Hypnosis is certainly a popular subject. Probably because it involves the human mind there are a lot of popular notions about it and not so much hard experimental evidence. While, stage Hypnosis gives the impression of control by the hypnotist but the individual is probably exploiting the readiness of selected volunteers to ‘show off’ by ‘playing to the audience ‘ usually for a laugh. The volunteers are probably very suggestible but try getting them to stop smoking or lose weight, its often a more difficult task.

Hypnosis has been under investigation for some time. Some studies give it the ‘Thumbs up’ for helping people in pain, for stress and psychosomatic disorders. It’s most popular use is in helping people to stop smoking, but the person have to be really committed to give up – the Hypnotist cannot force you to!

Someone in a hypnotic trance is not asleep but awake and more open to suggestions. And that the person entering hypnosis does so of their own free will. Much of what we see on the stage is being manipulated and managed by the stage hypnotist to give the impression he has control over his participants.

Most Hypnotherapists think the mind is part conscious and part unconscious. Well, our dreams and memories are real evidence that part of the mind is hidden away, but the only mind you know is your own and by it’s very nature you can’t see it or feel it.

You can only guess at what might be going on in your unconscious! Some hypnotists think the unconscious is very important and powerful, others pay more attention to things they think are the property of the conscious mind.

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