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To better understand hypnosis, allow me to break it down into two broad categories of hypnosis, waking hypnosis, and formal hypnosis. First I must caution the reader, these are artificial categories, because in both general categories, the person in hypnosis, is merely in a state of heightened suggestibility. The main difference between the two categories of hypnosis is the situation and/or intent. Allow me to explain.
The first category, Awaking hypnosis,@ could just as well be called natural hypnosis. That is right, hypnosis is a naturally occurring state of mind that we humans seemed to easily be able to enter into spontaneously. One common experience of natural hypnosis occurs when an individual is simply Aday dreaming@ or is otherwise so focused in a mental process, like thinking about something, or planning something out, that he or she becomes less aware of other things that may be going on around them. Have you ever said, AEarth to _____... Come in.... Earth to ____@, filling in the blank space with the name of your daydreaming friend? If you have, you have seen someone in a naturally occurring hypnotic state, sometimes called a trance.
This naturally occurring hypnosis is very valuable in planning and organizing your thoughts and feelings. Most importantly, solutions and plans developed in this altered state of awareness can be quite compelling. We often talk about wanting to fulfill our dreams. This inner desire rarely comes from the dreams that we experience at night, and most often forget each morning. No. The motivating and creative dreams that we talk about that compel us to work toward them are the dreams that we experience during the day, especially if we suggest to ourselves that they are attainable. Daydreaming is a naturally occurring form of self-hypnosis.
The fact that hypnosis is a naturally occurring state of mind, is very important. All healthy adults, without being aware of it, have entered into a hypnotic state literally thousands of times. Let me give you some more examples of this naturally occurring state of hypnosis. You have been in hypnosis if:
you have ever enjoyed a good novel
you have enjoyed a good movie
you have ever engaged in a fantasy
you have ever had a story read to you as a child or as an adult
you have ever used your imagination.
you missed that turn on the freeway because you were lost in thought.
Hypnosis is here to stay. It would be quite simply impossible to eliminate it. It is a natural and necessary part of being a human being. It is a normal cognitive function that we cannot turn off. However, the vast majority of people aren=t aware of this simple truth.
This ignorance may be dangerous in one special case of waking/natural hypnosis. Because people are suggestible when they are in the mental state we call hypnosis, and because it can occur when you are not ware that you are in the state, suggestions can be implanted subconsciously, by yourself or others, and be totally undefended. "Undefended@ is the important concept here.
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© 1998 Calvin D. Banyan, The Hypnosis Center, Inc. All Rights Reserved. © 1998 Calvin D. Banyan, The Hypnosis Center, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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