James Esdaile was a British surgeon who worked in India. He operated on people there, without anesthesia. This was around 1845...
Those people, however, felt nothing. They were numb, but very natural. They were so deep in hypnosis that they felt nothing.
By the way, when the term hypnosis had just been coined, James was working with Mesmer's techniques. A lot of doctors were working with those techniques. More than 300 operations he had performed without anesthesia and successfully.
He brought them so deep into hypnosis that natural anesthesia was created.
However, James could not reproduce it in England, so his title was taken away and he returned to India. There it did work.
It was long thought that you couldn't create that state in people. Yes, it is true that in 1 in 15,000 people who are put into hypnosis that state is achieved. Only by accident...
So how do you know as a hypnotist? They don't come out when you add them up from hypnosis. So they called it the hypnotic coma, because it could take hours for someone to get out.
That's why a lot of people are still afraid they won't get out, but the question is really, 'Why do they stay in? '
Because it is the most delightful state to be in. It should be called more "hypnotic heaven. That's why people don't want to get out of it. That's why when you add them up, they don't come out.
And they are so relaxed, they feel no pain at all. You can operate on them, make them give birth and they feel nothing at all, because they are in heaven....
That's why we call it the Esdaile State, and you can create it. Just yesterday I gave a whole day of training on it. And yes, they all went into the proverbial sky and felt nothing.
But yes, shortly after Esdaile made this discovery, chemical anesthesia was invented and today it is almost forgotten knowledge and certainly forgotten skill.
Too bad, because painless childbirth can be done this way. Without an epidural so the baby comes into the world very naturally without dope in its little body....
But yes, rather push hypnosis nicely into the alternative world, ridicule and sell pills, than really teach people what they can do with their bodies and minds.
Today we are going to teach people how to fight pain. Fast, in a conversation and very effective. No pills, just with hypnosis.
Beautiful day!
