It is amazing what you can do,
when you don’t know that you can’t.
In 1952 Dr. Albert Mason was treating a 15-year-old boy’s warts using hypnosis. Mason and other doctors had successfully used hypnosis to get rid of warts, but this time Dr. Mason faced a greater challenge. Except for the skin on his chest, the boy’s skin looked leathery, like an elephant’s hide.
Dr. Mason first focused on the boy’s arm. While the boy was in a trance, Dr. Mason suggested that the skin on that arm would heal and turn into healthy, pink skin. When the boy came back a week later, Dr. Mason was pleased to see that the boy’s arm looked healthy.
However, when Dr. Mason brought the boy to the referring surgeon, who had unsuccessfully tried to help the boy with skin grafts, he learned that he had made a medical error. The surgeon’s eyes were wide with astonishment when he saw the boy’s arm. He told Dr. Mason that the boy was suffering, not from warts, but from a lethal genetic disease called congenital ichthyosis. By reversing the symptoms using only the power of the mind, Dr. Mason and the boy accomplished what was until then considered impossible.
Dr. Mason continued the hypnosis sessions, with the stunning result that the most of the boy’s skin came to look like the healthy, pink arm after the first hypnosis session. The boy, who had been mercilessly teased in school because of his grotesque-looking skin, went n to lead a normal life.
When Dr. Mason wrote about his startling treatment for ichtyosis in the British Medical Journal in 1952, his article created a sensation. Dr. Mason became a magnet for patients suffering from the rare, lethal disease that no one before had ever cured.
Dr. Mason attempted to help other ichtyosis patients, but was never able to replicate the results he had with the young boy. He attributed his failure to his own belief about he treatment. He couldn’t replicate a state of mind in which he believed that he was treating only a bad case of warts. After that first patient, Dr. Mason was fully aware that he was treating what everyone in the medical establishment believed to be a congenital, “incurable” disease.
Likewise, whether you work with self-hypnosis on your own, where your beliefs and state of mind are of paramount importance, keep in mind that when you are working with a hypnotist directly or through hypnosis CDs, the experience and the beliefs of the hypnotist who is guiding you through the process and who is offering you hypnotic suggestions will also influence the results you get. Hypnotists share with you not only words with you can hear with your ears, but on a deeper, subliminal, non-verbal, even energetic level, they share with you their own beliefs and convictions. The results you get will depend on your genuine expectations, as well as on a genuine expectations of the hypnotist with whom you’re working.
When both you and the hypnotist you are working with are in an optimal state of mind, you can experience what may seem to be miraculous results, creating changes in your life that are considered medically and otherwise impossible.
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