What Is Hypnosis?
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This Truth About Hypnosis video is based directly on Cal Banyan’s Model of the Mind and is used with his permission.
Frequently Asked Questions
What Does Hypnosis Feel Like?
Hypnosis actually doesn’t feel like anything. It is a state of mind. Here is one example: Have you ever known something, but then suddenly you got a deeper understanding than ever before? Most people call that an “aha moment”. That’s how it is when you are in hypnosis. You can have access to information that you didn’t know you knew and becoming aware of that helps you to make positive change. Other than that you will probably feel relaxed since we will often also be focusing on relaxing as a way to bypass the critical factor.
What Does Hypnosis Feel Like?
No. You will hear everything the hypnotist says and you’ll remember everything. We want you to remember because your changes will come from insight you get during the sessions.
Do You Go To Sleep When You Are In Hypnosis?
Hypnosis isn’t sleep, but your hypnotist may use the word sleep. It’s just a fast way of saying go deeply relaxed quickly. Please note: Even if your hypnotist says the word sleep, don’t go to sleep or she will have to wake you up and start the session again.
Can Anyone Be Hypnotized?
I have never had a client who didn’t go into hypnosis in my office. It used to be believed that only 20% of the population could be hypnotized. We have since discovered that those numbers are due to lack of technique, understanding and training of the hypnotist. All you have to do is follow very easy instructions and be of normal intelligence and you’ll go right into a level of hypnosis to do all the processes of the work necessary to get the changes you want.
How Do You Go Into Hypnosis?
Two Ways
Automatically and naturally or through the guidance of a subconscious expert. Hypnotists who are good at what they do are considered this kind of expert. They have a number of ways to help you achieve the deepest levels of hypnotic depth with ease. A good hypnotist can get you into hypnosis in 4 seconds to 4 minutes.
Is Hypnosis Safe?
Hypnosis occurs naturally in all human beings. You won’t believe how many times you or your friends or family have been in hypnosis and didn’t know it. After watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoBvEquB194 , you’ll be able to spot the state in yourself and others right away. It can be pretty funny sometimes. Here’s just ONE example; A friend of mine was so hypnotized when making looking for ketchup in his refrigerator that he was looking right at the bottle and couldn’t see it. His wife got a big kick out of it!
Also, once again, if hypnosis were not safe you would hear news stories about the terrible things that hypnosis does or is doing to people. No one has ever been harmed by going into the hypnotic state.
In addition, hypnosis has been accepted by the American Medical Association since 1958 and is used for all sorts of issues such as helping children control epileptic seizures, overcoming infertility, IBS, controlling or eliminating pain and skin ailments, finding the cause of depression, anxiety and bad habits and the list goes on and on.
If hypnosis is so great why don’t more doctors tell patients about it? Most doctors just don’t think about it because their training is not in this area, but more and more are embracing the idea and we get referrals from doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists, counselors and therapists all the time.
Hypnosis is simply a natural ability we all share - the capacity to reach inner information that isn’t always available to us. Now that may sound mysterious, but it really isn’t. Let me give you an example and you will see what I mean.
The other day I was making pancakes when my grandmother’s face came to my mind suddenly. The image left as soon as it came. I do not always have my grandmother’s face in mind. I hardly ever think of her. I had to slip into a hypnotic state for that information to become available to me.
But you may be wondering why her face suddenly came up? It is because the mind works by association. She used to make me pancakes and I was making pancakes, so that imagery that the subconscious selected, for whatever reason, came to my awareness.
This kind of thing happens to human beings all the time. I bet you can think of a time something like this has happened to you. One moment you could be driving across town thinking of your to do list, then the next you see a tree. Next, that image triggers an image of a tree in your yard from a time when you were playing with a childhood friend under a tree at school. You have to slip into what we call hypnosis for the subconscious mind to share this kind of “data” with you.
So, with this example, you can see how common and safe hypnosis is. No one has ever been harmed by going into a hypnotic state. I certainly wasn’t harmed that day, more like amused and curious.
If Hypnosis is safe and so useful why don’t more doctors tell patients about hypnosis?
Most doctors just don’t think about it because their training is not in this area, but more and more are embracing the idea and we get referrals from doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists, counselors and therapists all the time. You can even find hypnotic research on the most basic techniques (we use very advanced techniques) at the National Institue of Health.
Can You Get Stuck In Hypnosis?
Gosh if that ever happened don’t you think THAT would have made the news by now? Heaven’s no! No one has ever been stuck in hypnosis. Hypnotists want to get paid so they are very motivated to emerge you after the work is done.
Can The Hypnotist Make Me Do Something I Don’t Want To Do?
No. You are always in control. If a hypnotist ever gave you a suggestion that you were morally or ethically opposed to you would emerge from hypnosis immediately. And if a hypnotist gives you a suggestion that just isn’t one you want, it just won’t have any affect on you.