Using hypnosis as a therapeutic tool is as old as man himself. As far as could be traced back through the years, we could find recordings of hypnosis being used to cure and to make change. Hypnosis has been used under many different names down through the centuries and using hypnosis for healing can be traced back to about 3000 BC in Egypt.
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Both the old and new testaments of the Bible speak of what might be deemed to be hypnosis, as well as the ancient Greeks and Romans had sleeping temples in which people seeking healing could be put into a trance like sleep. Their dreams, would be interpreted by the priests. By rhythmic drumming and monotonous chanting with eye fixation, the Shaman of today can still produce catalepsy of their human body and this helps to provide the shaman the look of having magical powers as they’ve done for centuries.
Much of what’s been done previously by the village witchdoctor, shaman or wise woman, could be credited to the fostering of a strong belief, certainty, anticipation and creativity in the one being treated, and the chanting and singing frequently takes the form of what we would term as proposal.
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After all, if the most effective and magic person who you know tells you’ll become well, you’re extremely likely to do that. Obviously in many cases where this individual administered to a sick person, they would have regained anyway, and this intervention simply speeded up the recovery procedure. It’s long been considered by many healers that body, thoughts and emotions can affect one another. It is therefore likely to influence a physical illness by focusing on and recognizing particular emotions and by altering ideas and behavioural patterns.
The Romans said “mens sana in corpore sano”, healthful mind in healthy body. This expression seems to affirm that for many centuries it has been believed that physical and psychological well-being have an impact on one another. To put this in perspective, only has to think about how our health declines after periods of stress or as a result of radical events. The division between mind and body in medicine is something which only happened around 1750, with all the scientific developments from Newton.
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Since that time the mind and soul have been considered to be under the authority of the church and the body under the authority of science. This is also the reason non-Western sorts of medication see the human being as a whole consisting of body, soul and mind. Traumatic experiences aren’t only stored on a psychological level but also on the physical level. The emotional charge of the various traumas can affect our immune system and health conditions.
Through processing old traumas as well as the emotional charges which are connected to a specific sickness it’s possible to locate resources inside people that could help us begin the healing procedure. Modern hypnosis started with Anton Mesmer (1734 – 1815) from the 18th Century. Mesmer was a medical graduate from the famed medical school of Vienna and after studying as a Jesuit priest, he became interested in magnetism. Mesmer became Europe’s foremost expert at magnetic healing, where magnets where passed over the body to effect a recovery. His results in which fabulous and so he became very famous.
Mesmer believed all living things contained a sort of magnetic ‘fluid’ and when someone had enough of the fluid, they would be healthy. This is where the expression”animal magnetism” comes from. Mesmer forgot his magnets one day and just made passes over the individual with his hands and was amazed to discover that they got better. From there on, he believed he had sufficient magnetic fluid in himself top effect the remedies.
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James Braid (1795-1860) coined the terms hypnotism and hypnosis, in 1843. He was a Scottish surgeon working in Manchester. He discovered that some people could go into a trance if there eyes at which fixated on a bright object like a pocket watch for example. He considered that a neurological process was involved and that the procedure might be quite useful when no natural origin could be found for a individual’s disorder. James Esdaile (1808-1859) another Scottish surgeon working in India would use eye fixation to prepare a patient for surgery and slow sweeping motions, placing them in a deep hypnotic sleep, inducing full amnesia through the body. James Braid and James Esdaile where one of the first who could be called’scientific’ in their study and application of hypnosis.
These pioneers removed hypnosis in the realms of mysticism, and began experimenting with what might really be done with it to assist people with their ailments. Other scientific leaders comprise, Liebeault, Bernheim, Brewer and Freud. Unfortunately the wonderful man himself, Freud, was accountable for alcoholism being shelved by many for a while when he left it’s use for some time. Amongst those who have been basic to the present view of hypnosis are: Milton Erikson, Ormond McGill, Charles Tebbetts and Dave Elman.
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Ormond McGill was, it’s true a stage hypnotist, but he maintained the public interest in hypnosis, but the great Charles Tebbetts was included in stage hypnosis in the first part of his career, but those were different times to those we live in now and stage hypnosis caused a desire to find out more about this curious art and consequently introduced several of the men and women who transferred the therapeutic usage of hypnosis forward through the last (20th) century.
Probably the main contributor to the approval of hypnotherapy as both an art and a science, was the grandfather of hypnotherapy – Dr Milton Erikson. Dr Erikson was a psychologist and hypnotherapist with outstanding professional credentials and due to his solid medical history he had credibility within the medical profession.
