| For most, mind over muscle conjures up visions of fire | | | | Under the heightened suggestible state of hypnosis, |
| walkers, voodoo and yogi buried alive for days in | | | | intense rigidity or contractions can be produced, for |
| trance like states. Hypnosis, for example, produces | | | | example the stage trick wherein the subject is |
| some striking phenomena, with actual changes of the | | | | stretched between two chairs supported only by the |
| muscular system. Groups of isolated muscles can be | | | | head and ankles and yet in this unbending state he can |
| easily put into a state of paralysis by suggestion and | | | | support one or more people standing on his mid |
| as easily released. Strangely enough, the paralysis | | | | section. In the normal waken state, the individual would |
| always takes the form or idea as suggested to the | | | | refuse to attempt the stunt, believing himself too weak, |
| patient and rarely the actual anatomical distribution of | | | | but under hypnosisr with all inhibitions removed he is |
| the nerve supply. | | | | able to exert his full muscular power. |