Comments on: Are Mindfulness Meditation and Self-Hypnosis The Same or Different? https://adam-eason.com/mindfulness-meditation-self-hypnosis-different/ Hypnosis, Hypnotherapy and Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherpy as taught by Hypnotherapist Adam Eason Thu, 25 May 2017 04:17:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Matthew https://adam-eason.com/mindfulness-meditation-self-hypnosis-different/#comment-38724 Thu, 25 May 2017 04:17:17 +0000 http://adam-eason.com/?p=25819#comment-38724 I do agree with you that it can often come down to subjective experience. I currently use mindfulness with many of my hypnotherapy clients and the majority can really see changes in their stress response following regular use of the audio program that I provide them. A very good point about the dichotomy between needing to do nothing in mindfulness other than be a witness and being highly directed in hypnosis. I can certainly see benefits from a two pronged approach with my clients.

]]> By: Linda Bromage https://adam-eason.com/mindfulness-meditation-self-hypnosis-different/#comment-38719 Wed, 24 May 2017 14:01:53 +0000 http://adam-eason.com/?p=25819#comment-38719 Adam writes:
“For me, there are numerous other differences, primarily phenomenological, but I am resisting writing about them here as that would be purely subjective and not really the type of thing that would stand up to academic scrutiny necessarily”

Phenomenological research has largely been marginalized by North American psychology and social sciences. The necessity for producing ‘hard’, evidence-based research, along the lines of the medical model with randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and a single discovered ‘truth’, fundamentally contradicts the ‘condensation’ of experiences of everyone involved in an event, and all their different levels of experience, to come to a greater truth. Modern developments in phenomenology, particularly in the field of research in psychology and psychotherapy, include … the Duquesne school of empirical phenomenology; the post-Lewinian method of ‘conceptual encounter’ developed by Joseph de Rivera; and the existential phenomenological investigations of R.D. Laing and others. R.D. Laing’s and Claire Petitmengin ‘s phenomenological research into schizophrenia is seminal.

A modern development of CBT that is being called ‘Mindfulness’ practice emphasizes this ‘being-ness’ in the world, in the moment (Kabat-Zinn et al., 2002). And is a phenomenological perspective. It is an almost direct ‘lifting’ of an ancient (2,500 year old) Zen Buddhist practice that is now being woven into CBT.

The cognitivist hypothesis of Jackendoff proposes cognition consists of unconscious symbolic computation and conscious experience- or pnemoenological mind.
To refer to Stewart Baldwin’s post on embodied cognition therefore, this cannot be understood without phenomenology. This neurophenomenolgy is well documented by Sean Gallagher and Francisco Varela among others. Nor can any aspect of truly understanding hypnosis- for it is a subjective experience

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