When a person consults us and requests a hypnosis session, for example, for a difficulty in taking action, we often suggest the following exercise: “Let your thoughts join your body”. The person closes his or her eyes, gently enters the hypnotic trance and experiences the unification of mind and body. Their thoughts are incorporated. The mind needs the body to find its measure, and the body needs the mind to take action.
This exercise illustrates the cultural difference between the West and the Far East. In the West, we have favored the desire to understand and analyze everything. In the Far East and Japan, the art of gesture, engraving and relational weaving has developed. After centuries of isolation and division, a strong curiosity has grown in Europe over the last few decades about the contribution of Japanese practices.
The author of this book, Bruno Bréchemier, invites us to a dance between hypnosis and Japanese culture. His intention is to prove that these two approaches are complementary and help us find our balance. The author confronts us with numerous situations that he has explored with passion. Calligraphy, body posture, silence, Shinto and the tea ceremony are a mine of metaphors that invite us to incorporate our thoughts into a gesture that makes us exist. Hypnosis is this natural physiological function which, likewise, resorts to metaphors to reach, through imagined and felt movement, a body that acts to free itself from a dominant mind.
Immerse yourself calmly and simply in this book, let its depth capture you, and you’ll feel the benefits of all the insights provided by the author.
Dr. Jean-Marc Benhaiem, Director of the DU Hypnose médicale at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris