It may be surprising to many to learn that we experience hypnosis frequently throughout the duration of our lives. Even going into ordinary sleep involves a variety of hypnotic states. The experience of hypnosis is similar: neither asleep nor awake and somewhat like daydreaming, with a pleasant feeling of deep relaxation behind it all.
Hypnosis is a different state of awareness which you can easily go into so that, for healing purposes (hypnotherapy), positive corrections may be communicated directly to your subconscious mind.
Hypnotherapy is using the state of hypnosis to treat a variety of medical and psychological troubles. It is estimated that 85% of people will respond at some level to clinical hypnotherapy. It may even succeed where other more traditional methods of treatment have not produced the desired result. When carried out by a trained and qualified hypnotherapist, the benefits can be rapid and often permanent. It is natural and safe, with no harmful side effects.
Hypnosis is a mental state (state theory) or set of attitudes (nonstate theory) usually induced by a procedure known as a hypnotic induction, which is commonly composed of a series of preliminary instructions and suggestions. Hypnotic suggestions may be delivered by a hypnotist in the presence of the subject ("hetero-suggestion"), or may be self-administered ("self-suggestion" or "autosuggestion"). The words 'hypnosis' and 'hypnotism' both derive from the term "neuro-hypnotism" (nervous sleep) coined by the Scottish physician and surgeon James Braid around 1841 to distinguish his theory and practice from those developed by Franz Anton Mesmer and his followers ("Mesmerism" or "animal magnetism").
