http://ukhypnosis.com/2009/03/11/james-braid-on-hypnotic-meditation/ Hypnotherapy training courses and workshops in the UK. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:15:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://ukhypnosis.com/2009/03/11/james-braid-on-hypnotic-meditation/comment-page-1/#comment-33 Lindsay Smith Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:32:15 +0000 http://ukhypnosis.wordpress.com/?p=52#comment-33 In 2002 my wife & I went to visit friends in Mombai. I'd said to Varnie on the phone that I wanted to hear some Indian Music & visit a Meditation Centre. Varnie arranged for her sister-in-law who was from a famous family of musicians to visit her home parent's home & sing a hindu hymn for us. After that Varnie's elderly mother took me with Varnie's daughter, dressed in shorts & looking like a tomboy to go to the Raja Yoga Centre. I was shown around by an instructor, a lady in white sari with a Masters Degree in Psychotherapy who had quit working in a clinic because she said that she had brought a few clients to the centre & 'doing raja yoga' had been much more effective than any other approach. I was taken to the main hall which had a 'target' in black & white rather like the bulleye discs that hypnotists used to use. I asked about the dogma, the music, how much? & so on. None of that. The only thing to do was to sit in silence & gaze @ the diagram. I was taken to a small room with a dozen or so people seated on benches all gazing @ a smaller version of the diagram & I joined them for a while. The instructor later said that if people benefitted they were welcome to give their time or donations to the centre. My wife is Malayalee, born in Singapore & raised a Catholic. St Thomas went to South India in the first century. When Europeans 'found' the sea route to India they were surprised to find Christians already there. In 2002 my wife & I went to visit friends in Mombai. I’d said to Varnie on the phone that I wanted to hear some Indian Music & visit a Meditation Centre. Varnie arranged for her sister-in-law who was from a famous family of musicians to visit her home parent’s home & sing a hindu hymn for us. After that Varnie’s elderly mother took me with Varnie’s daughter, dressed in shorts & looking like a tomboy to go to the Raja Yoga Centre. I was shown around by an instructor, a lady in white sari with a Masters Degree in Psychotherapy who had quit working in a clinic because she said that she had brought a few clients to the centre & ‘doing raja yoga’ had been much more effective than any other approach. I was taken to the main hall which had a ‘target’ in black & white rather like the bulleye discs that hypnotists used to use. I asked about the dogma, the music, how much? & so on. None of that. The only thing to do was to sit in silence & gaze @ the diagram. I was taken to a small room with a dozen or so people seated on benches all gazing @ a smaller version of the diagram & I joined them for a while. The instructor later said that if people benefitted they were welcome to give their time or donations to the centre. My wife is Malayalee, born in Singapore & raised a Catholic. St Thomas went to South India in the first century. When Europeans ‘found’ the sea route to India they were surprised to find Christians already there.

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