What is hypnosis? Surrounded by stigma, mystery, and mythology, hypnosis carries a lot of misunderstandings about what it really is. It’s hard to get even the experts, at times, agree on what it is. Some people see it as a relaxed awareness. It can be, doesn’t have to be. If you look at the rallies of Hitler in WWII, you will see anything but a relaxed awareness. Those people were worked into a wild frenzy through hypnotic techniques. Some see hypnosis as some kind of mind control thing, where the subject is trying to resist and the hypnotist breaks down…
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A thermometer is controlled by the circumstances and the environment around it. When things in the environment change the thermometer will react by either rising or falling. A thermometer is used to measure what is wrong. It is like the miner’s canary. They used to keep a caged canary down in the mine shaft and would watch to see how it reacted to the environment. If the canary died, the miners would know to get out of there because the gas levels had reached a point of toxicity. Unfortunately, many organizations are full of thermometers today. They are quick to…
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