as a bar of steel. Following this, a suggestion is given
that the hand is beginning to tingle and become numb. As soon as the
numbness has spread through the entire hand, it will be insensible to
pain. The hand is then placed against the part of the body where pain
exists, and you will feel the numbness flowing from the hand to the
affected area. This happens as a result of your suggestions and is the
method followed by most subjects. Only a deep somnambulistic subject is
able to remove pain by direct suggestion to the painful part.

There are many people today using self-hypnosis in the realm of sports,
and an entire book has been written on improving one's golf game with
this method. It is called _How You Can Play Better Golf Using
Self-Hypnosis_ by Jack Heise (Wilshire Book Company--Publishers).

Dr. Huber Grimm, team physician of the Seattle University basketball
team, recently related the results when Dave Mills, a six-foot five-inch
junior forward, asked for his help because he "froze" during
competition. He had been benched on the eve of the West Coast Athletic
Conference tournament in San Francisco. Spectators made Mills so fearful
that he was afraid he would make mistakes--and in this frame of mind, of
course, he did. Under hypnosis, Dr. Grimm suggested to Dave that he
would be unaware of the spectators, be completely relaxed and would play
exceedingly well. Dr. Grimm asked coach Vince Cazzeta to allow Dave to
play and the result was astounding. Mills scored 60 points and cleared
63 re-bounds, and his brilliant play led to his selection on the
all-tournament team.

"All I did was free his spirit," Dr. Grimm reported. "He was in need of
confidence, and I gave it to him through hypnosis." The Associated Press
told the story as follows: "Dave Mills, a vacuum cleaner off the
back-boards, led a fast-breaking Seattle University team to victory last
night. It was hard to recognize Mills as the same player who has been
with the Chieftains all year."

Dr. William S. Kroger, a pioneer in hypnosis, undertook to improve the
batting of a professional baseball player with equally sensational
results. The player had been "beaned," and his fear of a recurrence was
so strong that he became "plate shy." He had changed his batting stance
so that he always had "one foot in the bucket" so that he could back
away from the plate more quickly. He was given a posthypnotic suggestion
that such an event happening again was exceedingl