Hypnosis is a Naturally Occurring State of Mind.

We use this natural state of mind, unknowingly all the time. It is just natural for us.

Advertisers understand that when you are in the privacy of your own home, after a days work, you put your feet up serve a drink and settle down as you switch on the television. They use television programs to induce a deeper hypnotic trance or relaxation and then provide you hypnotic suggestions, called commercials!

Another Common Example of This Naturally Occurring State of Mind.

Have you ever been driving down the motorway, thinking about something else like what you have just been doing or what your going to do when you get to where your going (like day dreaming), and next thing you know, you have passed your exit. That is called "motorway hypnosis".

Hypnosis in a Therapeutic Context

For therapy purposes hypnosis is used for relaxation. You may feel light tingly sensations or a lethargic heaviness, it's just a wonderful relaxing, pleasant experience.
The hypnotic state is an optimum state for making changes in your life.
You can set aside limiting beliefs that may have been preventing you from moving towards a healthier and happy you, like stopping smoking and losing those few extra pounds.

Misconceptions about Hypnosis

Usually a person first experience with hypnosis is when they go to a show or see a show on the television.
A stage hypnotist is very observant at knowing who is a really good hypnotic subject and this is known as the volunteer effect. There are tests done on stage and people are told to go back to their seats that have any fear about hypnosis.

The hypnotist cannot control you against your free will.

Hypnosis is not sleep (although the word sleep may be used).

No one has ever been hurt by hypnosis. (The worse thing that could happen is that you fall asleep.)

You will hear everything while you are in hypnosis.

It's always a choice as it is a state of consent.

So Now You Know That You Can be Hypnotized.

You have done it literally thousands of times. You did it yourself when you were daydreaming and missed that turn (self-hypnosis), you have been hypnotized when you enjoyed a television program (being hypnotized by someone else), and you have followed hypnotic and post-hypnotic suggestions when you preferred some brand name that you saw repeatedly on television (hypnotic compounding of suggestion).

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