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Re: Self hypnosis, meditation, dissociation » Dinah

Posted by terra miller on August 15, 2002, at 23:16:38

In reply to Self hypnosis, meditation, dissociation, posted by Dinah on August 15, 2002, at 10:57:40

hi. this is slightly causing steam to come out of my ears as my brain overloads. :-) but some thoughts are that dissociating you cannot consciously choose to do because the definition of dissociate is to "not associate" or keep the information separate. you can't remember remembering. on the other hand, part of your brain that you aren't aware of can initiate dissociating. (more steam out the ears.)

i go into a trance all of the time in therapy. drives me crazy. but it's a way, i think, that i reassociate material. i don't always retain it, but it comes further forward in my recall.

i think when you are in a conversation or event that is painful and you get yourself to listen while "being somewhere else" that this is self hypnosis of sorts. it would be "dissociation" if in the process you failed to recall part of the event or emotion from that event. but it wouldn't be something you chose to do.

now this gets totally skewed and confusing with DID, so i won't even attempt to explain that because it would put more holes in my denial system that i need right now. :-)

meditation involves focusing. it may include self hypnosis of sorts. but typically and generally it involves focusing on a particular issue in order to mull it around in your head or master it or relate to it. i think of it as meditation being an action; self hypnosis is a state.

now i'm really confused. :-) <giggle>
~terra


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