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I am studying Ericksonian hypnosis. Its history is fascinating. I couldn't resist sharing it with you.
Why do you need this history?
First of all, it is a true story. It is the very powerful story of a very famous person who made an enormous contribution to healing people. He cured many people with nothing but THE WORD—the spoken word. It is a wonderful and amazing life.
At the age of seventeen, Milton Erickson fell very seriously ill. At the time, he was diagnosed with polio. Erickson was completely paralyzed. He could only move his eyes. That was all. A consultation of three doctors was assembled. They examined the patient, went into the next room, and told his mother that the child would not live until dawn. He heard this, and it seemed deeply offensive to him: no one had the right to tell a mother that her child would not live until dawn. And he decided that he would live until dawn. He asked his father to move a mirrored wardrobe so that he could see the eastern window, lived until dawn, and saw the sunrise. He then lost consciousness for two days, and when he came to, it turned out that he was completely paralyzed.
The family was large. He spent his time either lying in bed or, occasionally, being transferred to a rocking chair. One day, he was forgotten in that rocking chair for several hours. His only entertainment was observing what was happening around him, which is where Milton Erickson's famous extraordinary powers of observation came from. He very much wanted to sit closer to the window so he could observe what was happening outside, but the chair stood far from the window, and there was no one around to move it. Suddenly, he noticed that the chair was rocking slightly. No one could be rocking it, so he must have been rocking it himself—but he could not rock it because he was paralyzed, and yet the chair was rocking. Then he began imagining, mentally, that it was rocking more and more strongly. And it began rocking more and more strongly. Thus, at the age of seventeen, he discovered the ideomotor phenomenon, without, of course, knowing what it was called.
He took advantage of this and began mentally recalling and reproducingthe sensations of movement. Milton Erickson began recalling what he had felt as a boy when he ran, jumped, swam, climbed fences and trees, and so on. He used the ideosensory phenomenon. He fully restored his movements, to their complete extent—so much so that he later crossed several American states alone by canoe in order to strengthen his muscles completely. And this, of course, subsequently influenced his ideas about hypnosis and the nature of hypnosis.
Why do you need this history?
First of all, it is a true story. It is the very powerful story of a very famous person who made an enormous contribution to healing people. He cured many people with nothing but THE WORD—the spoken word. It is a wonderful and amazing life.
At the age of seventeen, Milton Erickson fell very seriously ill. At the time, he was diagnosed with polio. Erickson was completely paralyzed. He could only move his eyes. That was all. A consultation of three doctors was assembled. They examined the patient, went into the next room, and told his mother that the child would not live until dawn. He heard this, and it seemed deeply offensive to him: no one had the right to tell a mother that her child would not live until dawn. And he decided that he would live until dawn. He asked his father to move a mirrored wardrobe so that he could see the eastern window, lived until dawn, and saw the sunrise. He then lost consciousness for two days, and when he came to, it turned out that he was completely paralyzed.
The family was large. He spent his time either lying in bed or, occasionally, being transferred to a rocking chair. One day, he was forgotten in that rocking chair for several hours. His only entertainment was observing what was happening around him, which is where Milton Erickson's famous extraordinary powers of observation came from. He very much wanted to sit closer to the window so he could observe what was happening outside, but the chair stood far from the window, and there was no one around to move it. Suddenly, he noticed that the chair was rocking slightly. No one could be rocking it, so he must have been rocking it himself—but he could not rock it because he was paralyzed, and yet the chair was rocking. Then he began imagining, mentally, that it was rocking more and more strongly. And it began rocking more and more strongly. Thus, at the age of seventeen, he discovered the ideomotor phenomenon, without, of course, knowing what it was called.
He took advantage of this and began mentally recalling and reproducingthe sensations of movement. Milton Erickson began recalling what he had felt as a boy when he ran, jumped, swam, climbed fences and trees, and so on. He used the ideosensory phenomenon. He fully restored his movements, to their complete extent—so much so that he later crossed several American states alone by canoe in order to strengthen his muscles completely. And this, of course, subsequently influenced his ideas about hypnosis and the nature of hypnosis.