers. “Sleeeeeepy.”
Forget all that. Real therapy-based hypnosis is nothing like the TV version. In fact, chances are, almost all of us have been very close to our own hypnotic state, without ever seeing a hypnotist.
Have you ever been driving, only to realize that you don’t have any recollection of the last 20 miles? Yet you were awake and alert enough to change lanes and stop at intersections.
That’s very much like hypnosis — you’re awake, yet in an altered state of consciousness.
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