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The Mind Blowing Science of Hypnotherapy and its Ability to Heal Chronic Pain, Reduce Stress and Improve Sleep Quality with Dr. David Spiegel

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Are There Any Limitations When It Comes to Hypnosis?

Anything that has the power to help can also hurt, he says. "People will take advantage of other people in horrible ways even without hypnosis" He was involved in one terrible legal case where a woman was seeing a sort of hypnotherapist with like five things on his card and then she got killed by a truck at midnight.

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Speaker 2
Within the context of this conversation, right? So not just saying any random limitation, because everything has limitations. But what are some of the limitations that people should be aware of when it comes to hypnosis?
Speaker 1
Well, you know, I think anything that has the power to help has the power to hurt, you can, you know, hypnotize yourself and panic yourself, you know, you can focus on all the wrong things. You can focus on what you're afraid of rather than what you can do to cope with
Speaker 2
it. Are some panic attacks that you'll have a version of them hypnotizing themselves for
Speaker 1
essentially a version of harm? I think that's a very good example that, yeah, you know, people go from feeling the pressure in their chest and their fear to thinking,
Speaker 3
I'm having a heart attack. I'm having a heart attack. This is going
Speaker 2
on web, indeed. This is exactly the situation. Right.
Speaker 3
And now they can almost create that inside of their eye. They can create it. That's right.
Speaker 1
And so they can make it, you can make things better. You can make them worse. That's a very good example of
Speaker 2
it. Are there examples where you have genuinely seen hypnosis be used for something not good on someone else? Do people have any sort of general fear about working with hypnosis? Self-hypnosis through an app, maybe one thing, but working with the practitioner, a teacher, have you actually heard of or seen any
Speaker 1
examples of hypnosis being used for some sort of malfeasance? Yes, I have. You know, I've seen situations where, I mean, I was involved in one terrible legal case where a woman was seeing a sort of hypnotherapist with like five things on his card of all the magical things he could do. And the next thing, you know, so he quickly gets her into a sexual relationship, which is malpractice by any standard. And then suddenly he's driving her new BMW and she's driving his old beat up Toyota. And the next thing you know, she's written a will where she's turning over her business to him. And the next thing you know, she got a phone call from him one night. She gets up at midnight, dresses in black, drives in a bicycle without a light and gets killed by a truck on the highway. And we want a civil case, you know, about saying that he was programming her to turn everything over to him and then get herself killed. Now, that's a pretty extreme, horrible case, but it really happened. And so yes, you know, God knows there's enough in the newspaper with me to and other things. That people will take advantage of other people in horrible ways. Even without hypnosis. Even without hypnosis. But it is also true that there are times when people will suspend critical judgment and allow themselves to be manipulated. And again, there are lots of examples of manipulation without hypnosis, but it can happen
Speaker 2
with it too.

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