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

 

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would drink this water he would immediately feel all the symptoms of approaching sleep and it would ;ender the induction of the magnetic sleep very much easier and quicker.

MAGNETIZING PAPER Some dispensed with the water, but magnetized two pieces of paper by holding them in the hand a little while in the presence of the patient and directing their thought on the paper. The paper was then given to the subject, with a request that he close his eyes and keep his thoughts fixed upon the sensations which he should experience by contact of the magnetized paper in his hands. The result was that the concentration of the patient speedily produced its effect, the mag-

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netized paper no doubt contributed something, and the result was speedy hypnosis.
ELECTRICITY AS A SUGGESTION OF SLEEP.--The use of the electric battery as an assistant to suggestion is not fully appreciated by the student of psychology. No more forcible suggestion can be given than the genial electric current from the battery, whether it be considered that it has a special effect upon the nervous system, or whether the effect is to be attributed only to the power of the sensation in. concentrating a patient's thoughts upon the idea of impending sleep. Some of my patients have passed into a most profound condition of hypnosis under the stimulus of the gentle current of electricity coupled with forcible suggestion, although I had previously made but a slight impression upon them by use of verbal suggestion alone.
THE USE OF THE CRYSTAL. As a means of developing concentration, which is a long step toward developing the ability to be hypnotized, I have often advised the use of the crystal for the development of what is known as "crystal gazing." This is a very peculiar quality which in some cases is so closely allied to Clairvoyance that

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