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Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot  A few hundred examples are listed here <---- you probably won't finish exploring even half of these, in this lifetime. |
Now I've had a look, I see this is just a site selling hypnosis recordings, and the few hundred applications are the types of problem each recording is supposed to cure the purchaser of. You on the affiliate program? They could easily multiply their profits by just refining their naming procedure. We could have a hypnotherapy recordings for healing accidental knife-cuts on the right index finger (happening in January)...
The problem with hypnosis (or LoA self-hypnosis) is that it's quite possible that it just works in the same way placebo does - if you believe it, then it might have a chance of working for you on some issues. Suggestion. That is what I think.
There are generally two schools of thought about hypnosis, one saying that this is how it works, simple suggestion, others saying that a special psychological state allows access to unusual mental powers of self-healing, etc. There's an interesting article about it here
the quackometer: Look Into My Lies, Not Around My Lies
The same idea arises that one can just shrug and say it probably works if I believe it, and I'll believe it as much as I can so it works. I guess our response will depend on how much we value understanding what's really going on.