“How to get pregnant” is a question many couples find themselves asking as it can be very difficult for some couples to get pregnant. It seems that even with all the effort in the world, conceiving a baby is not a possibility. The fact is that there are a mere six days in a month in which the act of conceiving can take place, and as you may or may not be aware there are other various factors which can directly impact on a couples chance of conceiving. We will now discuss various factors you should consider. So hopefully by the end of the article you will be better educated on how to get pregnant.
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Have realistic expectations when you can become pregnant at the earliest as a result of your birth control. For instance if you were using condoms then obviously there is no reason why you can’t expect to get pregnant very quickly. However if a woman was using Depo-Provera which is an injectable contraceptive then women tend not to get pregnant until around 8-11 months after their last injection, although this is only a guide. If you have used an uncommon contraceptive then seek medical guidance. The question of how to get pregnant fast is heavily reliant on the birth control you were using, so ensure you check out this point.
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Get better lifestyle habits, this includes stopping smoking as it has been scientifically proven that tobacco interferes with the conceiving aspect in a woman’s body, and it impacts sperm health and significantly decreases sperm count. Reduce caffeine consumption can help too, as too much caffeine has been directly linked to increasing chances of miscarriage and as you are unaware of exactly when you become pregnant it is probably a good idea to limit coffee to one cup a day and tea to a couple of cups a day. The final lifestyle habit involves the women getting enough sleep as lack of sleep reduces the hormone leptin which if there is not enough of, ovulation can be impacted.
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March 12th, 2010Great Tips to Get Rid of Stomach Fat
February 4th, 2010I was recently going through the list of various foods that are beneficial to us when we are trying to reduce stomach fat. Believe me I came across some weird and rather unique food choices. Take a look at these great tips to get rid of stomach fat and see which ones you can incorporate into your daily diet.
First of all I would like to stress the fact that fresh fruits are loaded with antioxidants and are low in calories. Some people suggest shying away from fruits because they contain natural sugars. Don’t let that dissuade you; fruits are an essential part of your diet whether you need to get rid of stomach fat or not.
Use as many fruits in your daily diet as possible. Blend it up and use it as a dressing on your salads, make fruit shakes and smoothies, add it as a sauce for your main course, or simply eat them raw. Research has proven that not only will this get rid of your stomach fat but eating raw fruits will make you less prone to mouth cancer! Amazing isn’t it?
A fruit has been proven to help lose stomach fat is the watermelon. Watermelon has a great taste and contain 80% water, which means they have fewer calories. Process of providing services an average of only 40 calories, it is, but helpful things and fill in your sweet cure your thirst. So, eating a lot of watermelon and watermelon stomach fat burning.
Fresh vegetables are also important in your effort to get rid of belly fat. Such a plant can not help people to look at the unwanted fat around the middle shed, the lowly onion. It argano contains sulfur compound and is enriched with powerful antioxidants! Yes, you heard right, onions are very important in their daily diet and are an extremely handy stomach fat loss tool.
In the study, people are living longer lives than those who do not eat the onion shows. In fact, one long day in the diet of people in the two studies indicate, this great vegetable refused to incorporate the onions lived more than 30 years! The maximum time to live more in life. Onions also have been proven to reduce the risk of cancer.
I try with onions, as far as I can in my diet. Try to use them in omelets, in salads, as a basis for the stock and sometimes even in dressings. There are dozens of recipes that you can find easily online, take the bulbs or her as a main ingredient. Try reducing it to a healthy way to belly fat to live healthier and longer!
Select weight squat exercises, pushups, lunges or from run some sort of routine. 10 Please do not many times you can lose stomach fat in less time incredibly minute time. This gives the number of patterns from, save getting tired.
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Goal Selection Is Important � Avoid Self-Sabotage
January 29th, 2010Successful goal selection stems from our inner perceptions and the congruence of our actions. If what we want and how we go about accomplishing our goals is incongruent, then we are likely to experience a degree of self-sabotage.
To be successful, those intentions and actions must be in the selection of routes, and pledges. Important to take time to consider, if you want the results will actually deal with your target selection and effective.
Ask yourself these 3 questions when contemplating a goal:
Do I truly WANT what I think I want?
Do I earnestly BELIEVE that I can achieve my goal?
Do I deeply feel that I DESERVE to have what I want?
Rather than push it certainly is a good idea to clarify the answers to these questions, then there is a nagging question. Otherwise, you may become a candidate for self-denial. So finally how do I seek the true intention of the operation is successful you will be straight?
The answer is to take a close look at your real intentions, your level of belief, and your feelings about deserving the outcome. Let?s take a look at each of these points.
Discover your true intentions. Why do you act on that goal? Is it really your goal, or the idea of another person? The goal is 100% what you want? The time to examine this fundamental step is very important and can mean the difference between success and disappointment.
To explore the level of your faith. In addition to the desired goal, you really believe that this goal can be achieved? It is important that you think deep enough for you to pursue it? Have you heard of the tools and resources you need to take positive action to the idea? What you can own commitment to achieve your desired results?
The results deserve to explore their own feelings. It may seem odd, if the value of the result completely successful, all the time and energy, do not feel you have come to realize the goal of simply investing.
If you want the goal and believe in it, but no doubt as to whether it is worthy of success, understand why you feel that way. Most likely, when addressed honestly, you can resolve this issue and move on.
This is absolutely wonderful when your intentions and actions, routes and you know what you want to target, I believe this, and deserve. However, unless you consciously deal with these basic elements, then it could disturb your well-meaning efforts.
In short, a well-structured goals, we must establish a clear path to the desired results, but careful selection of suitable target might be more important. This also means that the objective intent and action to implement it must match. The objective of the implementation of ill-considered self-destruction is extremely important. Learning to make a successful selection of goals is crucial goal setting.
Endoscopic Breast Implant Surgery: Good or Bad?
January 1st, 2010If you have been considering breast augmentation, you probably already know that there are four different incision options for placing the breast implants: around the areola (periareolar), under the breast (inframammary), in the armpit (transaxillary), and in the navel (TUBA). Two of these options (periareolar and inframammary) are traditional surgical methods, and two of them are endoscopic surgeries (transaxillary and TUBA), which involve incisions far from the breast. Doctors who perform endoscopic surgeries promote them as being both more discreet and less invasive, but are they good options?
How Endoscopic Surgery Works
Endoscopic surgery uses a tool such as an endoscope, a long narrow tube, the tiny surgical instruments are used in a point very far from the actual site of surgery, can also. The doctor can look at the operation of a video camera on the endoscope, and he can manipulate the instruments remotely. It allows a very small incisions and can work very precisely, without damaging or moving too close to allow tissue. To insert the breast implant through the navel or the armpit, the implant needs to be drained off and rolled down. This allows the implant from the incision on the chest went through tiny traces are produced under the skin.
Endoscopic surgery is possible if a very small incision, can be far from the breast. In some cases, to enable very quick recovery and then it's probably for the placement of breast implants (subglandular place) and muscle (submuscular placement) does not allow the bottom of both.
Options
Because breast implants must be deflated when placed via endoscopic surgery, and silicone breast implants come pre-filled from the manufacturer, endoscopic breast surgery cannot be performed for silicone breast implants. If you want silicone breast implants, you cannot get endoscopic breast surgery.
Results
One of the main problems with endoscopic breast surgery is that it can be very hard for doctors to achieve symmetrical pockets for the breast implants. Endoscopic breast augmentation surgeries tend more often to have asymmetric results, with one breast sitting visibly higher than the other. If you are considering endoscopic breast augmentation, make sure you look at all a doctor’s before and after picks, not just the few cherry-picked ones online or in a small book, to get a better idea of how likely you are to see results that are off-kilter.
Revision
It is very rare that revision surgery for endoscopic breast augmentation can be done endoscopically. Normally, it requires an inframmamary incision be used, although sometimes a periareolar incision may work as well. Since about one-third of women need a revision surgery in the first three years after getting breast augmentation, you may end up with an inframammary incision even if you elect endoscopic surgery the first time.
Discreet?
The main argument for endoscopic surgery of the breast is that it
Adventures with Hypnosis Relaxation
November 27th, 2009In 1949, I had a real problem with a dental phobia. Four dentists had turned me down as a patient. I had two abscessed teeth and a mouthful of other cavities. My dental phobia was so bad that it had forced me to go to a hospital some years earlier in order to have three abscessed teeth removed while I was unconscious.
I went to a dental convention where I found the recommended dentist who did hypnosis. He couldn’t work on my teeth, but he said he thought he could help me. So, at the lunch break, I went to his room with several other dentists, and he hypnotized me with a ?standard? induction technique. Then, he taught me a psychological trick of relaxation. If I raised my left hand whenever I felt my right hand becoming a fist, indicating tension, the dentist would stop, and I would relax my right hand, and lower my left hand.) I didn’t believe it would work, but I made an appointment with the last dentist who had turned me down and had recommended hypnosis.
For the first few minutes, I kept raising my left hand, and he stopped immediately. After that, I didn’t need to raise my left hand much at all, and he worked fast.
He pulled the two bad teeth, and drilled and filled a dozen more in one single hour and half session. I had Novocain for the bad ones, and didn’t need it for the others. Both the dentist and I were amazed at this, and he asked if I were really twins
To me, a 22-year-old engineering student, this was a genuine ?miracle?, and I started to learn all I could about this miracle cure. I read everything I could find, from the 1700’s literature about Mesmer, Coue, etc, up to Erickson, Barber, etc.
I became an electronic engineer, and pursued this as my major career, but my avocation continued to be hypnosis, and by extension, psychology. (Much of behavior psychology is similar to hypnosis). I used it professionally, taught it in a major university to doctors, and continued to learn about it. I performed some ?shows?, and considered a career as a stage hypnotist, but was more interested in using it for helping people, as it had helped me.
In 1979, I left electronic engineering, and turned to psychology. I went back and obtained a Doctorate in Psychology based on my education, life experience, and my doctoral dissertation. I became a successful Behaviorist Psychologist for years in private practice in Florida. I gradually converted to an Orthomolecular practice when I found that these types of therapies worked better than any ?talk therapy?, although talk therapy is sometimes useful as well.
Hypnotic Relaxation
During this many years of study, and later career as a psychologist, I realized that what that original dentist who hypnotized me had actually done. With hypnosis, he had simply given me a ?new? conscious tool of relaxation. Using this simple tool, I could actually change something in my unconscious called a ?phobia?. It wasn’t really a miracle, though I had thought so at the time. Adding this knowledge to my knowledge of Pavlovian ?conditioning responses?, I came up with what I called the Bate Relaxation Technique.
This is very simple, yet it can be very powerful – much more powerful than most realize because of its simplicity. It starts with a general hypnotic induction technique of relaxing the body muscles, starting with the toes and going up to the scalp and face. Then, in a state of muscle relaxation, ask the subject to visualize a very beautiful relaxing scene he/she is in. Describe the scene. Ask them to concentrate on how beautiful and very relaxing it is.
Then, ask the subject to memorize the feelings of relaxation and concentration they are feeling at that time. Have them put these feelings into their memory like a photograph. Then, give them a post-hypnotic suggestion that they can now recall those feeling any time they simply count to three. End the session, and have the subject stand up, take a deep breath and simply count to three.
It’s simply amazing how the shoulders often slump 2-3 inches or some other muscles that the subject usually tenses from stress relax. I describe the ?strange? feeling as sort of a ?blah? feeling. (As subjects stand up from the session, their ?normal? pattern of muscle stress takes effect, and the ?instant? relaxation is definitely experienced.)
I then tell the subject that they now have the pattern, but it up to them to use it often, several times a day, even if not needed, for the next week or so. This will set this pattern into their unconscious as a ?conditioned response?. (Remember Pavlov’s dog?) Now, they have the same tool I got from the original dentist, but it is much more enhanced and valuable. It instantly relieves stress of any kind.
Driving a car a long distance is very stressful. My wife and I recently drove over 20 hours straight thru, with me driving about 14 of those hours. At 78 years old, that’s not ?usual?. The secret – we both simply count to three every so often and are able to relax behind the wheel. Muscle tension is very tiring, and few are able to relax this muscle tension behind the wheel.
This relaxation technique is very useful in many ways in helping to solve psychological problems of phobias, compulsions, and even some serious physical problems. I was able to solve dozens of Asthma problems in all persons between 7 and 15 years old, and was often successful with older persons as well. (Kids in this age range are very suggestible; some adults are too cynical.)
The system is simple, but effective. First, teach the relaxation. Then, have the patient emulate a really bad asthma attack. ?Come on, get really bad, your throat is closing more and more.? It’s getting worse and worse.? When the patient really starts to become in distress, say, ?Now, count to three?. As he gets to three, he relaxes, and says, ?Now, it’s gone, and you are in control?.
Many years ago, I did this routine on the 14-year-old son of lifelong friends. When I was visiting them a few years ago, I walked into the store of the son, and he recognized me immediately. I was surprised as it had been over 20 years since he had seen me. He said, ?Do you think I could ever forget the man who cured my Asthma??
It was another great day for my ego.
There’s nothing magical or even mysterious about it. All you are doing is teaching a new ?trick? to the unconscious mind. This ?trick? of instant relaxation is learned as a conditioned response by repetition and use. It becomes a tool for the conscious mind to use in all types of situations to reduce stress. As everybody knows, stress ages us, diminishes the immune system, and helps to kill us.
The various forms of yoga and other meditation techniques are similar, yet different. They relieve stress of course, but are of little use in immediate stressful situations. This relaxation is immediate.
This also can be used for self-hypnosis, positive statements and visualizations.
I also used it for patients that wanted to stop smoking as a ?substitute? for that instant craving that comes to an addicted smoker.
One idea makes a lot of people ?afraid? of hypnosis. The idea that another person has ?control? over them, and can make them do literally anything. Every experiment ever conducted has shown that this is simply not true. Hypnosis cannot force a person to do anything that is against his/her moral code. The unconscious mind is very protective, and is what we are working with either with hypnosis or subliminal training.
There is some possibility of ?indirect? misuse of hypnosis. I once witnessed a hypnotist demonstrating this. He had a very attractive woman who was very hypnotizable (instantly into somnambulism by snapping his fingers). He hypnotized her, and told her to take off her clothes. She awoke instantly and was embarrassed, but had no conscious memory of why.
He then hypnotized her again, and this time, told her that she was at home in her bathroom with the door closed, and she was going to take a bath. She calmly started to take off her clothes. He stopped her before she got too far, but she was obviously going to completely strip.
It was interesting how he stopped her. He told her that someone had come into her home, and was near the bathroom door. She said, ?Don’t come in. I’m not dressed?.
He then had her get dressed, and woke her. She had no memory of the incident.
When I was a young man, I had a girlfriend who I had sex with once or twice. And she had been hypnotized several times as well. One night I wanted sex, but she didn’t. I used the cue that hypnotized her, but to no avail. She refused, even hypnotized. So, the idea that someone can make you do something you do not want to do is false. I can testify to that personally. Our unconscious mind is very protective of us in all ways, even though some ways may be wrong.
Of course, if you work with either hypnosis or subliminal training, or virtually any type of serious psychology you have to be aware of the unconscious mind, as that entity is always what you are trying to influence.
Hypnotic Age Regression
This is a very useful tool for a psychologist, or, for that matter, any doctor of any stripe. Under even ?light? hypnosis, it can be used to ?pull? details from the life of the patient that he/she has forgotten consciously. (The unconscious memory has everything in it.)
There are several ?tricks of the trade? involved. After my Relaxation Technique, I used a ?deepening? technique that went something like this, ?Now, I want you to imagine and visualize yourself going down an escalator as I count to ten. One, imagine yourself stepping on and feeling the steps form under your feet. Two, as you move down, relax even more. Three, as you go down further, concentrate more and more. Four, and as you relax more, you can concentrate more. Five, this positive circle of concentration and relaxation continues as you move down.?
Continue with similar repetitions thru nine, and then, ?Ten, step off the escalator into a room. This room is yours alone. It is only in your mind, and no one else can ever get into it. You can make it anything you want. In this room, you can do anything or visualize anything that will help you to be a better person. In this room you can remember anything you want.?
Next, I would start the questioning. For example, a man came to me to try to find a lost valuable diamond engagement ring. He and his fianc? had broken up, and she had returned the ring to him. He remembered taking the ring, but when he got home, he couldn’t find it at all. I did the above technique, and then started.
I said. ?I want to you to go back in time to the moment when she handed you the ring. Where were you and she at that time??
He replied, ?We were in her living room.?
?Alright, see yourself taking the ring. What did you do with it??
He said, ?I’m putting it into my small watch pocket of my jeans.?
?OK, now you are leaving her. What happened next??
?I’m getting into my car, and driving home?
?Good, what happens next??
?I’m going into my bedroom, and changing clothes.?
?Why??
?I have to go to a baseball presentation dinner.?
?OK, what did you do with your jeans??
?Oh NO! I had put them in the washer!?
That was the story. He went home and found the ring stuck in the washer. (The usual story of such is that it gets caught in the ?U? drain under a sink.) This illustrates the value of ?age regression? as a memory aid.
Of course, it’s also useful to uncover the beginnings of phobias and compulsions. A woman came to me with a cat phobia and asthma. I did the usual as above, and with a couple of other useful techniques found the problem. One ?trick? is to say, ?OK, now you are going back in time. It is your 15th birthday. You are awake in that morning. Do you have asthma??
She replied, ?yes.? (She had earlier said on intake questioning that her asthma had started very early. I start well past that so as to get the patient used to going back.)
?Ok, now you are ten years old, just waking up on your birthday. Do you have asthma now?? Same answer.
?OK, you are now five years old, on your birthday. Do you have asthma now?? Same answer
I again worked until 4 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 2, 1, and went back in months. I have until the ninth month, and they do not have asthma. Yet she had no recollection of anything that had to do. So I went to her tenth month, and went back, day after day with the same question. I clicked on the day when they have asthma. Now I have asked: What do you have during the last days that you have caused asthma? I'll count to three, and if after three, you will remember everything. One, you're starting to remember. Two is the memory again. Three remind you now of everything.
She then related, ?I was lying on my back in a crib, and the cat jumped into the crib, and lay across my mouth. I couldn’t breathe, or call out, and I was scared. I don’t know what happened, but I think I hit the cat, and she went off me.?
It was two birds with one stone. Cat phobia, and asthma caused at that point. Asthma is often a ?protective? device used to keep oxygen in the body. Most can easily breath in but have real problems breathing out. This was her case.
Then, we get to the really interesting part. Age regression to past lives. As an agnostic, I don’t really know if the many stories I have heard from many persons are true, or something from the universal mind or what?
Probably the single most impressive story is from the man who came to me with two lifelong phobias that he had had since earliest memory. He was deathly afraid of fire and water. He thought that these phobias might be from past lives, and asked me to try to find out.
He was easily hypnotizable, and with little urging went back thru birth to the previous life. He had been a circus clown, and been burned to death in a circus fire. It was then simple to go back to a previous life to that. It seems that he had stolen a horse, and was caught. The vigilantes didn’t have a tree, so they hanged him from a bridge. The rope broke, and he drowned. Of course, it took much more time to go thru, and some suggestions from me. He was cured according to a phone call a week later.
I’ve had several such interesting cases. Another was fascinating to me. Under hypnosis, a man kept saying, ?All I can see is a bird?. I kept after him about this bird for 10 or more minutes, but he couldn’t see much more than this bird. Finally, he said, ?It’s a black bird, and it’s on my shield?.
I pressed him harder about his shield, and did he have a sword and a horse. He suddenly screamed, ?There’s blood all around me, and all over me and my horse. I’m killing people all around with my sword, and they’re trying to kill me! ?
I questioned him closely, and it became evident that the date was 1066 at the battle of Hastings as the Normans conquered England.
Is the story true? I cannot say with any certainty, but it was impressive.
When I gave seminars and talks on hypnosis, I usually finished with doing my Relaxation Technique, and my deepening. Then, I would say, ?In your room, sitting comfortably, I want you to let your mind go out of your body. Let it go out into space, and as you see earth behind you as that familiar blue and white marble, see space as almost velvety, with stars and planets being very clear and steady. It’s really beautiful out here in space. Now, you are coming to a white cloud that is getting bigger and bigger, and you are now entering it. On the other side, there is another blue marble world. As you approach, it looks like Earth, but as you get really close, you see no huge cities, but beautiful parks and lovely buildings that seem to be a part of the landscape. As you come to it, and walk about, you notice that the people are all friendly, and the animals are all friendly, and the gardens and parks all around are simply the loveliest you have ever seen. You are filled with the same sort of happiness that it seems everybody there has. You are at peace with yourself and that place.?
?Now, it’s time to leave, and we are going back into space again. Ahead of us is that same white cloud, and this time, as we enter it, we make a left turn, and we are now going back in time. The year is 1700 on Earth, and as we come back to Earth in that time, we are going to each go into a body in that time and place. I want you to look at your feet, and your clothes, and your surroundings, and have a sense of who you are in that body. Now, it’s time to return. We are leaving this time and place, and going back thru that white cloud, and back to that blue marble of earth, and back to that comfortable seat, and into your own body again. As I count to three backwards, you are gong to awaken, not drowsy or sleepy or affected by my voice at all, and you will remember everything you experienced.?
Then, I count, ?Three, two, one, awake fully awake. Now, how many persons really experienced that beautiful planet??
More than about a third of the image is really very clear. (There are several little bit angry with me does not make them no longer!), Then I asked, now, how many people have experienced in 1700 yourself? Surprisingly, about one third have a good and clear visuals. I am an angry woman bare feet, and grasping legs, I was a service woman. This is her life, she is obviously very high. Needless to say, these stories are very interesting and varied. A women and I am impressed, I am in a dark place is to wait to be born.
Of course, such stories do not prove anything. They could be products of imagination, or simply scraps of something from the unconscious or universal mind. However, or whatever they are, taken in bulk from honest persons with no known vested interest, they do prove something beyond our conscious knowledge.
An ?Impossible? Story
Here’s a true story that is unbelievable to many people. In reading about hypnosis, I came across an article where a professional hypnotist had claimed that he had been able to increase a woman’s breast size using hypnosis. I dismissed that claim until in 1978; I read an article by Dr Ted X. Barber in the Journal of Clinical Hypnosis about hypnotic phenomena. This article discussed many different hypnotic phenomena, including several experiments at several different colleges that had all done a similar experiment. As I recall (at this much later date), each college used 8-12 women, all of whom were somewhat flat chested, and all wanted larger breasts.
All were carefully measured, above and below the actual breasts, and across them at the nipples. Once a week for 12 weeks, they were hypnotized as a group, and told to visualize things like, ?See yourself in a mirror naked with larger breasts. Admire your larger breasts. See how good they look, and how good you feel with them. Now, see yourself dressed in a very becoming dress, and how well it looks on you with your new breasts. It increases your self-confidence as well. ?
These comments were repeated several times. As I recall, the average for all of the various experiments was that 80% actually increased their breast size, and the average increase was 2.1 inches.
Let’s take another deeper look at this. The average success rate for losing weight by hypnosis is considered to be less than 65%. In other less reported breast size experiments, DECREASING breast size in women with overly large breasts, the success rate was negligible.
In addition, this suggestion is specific – add body cells to a certain part of the body only! We have no knowledge if actual mammary cells were added, or only fat cells, but still!!!
I’ve won two bets from other psychologists that this story was published in a reputable scientific journal. I made a hypnosis tape specifically for ?breast enlargement?, and heard for a few of the women who purchased it that it did indeed work for them. Unfortunately, few people report either success or failure.
Why doesn’t hypnosis work better on the ?lesser task? of losing weight, or losing breast weight? The explanation is difficult, but in my experience the social ?advantage? to women of large breasts inhibits the unconscious from losing this ?advantage?. Some women are ?punishing? their selves (or their husbands) by being fat. (Sort of ?love me for me, not for my body?). Motives of the unconscious mind are often murky and difficult for our conscious minds to understand. The computer analogy of ?garbage in – garbage out? applies here.
Harmful Unconscious Ideas
The unconscious mind can be a force for good or bad. It apparently doesn’t discriminate – again like a computer. If a virus gets in, it can distort many other programs in different ways.
Let’s examine a very illustrative case. A woman brought in her 8 year old boy for hypnosis for bedwetting. I did the usual direct suggestion, and told her to keep him off all milk products for at least a week.
Two days later, she and her son were back. No success. This time, I did age regression hypnosis. He went back (with a little urging) to when he was 4. He was in bed almost asleep when he heard someone trying to get in his window. He was so scared that he wet himself, and cried out. The burglar (real or imagined) left. The unconscious ?logic? to this boy – urination protects from intruders in night. It wasn’t difficult to remove this logic (computer virus), and his mother said that he hadn’t wet again a few months later.
The great master of hypnotic therapy, Milton Erickson, once had an almost comic situation that he solved in a unique way. It seems that a recently married couple came to him because each was a bed wetter. On their honeymoon, the bed was wet each morning, and each thought the other was very thoughtful in not mentioning it. After a few days, they each confessed and came to Erickson.
He made them agree to do exactly what he said, and then told them to kneel on the bed when they were ready for sleep and each had to urinate, and then sleep in it. They came back several days later, and they had kept their word. He then told them, ?Since you did as I told you, tonight you can go to bed normally without the urination, and come back tomorrow?. The next day, they said the bed was dry in the morning, so he ?allowed? them another dry night. Then another, and then he declared them ?cured?.
These two stories illustrate the immense power of the unconscious for both good and bad. One of the major jobs of the unconscious mind is to ?protect? the physical body (home of the unconscious mind) from harm. If a threat is perceived whether real or imaginary, it goes into action, even if the action may be harmful to itself.