Course of Instruction In Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Clairvoyance, Suggestive Therapeutics, and The Sleep Cure

 

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which follows the concentration of the mind upon any not disagreeable and not exciting task. A drowsiness begins to take

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possession of the patient. The voice of the operator sounds even more soothing and monotonous than before.

SLEEP SUGGESTIONS. The Doctor is saying: "Your eyes are getting heavy now; you are feeling drowsy; you are feeling that it would be an effort to move; you are not disturbed by any noise without, the blood is receding from the extremities, your hands and feet and head are becoming cooler, the heart's action is diminished, the pulse is slower, the breath is easier, quieter, deeper and you are going gradually sound asleep." The Doc-tor pauses for a little while and then says still more quietly: "Close your eyes, sleep," at the same time laying his hands lightly upon the eyelids of the patient. He then says: "Resting quietly; all is well; your pain is getting gradually less. In a little while you will be sound asleep, and on awaking the pain will have entirely disappeared. Sleep quietly. Nothing will disturb you until I return." He then leaves the patient to him-self for perhaps ten or fifteen minutes, and upon returning usually finds that the latter has passed from a state of drowsiness into a condition of light sleep, and that the headache is either greatly relieved or entirely gone. The Doctor informs the patient that the next day when he returns for treatment he will pass more easily into the drowsy condition, and that his sleep will be deeper, and that after a few treatments he will be able not only to cure any pain which may be present at the time of the treatment, but by this Verbal Suggestion will prevent a recurrence of the trouble. This is the method which is invariably followed in France in the treatment of a new patient. Nothing is said about Hypnotic Influence; no tests are imposed to discover whether the patient is in any degree under the influence or not; everything is arranged to quiet him, reassure him, and set his mind absolutely at rest.

A SECOND TREATMENT. Accordingly, upon returning for treatment, the patient gets into the chair with confidence and with-out any misgiving as to what the result will be; and he becomes proportionately more quickly obedient to the suggestions of the Doctor, and is more profoundly

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