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A Modern Hypnosis Dictionary:The Letter Q
Quantum Therapy -
You would normally expect to find the word quantum on
the blackboard in a physics laboratory but it's also forming a cutting
edge concept in therapy. Advanced researchers like Dr Ernest Rossi are
seeking to explore the postulates of chaos theory as they relate to the
'steady state' theory of normal psychology.
For example:
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The observer and the observed are one.
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Reality is observation, there is no reality without observation.
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Everything is composed of: Space, Mass, Energy and Time.
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Nothing is fixed, everything interpenetrates everything.
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Reality is a belief system.
If "form is condensed emptiness" (Albert Einstein),
then what is a thought?
In quantum therapy (as it relates to hypnosis) the therapist
seeks to expand the mind of the patient beyond the bounds of the habitual
framework (context / matrix) which has enabled the problem to exist. Also
the therapist realizes that 'reality is observation' and thus the patient
has been maintaining ongoing symptoms by observing them at a conscious
and unconscious level. This de-labelling process occurs when the patient
suddenly sees things from an alternative point of view.
Typically this involves guided imagery and paradox to
transform everything in the patients world view into energy and then expand
that view point massively to de-personalize it. Momentary chaos ensues.
Finally the patients view point is allowed to coalesce at a new point,
with a different 'point of view'. (TC)
Quantum Psychology -
Is a fusion of eastern philosophy, western psychology
and quantum physics.
Questioning -
The method of giving suggestions via the medium of structured
questions. This takes advantage of latent affirmative response, ie., "Would
you like to be more confident?" elicits a conscious and/or unconscious
yes, which affirms the content of the suggestion at an unconscious
level. While the straight forward, "You are going to feel more confident"
may be denied by the immediate experience of the patient even though the
critical faculty is diminished. (TC)
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Tom Connelly© ed@hypnos.co.uk
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