Advanced Hypnosis and Self Hypnosis
Learn how to hypnotize yourself and others
A step-by-step guide to hypnosis with
more than 60 practical exercises
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Part I (Lessons 1 - 6)
Introduction
Foreword
Hypnosis Forum
Lesson 1
Hypnosis is only technique
Download the Hypnosis Pendulum Board
The Chevreul Pendulum
The first basic exercise (Chevreul's Pendulum)
Why the pendulum swings
The second basic exercise
The task-oriented ideomotor system
The third basic exercise
Dynamic ideas take effect on schedule
Tips on successful self-study
Lesson 2
The Carpenter effect
What are “ideomotor actions”?
The fourth basic exercise
The difference between thoughts and visualization
The subconscious or “ideomotor system”
Additional basic exercises
Clear basic terms
A new term: “videe”
Lesson 3
The first suggestion exercise
Systematically finding test people
Suggestion exercises when awake
What suggestion exercises are all about
Basic rules for suggestion exercises
The second suggestion exercise
The dynamics of gestures
Lesson 4
What happens during suggestion exercises
Deprivation of personal liberty through hypnosis and suggestion
The third suggestion exercise
The dynamic moment during your exercises
The core problem of the suggestion technique
Lesson 5
The fourth suggestion exercise
What to do if hypnosis occurs during suggestion exercises
How to form suggestions with words
The fifth suggestion exercise
Is a hypnotic gaze necessary?
The diversity of expression
The sixth suggestion exercise
The advisable sequence of exercises
Lesson 6
The theory of movement
Putting theory into practice
The seventh suggestion exercise
The transition to hypnosis techniques
The eighth suggestion exercise
Part II (Lessons 7 - 12)
Lesson 7
The first hypnosis experiment
The first hypnosis test
The simple wake-up method
A wake-up formula for deep hypnosis
A simple method to deepen hypnosis
Lesson 8
The second hypnosis experiment (a quick method)
The theory of hypnosis
The mysterious physiological hypnosis process
Hypnosis and the human gender function
Systematic hypnosis – now possible
Lesson 9
Two types of hypnosis
1. Indirect hypnosis
2. Direct hypnosis
The only difficulty with hypnosis
How this single difficulty is removed
The third hypnosis experiment
Lesson 10
Successful hypnosis in three stages
The fourth hypnosis experiment
Fast hypnosis or deep hypnosis
The difference between hypnosis and sleep
The role of belief in hypnosis
Lesson 11
Hypnosis changes a person
An effective method of deepening hypnosis
How to discover your own method of hypnosis
Adapting to the test person
The fifth hypnosis experiment
The theory of the fixation method
Lesson 12
Work scientifically
There are many methods of hypnosis
Repetition of the basics
The theoretical foundations of the hypnosis technique
The practical foundations of the hypnosis technique
Effective self-study and self-training
Part III (Lessons 13 - 18)
Lesson 13
The theory of hypnosis experiments
Important factors in hypnosis experiments
An informative experiment
Videes also have a post-hypnosis effect
Suggestions while awake and suggestions under hypnosis
Lesson 14
Hypnosis experiments
Safety during experiments
Confirmation of suggestions
Numerous possibilities for experimentation
The basics of simple hypnosis experiments
Lesson 15
Further experiments: Illusions
The post-hypnosis effect
Post-hypnosis experiments
Lesson 16
Secondary hypnosis in split seconds
The test person’s safety
Past memories in hypnosis
The famous “cataleptic bridge”
Removing sensitivity to pain
Lesson 17
What to do when individual experiments fail
A way of achieving very deep hypnosis
Hypnosis demonstrations for a private audience
The test person speaks under hypnosis
Leaving the eyes open during hypnosis
Illusion experiments with open eyes
Lesson 18
Illusion experiments in deep hypnosis
Interesting additional possibilities for experimentation
1. Personality change
2. Post-hypnosis illusions
3. Experiments for doctors
Part IV (Lessons 19 - 24)
Lesson 19
What fast hypnosis is
The simple immediate hypnosis
The safe three point immediate hypnosis
An American fast method
Speed hypnosis (ultra fast method)
Other fast methods
Lesson 20
Light hypnosis and hypnoidisation
The depth of hypnosis scale
Hypnoidisation in daily life
Hypnoidal suggestions
The collective person and the individual
Lesson 21
Subliminal suggestion (speed suggestion)
Why subliminal suggestions work so well
Subliminal hypnosis
Suggestions during natural sleep
Hypnotizing out of natural sleep
Hypnotizing children out of sleep
Hypnosis equipment and hypnosis devices
The skills of the proper hypnotist
Lesson 22
Magic and modern hypnosis techniques
The technique of modern audio equipment hypnosis
Audio equipment as proof of modern hypnosis theories
Hypnotizing step by step
Hypnotizing difficult test people
The test person’s safety (wake up reflex)
Lesson 23
Hypnotizing several test people simultaneously
Experiments with a group of several people
Mass hypnosis
Animal hypnosis and human hypnosis
What do hypnosis and telepathy have in common?
The fundamental secret of successful hypnosis
Lesson 24
One of the most interesting hypnosis experiments
How can I earn money as a hypnotist?
Hypnosis heals --- Hypnosis helps
Possibilities for applying hypnosis in practice
Part V (Lessons 25 - 30)
Lesson 25
The extended ideomotor principle
Strengthening ideomotor actions through suggestion
A surprising suggestion exercise (hand levitation)
Improving suggestion exercises through videe aids
Increasing suggestive effects through videe movements
Rules for the best results from suggestion exercises
Lesson 26
The second ideomotor exercise (arm levitation)
Automatically folding hands
Slow and fast suggestion exercises
An exercise with opposing arm movements
Effective preliminary training for suggestion exercises
Lesson 27
Induction effect during suggestion exercises
Suggestion exercises on the street
The reciprocal attraction of hands
Hand closing exercise with folded hands
The opposing efforts effect
Hand closing exercise above the head
Lesson 28
What is monoidealism?
The suggested eye closure as a test of perfection
The arm becomes stiff through suggestion
Three suggestion exercises with objects
Not being able to hold an object
Not being able to release an object
Not being able to touch an object
Lesson 29
What can be achieved with suggestion exercises?
The TP cannot move from the spot
The TP can no longer sit down
The TP can no longer stand up
Forced responses as suggestion exercises
Lesson 30
The proper hypnotist and the suggestion technique
The formula for 100 suggestion exercises
Feeling of warmth through suggestion
Pain sensitivity through suggestions
Proof of far-reaching suggestion effects
Part VI (Lessons 31 - 36)
Lesson 31
The proper hypnotist
Ideomotoric hypnosis methods
Hand and arm levitation as a method of hypnosis
Automatic hand folding as a method of hypnosis
Deepening hypnosis by relaxing the hands
The index finger method of hypnosis
Lesson 32
Improved success in a first hypnosis
The 7 stages of first hypnosis
Preparation for first hypnosis
Carrying out a pre-hypnosis influence
Which methods are suitable for a first hypnosis?
Clear suggestions during a first hypnosis
Practical exercises during a first hypnosis
Suggestions to improve a second hypnosis
Lesson 33
Proven methods of hypnosis
The automatic occurrence of expectation hypnosis
The slow deepening of hypnosis
The modern placebo schedule method
The successful Ralph Slater method
Lesson 34
The method that Dr. Tracy prefers
A Dunninger method
The Arons three-stage method
The flashing light method
Technical advice on the flashing light
Lesson 35
Methods for difficult test people
Double hypnosis for difficult TPs
The dream method for difficult TPs
Fast methods for difficult TPs
A Dr. Gindes fast method
The fast falling method for difficult TPs
The self-increasing hypnosis for difficult TPs
Lesson 36
The expert stage of hypnosis technique
The best hypnosis method (feedback method)
The feedback method technique
Feedback of feelings outside of hypnosis
Feedback from suggestion effects
Feedback from the depth of hypnosis
Allowing for preconceived ideas about hypnosis
Part VII (Lessons 37 - 42)
Lesson 37
A measuring system to determine the depth of hypnosis
The LeCron-Bordeaux scale of depth of hypnosis
Practical use of the LeCron-Bordeaux scale
Exceptions to determining the depth of hypnosis
Special methods for deep hypnosis
Lesson 38
Eight different types of suggestion
Different types of hypnosis
Different theories of hypnosis
The Dr. Gindes HYPNOSIS FORMULA
Material views of hypnosis
The human being as an electronics system
Lesson 39
Excellent results with average TPs
How the best and deepest hypnoses succeed
Theoretical factors of success
The generalization of suggestion effects
The psychological moment of monoidealism
The changing identification
Voluntary passiveness
Lesson 40
Emile Coué’s doctrine of autosuggestion
Today’s view of Coué’s doctrine
From Coué to self-hypnosis
Self-hypnosis with the H. Arons pre-hypnosis suggestion
An audio device to give suggestions during self-hypnosis
The introduction of self-hypnosis through the audio device
Lesson 41
How deep should the self-hypnosis be?
The introduction of self-hypnosis by a hypnotist
Testing post-hypnosis produced self-hypnosis
Reinforcing post-hypnosis self-hypnosis
The practical use of self-hypnosis
Testing a pre-hypnosis suggestion
Practical suggestion formulas for self-hypnosis
Lesson 42
The core problem of experimental self-hypnosis
Rhodes's technique of self-hypnosis
Self-hypnosis in stages
Self-hypnosis through hyperventilation
Sound recording suggestions during normal sleep
Part VIII Lessons (43 - 48)
Lesson 43
The awake state of hypnosis.
The first attempt at awake hypnosis
Testing the awake state of hypnosis
First experiments with awake hypnosis
Transferring the complete state of hypnosis to the awake state
Which experiments are suitable for awake hypnosis?
Lesson 44
Real magic: awake state of hypnosis with a magic wand
Practical advice on reinforcing awake hypnosis
The awake self-hypnosis
The first attempt at awake self-hypnosis
Testing the awake self-hypnosis
The permanently effective awake self-hypnosis
The use of the permanently effective awake self-hypnosis
Lesson 45
Transfer of thoughts and transfer of consciousness
Examples of the transfer of consciousness in hypnosis
Improving hypnosis success through the transfer of consciousness
Interesting experiments with the transfer of consciousness
How experiments with the transfer of consciousness succeed
Is it possible to see the future through hypnosis?
Lesson 46
Aids for hypnotizing and hypnosis equipment
Hypnoscope, hypnotic crystal ball and hypnotic pendulum
Hypnodisc, hypnofix and hypnotic eyes
Radiometer, electric hypnotism machine and rotor mirror
Metronome, flashing metronome and audio rhythm player
The electronic brain wave synchronizer
Interesting facts about brain waves
Lesson 47
Interesting opportunities for applying hypnosis
Applying hypnosis in sport
The lay hypnotist in medicine
Examples for putting hypnosis to practical use
What it boils down to: how do I get the best out of it?
Lesson 48
The secret of all marvels
What purpose does real magic serve?
How can real magic be learned?
The magical effect factors
The purpose and goal of humans
Appendix
A TP can also be hypnotized against his/her will
The induction hypnosis method
The counter-hypnosis method
References
Further title recommendations
This book has a clear and well-defined goal: to provide a systematic self-study program that will teach you how to hypnotize successfully in any circumstances. To achieve this goal your full and active participation in the practical exercises included in this book, together with careful and thorough study of the individual lessons, will be essential.
In the following lessons you will learn everything you need to know and do in order to reach your goal quickly and reliably. To give you the best possible chance of achieving this, I have written this book to explain the theory behind hypnosis and suggestion in a new way, which makes it much more accessible and easier to put into practice.
So that both prospective and practicing hypnotists can receive answers to specific questions or exchange impressions of their first experiences, a hypnosis forum is especially available for you, which has been set up at the www.verlag4you.de website exclusively for “Modern Hypnosis Techniques”.
The forum is intended as a platform to give long term help in improving your knowledge and ability, and also to provide answers to any questions that newcomers might have.
And now I would like to wish you hours of fascinating study and great success in putting everything into practice.
Yours, Tony Gaschler (Author) |
It is a long accepted fact that your own experiences remain in your memory much better than anything you might read, and it is also a fact that you can only learn to hypnotize through practical experience and not simply by reading pamphlets and books. There are tens of thousands of people who have already read all the pam-phlets and books, but in reality only a very few can hypnotize properly.
This self-study method therefore follows a course of practical exercises. You are given certain instructions on how to do the exercises. You carry these out and learn from your own success. The consolidation of your theoretical knowledge only commences once you have gained some experience from the exercises.
I believe that this method of learning will appeal to all and will be very enjoyable. I am certain also that this method will enable you to achieve your desired level of success.
For those who believe that there must be some kind of supernatural power, magical force or special rays behind hypnosis and suggestions, I must say that hypnosis is simply a matter of technique. It really only involves the triggering of ideomotor actions and anyone can learn how to do it. You do not need to have a special talent for it, nor do you need an iron will or any other special quality. Any normal, intelligent, healthy person can learn how to hypnotize perfectly in a relatively short space of time following this self-study method. Hypnosis is not to be seen as something that happens by chance, rather it is an ability acquired systematically as a result of your own learning and experience. And now let’s get straight down to putting it into practice.
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There is no instrument that is simpler and easier to use, when carrying out basic suggestion and hypnosis experiments, than the “Chevreul pendulum”, as it is known. (The pendulum owes its name to Chevreul, who had already begun to use it in experiments at the start of the 18th century.) Moreover, experiments with the pendulum – we will use the shorter name – can be very interesting and fascina-ting.
You can make your own pendulum, like the one illustrated (ill. 1). It comprises a thin length of string or cord with a weight attached. You can use, for example, a signet ring, a metal sphere or any other small item as a weight. The string or cord should not be too thick and should measure about 16 to 24 inches long. The material you use is not important.
Ill. 1
Ill. 2
Take the pendulum board, which has been included with the book, and the pendulum you have made. Sit at a table (ill. 2). Hold the pendulum over the large dot in the centre of the circle and try, as best you can, to hold the pendulum still. If necessary, use your other hand to hold it steady for a while. When the pendulum has come to a standstill, take your other hand away. Now relax your entire body, especially your arms, and look at the pendulum (at the object you are using as a pendulum). Try to form a picture in your mind, as vividly as you can, of the pendulum starting to circle in a clockwise direction round the circle. The more vividly you can visualize this, the sooner the pendulum will start to move in the direction you are imagining. When you carry out this exercise, think only of the pendulum and picture very vividly in your mind the pendulum starting to move clockwise. This exercise works best if you observe the following:
1.Keep your body and arm fairly relaxed – do not tense your body or arm, or hold yourself stiffly!
2.Hold the pendulum completely still and try not to make any involuntary movements!
3.Close off any conscious thoughts and focus all your attention on the vivid picture in your mind of the pendulum’s movement.
4.Although this visualization must be totally vivid, it should not be too much of an effort if you do it correctly.
5.Before the pendulum makes the movement you are visualizing, you have to experience and feel it mentally.
It is a well-known effect that a pendulum will swing in the direction that has been visualized vividly. In earlier times, the pendulum’s movement was deemed to have been caused by secret and magical powers, or by magnetic rays etc. Today we know that it is ideomotor actions that cause the pendulum to move. As a result of vivid vsualization, which is identical to creating vivid ideas (vital ideas), very slight muscle movements are triggered in the ideomotor system (unconscious state) in the arm muscles, which correlate with the visualization, and these cause the pendulum to move. This phenomenon is actually one of the most important and most fundamental aspects of suggestion and hypnosis.V i v i di d e a s (produced by vivid visualization)c a u s ei d e o m o t o ra c t i o n s .This is the first basic law of suggestion.
Sit at the table again with the pendulum and the pendulum board (ill. 2) and bring the pendulum to a standstill. Now picture the pendulum in your mind as it swings back and forth from left to right along the thick L - R line. Once the pendulum starts swinging distinctly along the line, change the image in your mind, so that now you picture the pendulum swinging from top to bottom along the O - U line. In just a few seconds the pendulum’s movement will change. First of all, it will form the shape of a flat oval, and then it will gradually change and adjust to the new direction. When the pendulum swings distinctly along the O - U line, then you have completed the exercise.
This exercise shows clearly that the ideomotor system is task-oriented. The pendulum’s movements (ideomotor actions) always adjust to match the goal of the vivid mental visualization. In other words, dynamic ideas (triggered by vivid mental visualization) cause task-oriented actions through the ideomotor system. This is what hypnotherapy, for example, is based on. In hypnotherapy, task-oriented suggestions for healing are made to the patient’s ideomotor system (subconscious), which then produces the appropriate effect (ideomotor actions).
The second basic law therefore is:t h ei d e o m o t o rs y s t e m(subconscious)w o r k si nat a s k - o r i e n t e dm a n n e r .This is especially important for the suggestion technique, as it follows from this law that each suggestion must be clearly formulated and expressed with a clear goal to achieve, so that the ideomotor effect triggers the desired action in just the same way. Suggestions that are formulated unclearly not only lead to failure, they can also be dangerous!
Sit at a table with the pendulum and the pendulum board (ill 2.). Think about a time early tomorrow morning when you want to wake up. Now choose a time that is half an hour earlier than you would usually wake up. Hold the pendulum still and picture the pendulum vividly in your mind as it swings over the area where the number is that represents the hour you want to wake up. (For the half hour, use the dividing line between the individual number sections). After just a few seconds, the pendulum will start to swing. Now follow the pendulum with your eyes as it swings back and forth, and on every swing say the hour quietly and monotonously, for example: “eight o’clock – eight o'clock …” and so on. Remain seated for about three to five minutes and then stop the exercise. You will find that you really do wake up at the time that you visualized and that you repeated to yourself as the pendulum swung.
From this exercise you will see that dynamic ideas can also take effect on schedule, that is, the desired ideomotor action can be triggered at a given time (which in this instance is demonstrated by waking up at the scheduled time).
This effect is the basis of the so-called post-hypnotic suggestion (post-hypnosis). The third basic law is as follows:D y n a m i ci d e a sc a nb es t o r e di nt h ei d e o m o t o rs y s t e m .T h e s ew i l lt h e nt r i g g e ri d e o m o t o ra c t i o n sa tt h er i g h tt i m e .
Self-study is not simply a matter of reading through the lessons. Self-study involves much more. First of all, read all six lessons in each section all the way through, so that you get the total picture and overview. Then go back to the first lesson and go through it slowly, studying it carefully. Mark everything that you think is particularly important with a red pen. Only start practicing the individual exercises when you have studied all six lessons. You should proceed in the same way with all eight parts (booklets) of the “Modern Hypnosis Techniques”.
Before you start an exercise, think carefully about every specific detail. Only start the exercise itself when you are completely clear on all the details. This applies to all the exercises in this book.
You can prepare yourself to carry out the suggestion exercises using the imagination exercises. These consist, first of all, of carrying out the entire exercise in your head with an imaginary test person. Form a vivid mental picture in your head of a test person standing in front of you. Act and talk to this person, and do everything that you need to do to carry out the exercise. This will help you to become familiar with the specific details and, when you have a real test person in front of you, it will then seem completely normal and will not be new to you. For exercises that appear difficult to you, repeat the exercise with your imaginary person as often as necessary until you feel more confident.
As early as 1874, the English doctor, W.B. Carpenter, had already identified the “ideomotor principle”. This principle states that simply the mental image alone of a movement will cause the movement to happen to a lesser extent. This phenomenon, which we can see in the pendulum exercises, is also known as the “Carpenter effect”. When awake, and when the entire consciousness of SELF is alert, the mental picture of a movement causes only a slight, often scarcely discernible, duplicate of this movement. In a hypnotic state, when the SELF-conscious state has been entirely or partly deactivated, a mental picture which is created by suggestion (emotional influence) can trigger the corresponding movement in its entirety.
It is important for us to know that the mental picture of a movement can be enough to trigger it. Mental pictures therefore have a tendency to become reality.
Ideomotor actions are those actions (activities, undertakings, movements, effects etc.) that are triggered by ideas. At this point I would like to emphasize that these ideas must be vivid and dynamically (vitally) animated. In no way should they be considered to be simply thoughts or imaginary words. The more vivid and animated (dynamic) an idea is, the clearer and more perceptible the action. You must bear this in mind in all the following suggestion and hypnosis experiments. The distinction between thoughts and dynamic ideas will be made clear to you by the fourth basic exercise, which now follows. Repeat the exercise until the difference is clear to you.
Sit at a table with the pendulum and the pendulum board (ill. 2) and bring the pendulum to a standstill. Then, as in the first basic exercise, picture in your mind very vividly how the pendulum starts to move in a circle in a clockwise direction. You must make sure that you make it very, very vivid. You can also use your eyes in this exercise by following the pendulum’s imagined movement to the right with your eyes. Let your eyes follow the circle around. This will strengthen the mental picture and make it more animated. At the same time, you should start to repeat the following phrase in your head: “The pendulum circles to the left in an anticlockwise direction!” --- The pendulum …” etc.
This creates a conflict between visualization and thought. That is to say, it creates an internal conflict between dynamic ideas and thoughts. You will see that visualization triumphs over thoughts and the pendulum really does turn to the right, exactly as you pictured it.
This fourth basic exercise shows us that:
1.both mental pictures (dynamic ideas) and thoughts can be at the center of our consciousness at the same time.
2.both can be contradictory at the same time.
3.in a contest or conflict between thoughts and visualization, visualization will always win.
4.there is a clear difference between thoughts and visualization.
In all the literature on hypnosis, and even more so in all the psychology literature, you can read a lot about a so-called “subconscious”. In the subconscious, suggestions and autosuggestions are supposed to materialize. Well then, just who can picture this dubious subconscious? In this self-study method, I use the term “ideomotor system” for this subconscious. This allows you to picture something beyond this term, and this is important if you want to achieve success and not just accumulate factual knowledge.
The word “ideomotor” is made up of “idea” and “motor”. In this combination it means: “cause movement to happen through ideas”. “System” is understood to mean that part of our entire nervous system that makes it possible for ideomotor actions to take place. You can picture the human ideomotor system as the part of the nervous system that plays a role in the perception of vivid ideas and in triggering ideomotor actions. You have to admit that this description is much clearer than the word “subconscious”, for which it is much more difficult to picture the meaning in practice.
When mastering suggestion and hypnosis, a lot depends upon your own experience. This is why I would advise you to carry out more exercises with the pendulum yourself. Here are some suggestions:
1.Lengthen the pendulum and try the exercises when standing up.
2.Use the pendulum when you are in different moods. If you are agitated, concentrating actively on a mental picture will calm and distract you.
3.Try to devise other pendulum exercises yourself.
The pendulum, as it is used here, is a material, scientific instrument.
Please do not use it for superstitious games and fooling around, such as for fortune-telling, divining lottery numbers etc. As a future hypnotist, you should think clearly and objectively, for it is only from this that success can grow.
Those people who are involved in superstition and mysticism do not enjoy success in life, for their thinking is not focused on the essential, or on the reality to be found in and around them. If you do not search for truth where it really is to be found, namely in life and in being active, then you place yourself outside of life, and should not be surprised when success avoids you like a leper in every aspect of life.
Before we carry on to the next set of exercises with test people, I would like to try and explain some basic terms to you.
1.Idea: By idea we mean a mental prototype, a fundamental term. We have to differentiate between normal ideas that do not trigger ideomotor actions and vivid ideas. For this reason, from now on we will use a new word:v i d e e(formed from vital and idea). By this we mean vivid (vital) ideas that have an effect on the ideomotor system and trigger actions there.
2.Imagine - visualize: By this we mean activities that consist of imagining or visualizing an idea or videe. Imagine = to form or have a mental picture (an idea or videe). Visualize = to form a picture of something in your conscious mind.
3.Suggestion - autosuggestion: By suggestion we generally mean any type of mental influence. This includes everything that contains videes, including: words, gestures, actions, images, symbols, written words etc. Suggestion is the act of placing videes through words, gestures, acts, images, symbols, the written word etc. in the ideomotor system of a person. Autosuggestion = suggestion made to oneself, influencing oneself, placing videes in one’s own ideomotor system through talking oneself into believing something or by visualization etc.
To explain this new term “videe” as clearly as possible, here is an example: If you were to picture Napoleon in your mind as you might have seen him in a painting, then you would be picturing an idea. This is passive and would not have any particular effect on you. However, if you were to picture yourself as Napoleon or you were to picture having to play the role of Napoleon, then you would be placing a videe in your subconscious. Your entire behavior, your appearance, your facial expression and your entire personality would purposely alter to fit the videe. Please note: ideas are passive mental images, passive prototypes. Hence, they do not produce any effect on the ideomotor system. Videes, on the other hand, are active, dynamic mental images, and are active and effective prototypes. They trigger actions in the ideomotor system.
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