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The Divine Sleep: How Ancient Temples, Hypnosis & Your Subconscious Mind Hold the Key to Healing Love · A Capture Deep Vibs A Positive Space For Inspiration And Embracing Of Heart

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Speaker 1: The term hypnosis comes from the ancient Greek word hypnos,
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Speaker 1: which means to sleep. Avicenna, a Persian physician, was one
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Speaker 1: of the first to describe hypnosis. He believed that a
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Speaker 1: strong personality or soul could influence others via hypnotism. In Greece,
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Speaker 1: there were sleep temples named Asclepions in honor of the
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Speaker 1: Greek god of medicine, Asclepius. Here, patients underwent incubation or
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Speaker 1: sleeping in a sacred place in the hopes of receiving
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Speaker 1: a divinely inspired dream or cure. There's evidence of hypnosis
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Speaker 1: nearly 5,000 years ago in ancient Egypt. People would enter
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Speaker 1: sleep temples where they ingested herbs and recited hours of
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Speaker 1: rhythmic prayer in an attempt to be cured of whatever
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Speaker 1: was ailing them. Scottish surgeon James Braid was the first
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Speaker 1: to coin the word hypnotism in the 1840s. A person
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Speaker 1: cannot be hypnotized against their will. Some people have higher
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Speaker 1: hypnotic suggestibility or susceptibility to hypnosis. Everyone experiences trance-like hypnosis
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Speaker 1: every day, such as when we are daydreaming, in deep thought,
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Speaker 1: or watching a movie.