Hypnosis. You imagine someone staring long and hard at swirling black and white picture and suddenly when commanded, they can speak, stand, jump, bark, or something else that would seem to be pretty bizarre. When people hear the word, hypnosis, they usually tend to revert to the idea that it is just used to trick people into acting like puppets by forcing them into another state of consciousness to perform various activities. People are frequently mistaken by that stereotype and probably have not looked into what hypnosis really is. Hypnosis has more to it than it seems including plenty of misconceptions, along with a variety of uses, and can be useful for almost anyone, depending on the circumstances. So why would you care? Well, you would …show more content…
People have general knowledge about hypnosis, but don’t realize the wonders it can do for people. There are countless amounts of proven and obvious evidence available that show that hypnosis really works. Contrary to popular belief, Yeh says that hypnosis was originally used as a “…mind-body intervention to be used in the medical settings.” This form of therapy has been underused because of how uninformed people are about this and no one really understood how hypnosis worked. There have been a large number of experiments done to show that there is solid evidence about the validity of using hypnosis as a treatment can work, yet the information has not been thoroughly disseminated to people’s common knowledge (Yeh). There are also certain types of hypnosis that can be used for two different purposes. According to Goldberg, one of them is suggestion therapy and the other is for patient analysis. Suggestion therapy is a type of hypnosis that puts the person in a hypnotic state where they are more easily capable of responding to suggestions and can influence the change of certain behaviors such as quitting smoking or chewing hair (Goldberg). This type of hypnosis can also help alter a person’s perception of feelings of sensation, which is essential for treating people with severe pain since it can assist with the tolerance of pain. The other one is called patient analysis which Goldberg says, allows the patient to be relaxed and lets the administrator determine whether a disorder or symptom is coming from the root of a psychological issue, and how they do this is by asking the patient in their