3. What is Hypnosis
• Is a natural, focused and altered state of
consciousness or awareness
Hypnosis is a induced trance
• Focused attention
• Disattention to extraneous stimul
• Absorption in some activity, image, thought or feeling
• Absorption in some activity, image, thought or feeling
hypnosis may bring about "...changes in subjective
experience, alterations in perception, sensation,
emotion, thought or behavior
4. Myths and Facts
• Hypnosis is not mind control or
brain washing
• Hypnosis is not sleep or coma
• Hypnosis is not surrender of
will or revelation of secrets
• Any person with average
intelligence can become
hypnotist. Dominant person
with sharp eye is not a
prerequisitePsychotics and
feeble minded people are not
good candidates
• Any person with average
intelligence and willing to
cooperate can be hypnotized.
Some takes longer than other.
Cooperation of subject is more
important than operator
• Subject can adjust sneeze and
cough and can change position.
He can come out any time
• All the muscles are relaxed and
senses are intact
• One can go to sleep and come out
refreshed Hypnosis
5. Father of Hypnosis
• Freidrich Anton
mesmer ( 1734-185)
• Animal magnetism
(Mesmerizm)
• System of healing
based on disturbance
of universal energy
field
• Mesmerism: a
magnet and later
hand to heal disease
6. Few kinds of Hypnosis
1) Hypontherapy
2) Self hypnosis
3) NLP hypnosis
4) Ericksonian
hypnosis
7. BRAIN SCANS CLEARLY SHOW
EFFECTS OF HYPNOSIS
• Brain scanning, or neuroimaging, has been used to study the effects
of hypnosis in three main broad categories of experiments. I briefly
detail these below ;
• 1) Scans of the brain at rest versus scans of the brain in the
hypnotic state
• 2) Scans of activity in the brain caused by hypnotic suggestion
compared to scans of brain activity in response to non-hypnotic
suggestions
• 3) Scans of brain when a person carries out a task under hypnosis
compared to scans of the brain when the person carries out the
same task in a non-hypnotic state
• All 3 types of experiment show marked differences in brain activity
between the hypnotized and non-hypnotized states.
8.
9. Advantages of Hypnotherapy
• The hypnotic state allows a person to be more open to discussion
and suggestion. It can improve the success of other treatments for
many conditions, including:
• Phobias, fears, and anxiety
• Sleep disorders
• Depression
• Stress
• Post-trauma anxiety
• Grief and loss
• Hypnosis also might be used to help with pain control and to
overcome habits, such as smoking or overeating. It also might be
helpful for people whose symptoms are severe or who need crisis
management.
10. Disadvantages of Hypnotherapy
1. Issues often take several sessions, or half a dozen
sessions to shift, and some clients unreasonably
imagine that a single session will 'fix them'. (they aren't
broken, anyway)
1. There is no massive shock to the system, for an issue
to easily resolve -- this can lead the client to sometimes
think it did not help, because it's so natural and
comfortable. The change is what they want, made by
their own mind. Feels totally normal. Is normal.
2. It's so effective that you may not be able to get an
appointment with the person you want to work with.
11. Inside the Mind Control
Methode I S I S
Use
• Explaining the difference between brainwashing and
mind control
12. Uses of Hypnosis in
Medicine
• Nausea and Vomiting associated with chemotherapy and pregnancy
(hyperemisis gravidarum);
• Childbirth: Based upon our members' anecdotal evidence,
approximately two thirds of women have been found capable of
using hypnosis as the sole analgesic for labor. This eliminates the
risks that medications can pose to both the mother and child;
• Hemophilia: Hemophilia patients can often be taught to use self-
hypnosis to control vascular flow and keep from requiring a blood
transfusion;
• Allergies, asthma;
• High blood pressure (hypertension);
• Raynaud’s disease
13. Have you been hypnotized ? Find
out, using a simple scientific test.
• Hypnosis, and the many things it can do, has been studied for a
long time. Many scientists have assumed that people can be
hypnotized, but have struggled to figure out who is hypnotized, who
is pretending, and who just wants to believe. It looks like now
they've managed to distinguish between the three.
• In the movies, getting hypnotized can stop you from smoking, make
you act like a fool on camera, get you to remember past lives, force
you to tell the truth, put you in touch with ghosts, leave you with the
unconscious urge to murder someone, and anything and everything
else required to make the plot interesting. While plenty of people
have been hypnotized in the real world, others have just pretended
to be. Scientists have been looking for ways to tell the difference
and have found one: a terrifying, nonreactive, dead-eyed stare.
15. Hypnosis colleges
• American Society of
Clinical Hypnosis
• Hypnosis Motivation
Institute
• Milton H. Erickson
Foundation
16. Get Started with This Simple Self-
Hypnosis Script
• 1. Sit comfortably with your feet on the floor and your hands on your lap.
• 2. Take 3 deep breaths, in through your nose, out through your mouth.
• 3. On the third breath, close your eyes and continue to breathe, deeply focusing on
your breath.
• 4. Now slowly count down from 10 to 1 with each breath. After each number,
think the word “deeper” to nudge you into a state of deeper relaxation.
• 5. After you reach 1, repeat a positive, affirming statement to yourself that you’ve
decided on beforehand.
• 6. Repeat that statement to yourself for as long as you wish, usually a few
minutes.
• 7. When you are done sit quietly for a moment, then slowly count from 1 to 5,
visualizing energy returning to your body.
• 8. Open your eyes. You’re done.
