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Let me explain what hypnosis is and is not. Hypnosis is like the dream state somewhere between consciousness and unconsciousness when your subconscious mind is very active. It is like the magic 30 minutes right before you go to sleep and right after you awake. You go in and out of hypnosis all day long. It is when you are on autopilot when, for instance, you don’t remember passing an exit on the freeway while driving yet the car keeps going totally in your control.
When you think of hypnosis you might conjure up images of a stage act, which is very different from clinical hypnosis. Those people are carefully selected before hand and are the type of people that would do anything on stage with or without a hypnotist prompting them.
A hypnotist can not make you do anything that you don’t want to do. Can’t make you cluck like a chicken or bark like a dog unless, of course, you want to. And it’s not like taking a truth serum. You remain completely in control.
You will be in a very relaxed state, a calm state of well being. Some people experience a lightness or a heaviness or a tingling in their arms and feet or some feel nothing at all. Each person is unique and feels hypnosis differently. Some might even ask afterwards if they were even hypnotized. But there will be physiological changes that you’ll notice to assure you that you are indeed being hypnotized.
Your conscious mind will be totally aware of what the hypnotist is saying and might drift off to other thoughts. Meanwhile your subconscious mind will be in a heightened state of awareness absorbing all the positive suggestions from the hypnotist. You might even experience time distortion. Some people feel the time goes amazingly quickly in a deep hypnotic trance while others feel like time stands still.
One of the many benefits of hypnotic sleep is that being hypnotized for 20 minutes can sometimes be as refreshing as a few hours of deep sleep. You awaken from the hypnotic state refreshed, energized with a calm sense of having released all your anxieties and negative feelings accumulated throughout the day.
Steve Wolfson is a certified clinical hypnotherapist who writes on hypnosis and other related self improvement issues. You can learn more by visiting my blog, Hypnosis Can Work for You http://hypnosiscanworkforyou.blogspot.comLabels: how to hypnotize, hypnosis, hypnotism, mind control
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