BBC 2 Alternative Therapies - Hypnotherapy/Reflexology/Meditation

[jaiwithsoni]

gruesome but informative.

 

[hjfbv1]

The bit that made me cross was the guy treating that poor lady with IBS. He induced trance and then proceded to talk to the presenter telling her that all he had to do was "put her under and then just drone on for a while...." How unprofessional! Is this person safe to practice on people?

The therapist needs be very careful about what s/he says whilst the client is in trance and carrying on a conversation with someone else in the room is a definite no no.

 

[littlemoomaid]

that part with the doctor and the IBS was not very good the doctor had obviously only a very basic understanding of hypnosis.

the program did not show much about with a session is realy like. I know they can show the induction on tv but they could have showed some more suggestion work and techniques like parts therapy, ideomotor responses, arm levetation ect in the whole show there was only a though minutes of actual hypnotherapy shown most of the show was about the presenter either traveling to see a hypnotist or reading research papers but she did not tell us much about what the research said.

 

[Raichu]

Hi, my name is Elliott Wald and I am the hypnotist that helped the chocoholic on the programme Alternative Therapy. Edited out of the programme was the fact that Nicola used to eat between four and six bars of chocolate a day.

I hypnotised her in less than 1 minute and embedded deep suggestions with the whole process complete in 6 minutes. Which is what hypnotherapist call a Rapid Induction, actually it was a very Rapid, Rapid Induction when you compare it to the between one hour and five hours of hypnosis that all the other people underwent on the programme, I wanted to demonstrate how quickly hypnosis works.

Four months later when professor Kathy Sykes returned to visit Nicola she had eaten chocolate, however only occasionally and it did not have the same feeling for her nor hold the same value/importance; in 5 minutes of hypnosis Nicola had achieved a major shift in her perception.

Eight months on and Nicola now very occasionally eats chocolate she is no longer under it’s control or influence.

The biggest room in the world is the room for self-improvement

 

[bmapzkpa]

When Kathy said that it did not work I was wondering just how much chocolate was Nicola eating before and I was actually impressed that she cut down at all.
The whole point was about being in control of the chocolate craving, and from that point of view I would rate it a total success.

 

[Lorri M]

Hi all
I thought the programme was fairly balanced - although the dentist bit was a bit too gruesome for me.

Well done, Elliot - you obviously had a good success with that woman. The only problem I found with it was that it was a bit too much like stage hypnosis for me. But if it works for you and your clients, who am I to judge!!

Cheers
Sue