Homework due Mon/Tues

Research and answer these questions:

1.What is hypnosis?

2.Can anyone be hypnotized? Why or why not?

3.Describe the techniques used to hypnotize someone.

4.What can hypnosis be used for? Describe three applications.

Retina

Derren Brown

• Do search for derren brown BMX• Watch the video

1.What does the man think he wants for a present after talking to Derren?

2.What did he really want (wrote it down in advance)?

3.How did Derren convince him he wanted a BMX bike?

States of Consciousness

What is consciousness?

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/secret-you/

Start at 633

Who passes the mirror self recognition test?

What are some states of consciousness that you’ve

experienced?

Some Early Definitions of consciousness

• Consciousness: All the sensations, perceptions, memories, and feelings you are aware of in any instant.

• Your sense of yourself.– Waking Consciousness: Normal, clear,

organized, alert awareness

– Altered State of Consciousness (ASC): Awareness that is distinctly different in quality or pattern from waking consciousness• Drug induced states, illness, sleep,

hypnosis

Shelley Stockwell-Nicholas:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pWg1vMyfUA

Hypnotist getting out of a speeding ticket:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gcQDuv_Kb0

What do both hypnoses in the videos have in common?

Want to try safely altering your state of consciousness? Use headphones and iPAD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUFYJ2Nppfg

Unit 4 Project: YOU, NEW AND IMPROVED?• Driving question: How effectively can I

manipulate my conscious experience to achieve a positive goal?

1.Set a personal goal

2.Decide on a method to achieve it

3.Determine a method to measure success – was goal achieved?

4.Process board – display your process at exhibition

5.Presentation – 5 min presentation at end of unit

1) Set a personal goal

Goal must be:

1) Positive

2) Specific and measureable

3) Attainable but challenging

– Set a goal that will improve your life.– Think of patterns you’d like to break or habits you’d

like to acquire…. What would you like to start DOING?

– This should be your SEED or FOCUS for self hypnosis, meditation or sleep processing.

2) Write and record a self-hypnosis script to achieve it.

• Write and record your script today• Listen to it tonight and tomorrow night• Discussion next class

3) Determine a method to assess success. Was goal achieved?

• Test yourself (before and after)• Journal/self survey• Survey family or friends (their opinion about

you)• Performance on task related to goal• Many others methods…

• MUST BE QUANTITATIVE!

4) Process board – Make a poster displaying what you’ve done

Exhibition piece!

Shows your process, goal, success or non-success

Individual – about YOUR project

Homework due Tuesday Nov/12

• All classes: Listen to self hypnosis script minimum 4 times – Turn off distractions – phone etc– Sit or lie in comfortable, quiet space– Close and cover eyes

• College: Read this article about hypnosis and memory– http://www.scientificamerican.com/

article.cfm?id=hypnosis-memory-brain– Discuss Tuesday

Read todayhttp://news.discovery.com/human/santeria-trance-spirituality-brain.htm

1. What did social scientists discover about the brains of people who can easily be hypnotized?

2. In Afro-Cuban rituals, what role does trance play?

3. What role do those members of the community who are not susceptible to trance play?

4. Think about: Which hemisphere is dominant for you? Do you believe this may affect how susceptible to hypnosis you are?

10 points: Title and introduction.State your goal, why you chose it10 points: Outline your schedule – include your intended and actual listening sessions. Describe process of self-hypnosis. What did you do? How did it feel?10 points: Include a data table with measurements of goal achievement10 points: Conclusion – observations, written analysis of results, thoughts, errors in process, ideas.10 points: Attractiveness and craftsmanship.Images (of you engaged in project and/or images off the internet relating to hypnosis)

Presentation

• You will present to class, POL style– Presentations start next Monday– Need data and analysis from 7+ self-

hypnosis sessions– No presentations Wednesday (exhibition)

• Sign up today – first to finish meditation questions (form a line)

Today…

• Define a PERSONAL GOAL (specific, positive, attainable)

• Think about and document your negative patterns associated with that goal and how you might change them

• Write and record your own self-hypnosis script in a slow, calm voice

Hypnosis• Altered state of consciousness characterized

by intense relaxation, narrowed attention and increased openness to suggestion– Mesmer: Believed he could cure diseases by

passing magnets over body; true “animal magnetism” (“mesmerize” means to hypnotize)

– Must cooperate to become hypnotized– You pass through hypnosis every time you

fall asleep and return to waking state

Hypnosis Can

• Help people relax• Reduce pain• Get people to make better progress in

therapy• Allow people to achieve goals, such as not

smoking, being more confident, losing weight, improving memory…

Hypnosis Cannot

• Produce acts of superhuman strength• Force you to do things against your will

Goal of hypnosis

• Quiet the conscious mind• Shut up the noise• Get rid of mental clutter• Stop judgment… in order to• Access the vast processing potential of the

SUBCONSCIOUS mind

3 phases to hypnotic process

1. Induction

2. Suggestion implanted in subconscious (while “under”)

3. Return to waking state

• Hypnosis starts with INDUCTION: subject listens and relaxes. Shuts off conscious mind.

– Ex: listens to alphabet backwards

– Ex: Imagines relaxing liquid flowing though body, part by part

• hypnotist guides you into deep trance by asking you to focus on relaxing your body and breathing

• Subject must realise that they are being hypnotised. It is a VOLUNTARY process.

• It is NOT possible for someone to be hypnotised against their will.

Once the subconscious is accessed, hypnotist implants SUGGESTIONS

Ex: You will find cigarettes disgustingEx: You will find that you want to smile

and hold your posture confidently at parties

Ex: You will remember an event that happened a long time ago and revisit associated emotions (ex abuse)

• People differ in how susceptible they are to hypnotic suggestions.

• This can be measured by hypnotic susceptibility scales.

Sample test items from the Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility

Scale, Form C

Item Suggested Behaviour

Criterion for Passing

Arm lowering Right arm will become heavy

Arm lowered by at least 6 inches

Moving hands apart Force is pushing hands apart

Hands are 6 or more inches apart

Mosquito hallucination

Mosquito is buzzing nearby

Any grimace or acknowledgement

Posthypnotic amnesia

Will not remember suggestions

Three or fewer items recalled