IMAGES OF HYPNOSIS FULL
Although hypnosis is very safe, without a full medical and psychological assessment by a trained individual there are concerns regarding the safety of the participant. Stage hypnosis is damaging to the reputation of medical, dental and clinical hypnosis as it conveys an inaccurate image. It is the view of many professionals that hypnosis should not be used as a form of entertainment, or for fun.
Therapy incorporating hypnosis can only be as effective as the underlying therapeutic approach permits. Hypnosis is an adjunct, providing a context for the delivery of the treatment or therapy. It is important to remember that the hypnosis does not constitute a form of treatment or therapy in its own right. They expect to feel ‘out, under, or zonked out’, which does not occur in hypnosis. This is because they expect to feel very different in hypnosis. Many people who are hypnotised are not aware of being in a ‘hypnotic state’.
IMAGES OF HYPNOSIS SERIES
Potential hypnotic subjects are given a series of instructions which, if they follow them, are intended to assist them in achieving a trance state. Hypnotic procedures formalise this process of ‘entrancement’ and intensify it. Often in these examples there will time distortion in that the passage of time is underestimated. People can and do enter this state spontaneously everyday, for example being lost in thought or day dreaming, absorption in sport, reading, listening to music etc, driving for long distances and not re calling the route taken, being absorbed in meditation/relaxation procedures. Trance is a particular frame of mind characterised by focused attention, disattention to extraneous stimuli (‘tuning out’ of background noises etc.), and absorption in some activity, image, thought or feeling. Subjects may learn to go through the hypnotic procedures on their own, and this is termed “self hypnosis”.”Ī hypnotic subject is said to be in trance. Suggestions differ from everyday kinds of instructions in that a “successful” response is experienced by the subject as having a quality of involuntariness or effortlessness. The verbal communications that the hypnotist uses to achieve these effects are termed “suggestions”. In this interaction the hypnotist attempts to influence the subjects’ perceptions, feelings, thinking and behaviour by asking them to concentrate on ideas and images that may evoke the intended effects. The following is taken from the draft BPS Statement produced by BSECH, September 2000: “The term “hypnosis” denotes an interaction between one person, the “hypnotist”, and another person or people, the “subject” or “subjects”. There have been many attempts to define ‘hypnosis’ over the years. Derived from Greek word HYPNOS – meaning sleep”ĭuring hypnosis however, the subject is not asleep or unconscious. HYPNOSIS is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as: While other therapies have come and gone, Hypnosis has withstood the test of time, and remains as powerful and useful a treatment as it was then. In fact, hypnosis has been successfully used to alleviate problems from the time of pre-history and is one of the oldest of medical treatments. By using hypnosis you can regain control of yourself and your body and help yourself to better physical and mental health.