Hypnosis: How is it achieved?
Hypnosis is, as defined in the text book, “A procedure in which a practitioner suggests changes in a subject’s sensations, perceptions, thoughts, feelings, or behavior”. There are many different states of hypnosis, how one is able to achieve is, and why they are using it. To start off, hypnosis is used as a controlled disassociation, it allows one to recall certain subjects, and to enact conditioning, learning and behavior.
According to the book, there are many ways to achieve hypnosis, and many people have experience a level of hypnosis even without their knowledge. The natural occurring trances are daydreaming, intense concentration while watching television, while reading a book, or if one is caught up in their work. Emotions are another way one can enter a trance, whether extreme joy and happiness for extreme fear or anger. Many people within religious communities experience trances while performing religious ceremonies. Highway hypnosis is another common trance, when one is driving for a long period of time, but has no recollection of what happened the past few miles. And another is traumatic experiences. When one experiences something such as a serious
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According to, William N. Upshaw “Hypnosis: Medicine’s Dirty Word,” American Journal of Hypnosis” October, 2006, “There seems to be almost universal agreement that [hypnosis] works, but ironically, universal disagreement on how it works.” So what does this mean? There are many ways hypnosis can work, but there are many different fundamentals one must consider. Responsiveness depends more on the efforts and qualities of the person being hypnotized, if a person is a skeptic of hypnotism and/or the person doesn’t want to be hypnotized, then there is almost no chance that they will go into the trance when instructed. When the instructor puts the suggestion into the person’s head, the person rejects it due to the