{"id":4029,"date":"2025-01-26T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/?p=4029"},"modified":"2024-12-19T10:46:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T10:46:38","slug":"the-frozen-hiccup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/26\/4029\/","title":{"rendered":"The Frozen Hiccup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A short while ago I went to stay with some friends. When I was leaving, the hostess got a bad case of hiccups. \u201cLook into my eyes for one minute and don\u2019t blink,\u201d I told her. \u201cThank you,\u201d I said once the minute had passed. The hiccups had vanished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/eye-1132531_1920.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"613\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/eye-1132531_1920-1024x613.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4030\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/eye-1132531_1920-1024x613.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/eye-1132531_1920-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/eye-1132531_1920-768x460.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/eye-1132531_1920-1536x919.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/eye-1132531_1920-500x300.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/eye-1132531_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">https:\/\/pixabay.com\/de\/photos\/auge-iris-suchen-fokus-gr%c3%bcnes-auge-1132531\/ (28.3.2023)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cThe Frozen Hiccup\u201d illustrates another effective method of curing hiccups. The voluntary suppression of the blinking reflex acts as a kinaesthetic\/figurative instruction to the subconscious to suppress the hiccupping reflex in the same way, with simultaneous distraction effects and the induction of a trance as an essentially symptom-free state. The trance is induced through eye fixation and cataleptic rigidity, and through overburdening with a challenging task. The intervention can also be used auto-suggestively as an exercise in front of the mirror. The intervention is based on one by Gerald Mozdzierz (Mozdzierz,1990).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(From: Stefan Hammel: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/shop.stefanhammel.de\/startseite\/buecher-und-e-books\/fremdsprachige-buecher\/\" target=\"_blank\">Handbook of Therapeutic Storytelling. Sories and Metaphors in Psychotherapy, Child and Family Therapy, Medical Treatment, Coaching and Supervision<\/a>, Routledge 2019)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short while ago I went to stay with some friends. When I was leaving, the hostess got a bad case of hiccups. \u201cLook into my eyes for one minute and don\u2019t blink,\u201d I told her. \u201cThank you,\u201d I said &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/26\/4029\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,247],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4031,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029\/revisions\/4031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}