AUTHORITATIVE SERIES: ARTICLE #19
Rewriting Reality: Hypnosis, Anomalies, and the Simulation We Call the Body
What if your body isn't fixed — but programmable?
By Troy Robins, Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist | OxfordHypnotherapyClinic.co.uk
|
Introduction: A Shift in Perspective
Most people turn to hypnosis for help with anxiety, quitting smoking, or sleeping better. And it works — often where nothing else does. But every now and then, something happens in a session that defies explanation. A physical change. A lasting shift. A result that seems impossible — unless we rethink what reality is made of. What if your body isn’t a fixed object… but a system responding to information? What if hypnosis doesn’t “trick” the brain — but edits the code the body runs on? The deeper you look, the stranger (and more exciting) it gets. |
|
Five Documented Anomalies That Break the Rules
Let’s start with what we can see. The following examples aren’t magic tricks or spiritual claims. They’re real-world, peer-reviewed cases where hypnosis triggered measurable changes — sometimes physical, sometimes neurological, sometimes both.
1. Breast Enlargement Using Hypnosis and Visualization
In two separate studies in the 1970s, researchers used guided imagery under hypnosis to help women visualise warmth, blood flow, and expansion in the breast tissue.
Over 12 weeks, participants saw statistically significant increases in size — some moving up two bra sizes.
📚 Sources: Willard (1977); Staib & Logan (1977), Journal of the American Society of Psychosomatic Dentistry and Medicine
2. Color Perception Changed in the Brain
In brain-scan studies using PET imaging, hypnotised participants were told that a black-and-white image was in colour.
The visual cortex lit up exactly as if they were seeing full colour.
The mind wasn’t pretending — it was processing reality differently.
🧠 Source: Kosslyn et al. (2000), American Journal of Psychiatry
3. Brain Surgery Without Anaesthetic — Just Hypnosis
In 2024, two patients at Flinders Medical Centre in Australia underwent open-skull neurosurgery using hypnosis instead of general anaesthesia.
They stayed awake, pain-free, and calm during eight-hour procedures.
🏥 Source: AdelaideNow, April 2024
4. 94% Reduction in Hot Flashes
A prostate cancer patient at Baylor University experienced a 94% drop in hot flash episodes after just seven weeks of hypnotherapy.
No medication. No hormones. Just targeted suggestion and deep relaxation.
🌡 Source: TIME Magazine Health Report (2014)
5. Unexpected Healing & Immune Shifts
While harder to quantify, there are documented cases of:
What If We're Living in a Simulation?
Stay with me.
Simulation theory isn’t science fiction anymore. Philosophers, technologists, and physicists have all posed the possibility that we live in a digital or informational system — where the universe behaves like a program, not a machine.
In that context, your body isn’t fixed — it’s rendered, moment by moment, based on instructions.
When you introduce a new suggestion in hypnosis — like “this hand is warm,” or “you are safe now,” or “your body can sleep peacefully” — you’re not just influencing a thought.
You’re rewriting the instruction layer.
The Mind as Programmer, Not Passenger
We’ve been taught that the mind rides inside the body like a passenger in a vehicle.
But these results suggest something radically different: The body follows the mind — not the other way around.
This is why hypnotherapy works when everything else fails. It doesn’t treat symptoms. It doesn’t fight the body.
It goes upstream — straight to the informational patterns that govern how you feel, how you heal, and how you behave.
What This Means for You
You don’t have to believe we’re in a simulation to benefit.
The point is this: you’re not stuck.
It may not be a permanent flaw in your hardware. It may just be a stubborn line of code — and code can be rewritten.
Hypnotherapy doesn’t overwrite who you are. It just helps reboot the programs that no longer serve you.
Want to Try Reprogramming?
You don’t have to understand hypnosis to experience it. You just need an open mind and a willingness to explore what’s possible.
Book a free 15-minute consultation today and let’s talk about what you want to change — or create — in your life.
Let’s start with what we can see. The following examples aren’t magic tricks or spiritual claims. They’re real-world, peer-reviewed cases where hypnosis triggered measurable changes — sometimes physical, sometimes neurological, sometimes both.
1. Breast Enlargement Using Hypnosis and Visualization
In two separate studies in the 1970s, researchers used guided imagery under hypnosis to help women visualise warmth, blood flow, and expansion in the breast tissue.
Over 12 weeks, participants saw statistically significant increases in size — some moving up two bra sizes.
📚 Sources: Willard (1977); Staib & Logan (1977), Journal of the American Society of Psychosomatic Dentistry and Medicine
2. Color Perception Changed in the Brain
In brain-scan studies using PET imaging, hypnotised participants were told that a black-and-white image was in colour.
The visual cortex lit up exactly as if they were seeing full colour.
The mind wasn’t pretending — it was processing reality differently.
🧠 Source: Kosslyn et al. (2000), American Journal of Psychiatry
3. Brain Surgery Without Anaesthetic — Just Hypnosis
In 2024, two patients at Flinders Medical Centre in Australia underwent open-skull neurosurgery using hypnosis instead of general anaesthesia.
They stayed awake, pain-free, and calm during eight-hour procedures.
🏥 Source: AdelaideNow, April 2024
4. 94% Reduction in Hot Flashes
A prostate cancer patient at Baylor University experienced a 94% drop in hot flash episodes after just seven weeks of hypnotherapy.
No medication. No hormones. Just targeted suggestion and deep relaxation.
🌡 Source: TIME Magazine Health Report (2014)
5. Unexpected Healing & Immune Shifts
While harder to quantify, there are documented cases of:
- Rapid post-surgical healing
- Reduced allergic responses
- Improved immune markers Some cancer support programs even report long-term remissions linked to hypnosis and deep imagery. The evidence isn’t always clinical — but the patterns are hard to ignore.
What If We're Living in a Simulation?
Stay with me.
Simulation theory isn’t science fiction anymore. Philosophers, technologists, and physicists have all posed the possibility that we live in a digital or informational system — where the universe behaves like a program, not a machine.
In that context, your body isn’t fixed — it’s rendered, moment by moment, based on instructions.
- Hypnosis isn’t magic.
- It’s code input.
- And the subconscious mind is the operating system.
When you introduce a new suggestion in hypnosis — like “this hand is warm,” or “you are safe now,” or “your body can sleep peacefully” — you’re not just influencing a thought.
You’re rewriting the instruction layer.
The Mind as Programmer, Not Passenger
We’ve been taught that the mind rides inside the body like a passenger in a vehicle.
But these results suggest something radically different: The body follows the mind — not the other way around.
This is why hypnotherapy works when everything else fails. It doesn’t treat symptoms. It doesn’t fight the body.
It goes upstream — straight to the informational patterns that govern how you feel, how you heal, and how you behave.
What This Means for You
You don’t have to believe we’re in a simulation to benefit.
The point is this: you’re not stuck.
- That habit you can’t shake?
- That fear that keeps flaring up?
- That sleep problem, pain issue, or emotional block?
It may not be a permanent flaw in your hardware. It may just be a stubborn line of code — and code can be rewritten.
Hypnotherapy doesn’t overwrite who you are. It just helps reboot the programs that no longer serve you.
Want to Try Reprogramming?
You don’t have to understand hypnosis to experience it. You just need an open mind and a willingness to explore what’s possible.
Book a free 15-minute consultation today and let’s talk about what you want to change — or create — in your life.