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FRACTALS, HEALING, AND HYPNOSIS

REGINALD B. HUMPHREYS, PH.D.

Self-similarity
Recursiveness
Scalability
Attractors
Turbulence
Percolation

ELEMENTS OF "VISUAL" HYPNOSIS

QUALITIES THAT MAKE A FRACTAL (OR ANY VISUAL) COMPELLING OR FASCINATING

COMPELLING FORM
CENTRALITY
VERTICES
ATTRACTORS

OPTICAL QUALITIES

TRANSPARENCY = WATER, LIQUIDS, GLASS & CRYSTAL, (PLASTIC)

LIGHT REFRACTION (GLASS REFRACTION) = GLASS & CRYSTAL, LIQUIDS

REFLECTIVITY = MIRRORS, METALLIC SURFACES

LIGHT - ILLUMINATION, SHININESS, GLOW

COLOR - WAVELENGTH

MOVEMENT

LINEAR = NONCOMPELLING
NONLINEAR, DYNAMICAL, FRACTAL = COMPELLING

ANIMATED FRACTALS

PSEUDO-MOVEMENT (PSEUDO-ANIMATION) CREATED BY ALTERNATIONS OF SCALE - "SCALE OSCILLATIONS"

THE RATE OF SCALE OSCILLATIONS MUST OPTIMALLY:

DISRUPT TYPICAL "LINEAR" COGNITIVE PROCESSING

CONTINUOUSLY STIMULATE ORIENTING/REORIENTING COGNITIONS & STATE OF BRAIN AND AUTONOMIC NS

ENTRAIN NEUROBIOLOGICAL RHYTHYMS, FOSTER AUTONOMIC COHERENCE, CORTICAL INTEGRATION (BRAIN COHERENCE)

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