PSYCHOLOGY – Techniques make it possible to enter this particular state… with therapeutic virtues as a result!
At the evocation of a trance, some imagine drum rolls and a frenzied dance. This is what Corine Sombrun, author of The Diagonal of Joy (ed. Albin Michel) during a report on shamanism in Mongolia. But you don’t have to go that far to experience trance: “This altered state of consciousness can be achieved by most people with a normally functioning central nervous system,” assures Dr. Silvia Morar, neurosurgeon responsible for the Reference Center for syringomyelia (disease of the spinal cord causing chronic pain and paralysis, at the CHU Kremlin-Bicêtre, Paris) and co-author of Practice deep hypnosis (ed. Dunod). Trance for all, really?
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Going into a trance has nothing to do with what it feels like to daydream (what neuroscientists call the brain’s default mode functioning, which feeds the imagination, builds the ego, anticipates the future …
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