How does hypnosis work?
Hypnosis is defined as the bypass of the critical factor of the conscious mind and establishment of acceptable selective thinking. It relaxes the conscious mind and opens the subconscious mind to the point that suggestion can be accepted. Once the suggestion is accepted and agreed on by hypnotized person, it then becomes a stable and strong pillar in that person’s belief system.
The most common example of hypnosis is reading a book, which almost anyone can relate to. When you read a book, your body experiences various emotions. Emotions are nothing but chemical changes within the body. Depending upon the emotion, the body produces a certain “cocktail” of chemicals to produce the desired emotion. It would be absurd to think that the actual text or ink in the book is creating the emotion in the body. It is simply the interpretation of the text that creates a thought in your mind – a thought that is so realistic your body bio-chemically changes to create an emotion. The words of a hypnotherapist to a client cannot create physical or emotional changes within the person any more than the text on a page can. It’s how you interpret the text, much like how you interpret the words of the hypnotherapist, that create the change you desire.
There is much speculation about hypnosis and hypnotherapy and how it works; all that we really know with certainty is that being in such a relaxed and focused state allows us to bypass the conscious critical faculty of the mind to engender the positive changes that you truly desire within your life.
The human mind is extremely suggestible and is being bombarded constantly with suggestive stimuli from the outside, and suggestive thoughts and ideas from the inside. A good deal of suffering is the consequence of “negative” thoughts and impulses invading ones mind from subconscious recesses. Unfortunately, past experience, guilt feelings and repudiated impulses and desires are incessantly pushing themselves into awareness, directly or in disguised forms, sabotaging ones happiness, health and efficiency.
