The Medical Profession and Hypnosis

Do you know we live in a hypnotic world, and that most people are unaware they are already hypnotised? It is because most people do not understand hypnosis, and their only knowledge comes from watching stage hypnosis. Even the mighty medical profession is uncomfortable whenever I use the word 'hypnosis'. They do not understand hypnosis. They put labels on people with mental illness and treat them symptomatically without understanding how mental illness results from negative self-hypnosis.

I blame the promotion of stage hypnosis for creating the most distorted perception of hypnosis in history, where a hypnotist hypnotises a person, who then becomes under his control. It is pure showmanship that has no bearing on reality. It has created a totally false and damaging perception of hypnosis among the public and the medical profession, where people think that someone outside can control them through hypnosis. It has prevented the world from understanding the true nature of our thinking process and mental illness.

Please let me help you understand hypnosis and how it works. I write from my observations and perceptions. You can verify or disprove them in your own mind. I am open to corrections.

We have one mind, which we can divide into the conscious and the subconscious. The conscious mind is a discriminating mind where the ego operates and controls our thoughts and actions. The subconscious mind is a neutral energy source that controls all our vital functions. The ego has no direct control here, but it can influence it indirectly through our thinking process. It is because every word we use in our thinking process has a conditioned reflex attached to it. Positive words help produce positive chemicals in our brains that make us happy, while negative words produce harmful chemicals that have adverse effects.

Hypnosis is thus the use of this conditioned reflex of words, consciously or subconsciously, to influence our subconscious mind, either positively or negatively. The way we feel at a given moment, therefore, depends on the sum of negative and positive chemicals. You may not be aware, but we are emotional beings, and we use self-hypnosis all the time to express our emotions. Self-hypnosis is fundamental to understanding our thinking process. It is the only direct link to our subconscious mind.

Remember the sixteenth-century French philosopher, René Descartes, made this famous statement: "I think, therefore I am"? Do you know what it means? It means the ego, in our mind, cannot appear in our conscious mind without thinking. We cannot think without words. So to appear in the conscious mind, the ego has to use words. Thinking thus becomes a fundamental activity to maintain its dominance in the conscious mind. It confirms my observation that our ego is a product of self-hypnosis. When we think, we hypnotise ourselves. Thinking, thus, becomes an obsession for most people, as the ego constantly seeks to dominate and control the conscious mind. It doesn't want to disappear in the background. When we think, therefore, we are indeed continually hypnotising ourselves.

Thus, all hypnosis is self-hypnosis. It means you are always in control, hypnotising yourself. No one can hypnotise you unless you agree to follow the instructions given to you. If you follow, it means you are hypnotising yourself, not the other person. No one can make you do anything against your will. The outside world may influence you, but it is you hypnotising yourself. Please get this message and fact clear in your mind.

However, please remember, hypnosis can be negative or positive. Each word we use in our thinking process has a conditioned reflex attached to it, just like a piano key is connected to a particular sound. Just like when we play the piano, we use words in our thinking process to make us happy or sad. Positive words have a positive effect, and negative words have an adverse effect. These words have a direct effect on our subconscious mind, not their meaning. So one can make oneself happy or sad depending on what and how one uses words. It means the world is manipulating you, and you are manipulating the world as well.

Negative self-hypnosis results in mental illness. So we must make our perceptions clear. If we suffer from distorted perceptions, our thinking will be crooked, and this can lead to mental ill health. An example of how negative self-hypnosis results in the enslavement of a profession can be seen in the medical profession. The doctors believe they are self-regulating. Yet all the evidence points to the government regulating them. Therefore, the roles the medical leaders are playing are superficial and contradictory. Negative self-hypnosis is inbuilt into the system, which makes it an untenable situation that cannot possibly promote good mental health among the doctors.

Laws that have no consequences can only promote negative self-hypnosis. They are bad for mental health because they encourage a feeling of entitlement.

So, negative self-hypnosis is not just saying negative words. Anything that distorts our perceptions is not good for us either, because it generates negative self-hypnosis without our awareness.

I am writing this in the hope that the medical profession will wake up to its responsibility in protecting our mental health and look into hypnosis. Unless we acquire self-knowledge and understand how the ego operates in the mind, how can we understand mental illness? At present, what we are doing is just putting a label on a person's mental illness. It does not give the individual any insight into their mind. The clever ego uses it to justify its behaviour. By understanding hypnosis, we can change our whole approach to mental illness. We can teach individuals how to hypnotise themselves positively. There is nothing mystical or magical about hypnosis.