Jean Casey Hypnosis and Meditation

Ralph V August MD

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INTRODUCTION

The late Dr. August used group training with obstetrical patients, and his groups included both experienced and new hypnotic subjects. He believed that by watching experienced subjects who entered hypnosis more quickly and easily, beginners learned self-hypnosis more quickly. He learned that hypnosis followed by suggestions for continuing comfort, "Just like you feel now," would control hyperemesis for two to ten days, and sometimes permanently. The following suggestions model those given in

front of the training group to a beginning subject who was also suffering with hyperemesis gravidarum. (Ed.)

SUGGESTIONS

You just concentrate your mind on my voice as I talk with you, as I make suggestions which will be beneficial to you. And as you count each breath, you will find with each deep breath, you relax deeper . . . and deeper . . . and so now you may be ready to concentrate your mind on your heart, and notice how, with each heart beat, you can feel yourself relaxing . . . deeper .. . and deeper . . . and deeper. So you can keep your mind on each heart beat, using each one to help you to go deeper . . . and deeper. And you may notice by now that your heart beats seem slower, more comfortable, more relaxed, more at ease. While you keep on relaxing, getting sleepier . . . and sleepier. And by now you may be ready for that which for you, Gail, is most important of all. Everyone else is aware of this . . . because, by now, you can concentrate your mind on your abdomen. Notice how your abdomen feels warm, relaxed, at ease. Feels so good that it feels like you could eat and drink anything you want . . . and I know you can. It feels so good now ... it feels better than it's felt for quite some time. And some women may at this point be aware of the baby's movement or not, depending on what the baby happens to be doing. You will notice, Gail, that your abdomen and stomach just feel good . . . and that's all, because it is very, very early in your pregnancy. And you will notice now, it feels so good that you can ignore your abdomen and stomach altogether. You don't need to pay attention to them anymore because you know they feel good now, and you can continue to keep them feeling good, as I know you want to, and as now you can and will . . . while you keep on being as comfortable as you wish.

And by now you might feel as though your mind is floating on a cloud. Floating along . . . at ease . . . with your forehead cool, so that you can ignore everything down below. You don't need to pay attention to anything else in your body now . . . you just keep your mind in the clouds, and notice how good it feels. And you can do so, whenever you want to. All you need to do, Gail, is always just to sit back comfortably in a chair and say to yourself, "Gail, sleep." And every woman in this room knows all she ever needs do is to address herself by her own given name . . . when she does, just using the word sleep, she can relax completely .. . she knows that this sleep is a hypnotic sleep; in which you are just as aware as you want to be of the things around you, and you can ignore as much as you want to of everything else about you; in which you know that whenever you want to, all you need to do is to count to 3, and feel good, and you will be wide awake. And you can do so whenever you wish, and continue feeling good. Remember also,

Gail, that practice makes perfect, and you can practice doing this every day, as many times a day as you wish. And of course you, Gail, are also welcome to make your appointments for each week with our group; and when you have started gaining weight again, then you can go to your regular visits, which would be at the time of your regular obstetric visit, because it will be once a month for a while yet, until possibly about the eighth month . . . and of course today is December 18th. So each one of you is aware now of how comfortable you feel, and each one of you is aware of how easy it is to help yourself. Remember always that hypnosis is never what / do. It is never what anybody else or any other doctor does. It is what you do that counts. Where I fit into the picture is that I am a teacher showing you how.

This will help you to help yourself; and this, of course, will be my pleasure to help you to help yourself; and any time you want to, you count to 3, feel good, and are wide awake.