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Underground Hypnosis carries a particularly cloudy reputation, but it and similar forms of conversational hypnosis can genuinely assist people. It’s quite inappropriate to describe hypnotic suggestion as “mind control”, however, for the common saw about “mind over matter” is still pertinent; you can easily educate the subject and assuage, maybe even treat, mental, physical and of course emotional problems via the unconscious mind. As a result you can use it for both the funny stunts found on TV shows or at student parties and powerful assistance for depression or addiction to tobacco. It appears quite unnerving at first, but it’s a surprisingly commonly-used technique which typically creates no extra problems.

As with most hypnosis, the aim of conversational hypnosis is to place someone into a trance state, and underground hypnosis teaches you to do exactly that. The depth to which the person falls into the trance state, bear in mind, depends on their emotional status, hypnotist’s ability, and personality.

The lightest degree of trance occurs as the subject first starts to “untense” their minor muscle systems. They feel dozy, rather than exhausted. Some also experience difficulty keeping their eyes open. As the trance deepens, this ease starts to spread to the shoulders and digits. This typically takes mere moments.

Imagine only having the ability to perceive one person. A skilled hypnotist can take you to this state by taking you into a deep enough trance state. Once they’re led to this point, the power of suggestion comes in, establishing a route to the unconscious mind. Should you guide your subject further into trance, you’ll discover a point beyond which they become able to disregard pain, and block bodily feeling, even seal away memories.

Beyond that lies hallucination and other altered perceptions; you can eventually bring yourself to a state reminiscent of that seen under general anesthetic. In fact, subjects might undergo a medical procedure while so deep without feeling pain. We think it’s obvious that you don’t need to take your subject that far, and Underground Hypnosis is easily enough for the more practical strata. As a matter of fact fact, when you’re working within typical expectations for hypnosis, you only need the more common strata of trance state. So look into the Underground Hypnosis teachers - you’ll be welcomed. How long would this need, you wonder? No time at all - some speedy studying, a few hours to try out the tricks involved, and quite quickly you’ll have a remarkable new skill. It’s really as easy as that and not scary at all.

The following letter was written in response to an article published in the Daily Mail August 2005, the subject of which introduced research by Professor Julian Elliot of Durham University which indicates that the current analytic processes used to diagnose Dyslexia have created an artificial ‘disability’ which correlates the ability to read and write with intelligence, and the inability to learn to read or write by an otherwise bright child as the sole necessary evidence of the condition.

The new research provides not only physical evidence of a difference in the brain structure of those who can not learn to read and write by traditional means, but research evidence that the processes used to teach the ‘bright’ dyslexic works equally well with those whose low IQ has previously concealed the underlying problem.

As somebody who has suffered similarly (in my case my near blindness took the blame until I was in my early teens) it is an issue I find intensely interesting. As can be seen, I liked the witing, I do however take issue with the subeditor who stupidly decided to give us this very disturbing title.

Dear Julie,

Viz Daily Mail of Friday 25th August.

I would like to register my objection to the headline “There’s no such thing as dyslexia, claims academic” attached to an otherwise blameless article. The article happens to be a well balanced attempt to address the subject, given the available material.

Attaching such a disturbing headline, knowing that many people only read the headlines, is a chilling reminder of how much the press can contaminate otherwise good writing.

There was nothing in the article to suggest that any of the researchers had actually found any evidence to support the headline’s message “there’s no such thing as dyslexia”, this is a vast oversimplification of the issue and is not the point that was intended.

Despite this many employers and HR personnel will feel able to reject dyslexic applicants out of hand, mistakenly relieved that they can’t be held to discriminating against a disability any longer.

Please could you at least publish a further article with a balancing headline of equal weight. There must have been considerable feedback from the TV program, and that alone should provide the opportunity for such an article.

Yours sincerely,

© Michael hart