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· PRACTICAL SELF HYPNOSISHow to achieve and effectively to USE hypnosis withoutthe presence of an operatOT.By Volney G. MathisonjI
SELF HYPNOSISHow to achieve and effec·tively to USE hypnosis w ithoutthe presence of an operator.The orderly presentation of the genesis, organization, and application of the SELF-HYPNO TAPE is ratherdi fficult.The SELF-HYPNO TAPEcomprises elements ofhypnosis drawn from the darkness of prehistorical days--combined with the applications of electropsychometryand the ultramodern electronic miracle of the recentlyperfected low-cost tape recorder.A roughly chronological method has been used.Thef i rst ·chapters deal with the anciently-known phenomenaof hypnosis; and, for the first time, here is a scientific definition of what hypnosis IS. This is followedby a brief discussionofthe ssentialelements of electropsychometry andfollowed byelectronicthe tape recorder ,the detailed organization of the super-modern SELF-HYPNO TAPE, together with numerous examples of treatment-affirmations that have actually beenused.The powerfulposthypnotic" cue phrase"system ,whereby affirmations can be reac 7ivated throughout theday, is also, for the first time, disclosed herein.THISBOOKINSTRUCTEDMAND.I CATEDHYPNOTISTLESLIEBEENM.WHOATOTHEACH I EYEDUNDERTHECOM·UNASSUMINGTHEI NDUC-LECRON.Volney G. Mathison
PRACTICALSELF-HYPNOSIS2TABLE OF CONTENTSPageCHAPTERI··WHATISHYPNOSIS? . 5conventional open Hypnosis Is usuallyRecognized. Hypnosis Heretofore considered aS- Not scientifically Definable.Erroneous Notions About Hypnosis. Thecovert Hypnosis of High-Pressure Advertising. Hypnosis Is Not Sleep. InductionTimes and Durations. Most MechanicalHypnotizing Devices Do Not Induce TrueHypnosis. Approaches Toward a DeeperUnderstanding of Hypnosis. on InstructedMental Imaging. The Elect ropsychometrically verified Definition of Hypnosis.Mental 1mages or Pictures Are subel ectronic Energy Manifestations.CHAPTERI I · ·POWER OF HYPNOSIS 20Everybody Is Hypnotized in some ways.About Hypnotically-commanded crime. OnMisleading "Research."Avoid Expensivebut worthless courses Offering AllegedlyPriceless "Secret" Instruct ion. The Powerof Ethical Hypnosis Is unduly Minimized.PageCHAPTER VI--WHAT IS ON THEPERSONALIZED SELF-HYPNO TAPE? 65The Three Basic Requirements. Mechanic land Operating Data. The Opening "Indoctrination statement. concerning Induction Techniques. Fractional RelaxationTechnique. Reinforcing Procedures (Escalator Descent).Induction Test. Thecouch Descent Technique. The "Pull-Back"Technique. Metaphysical cases Are sometimes Difficult. The "Negative-Positive Affirmation Technique. concerningInjurious Bionuclear Energy Flows. TheStreamlined self-Hypnotic cue Phrase. CHAPTEROFAbuse and Lack of Love During Infancyand Childhood cause severe PsychicalDamage. A Psuedo "Sex- problem Case.sex-problem Affirmations.CHAPTERCHAPTERI l l BAS I C I NSTRUMEN·TATIVE ELEMENTSPRECEDINGTHESELF-HYPNO TAPE 28The Advent of the Electropsychometer.Elect ropsychomet ry Not a Therapy. concerning "Sleep Therapy Disc Records.Recordings Should Not Be started AfterOne Is Asleep. Personalized Discs AreNoisy and Short- 1 i ved. The PotentialMagic of the Modern Tape Recorder. Recapitulation of Developments to ThisPoint.CHAPTERIV ··BASIC PSYCHICALFACTORS OF THE SELF-HYPNO TAPE 39Hypnosis versus self-Hypnosis. PreviousMethods of Self-Hypnosis. The Development of the Lecron-commanded New systemfor Achieving Hypnosis without the Presence of a Hypnotizing Operator. The"Emotional Situation. On the Reductionof conscious Awareness. Open Hypnosis-and Self-Hypnosis--Is Induced by Gradualstages.CHAPTER99V-·YOU ARE MORE THANPERCENT MUSIC 49(Extract from a lecture in the tape-recorded course, Elect ropsychomet ry andPre-Sleep Tapes )VII--FURTHER EXAMPLESSELF -HYPNO TAPE 81AFFIRMATIONSVII I · ·HYPNOSIS VERSUSP SYCHOANAL YS IS on the Bad Aspects of Freudian Psychoanalysis. The Good Aspects of FreudianResearch. The Bad Aspects of Hyonos is.concerning a Menacing New Electronic Thought control 1nvent ion. we Are AlTBeing Hypnotized to some Degree. TheGood Aspects of Self-Hypnosis.CHAPTER IX--CONCERNING PRE·CAUTIONSTO BE TAKEN 3.00103cases of Nervous collapse Require aSpecial Short Tape. How Long Will ItTake? How Many Tapes Will Be Required?How Many Goals Simultaneously? Selective Action of the subconscious. DeepTrance Not Required.CHAPTERX-· SELF· HYPNO TAPEAP P L I CAT I 0 N S 111Major Applications: Release from Stresses, Fears, Illnesses. And for Achievingself-Realization and Self-Improvement.Anti-Tobacco-Habit SELF-HYPNO TAPES.Learning and Se 1 f- Deve 1opment Tapes.Potentialities of the SELF-HYPNO TAPE.Copyright 195 7 by Volney G. Mathison . All rights reserved .PRICE96POSTPAIDPrinted in U.S .A .MATHISON ELECTRDPSYCHDMETERS1214 WEn 30TH STREETLOll ANGELES 7, CALIFORNIA
PRACTICALSELF-HYPNOSIS3ForewordThe incalculably powerful phenomena symbolized by the vagueand misleading word "hypnosis" has of recent years been the subj ect of increasing attention and investigation. It is inunaterialthat alleged past life recalls under hypnosis, such asthose o fBridey Murphy, may have been shown to be based instead on deeplybur i edexperiencesofchildhood.The possible applicationsof hypnosis, even when limited to demonstrations of its efficacyin dealing with seemingly insolvable problems, fears,and seri-ous illnesses in the present-time area, are spectacular enough.Yet, even in situations of prolonged and unrelieved stressand illness, relativelyfewpersons seekhypnotherapy, except in desperationandtobe curedthroughas a last resort.Thisis unfortunate, especially in view of the fact that practicallyallalready hypnotized in ways that we are not con-of us aresciously aware of.Hypnosis is brought about by repetitive pro-cedures technically called "inductions."Most of us have seen,at least in movies, the now-you-are-getting-so-o-o-o-sleepy routines ofthatformal hypnotic inductions.thesehypnosis.routines are notthe major routines forThe major routines, and byones, make useofcovert,What few of us realize isfarinducingthe most ns.These pages will disclose convincinglynosisiswidelybeing usedthatdisguised hyp-all over the world in hundreds ofIn varying degrees wenow hypnotized invarious ways, against our own best interests.To a considerable extent,the proceduresall have beenset forthandareunsuspected ways.hereinare
.: PRACTICAL SELF-HYPNOSISdevoted totheeliminating,canceling,or4reversingof dis-guised, destructive previous hypnotizations.Most of us do not much relish placing ourselves voluntarilyin the hands of some of the strange persons whonotists.This reluctance is, in my opinion,experience inme intotists.operate as hyp-wellfounded.Mythe development of electropsychometry has broughtextensive contact at times withsome remarkable hypno-From what I have observed of their operations, I can saythat the power of hypnosis is far greater than is usually admitted by its users.trolby aAfter a narrow escape myself from hypno-con-ruthless operator,I recognizephenomenon of tremendous paten tiali ty--bu tthat hypnosis is athatthesafest andthe most consistently beneficial procedures would often have t obe self-administered.Consciously appliedself-hypnosis, however, isas yetanalmost completely unknown art and science. Self-hypnosis, in thepast, has required pre-inductionsby aprofessionalFurthermore, little or nothinghaseffectively andto use self-hypnosis evenconstructivelyoeen sentedINDUCTION procedures.newultramodern streamlined SELF-These are applied through electronic in-strumentation--specifically throughrecorder.the use of a low-cost tapeUsing the instructions given herein, anyone who care-fully reads this text will, without requiring the presence of anoperator, be able toeffecting releasesachieve "open" (undisguised) hypnosisfromstresses, anxieties, fears, or forattainment of beneficial and constructive goals.forthe
- PRACTICALSELF-HYPNOSIS5Chapter I -- What IS Hypnosis?CONVENTIONAL "OPEN" HYPNOSI"S IS USUALLY RECOGNIZEDWhen I mentionedto a doctor friend of mine that the open-ing chapter of this oook would deal with the question:"What ISHypnosis?",well leavethat out.rejoined."What isheremarked,"Youmight asEverybody knows what hypnosis is.""Thenhowabout youdefining it?" Ihypnosis?""Why, it's simply a stateofmindresulting frombeingtalked into a hypnotic trance by the operator.""ADd what is a state of hypnotic trance?""Why, it's a condition ofsemiconsciousness, in whichthesubject obeys the instructions of the hypnotizing operator.""What, then, IS a state of semiconsciousness, as induced byhypnosis, and WHY does the subject obey the instructions of thehypnotizing operator?""I see where I got off the beam," laughed my friend.I"Whatshould have said is that everybody has seen some demonstrationof hypnosis inaction--and has usually recognized it as hypno-sis , without really understanding what it is at all. So, what IShypnosis?"HYPNOSIS HERE10FORE CONSIDERED ASNOT SCIENTIFICALLY DEFINABLEA few years ago, when Iturned to the books of theleading professional hypno therapists, I founduniformly undamental nature of hypnosis is athe hypnotizing operators merely know howto use
PRACTICALSohere I selectedSELF-HYPNOSIStwo goalsthatI6resolved totry toreach through electropsychometric research: First, to find out-if thiscould bedone--what hypnosis is; and, secondly, to be-come thoroughly familiar with both its bad and its good aspects.The first step, it seemedthe techniques of leadinghypnotherapist"to me, wasto learnethical hypnotherapists.thoroughlyBy "ethicalis meant a therapist who plainly and honestlyannounces that he is a practitioner of hypnotherapy or of hypnoanalysis.Heisan accredited specialist whoreceives most ofhis practice through referrals from doctors.Some ethical hypnotherapists employ hypnosis as an adjuvantto their main occupationsastop-flight d e ntists, usingittocontrol pain, anxiety, and hemorrhaging. Oth e rs hold diplomas inmedicine, sometimes specializing in neurology, obstetrics,andsurgery.Aboutthefirst thing I found outwasthat itpublicity-seeking charlatans of Oriental cults,andsometimes repelling demonstrations ofwho have developed andoris not thetheshoddystage exhibitionistsadvanced the practice s and techniques ofhypnosis, but sincere hard-working doctors of several differentschoolswhoareintensely seekingacceptance of hypnosisasatobring aboutshort cuttoincreasingeffective low-costpsychosomatic healing.The next thing encountered was the absence of any realisticdefinitions of this phenomenon.hypnosisis aspecial type of conditioned reflex.this meansthatstageshypnosis, this seemsofOne writer states vaguelysubjects must betrainedtothatInsofar asachieve very deepto be true, but thisisnot adefinition of hypnosis itself.Another writer asserts that hypnosis is a condition wherein
PRACTICALSELF-HYPNOSIS7the inductee fancies that he is a child, and that on this basis,he identifies theoperator with one of his parents.There issomething to this formulation, in some cases--yet this is merelyan exposition of certain effects observed in certain cases. Thisdoes not disclose or deal with cause.Another author remarks, confusedly, that hypnosis comprisesa way of acting "as a hypnotized person isquiteuselessfaceinstatement.Two other definitionsthe right directionsuggestion,"orthatitsupposed to act."arethatthat hypnosis isis a manifestation ofAat least"intensifiedthe results ofaccepting suggestions to be even more suggestible than is normal.However, thisalsodoes not explain WHYtheinductee acceptssuggestions to be more suggestible than normal.The best ethical practitionersnotsaystateflatly that they can-precisely what hypnosis is--they knowonly alittleabout how to apply it.Yet hypnosis, whichhasacompletelyextraordinaryhis-torical background, has been practiced for thousands of years!ERRONEOUS NOTIONS ABOUT HYPNOSISSince this phenomenon has often been and is now being utilizedeffectivelybyscoundrels fortheirpersonal financialbenefit, the idea has become widespread that hypnosis is dangerous, evil, thatitweakens the mind, and the like.The seriousconfusion in this area is due to the fact that there is no discrimination between the use of hypnotic methodspeopleto getforcontrollingtheir money, etc., and applications for ethicaland beneficial purposes, suchas for healing, orforreleasingthe dormant dynamic psychical powers of the inductee.Itis absolutely essentialthatthis be clearly realized:The powers of hypnosis probably are limitless--for evil--or for
PRACTICAL8SELF-HYPNOSISgood--according to the motivation of the operator.Here isan illustrative analogy:compared to the action of dynamite.safes, or blow one to bits.Hypnosis may in a way b eMisused, dynamite can crackConstructively used, it helps buildhighways, pierce mountains, loosenessentialores.Everythingdepends on the MOTIVES OF THE USERS.No intelligent person condemns the manufacture of dynamite--but onlytheignorant orevil misuse of its power.principle applies, multiplied by a hundredfold,The samein th ec ase ofnuclear fission--and multiplied perhaps by a thousandfold in thear e a of thi& powerful phenomenon called hypnosis. The bad or thegood of it relates to the motives of the users.THE COVERT HYPNOSIS OF HIGH-PRESSURE ADVERTISINGTime Magazine recently published a statement that an advertising agency, with a 16,000,000 annual account from one singletobacco company, had canceled cigarette advertising in the Readers' Digest because the latter magazine had published anof the perils of lung cancer asexposetriggered by the tobacco habit.Thi s story refers to the advertising outlay of only one tobaccocompany;the advertising expenditures of all of the big Amer
THIS BOOK HAS BEEN WRITTEN UNDER THE INSTRUCTED EFFECTS OF A POSTHYPNOTIC COM· MAND. I T IS DEDICATED TO THE UNASSUMING ETHICAL HYPNOTIST WHO ACH I EYED THE I NDUC-TION, LESLIE M. LECRON. Volney G. Mathison . PRACTICAL SELF-HYPNOSIS 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page CHAPTER I··WHAT IS HYPNOSIS? . 5 conventional open Hypnosis Is usually Recognized. Hypnosis
