The youtube video below is of Dr. John Butler, a leading UK Hypno-anesthetist as he undergoes a hernia repair surgery using self hypnosis as the only form of anesthesia in November 2004 at the Chelsfield park hospital, Kent, UK. The surgeon is Tom Hennigan
Please be advised this video is graphic and does depict actual surgery [...]
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Self-hypnosis is very similar to meditation, but rather than avoiding all thought as in meditation, with self-hypnosis a person gives themselves positive suggestions. These suggestions come from the person’s own thoughts or from a prerecorded message.
Also, all hypnosis is self-hypnosis.
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I found this study (McCauley JD. Thelen MH. Frank RG. Willard RR. Callen KE.) titled: Hypnosis compared to relaxation in the outpatient management of chronic low back pain.
Chronic low back pain (CLBP) presents a problem of massive dimensions. While inpatient approaches have been evaluated, outpatient treatment programs have received relatively little examination. Hypnosis and relaxation [...]
Publication: “How deeply hypnotized did i get?” Predicting self-reported hypnotic depth from a phenomenological assessment instrument
Procedures for estimating hypnotic depth have been used for more than 70 years. This study predicted self-reported hypnotic depth from the phenomenological and behavioral variables of the Phenomenology of Consciousness Inventory-Hypnotic Assessment Procedure (PCI-HAP).
Participants were divided into 2 groups; 1 [...]