All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher. Receiving suggestions while in a hypnotic trance has often proven even more powerful. Michael Schmicker , Best Evidence , Part 4 British medical research, for example, has confirmed that if a doctor suggests that a patient will get well quickly, such patients improve faster than patients who weren't given such optimistic forecasts. The patient's belief in the doctor's words.
Belief can sometimes even change bad medicine into good.
Krippner cites a study where a group of people with upset stomachs were given a medicine actually designed to worsen their nausea, but were told it would help their stomachs. Receiving suggestions while in a hypnotic trance has often proven even more powerful. The power of the mind while in a hypnotic trance has been used to successfully treat a number of physical and mental conditions. Hypnosis is now considered part of mainstream medical practice. Its acceptance by Science can make us forget that hypnosis used for medical intervention is really a form of mental healing.