What is Hypnosis?
Hypnosis is an entirely natural physical state of utter relaxation meanwhile an increased awareness spread through the mind. This occurs in everyday life and is similar to the trance-like feeling when you are daydreaming. When entering the hypnotic state, you become less aware of the environment and your inner awareness gains more significance. Within this realm of mental tranquility, attention can be naturally directed on the hypnotherapist’s positive suggestions. The subconscious mind is more receptive to these suggestions and you are likely effectively break habitual patterns of any of your unwanted behaviours. In hypnosis, the mind is utterly focused while the body remains comfortably relaxed. We actually all experience the hypnotic state in our everyday life. For example when we are focusing our undivided attention to something such as a book or a film, we are concentrating our mind on a particular issue that is excluding things in our immediate environment from our conscious thou
Hypnosis is NOT a “sleep” state even though a person in hypnosis may appear to be sleeping. Charles Tebbetts, defined hypnosis, “There is no legal definition of hypnosis. Webster’s dictionary describes it incorrectly as an artificially induced sleep, but it is actually a natural state of mind and 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 (p. 211-212).” Charles Tebbetts taught: ALL HYPNOSIS IS SELF-HYPNOSIS, AND THE POWER IS IN THE MIND OF THE PERSON BEING HYPNOTIZED. Hypnotherapist is more like a guide who facilitates the hypnotic process. Myron Teitelbaum, M.D., author of HYPNOSIS INDUCTION TECHNIQUES, came to the same conclusion–as is evidenced by what he wrote in the last two pages of Chapter 3: “The hypnotist is merely the guide who directs and leads the subject into the trance (page 18).” Additionally, the common belief evidenced by researc
First of all, contrary to what is commonly believed by many, hypnosis is NOT a “sleep” state even though a person in hypnosis may appear to be sleeping. It is actually a natural state of mind and 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. Each night, as we fall asleep, we pass though a “dream-like” state. There is a period of time that we are not really asleep, and yet we’re not fully awake either. It’s a daydreaming state. That state, we call hypnosis. So, one can say we actually go through the hypnotic state at least twice everyday. First, as we’re falling asleep and secondly, as we go through the waking process. Hypnosis is that time sandwiched between being asleep and being awake. The most accurate way of defining hypnosis is to simply call it “guided meditation.” Since many of us enter a meditative or “trance” state while listening to music,
It is a state of consciousness that can be accessed by the client, helped by the therapist, in order to empower the sub-conscious desire to change some behaviour (smoking, overeating, lack of confidence, etc.) and lose the shackles of the acquired habit or condition, replacing them with something more healthy and beneficial.
Hypnosis is a commonly occurring state of mind we may experience many times a day. People, whether they know it or not, move in and out of trance like state frequently. Daydreaming while driving or in class or at work can be considered a state of hypnosis. You are not asleep while in hypnosis. Hypnosis is a relaxed state between sleep and consciousness, which is especially useful for learning. • 2.
