Sunday, February 16, 2014

What is hypnosis and how are we hypnotised?

Hello readers! For my first post I decided to explain a bit about hypnosis. Well, let me get on with it.

To put it simply, Hypnosis is an altered state of mind. It is a state of awareness, that sometimes resembles sleep. But only on the surface. While hypnotised, people can easily concentrate on things that the one doing the hypnotising wants them to think about. Therefore by altering their thought's on the topic people will suddenly have a change of heart about something. As in stop smoking, start eating healthy or even be more hardworking. The options are truly limitless for your self development with hypnosis. Of course you can also hypnotise yourself. And in future posts I shall teach you a few techniques that I used on myself and people around me with great sucess.

Let me explain about the actual process of hypnotism. 
First of all, to start being hypnotised you need to be relaxed (relaxation doesn't matter for some more advanced techniques). You simply lay down, or even sit down in a comfortable chair and close your eyes. Then the hypnotist or yourself for that matter starts putting you in a deep state of relaxation. The hypnotist states a few sentences to put you in an almost sleeping state.

EXAMPLE:
(You are sleepy, All your muscles are relaxing. Feel your toes relax, The relaxation continues upwards from your toes to your feet...) and so on.

Once you are in a deep state of hypnosis the changing begins. The hypnotist gives you instructions or inducts new thoughts into your brain. Such as "cats are friendly animals, you like cats." And that is not all. When you are hypnotised visualization comes naturally. The hypnotist might say. "You see a cat, It looks friendly and it's wearing a tophat." Which will show pictures to the person being hypnotised and from then on whenever they see a cat, they will remember what they imagined and seeing a cat will become funny to them as they will always see it in their mind with a tophat looking all important like and purring :). It might sound strange, but it in fact does work. And it works really well.
Changing bad memories into neutral or happy ones is quite simple aswell, But i'll leave that for a future post ;)

This is it for today's post,

Nejc.