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Overview
What is Hypnosis?
Who
invented hypnosis?
How does hypnosis work?
I'm pretty sure that
I can't be hypnotized
Will you make me quack like a
duck?
What will my trance feel like?
What is Hypnosis?<Back
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What is Hypnosis?
Hypnosis is a means
of connecting directly to the subconscious.
In our everyday lives we rely
completely on our subconscious to take care of us and to perform essential
functions that are far too complex to consciously control.
Everyone is familiar
with the experience of doing two or more things at one time.
Driving and
talking. Walking and daydreaming.
Not to mention all the autonomic functions
that go on second by second.
Breathing, focusing our eyes,
regulating our heart rate, maintaining balance, perceiving the world around
us.
All these tasks require a great
deal of computation and coordination that are typically too intricate and demanding to consciously perform. Instead of having to worry about
all the various complex operations we need to carry out at any given
moment....our subconscious mind acts as the work-horse, pulling the heavy
loads so that our rational mind can worry about the things it needs to
worry about.
Let's look at one example.
Most people are familiar with
the occurrence of going somewhere while being preoccupied with a distracting
thought or conversation.
While engaged in one activity
you still somehow manage to navigate all the obstacles and dangers that
exist out in the world. Sometimes you find yourself arriving at your
destination almost magically. Unaware of how you got there so quickly, or
how you managed to lose track of the time and the stages in your journey.
Sometimes you may even set out for one destination only to end up at the
wrong location...as if your mind was on auto-pilot and took you by reflex to
a familiar destination to which you often go.
Who
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Who
invented hypnosis?
Hypnosis
has been around as long a man has dreamed. Our history is filled with
strange occurrences that . Hypnosis bears a good deal of similarity to what
we once considered to be magic. It involves the power of language to
initiate change...much the like spells and incantations of mythology. The
trance like state that people go into during hypnosis are familiar tools of
the indigenous peoples of the world. Used to access visions, oracles,
control pain, and induce homeopathic anaesthesia.
Some
famous "hypnotists" that you may like to investigate include:
Franz Anton Mesmer
(1734 - 1815)
James Braid (1795 -
1860)
John Elliotson (1791 - 1868)
James Esdalie (1808 - 1859)
Ambroise-Auguste Liebeault, MD. (1822 - ??)
Milton H. Erickson,
MD. (1901-1980)
Richard Bandler
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How does hypnosis work?
To put it most simply, hypnosis
is the art of feedback. Human beings are feedback machines. We thrive on a
dynamic relationship with our environment. Hypnotists relies upon this
sensitivity to feedback to first pace the experience of a subject, and
then to lead the subject into a trance state.
I'm pretty sure that I
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I'm pretty sure that I
can't be hypnotized.
This is a common feeling that
many people have. In truth, everyone can be hypnotized. If you can dream,
and imagine than you can be hypnotized. However, some people are more
susceptible than others; some are more resistant. But if you don't want to
be hypnotized you won't have any reason to be hypnotized.
Will you make me quack
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Will you make me quack
like a duck?
This is really up to you. Do you
really want to quack like a duck? Likely you may be familiar with Stage
Hypnotism...which is performed in front of an audience. Stage Hypnotism
relies heavily on the willingness of subjects who want to get up in front of
an audience and perform. Stage Hypnotists regularly screen out subject who
will do not have an eagerness to follow instructions and relinquish control.
In a Stage Hypnotism environment, the people who choose to go up on stage do
so to either prove their ability to go into trance, or prove their
resistance. Those who are eager to go into trance typically are excited by
the experience, have often been in similar hypnotic states, and love to be
on stage and perform.
At HYPNOTIZE we focus on
hypnotherapy, and are more concerned with stopping you from quacking like a
duck...than instigating this type of behaviour.
If you're intrigued by the
concept of experiencing a deep trance, but don't have a therapeutic need for
hypnosis...contact
us. We provide sessions to induce simple deep trance states for curious
clients...for a lesser fee.
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What will my trance feel like?
It's very difficult to provide a
definitive description of what a trance will feel like for you. A trance
state is a very subjective experience. For some, the sensation begins with a
heaviness in the body; or a warmness, lightness. or fuzziness. As the trance
deepens the sensation often grows into a tingling sensation.
Overall the entire experience is
commonly a very relaxing, refreshing and invigorating one. Some subjects
will return from a trance with a foggy memory of the session. Most will
awaken with a full memory of the experience...but with a vagueness about the
amount of time that has passed. As each experience is personal and unique,
we always take time after each session to ask you about your experience and
your thought.
Once the session is over, not
all the work is done. Typically your subconscious has some heavy rethinking
to do. Sometimes the change is immediate. Sometimes your mind needs some
time to let things stew and bubble. The process of change is a dynamic
one...a conversation between your conscious mind and subconscious mind.
Sometimes your subconscious mind needs the time to compose its own messages
back to your conscious mind. So it's not unnatural to experience strange
dreams after a hypnotherapy session.
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