Exploring Hypnotists' Fixation Secrets
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- In this video, we explore the concept of fixation in hypnosis and its significance in facilitating deep, lasting change.
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The discussion begins with a look at the common image of hypnotists using visual fixation, such as focusing on a watch or an object, and how this is a fundamental tool in both traditional and modern hypnosis. The video delves into why fixation-whether visual, mental, or sensory-is crucial for disrupting habitual thought patterns and creating space for new associations and distinctions. This process is essential not only for inducing hypnotic phenomena like name amnesia but also for achieving profound personal transformation. By understanding and applying fixation, hypnotists can help clients break free from entrenched cognitive sets and open up new possibilities for change. The video also touches on different types of trance, emphasizing the expansive, generative trance as a powerful state for facilitating change. Viewers are encouraged to engage with the content by asking questions and exploring further resources on the channel.
This concept is relevant in both old school direct hypnotism (with either progressive or rapid inductions) and Ericksonian (after Milton Erickson) hypnosis. With hypnotherapy and performance hypnosis.
I am going to watch this again.
A good book to read to get deeper in the neuroscience of the eye's role on trance and imagination, is "Brain and the Gaze: On the Active Boundaries of Vision" . Also useful about what happens when eye saccades are stopped by fixation
by Jan Lauwereyns
Great content. Thanks a lot!
You're most welcome! And thank you for commenting!
If you have any questions about, this video hypnosis or hypnotic changework, please do ask in the comments!
thank you
Thank you, James, for another richly insightful presentation
You are welcome indeed. And thank you for commenting @SaintTrinianz
I love the idea that an NLP or hypnotic process can be used as a point of fixation while additional work is being done alongside of it.
@@YourSecretAdvantage six step reframe is good for this. People often run it only as a process but it can become a vehicle for a whole host of additional suggestion work
Fascinating. Thank you.
@@hattiedraper1061 🙏🏻
Interesting stuff.
I use a right/left hemisphere visualization to try figure out what's going on.
Left hemisphere usually handles categorization, and it seems from your methods along with the process of categorization, is fixation as well.
I say that because i regard the right hemisphere as handling meaning, context, and a wider scope of integrated symbols and meanings.
In this model then, with regards to this idea of fixation in order for framing to take affect, the definitions of words around hypnotism may start to break down.
The right hemisphere is where the change needs to happen with regards to feeling the change, a bodily change, and also the meaning, relating back to feeling and body.
The left seems more like a guardian(ego or lower case "self" as category) and navigator of symbols(categories again).
The right might be more what is underneath the symbols. As well as the Upper case "Self", commonly referred to within existential psychology.
I'm sort of thinking out loud here, and making large jumps in logic.
It looks like the right hemisphere is where the changes happen, with regards to meaning and feeling, which is about long term change, as it delves into the body memory.
And the left looks like a place to change categories and temporary memory.
A trance and/or fixation might both be idling or redirecting, respectively, the left hemisphere.
When looking at the old split brain patient experiments and tests, it becomes very clear quickly, just what I'm talking about with such differing functionality and perception between the hemispheres.
If correct.
It stands then that for longterm change, one doesn't need to be in trance or fixated, IF the right hemisphere can be contacted and engaged in some other way. For example, through automatic drawing/painting and a good sense for unconscious symbolism.
Well.. actually.. I do the painting in freeform and I do go into a trance/flow state...LOL
Okay, maybe you really need to either open a portal through the left hemisphere, OR just keep it busy so the right can pay attention to context.
Another thing, is that i don't think the right side handles categorized language, so may not be able to speak without the left as interpreter.
I'm starting to think now that there are a great many more things I have missed with regards to this left hemisphere guardian situation.
Considering the brocas region for language is in the left hemisphere, I'm thinking that the right may experience the context of the sounds of language and songs, while the left breaks it into pieces and therefore creates a groundwork for meaning to be applied, from the wide scoped contexts of the right hemispheres perceptions.
So, I conclude now, that i need to know more, and that it seems that even IF the left hemkisphere is fixated or in trance, it is still needed and used in order to access aspects of the right hemisphere, if changes to behaviour are to take route.
As for little tricks like short term memory hacks, I'd say that's only going to last as long as the narrative around the change lasts. The narrative being the access to the right hemisphere and it's handling of meaning.
Anyway, watch the split brain patients stuff and this will probably make a lot more sense.
Hmm the reason repetition works, is that the left over-categorizes to the point of it becoming invisible. Like propaganda on repeat, eventually becomes truth, through context development(right hemisphere change, through left side categorization/frame bombardment.).
Possibly can be broken through changing language. Due to the meaning of language regarding intent, lying with the right side, the attacks on the left via bombardment could be reset, like changing the password on lock system. Those bombardments would have to reconnect to the underlying meanings, using the new language.
@falls2shine712 not specifically in regard to this subject, rather to propaganda and it's hypnotic purpose (I thought you might appreciate the perspective), swaying the currently unswayed is not it's primary goal. It's primary purpose is to maintain and deepen the trance, like immediately following a rapid induction. The masses will just go back to their habitual pattern if you dont.
What do you believe about derren brown work?
He’s a mentalist. A good one too.
Is it possible to prevent abreactions in someone who has them at each session?
plz develop, which kind of abreactions ? what occurs ?
Panic attack, fear and tears
I have a question…how could this be applied to interrupt someone having an OCD episode. I have speculated that they’re in the middle of a self induced hypnotic state…and it might be possible to interrupt it with an alternative suggestion. What do you think?…I see that OCD-UK doesn’t recommend it…of course they don’t…wouldn’t want to interrupt a guaranteed long term income stream with a quicker and self empowering method 🙄
What does OCD-UK make of Jeffrey Schwarz work on OCD?
Amazing video James! Thanks a lot! Gives me more power to interact and communicate more effectively and elegantly with my patients and loved ones 😊🙏🏽🙏🏽
I have Tourettes syndrome and OCD is a component. I found way back that I can easily appease any compulsive tendencies by establishing beneficial obsessions, like for instance, an interest in the subject of hypnosis. So simply by virtue or the fact that my mind has a place to go and play with a subject it likes anyways, it tends to do so, and even if slightly obsessively, work just gets done in the form of learning and creative deduction etc. The side effect is the appeasement of compulsion. It became just part of my character to have a million subjects of interests and my mind just goes there when it needs whatever it was trying to do when it was compulsive.. I haven't had a compulsive tendency in decades now. Instead injust seem to have spontaneous insights that lead to profound realizations.
I bring this up because it's a perfect example of what I believe is the basic premise here. I have interrupted a pattern loop by fixating on a different subject. I have made doing so the new pattern. At this point I couldn't even tell you if I have OCD like tendencies at work, I simply enjoy my journeys into every subject of interest be it quantum mechanics, hypnosis, enlightenment, etc.
@@thejaff23 that’s beautiful - I often wonder how these “pathologies” can actually be kind of super powers in disguise (when directed appropriately)
@TheTrippnotist Absolutely.. I have one other major trick in this direction. I was very much in the category of hyper analytical and had a real hard time achieving trace, despite being not only open to the idea, but working at it daily for several years.. I was able to deduce eventually that it was a major destruction of trust early on that resulted in me NEVER accepting anyone else's truth, even when it seemed to be my own conscious mind. I had to arrive at belief, where logic and emotion were congruent, and this meant never letting go.. the critical faculty seemed to always be involved.. Eventually it dawned on me to take advantage if what I did have.. Several amenable egostates who wanted to do the change work, and a bunch that were too guarded..So I taught the ones that would listen what I was thinking, and mobilized them.. use the resources you have to make friends, to communicate, to help, etc.. Essentially I kept using any ground I gained to gain more ground. My plan was to increase egostate communication and it had a VERY surprising effect, but one that makes perfect sense in retrospect... All issues with Attention Deficit Disorder, simply vanished. That wasn't my goal, or even on my radar, but it was the result. I also gained a fantastic insight on what is going on in this situation. It's extremely tight focus, not lack.. most people maintain a general awareness of what they are doing, using multiple egostates. With a person with ADD, if they are making toast and a person behind them, says hey, can I get a refill on this coffee... the toast is now gone...it will take a reminder of the toast to bring it back, either seeing it, someone saying something , or the smell of burning toast, to alert the toast making egostate, because communication is not taking place between egostates.
I have a question on personal alchemy - on the black path stuff. Have bought many of your courses and have found a lot of benefit from it
However, I have this paranoia of people framing me in negative light
Example : If I say that I am a professional, there will be some person who is going argue with me and say that you are not a professional. According to the dictionary definition, you are not a professional and if I say that it is according to my definition, they are not going to let go and they will take over the conversation
My higher mind agrees that this needs to be let go but the lower mind is attached to it(or sees it as a fact)
I haven't been able to "let go" of this attachment. What are some of the strategies to follow to be able to "let go" of this?
regarding your paranoia statement
you are not responsible for how other people perceive the words you choose to speak , they are , their reaction/response reveals where they reside consciously…
unfortunately humanity has been mesmerized to cast shade , shine your light 🎉
Repetition compulsion, no no no...not that ...this.