如海浪般的情绪

你可曾觉得突然间不想见任何人和做任何事？

突然变得好像行尸走肉一样，心情闷闷不乐?

那或许是有些事情你不想面对或做决定。

甚至可能是因为你睡眠质感出了问题。

这时你需要的是好好深呼吸并感受当下的情绪，并接纳此刻的心情。

要知道情绪像海浪般，并不是永远都会呈现大浪状态，但也不可能永远都风平浪静。

那么为何不给自己一些独处的时间来聆听自己内心的声音和情绪。

只需听，不需要评论，或许在不知不觉中你就会领悟些什么了。

笔者：Clinical Hypnotherapist Koo 临床催眠师

Merry Christmas 2015

There are so many gifts I want to give to you this Christmas. Peace, love, joy, happiness are all presents I am sending your way.

Scans Show How Hypnosis Affects Brain Activity

The word "hypnosis" tends to conjure up images of subjects partaking in silly activities they might not otherwise agree to. But over the past few decades, scientific study of hypnosis has begun to identify how the approach can work to alter processes such as memory and pain perception. According to a new report, hypnotic suggestions regulate activity in certain regions of the brain and can help it manage cognitive conflicts.

A well-known example of cognitive conflict involves a person trying to name the color of ink used to print letters that spell out a different color. For example, the word "blue" spelled out in red ink. It usually takes subjects longer to read out such a list than it does to read a list of color names written in matching colored inks. In previous work, Amir Raz and his colleagues at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University had illustrated that hypnosis could be used to reduce this conflict in highly hypnotizable individuals. In the new work, they used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and readings from scalp electrodes to monitor brain activity while subjects completed the ink-naming task.

The researchers also gave the subjects a posthypnotic suggestion to interpret the colored words as gibberish, which presumably would allow them to focus more on the color of the ink instead of reading the word. Highly hypnotizable individuals had better accuracy and quicker reaction times compared to those previously identified as being less responsive to hypnosis. The imaging data indicated that the hypnotizable subjects showed reduced brain activity in both visual areas and the anterior cingulate cortex, which is involved in conflict monitoring. Thus, the authors conclude, the results "illuminate how suggestion affects cognitive control by modulating activity in specific brain areas.

Source：http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scans-show-how-hypnosis-a/