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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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