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A Layman's Guide to Hypnosis

By: Milos Pesic

Even though a hypnotized subject seems to retain the characteristics of a person asleep, they are in reality quite aware. Hypnosis is truly difficult to define, as nobody truly knows what is hapenning inside the brain of a subject put under hypnosis. What we do know is that while in trance state the subject becomes very suggestible. A subject`s attention, whilst they are going into hypnosis, is narrowed down slowly. Firstly, the sense of sight is lost as the hypnotic subject is requested to close their eyes. After a little while it is not surprising for the subject to lose absolute awareness of their body. Although one by one the senses are bit by bit slipping away, one sense is really amplified by the process of induction. This is the sense of hearing. A subject under hypnosis can repeatedly hear vague sounds that they wouldn`t be able to hear in the natural waking state. This, obviously, means that during the whole process the subject can hear all the things that the hypnotist might say. When you start inducing hypnosis in people you will often find that after awakening the hypnotic subject, they will suppose they could not have been put under hypnosis as they could still hear your voice. The delusion that they won`t be able to hear your voice frequently comes from those persons who believe hypnosis to be identical to sleep.

A person in the state of hypnosis is astonishingly suggestible. One of the reasons for this is that, whilst in the trance, you are just able to concentrate on only one thing at a time. For instance, if I were to tell you that you are a dainty ballerina, you would instantly compare this hypnotic suggestion with what you already know to be right, and, lest of course you are a ballerina, you would tell me I am talking nonsense. The hypnotised subject nevertheless is not able to entertain the thought that they may not be what I have suggested, as their incomplete attention is taken up by the thought that they are essentially a pretty ballerina. The outcome, as desired, ends in the hypnotic subject jumping to their feet to execute a series of pirouettes across the stage.

The human mind is split into two extremely distinct areas. The conscious mind, which is accountable for all our conscious thoughts and decisions, and the subconscious mind, which organizes our autonomous activity. The mind can be best called a computer, the subconscious as the processor and the conscious as the monitor and keyboard. Our subconscious mind is a kind of protector; it watches over our body and helps us to go on.

Though our subconscious can do numeroustasks that consciously would be impossible, it also has one pretty rudimentary feature. Somewhere between our two minds is what we call the critical factor. This is almost certainly best defined as a door, at which is a guardian. Our subconscious mind will process anything that enters it no matter how uncanny. So, as long as you can put a suggestion through the door it will be accepted. This is exactly the reason why hypnosis works. The guardian's door can be haphazardly opened while we are under hypnosis.

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Milos Pesic is a professional hypnotist who runs a highly popular and comprehensive Hypnosis and Self Hypnosis web site. Also visit his Hypnosis squidoo lens for more articles and resources on hypnosis related topics, self hypnosis, weight loss hypnosis, stop smoking hypnosis, hypnosis scripts and much more.

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