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After being
                                                                         hypnotized, this
                                                                         person imagines
                                                                         herself to be rapidly
                                                                         climbing 10 flights of
                                                                         stairs. At that point
                                                                         she loses her breath
                                                                         and becomes tired.
                                                                         The hypnotized
                                                                         person lives in the
                                                                         environment
                                                                         produced by the
                                                                         hypnotic induction,
                                                                         and accepts that it is
                                                                         real, despite the fact
                                                                         that the location,
                                                                         people and incidents
                                                                         that she has been
                                                                         told about do not
                                                                         exist.









               National Psychotherapists Association, The Professional Hypnotherapists
               Center, The Hypnotherapy Research Association, states in an article that
               during hypnosis, some people who are recollecting a past event exhibit some
               physical changes related to the event. For example, if there was an element of
               suffocation in the event remembered, a hypnotic subject might become

               breathless while explaining the event under hypnosis and might even stop
               breathing for a while. Watts stated that under hypnosis, even finger marks
               appeared on one of his patients where a slap on the face was recalled. Watts
               also explains that this is not a mystery but a reaction to sense of pain in the
               body. 19
                    One of the most striking examples seen in hypnotic applications is that
               even a wound can appear on the skin of the hypnotized person through





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