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Hypnosis, Biofeedback, and Meditation
  • Lesson 7-2

2
Bell Ringer
  • Read exploring psychology p. 191

3
Objectives
  • Determine how hypnosis relates to consciousness
  • Describe research into such techniques as
    biofeedback and meditation.

4
What is hypnosis?
  • Hypnosis-
  • a form of altered consciousness in which people
    become highly suggestible to changes in behavior
    and thought.
  • Go into what is called a hypnotic trance.

5
Hypnosis
  • Franz Anton Mesmer- first person to practice
    hypnosis
  • thought body was full of magnetic fluid that
    could become misaligned
  • would pass a magnet over the body to realign the
    blood

6
Hypnosis
  • Later, he said he had animal magnetism
  • said his patients were mesmerized

7
Hypnosis
  • People cant be hypnotized unless they want to be
  • A person cant be made to do things they wouldnt
    do when they were awake.

8
Theories of Hypnosis
  • Under hypnosis, people can more easily imagine
    and remember things

9
Uses of Hypnosis
  • Hypnotists can suggest things for the
    participants to remember or forget when the
    trance is over.
  • Called posthypnotic suggestion
  • lady who couldnt hear word psychology
  • Has been used to help people lose weight and quit
    smoking

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Uses of Hypnosis
  • Has been used to help Olympic athletes achieve
    peak performances
  • Hypnotic analgesia refers to reduction of pain
    due to hypnosis
  • Help people gain insight into their lives and
    work out their problems

11
Biofeedback
  • A technique where a person learns to control
    their internal physiological processes
  • light goes off every time your heart rate too
    high, you learn to control heart rate
  • t.v. show

12
Biofeedback
  • Have taught people to control frontalis muscle in
    the forehead to reduce tension headaches.
  • Has been used to help asthma suffers learn to
    control and relieve the tightening of the muscles
    around the airways

13
Meditation
  • The focusing of attention to clear ones mind and
    produce relaxation.
  • 3 major types
  • transcendental meditation- involves mental
    repetition

14
Meditation
  • Mindfulness meditation
  • from the Buddhists
  • focus on the present moment
  • move your focus through the body

15
Meditation
  • Breath meditation-
  • concentrating on ones respiration
  • also used to help people lower heart rates and
    blood pressure

16
Meditation
  • One of the tools of meditation is koan- a riddle
    or question that has no answer
  • provokes concentration and self-control
  • What is the sound of one hand clapping?

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Meditation
  • What did your face look like before your parents
    were born?
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