Where the “art” associated with things are always with the mysterious and mysterious, such as magic, sorcery, hypnotism is also so – hundreds of people brushed to one side, was hypnotized by the hypnotist collective hypnosis; weak woman was hypnotized straight up suspended in the air, like a bridge above you can Withstand the weight of several hundred pounds …… hypnosis is so mysterious and unpredictable, recently, the reporter came to Beijing Huilongguan Hospital to experience a hypnosis. A bed, a table, two chairs, a doctor. The psychiatrist’s office is very simple, but they have to treat the most difficult to cope with the disease – “heart disease”. Peng Xu is a “famous” hypnotist in Beijing Huilongguan Hospital. “Hearing his voice makes you want to sleep” is the evaluation given to him by his colleagues in the hospital. His calm and steady voice makes people feel solid and safe, and it is because of this unique voice that Peng Xu has spent a lot of time and energy to study and learn hypnotherapy after becoming a psychiatrist. Hypnosis is not a way to put people to sleep. Huilongguan Hospital is far away from downtown Beijing, outside the North Fifth Ring Road. When the reporter arrived early in the morning, Peng Xu said, “Come on, you lie down, I’ll do a relaxation hypnosis for you before the interview.” (The linguistic details of the hypnosis process were compiled by the reporter according to the recording afterward–reporter’s note) The reporter lay down on the bed and closed his eyes. In his ears was a smooth, soft, slow voice: “Focus your attention on your scalp, feel that your scalp is relaxed, and every hair on your scalp is also relaxed. You will feel your scalp warm and cozy, as if the winter sun is shining on your head and you feel very relaxed.” Thoughts couldn’t help but follow the voice, “Now focus your attention on your forehead, which slowly stretches out like a blooming flower, and you feel a coolness as if a lotus leaf covered your forehead. Your eyelids are like a thousand pounds of weight, tightly attached to your eyes, heavy, heavy, can’t move, and can’t open them.” Being a little nervous, the reporter at first deliberately closed his eyes tightly, but slowly, the only thing left beside his ears was this voice, if far away, and his eyelids became heavier and heavier. “Three deep breaths to relax the chest, inhale …… and inhale again …… stop, slowly exhale, exhale again, exhale until you can not exhale …… ” “Your navel is getting warmer and warmer, like the warm sunshine slowly scattering in all directions, and your whole lower limbs are relaxing along with it, very heavy and heavy, you don’t want to move and can’t move …… ” The voice in the ear is getting softer and softer, pulled Very long and slow, the person gradually confused …… I don’t know how long, the voice sounded again, “When I counted from three to one, you slowly opened your eyes, and when you woke up, you couldn’t remember the details of what you had just done, but this feeling of peace and relaxation has remained. ” “Three …… two …… one …… slowly open your eyes.” The reporter opened his eyes, and the tiredness of getting up early in the morning to squeeze the subway and transfer buses dissipated. The reporter was puzzled: I’m this is asleep, or awake? Peng Xu music, said: “hypnosis is not to let people fall asleep, but let the body wake up.” The reporter checked the definition of hypnosis in Wikipedia, hypnosis (hypnosis, derived from the name of the god of sleep in Greek mythology), is an alternative state of consciousness triggered by a variety of different techniques. The person at this point is extremely responsive to the suggestion of others, a highly suggestible state, and responds accordingly in perception, memory, and control. Although hypnosis is very much like sleep, but sleep does not play any role in hypnosis, because if a person is really asleep, there will be no reaction to any suggestion. Reporter hypnotized into a “human bridge” There is a widely circulated video on the Internet: a slender woman, hypnotized, straight between two tables, but the body can stand several people. Peng Xu said: “It’s called human bridge in technical terms. Just like the little dragon lady sleeping on a rope, everyone can do it.” With his encouragement, the reporter also experienced it. Peng Xu let the reporter stand on the edge of the chair, close your eyes, and follow his slow instructions: “Both feet together, toes also together, hands tightly on the legs, the whole body is tightened together, as if the whole body is only a piece of muscle like …… to experience this feeling …… The more tense the muscle is, the more relaxed the body is ……” I don’t know how long it took, but a voice said slowly in my ear, “Now, you are going to be placed on a bed made of air. ” The reporter was moved up and placed on the “bed”. The whole process of the reporter can clearly feel the body taut and tight, but the body feels very light and light, completely effortless. “Air made bed is very comfortable, enjoy this comfortable ……” voice continues in the ear. Pop! The mesmerized reporter suddenly dropped, and it turned out that the chair slid gently. Subsequently carried out a second time, the reporter’s neck and ankles were racked on the back of the chair, was successfully racked into a “human bridge”. When the reporter asked, people in the awake state can also be set up this way? Peng Xu said, not be hypnotized in the case of doing this action will hurt the cervical spine, lumbar spine, so do not try. Life everywhere there is hypnosis After the real experience, the reporter and Peng Xu between the words about hypnosis opened the box. Before the reporter came to experience the interview, a colleague said very confidently: I have a strong will, absolutely will not be hypnotized. Peng Xu said that the more he said he would not be hypnotized, the easier he would be hypnotized. Because a person with strong judgment in business, often not so subjective about their own health, they can also be in a particular atmosphere, by other people’s suggestion plus self-suggestion and enter the hypnotized state. People are ostensibly hypnotized by the hypnotist, but in fact they are mainly self-hypnotized under the suggestion of the hypnotist’s language. “Everyone has conflicts, or repressed emotions inside. The hypnotist will create a relaxing atmosphere through the tone of voice, tone of voice, gestures, etc., so that people have a sense of security, no need to be defensive, no need to restrain their emotions, in this atmosphere, everyone will be hypnotized.” He said. Hypnosis is not such a magical thing, the hypnotic state is the instinctive state of the biological world, as a physiological scientific phenomenon, there will be hypnosis everywhere in our life, just that people do not realize it. Peng Xu said that hypnotic state is not rare in daily life. When a person is fully concentrated on an activity, due to the high concentration of the spirit, so that the external environment of the things know nothing about, this state also belongs to a form of hypnosis. “When a small animal encounters danger, it will behave as a fake death, which is also a kind of hypnotic instinct.” Peng Xu said that professionally, hypnosis is divided into four realms, hypnosis show, hypnosis exercise, hypnotherapy and hypnosis Tao. These four realms, just as the stage performance of taiji dance, fitness taiji exercise, used to fight taijiquan, as well as enlightenment of life taiji Tao. Hypnosis is not “cutting out” bad memories The magic of hypnosis is almost a superpower in people’s minds. A mother said her 14-year-old daughter was afraid of the dark, probably related to the memory of being locked up in a small dark room when she was in kindergarten, and she wanted to take away this memory of her daughter through hypnosis. Peng Xu said, “It is impossible to erase painful memories, and hypnotherapy only inhibits these overexcited memories, allowing them to slowly desensitize and dilute the negative effects of the memories.” With the help of human instincts to suggest and guide, hypnotists can hypnotherapeutically treat patients, mainly for psychogenic mental disorders, such as hysteria, hypochondria, phobias, and physical and mental illnesses. Peng Xu’s first patient is a young woman, because she was hurt when she was 15 years old, the girl has selective amnesia, she doesn’t remember anything in those years, but she is always awakened by nightmares every night. Peng Xu analyzed that the girl’s amnesia is actually psychogenic amnesia, which protects itself by automatically blocking out information that is harmful to it. However, avoidance does not solve the problem, on the contrary, it will accumulate more and more pain. Through hypnosis, we can create a very safe and comfortable environment for them, so that their body and mind can be relaxed, the pent-up emotions can be released, and the suppressed painful memories can be slowly released, constantly telling them that they are very safe and don’t need to be afraid, and giving them the courage to face up to these harms. After 15 sessions of hypnosis, each lasting about forty minutes, this girl slowly recalled her memories and gradually faded away the harm done to her. There was another patient who was embarrassed when she was a child because she forgot the words in a speech, which developed to the point that she did not dare to speak or do anything in public, and then she did not even dare to go to school, and she dropped out of school for a few years and came to see a psychiatrist. This girl is now 23 years old, belongs to social phobia, after 12 times of hypnotherapy has improved, from not dare to speak to people, to can speak to two or three people at the same time. There are few patients, mostly women, whose lives are affected by some bad memories. But not all hysteria can be hypnotherapy, and for schizophrenia, brain organic psychosis such diseases, can not be corrected by benign psychological suggestion, can not be used hypnotherapy, otherwise it will aggravate the development of the disease. Hypnotist often self-hypnosis Peng Xu said: “We have to contact a variety of patients every day, there will inevitably be anxiety, anxiety. So every time before hypnotizing a patient, we will first hypnotize ourselves to relax.” He describes his common hypnosis methods. Self-hypnosis, focus on the heart of their feet, feel the heart of the feet of the heat, acid, swelling, with “contentment”, there is always happy, this is a must do homework before hypnosis. “Counting sheep” is many people’s insomnia approach, but often the more you count the more awake. Peng Xu said: “Many people are counting wrong, not from 1 to 100 or even 1000, but should be from 1 to 10, and then from 10 to 1, so that repeated counting, monotonous repetition and stimulation, you can achieve the effect of hypnosis.” You can also count your breath, inhaling from 1 to 7, and exhaling from 7 to 1, so that even if you can’t sleep, you can let your body relax and fall asleep as soon as possible. You can also “stare longingly at the small red light of the power supply, and fall asleep without realizing it.” Peng Xu a brain gave a few suggestions to help sleep. Hypnotized people will also be self-protection Hypnosis makes people feel mysterious and even fear, from some movies and TV dramas, ill-intentioned psychologists to hypnotize people “like the walking dead general manipulation”. In reality, some people do worry about being hypnotized to tell their secrets, or even reveal their bank card passwords. Peng Xu said, if the real psychiatrist, this situation need not worry. Movie and TV dramas to show the effect of hypnosis, hypnotized by someone to tell their secrets after being controlled by someone, is somewhat exaggerated. Everyone has the ability of self-protection, even if they are hypnotized, they will not tell the secrets that are harmful to them, unless subconsciously think that it is good for them to tell them, then they may tell them. “People in the state of hypnosis only focus on the information that is favorable to them, and block superfluous and harmful information.” Peng Xu said it’s like when a person is drunk they only gush about things that interest them and turn a deaf ear to things that don’t.