Is hypnosis like transcendental meditation?
• Is trance and relaxation the same thing? • Can someone not wake up from hypnosis or trance? • Are hypnosis and biofeedback the same? • What about all these hypnosis clinics? • Hypnosis for cigarette smoking cessation and diet control Just What is Hypnosis? Hypnosis is a word that means one person helping another to experience a trance. This trance experience “belongs” to the person or paitent, so really all hypnosis is self hypnosis. What is a Trance? Trance is a very natural, everyday experience for all of us. You, the reader, have been in and out of a trance a number of times since you woke up this morning. For example, when you stare off into space and you daydream or fantasize, that’s a trance. When you have been riding down the highway and are lost in your own thoughts or entranced in a conversation with a passenger and are surprised that you have forgotten part of the ride or that you traveled so far, that’s a trance. A person can be entranced reading a good book, entranced lis
