What Is Sleep Learning? (Part 4)

Certainly the cases reported indicate that there is a great value potential in this form of therapy. It has been stated that sleep-suggestion may eventually replace hypnosis medically, since doctors and psychiatrists can make a tape more easily than they can apply direct hypnosis. The Sleep-Learning Research Association reports some experiences of a Florida doctor in which response to this form of therapy resulted in a cure:

A man who lost his voice at the age of fourteen, due only to psychological causes. For twenty-six years he could barely whisper. After sleep therapy, he recovered full use of his voice.

A girl who suffered a nervous breakdown. She was a conscientious worker in the field of religion. Frustration in her work had led to the breakdown.

Several weeks of sleep-therapy restored her to a normal, busy and happy life.

A minister who had to give up his work because of a series of nervous breakdowns. After applying sleep-therapy he found his former capacities restored and he was able to return to work.

Other successfully resolved cases included a chronic stutterer, an insomniac, an alcoholic and a case of loss of hearing.

This doctor was particularly interested in a reaction common to patients using sleep-tapes which psychiatrists refer to as "ventilation." He feels it is a remarkable discovery which has answered many questions for him.

"After using the tapes nightly for a time," he writes, "hidden complexes and causes of tension are brought to the surface. Temporarily, one feels worse than ever, but after a few hours, the patient recovers and these feelings do not return. They have been Ventilated/ This is a method for applying mental catharsis, which, in my judgment, is better than the old method of 'talking it out/

"I have had several such problems myself, which, upon analysis, were ventilated and did not return. I liken this to pouring clean water continually from a hose into a barrel of bad water. In time, the bad water is brought to the surface where it is disposed of and replaced by good, clean water.

"For, just as the subconscious can and will answer back with what it contains," concludes the doctor, "so the continuous pumping into the subconscious of powerful, positive suggestions will bring a like response after the hidden and negative complexes are removed by Ventilation. "

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