Trial and Error

Acording to F.M.Alexander "trial and error" is a form of end-gaining.
"His habit is to work directly for his ends on the "trial-and-error" plan, without giving due consideration to the means whereby those ends should be gained" (F.M.Alexander, The Use of the Self, page 33)
Now the question I would like to consider is, what constitutes a "trial-and-error plan"?
While rereading "The use of the Self" , I asked my self in what way Alexander's experiences described in the first chapter of that book differ from a "trial-and-error plan"?
We may notice that Alexander after each failed attempt, didn't "just" made it differently. No.
He learnt from each failure, he tried to find out what caused him to fail, and devised improved procedures to correct the mistakes he did.

Suggestion and Hypnosis

Hypnosis is all around
Stephen King says that while scientists discuss whether telepathy exists or not, writers have always used it.
What S.King calls telepathy, for me is a kind of hypnosis.

Hypnosis is all around:
- Placebo efect
- Falling in love
- Acupuncture
- Psycho-physical methods (Yoga, Tai-Chi, Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais, etc.)
- Psychoanalysis
All of them make use of hypnosis.

But ... that doesn't mean that to me, they are all the same

I remember discussing this subject with my dentist, who refered that hypnosis was used quite efectively as anesthesia in dental surgery

My conclusion is this:
One thing is to use hypnosis to do the extraction of an infected tooth, and another quite diferent is to use hypnosis to "cure" the infection