Hypnosis - the use of ideomotor techniques

Hypnosis - the use of ideomotor techniques

Finger of truth

Finger signals don't have to be vulgar. Instead of conveying insults, they can communicate subconscious information. Dr. David Cheek, an obstetrician and gynecologist, has been helping hypnotized patients use their fingers to identify the unconscious causes of emotional or physical illnesses for more than 50 years.

The process is called “ideomotor,” which means “thoughts that cause a physical action.” Certain fingers are labeled (by the doctor or the patient) as “yes,” “no,” and “I don’t want to answer.” When the doctor asks the hypnotized patient questions, the corresponding finger is raised in response - even if the patient consciously thinks differently or is not consciously aware of the answer.

In his new book Hypnosis: The Use of Ideomotor Techniques (a 1968 rewrite of the classic clinical hypnotherapy co-authored with the late Leslie LeCron, discoverer of ideomotor techniques), Dr. Cheek:

"Because of LeCron's contributions, we can now study the cognition of infants during intrauterine development, the cognition of anesthetized people, and the thoughts and reactions to thoughts when people are in deep sleep and normally dreaming. We can discover and correct many sources of resistance that had previously interfered with successful psychotherapy. The entire process of psychotherapy has been accelerated, and the cost of psychotherapy has therefore been reduced lowered. “

These claims, as baffling as they may seem, are mild compared to Dr. Cheeks' other claims in his 300-page book. For example, he writes convincingly about telepathy between a mother and her fetus, past life regression, mental dispossession, and a decidedly unusual view of homosexuality.

Dr. Cheek gives some examples of adult women using ideomotor techniques to uncover sexual abuse when they were too young to have conscious memories:

"Babies have an active sucking reflex, which can stimulate a father, uncle, grandfather, or older male sibling to put his erect penis into that mouth. For the child, this is not an erotic pleasure. The experience can be frightening because it is hard for the child to breathe. His normal sucking reflex can be eliminated by this act. The child usually feels the guilt of the person doing this and takes it in yourself up. Since conscious memory only begins at age 2 or 3, there will be no conscious memory for this childhood trauma. Some patients will remember dreaming about this being done to them. “

He goes on (obviously to doctors) to point out signs in adults that may indicate such abuse:

"Be aware of the possibility of oral abuse if you learn that your patient had wall-eye or cross-eye in childhood. Their dominant eye may have focused on the penis or tried not to look at it. Be aware of oral abuse if your patient has been gagged in the past or had repeated throat infections as a child. Both are examples of hypersensitivity problems caused by emotional trauma from harassment or a tonsillectomy. The problem of tonsillitis leading to tonsillectomy will be remembered, but the preceding annoyance will be hidden by conscious amnesia. “

Dr. Cheek believes that we are shaped by special emotions even in the womb. He has taught hundreds of women to communicate telepathically with their unborn children.

If a fetus misinterprets a mother's worry as rejection, the feeling will be imprinted and permanent, says Cheek, and "subsequent love and care from the mother will not change the earlier assumption."

According to Dr. Cheek, birth trauma is at the root of many adult ailments. He describes how adrenaline – released at the time of shock or stress – “sets” the fear or distress and thus shapes the trauma. "Primary trauma can occur at the time a mother realizes she is pregnant. It can be compounded during pregnancy, at birth, and in the first three years of life and occur throughout the remainder of a child's life."

And lead to depression, anxiety, phobias and post-traumatic stress disorder. Ordinary psychotherapy is inadequate to the task of dealing with such imprints because it has affected the primitive and middle brain, not the cerebral hemispheres of conscious memories. (Insomnia and free-floating anxiety can be signs of such disorders.) Ideomotor techniques can uncover the preconscious causes of suffering and then treat them.

Hundreds of his pregnant patients have used hypnosis to enable a breech baby to roll over and deliver comfortably.

The now well-known experience of surgical patients hearing conversations in the operating room, even when deeply anesthetized, may have another explanation: telepathy. Dr. Cheek used ideomotor techniques to confirm this to his own satisfaction. "If this claim can be supported by the work of other independent observers," he says, "it will be very important for surgeons and their assistants to keep positive thoughts while working with their surgical patient."

Dr. Cheek explains to the reader how to use ideomotor techniques with self-hypnosis to locate lost objects.

The book contains many case studies (sometimes repeated) and explicit instructions on how therapists can use finger signals.

The chapters on gynecology and female urology are highly technical. The author hopes that more women will enter medical schools and more attention will be paid to the concept of a mind affecting physical behavior and endocrine balance.

Using the techniques to deal with infertility is fascinating and gives hope to couples who may be despairing of ever having their own children.

Dr. Cheek is cautiously open to other approaches that can be included along with finger signaling. These include searching for auras and examining past lives, although he finds it most productive for patients to simply cut ties with past lives and leave open the question of whether they are real or hallucinated. He takes a similar position regarding ghost deposition and warns physicians to be careful with whom they discuss these topics.

Particularly revealing is that of Dr. Cheek gave the reason why some people are afraid and/or resistant to hypnosis: "She [the doctor] can subliminally remind these patients of someone who mistreated them at a time when they were spontaneously in a trance."

Dr. Cheek's compassion for patients and his desire to be co-therapists in their own healing is evident in his rejection of a common technique: "The...concept that repeated abreactions in total age regression catharate trauma is not a viable therapeutic modality. It typically alienates patients or forces them to invent traumas that are either not the causal ones or never occurred." are. "

There are many useful guides on using ideomotor techniques to help people control pain and combat the unwanted effects of chemotherapy. Dr. Cheek also writes about the forensic and emergency use of hypnosis.

This is clearly a book for practitioners, but it is also thought-provoking for laypeople.

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