Mindfulness and Concentrative Meditation: The Twain Meets Hypnosis

Presented by Akira Otani, EdD, ABPH

Friday, August 11, 2023

9am-10:30am PT/ 11am-12:30pm CT/ 12pm-1:30pm ET

Event held online via Zoom, link to access provided upon registration.

Mindfulness has become an established paradigm in healthcare over the last 40 years. As its popularity grew, questions
began emerging about the nature of mindfulness, its relative efficacy to similar intervention strategies, safety, and, most
interestingly, its relationship to hypnosis. How does mindfulness resemble and differ from hypnosis? Despite the
educated speculations, this issue has yet to be clarified from conceptual, neurophysiological, and procedural
perspectives.
This webinar will examine these topics with clinicians in mind who are interested in integrating mindfulness with
hypnosis. To achieve this goal, the Buddhist meditation texts will be analyzed to elucidate the two fundamental
methodologies underlying mindfulness meditation. It will clarify that the contemporary mindfulness practice has
capitalized on only one method (i.e., open monitoring) while ignoring the other approach (i.e., focused attention). This
webinar will illuminate the close resemblance between focused-attention mindfulness and hypnosis.
The session will include the Touch-and-Return demonstration of mindfulness to facilitate the attendant’s experiential
grasp of the two mindfulness meditation methods. This easy mindfulness protocol utilizes the open-monitoring
procedure described in the classical Buddhist meditation texts. It also allows an application for trance induction.

Zoom link will be available on course page in “My Courses” upon event registration. 

This program, when attended in its entirety, offers 1.5 CEs for Psychologists, 1.5 IL CEUS for Counselors and Social Workers, or 1.5 BBS California CEUs for LPCCs, LPSW, and LMFTs