And my first subject was myself, I had bad asthma so I worked on myself with hypnosis. It took a long time til I realised I used to get asthma every time there was a threat to me in terms of having to take responsibility for anything. I traced it back to my dad who I found out later wasn’t my dad but that‘s another story.

I could never please him, so I just gave up. So in my mind was ambiguated the thought that it’s no use, trying to do anything, it’s not going to work so whenever responsibility was thrust upon me I recoiled. So I worked on that and I haven’t had asthma since and that was way back in the 50’s.

Chris :
And you were telling me a story earlier about a boy who you cured of asthma, what was the story behind that ?

Bryan :
Well that was much later, that was here in Adelaide. This boy was referred to me by a physician, he had bad asthma. He’d been to a psychiatrist and found that there was no trauma that could be identified and as you know one of the biggest problems with hypnosis, as was practiced way back then, was they looked at the symptoms rather than the cause of them and we couldn’t get any communication going between any child that trauma had existed in the first 18 months of life.

So we invented or tried out the possibility of using dreams as a means of communication by symbols because we thought in symbols a long time before we ever had verbal communication. So he dreamt that night of the cause of his asthma and the dream was that he was a snake in a hole and a crocodile had him by the head and was shaking him and he knew he was going to die and that was the symbolism of a very, very torrid birth trauma which was the cause of his asthma.

So in the same language that he used in his dreams we told him the crocodile was long since gone and he didn’t have to worry about that anymore that he could be free of his symptoms etc which was the case and as a result of that we had a series of 33 asthmatics sent along by various doctors. One of the persons referred was a hockey player friend of mine and we got rid of that which sparked other doctors to be interested.

Anyway we had 33 asthmatics and over a 6 year period 27 of them never had another asthma attack. That was monitored by their doctors, I have nothing to do with their statistics. 3 dropped out because of geographical changes that sort of thing, moving, and of the other 3 one of them had one attack of asthma and the other two had mild attacks that trailed off.

So when you hear the medicos say that asthma has no cure, don’t believe them.

Chris :
Do you still work with physicians and medics?

Bryan :
No. Most of the ones unfortunately….I had a heart attack some time ago and I retired from full time practice so I lecture now and as you know I’m coming to your country in June this year. But I rarely see patients.

In fact I don’t want to see patients and having said that I have one tomorrow. But I don’t want to get back into full time practice or even part time practice again. But I do enjoy passing on all the results of all those years of experimentation and that’s starting to accumulate so that’s where I’m at.
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