Electrified Sleep: Cure Your Diseases While Sleeping?

The electropsychometer is an electronic development used by mental therapists to locate and interpret the emotional patterns of the patient. It is a supersensitive and highly accurate electronic device that consistently differentiates between pleasant and painful emotions

. It has two dials, or meters. One meter reads the subject's psychophysical, or general, tone level and is only slightly affected by emotional impulses. The other indicator, the surge meter, registers the state of activity of the central nervous system. While the patient holds in one hand an electrode connected to the electropsychometer, the operator directs suggestions and questions to him. Any resistance, agreement, or reaction of the patient is immediately reflected by the surge needle, and the end result is muscular tension plus psychogalvanic reflex response. Through equipment of this nature it is easy to observe and analyze accurately how a person is accepting questions or reacting to statements posed to him.

In developing techniques for determining and stabilizing the levels of subconscious perception best suited to sleep learning, the electropsychometer clearly defines the extremities of conscious resistance, areas of subconscious awareness (transitional sleep state), and levels of unconsciousness or natural sleep.

It is interesting to observe a subject who is holding the electrode and listening to suggestions of relaxation. If he is in complete agreement with any remarks and suggestions, the surge needle will so indicate. Should he be told that he is quite sound asleep, he will (if not asleep) naturally resist the remark that he recognizes as untrue. This mental resistance cannot be consciously controlled by the patient or concealed from electropsychometric registration! Experiments have proved that such conscious resistance, even in the lower levels of awareness (drowsy state), rendered sleep learning almost valueless.

Suppose the same subject, while listening to continued suggestions of relaxation, drifts below the conscious level of thought. The same suggestion that he is sound asleep will not affect the surge meter now, for subconsciously he knows and agrees that his conscious mind is asleep. It is at these levels of perception that genius resides, where perfect recall and sleep learning is possible, and where suggestions are recorded, accepted, and vigorously enforced. Why?

As the electropsychometer so indicates, the suggestions received are not resisted or hindered by conscious thought.
If our subject is too relaxed to resist the suggestion that he is sound asleep, will he not be too relaxed to react to any type of suggestion made to him? No. Remarks that stimulate the emotions, or perhaps questions that might offend moral or religious ethics, generate strong emotional reactions and will register on the surge meter at subconscious levels.

Now, what if these moral, religious, or other controversial statements are made to the same person after he drops into natural sleep? Nothing occurs. In the unconscious sleep state (existing below subconscious awareness), the surge meter remains inactive regardless of the nature or type of statement received. In unconscious sleep the mind still records all sounds and suggestions, but for all practical purposes involving memory recall these levels are un-suited for sleep education.

With the electropsychometer as a guide, certain techniques were evolved and eventually standardized. These suggestions, recorded on tape, guide the consciousness to the desired level of transitional sleep. The phrasing of the recordings has been so selected, correlated, and timed as to stabilize subconscious perception at the optimum level for maximum benefits.

Through electropsychometric instrumentation it is easy to assess one's degree of faith or certainty on almost any subject. Since this instrument interprets subconscious attitudes, its readings reflect true belief with unerring accuracy.

We will cite an interesting case in which the electropsychometer was employed to determine the degree of certainty present (ASRF Clinic, Miami, Fla., 1957).
Mrs. G., age 55, a telephone operator, had suffered from weeping eczema for five years. Mrs. G. stated that the condition was steadily spreading over her body and had resisted X-ray and all other medical treatment. With the electropsychometer as a guide to Mrs. G.'s attitudes, we questioned her about her condition.

A high degree of doubt registered when it was suggested that her eczema would clear very soon. Various other questions relative to her condition and possible cure indicated that Mrs. G.'s strong "doubt factor" was most likely aggravating her problem.

On the following day, the same questions were repeated, this time under mild hypnosis. The readings now indicated the subject's threshold of doubt to be considerably lower under hypnosis than it was the previous day. The depth of hypnosis was then increased and the suggestions that she would soon recover were again repeated.

At this increased depth of relaxation the factor of doubt was missing, and meter readings registered Mrs. G.'s complete agreement with suggestions of imminent recovery. Firm suggestions were then given to her subconscious mind that a complete elimination of the skin eruption was to be achieved within one week. This concept, complete with time element, was repeated once more under hypnosis the
following day. Within one week Mrs. G.'s skin was completely clear.

Mrs. G., in her first interview, frankly despaired of achieving relief from her skin problem. Strong doubt is normally present in physical conditions of long standing, the persistence of the problem adds fuel to the doubt of recovery, and the additional doubt, in turn, further aggravates the condition.

This downward spiralling combination of negative factors operates independently of the conscious mind and, as in Mrs. G.'s case, contributes to an attitude of general despair. When the doubt factor gains sufficient strength to produce chronic conditions, health impairment is difficult to reduce or even control through the use of will power alone.

It is well to note that, during hypnosis or deep relaxation in which the conscious awareness is reduced, the doubt factor may be altered by direct suggestions to the subconscious mind. With doubt banished the conceptual seed of recovery can germinate, develop, and soon bear fruit.

While Mrs. G. was under hypnosis the idea of imminent recovery was implanted. She also gave verbal agreement, under hypnosis, to the following conditions: that she was certain of complete recovery within one week; that she would, in the future, visualize her skin as healthy and perfectly clear; and that within one week all evidence of eczema would be completely gone, never to return. Since Mrs. G. was in deep hypnosis, she had no recollection of this procedure after she awakened. When again questioned in the waking state, she felt positive that she would soon recover, a complete reversal of her earlier opinion.

Another point of interest was present in this case, that of faith. Although Mrs. G. experienced full recovery from a chronic, disagreeable skin condition, she confessed later that a question of religious faith was causing her anxiety. Mrs. G. was deeply religious, and for three years many special prayer services by members of her congregation were devoted to her physical recovery, all to no avail. This failure of prayer was interpreted by Mrs. G. to mean that she must be unworthy and was being punished by God in this manner.

This example is typical of all prayers that remain unanswered. They are not answered because an element of doubt remains. What Mrs. G. and many others do not understand is that faith and belief cannot be forced; they are products of the subconscious and ordinarily resist the power of will to produce.