Understanding Hypnosis

Understanding hypnosis

The following elements are essential when it comes to understanding hypnosis correctly:

1) Imagination

2) Concentration

3) Motivation

Although an individual is being hypnotized by a professional, it is still up to that person to respond to the treatment that hypnosis offers. Releasing the power of your subconscious mind takes some time and practice, but it can then be used to improve most aspects of your life. Therapeutic hypnosis is only successful once a light or medium state is reached through ongoing concentration and patience.

Deep levels of hypnosis produce the best therapeutic results, but beginners may also achieve efficient states of relaxation and inner peace too. Lighter levels of hypnosis usually enable their operators to experience feelings of relaxation and calmness. The following  perceptions of physical changes may also occur:

• Tingling sensations in the fingers

• Blinking eyelids

• A sensation of weight in some parts of the body

The intensity of these experiences are low, but a few weeks of practice can teach you how to develop these skills even further. Another element that often relates to initial hypnosis is time distortion. Most subjects will believe they were hypnotized for a shorter amount of time than it is in reality.

After a few hypnotic experiences a person will start to get a better perception of the passing time. The altered state becomes more enhanced as we progress to medium levels of hypnosis. Physical perceptions gain more importance and the subject may experience heightened tingling feelings or heaviness in the lower body. Some subjects experience floating sensations and all these feelings are perceived as being very real by the one being hypnotized.

This stage allows the hypnotist to suggest stronger visual images in the person's mind. At this level, creating illusions becomes more accessible, while new thresholds that were unavailable previously now become apparent. Conscious awareness may fade out for the patient when the level of hypnosis deepens and even better mental and physical responses can be achieved through the somnambulistic levels of hypnosis. Several physiologic responses can be observed, such as the REM (rapid eye movement) usually associated with dreams during sleep. At this stage the patients may experience complete conscious amnesia, being virtually absent from their surrounding reality.

During this phase the person can also experience strong hallucinations as well as for some time afterwards. Hypnosis is seen as the sleep of the nervous system, because there is a decrease in the rate of respiration, although not as strong as the one experienced during sleep. Circulation also slows down, together with the brain waves, which varies in intensity starting with beta (the fastest), then slowing down to alpha, theta and delta.

Did you know?

Beta waves are primary when the mind is under a normal state of consciousness. This means that reduced levels of hypnosis decrease the brain wave activity to alpha and deeper levels may take a person's brain waves all the way to theta. Various applications of hypnosis include therapeutic pain relief, psychological treatment and many more. Because this is a complicated subject, we suggest that you do proper homework before starting with the process of hypnosis. We also hope that this article has aided in understanding hypnosis better.

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