What is Hypnosis and how does it differ from hypnotherapy?
Opinions vary on the exact definition of this natural state of mind. There is no legal definition of hypnosis. Webster’s Dictionary describes it incorrectly as an artificially induced sleep, but it is not sleep and it is actually a natural state of mind that is induced normally in everyday living much more often than it is induced artificially. Every time we become engrossed in a novel or a motion picture, we are in a natural hypnotic trance. Additionally, the common belief evidenced by research is that a person experiencing hypnosis slows down his or her brain waves from BETA into ALPHA – although some people believe that we may actually enter THETA during deep trance states. (THETA is normally the “dream” state we pass through on the way to and from DELTA – or deep sleep.) Be aware that since we must all pass through ALPHA on the way to and from sleep, we could easily say that all of us experience hypnosis at least twice daily.
