Firstly, what is hypnosis?
Hypnosis is a state of consciousness under which people become more suggestible to change.
The pioneer or father of modern hypnosis, Milton Erickson, in the 1950s, established that people could be induced into a relaxed or trance-like state, under which they could be subject to post hypnotic suggestions. His work was built upon and expanded by Bandler and Grinder in the 1970s and early 1980s to produce tools to enable use of hypnosis to modify behavior of a person to improve their state of being or to solve problems or undesirable habits.
Hypnosis is similar in a way to electricity; we have been using electricity for over 150 years but not many people can explain what electricity is, only what it does.
You flick the light switch, the light comes on.
Similarly with hypnosis, it can be seen as the process of shifting a person from one style of operating to another less habitual way that is more beneficial to the individual going forward into the future.
Hypnosis typically is a state of induced relaxation similar in some ways to meditation.
The principal difference between hypnosis and meditation is that the latter usually involves trying to clear the mind of focus ( ie. Read more…
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