Celina Mcclanahan
July 8, 2022
Hypnosis is the art of putting thoughts into other minds. They are also referred to by the name of hypnotists.
Hypnosis is divided into several categories, depending on the kind of trance the mesmerist uses to do their work. One currently successful hypnotist in our era is Jon Finch. The hypnotist`s skills depend on altered states of consciousness, ideomotor action, and catalepsy, visualization.
Hypnosis refers to a state of human consciousness involving focused attention and reduced peripheral awareness as well as an increased capacity to respond to suggestion. It could be used to refer to the art, technique, or the process of creating hypnosis.
Theories of what happens during hypnosis fall into two types. `Altered state` theories see the hypnosis process as an altered state of mindor trancethat is characterized by a state of consciousness that is different from the normal conscious state. The opposite of this is that `nonstate` theories view hypnosis as a form of imaginative performance.
The most important mesmerism involves obtaining dreams through suggestion, however other types are also common.
During hypnosis, a person is believed to have increased concentration and focus. Attention is shifted to the issue that is in front of them, and the hypnotized individual is believed to be in trance or sleep, with an enhanced capacity to respond to suggestion. The person may experience partial amnesia, allowing the person to “forget” certain things, or to disconnect with previous or current memories. The theory is that they respond more strongly to suggestions. This could explain why the person might enact activities outside of their normal routine behavior.
Certain experts believe that the susceptibility to hypnotics is a result of personality characteristics. Highly hypnotizable people with personality traits such as psychopathic, narcissistic or Machiavellian personality features may find hypnotic sessions to be more like being controlled by another person rather than being controlled. However, people with an altruistic personality type will likely remember and take in ideas more easilyand respond to the suggestions without fear of being reprimanded.
Theories that describe the hypnotized state explain it in various ways as a state that is characterized by high intensity and attentional focusand changes in brain activityor levels of consciousness, or dissociation.
In popular culture the word “hypnosis” often brings to thoughts stereotypical depictions of stage hypnosisthat involve a showy transformation from the state of being awake into the state of trance, typically marked with the subject`s arm dropping hypnotically to their side, implying that they`re drunk or asleepand then a demand that they do something. Stage hypnosis is usually performed by an entertainer playing the role of the professional hypnotist. The subject`s compliance is enacted by placing them in a state of trance where they`re willing to listen and accept the advice given to them.
“Hypnosis,” as a verb, is used to describe “hypnosis” can be used to describe non-state phenomenon. There has been some argument that the results observed in hypnotic induced states are examples of classical conditioning, and responses learned through prior experience using hypnosis. But, it is widely acknowledged within the field that in artificially-induced states with high suggestibility (known as trance logic), there is a high degree of language, logicand cognitive functioning that behaves normallyeven though it could be extremely concentrated. This paradoxical effect has been theorized to be the result of two cooperating processes working in opposing ways: one getting more focused,and the other process becoming less focused. The subject of hypnosis has a diminished focus, yet simultaneouslyit is able to concentrate on matters that relate to the hypnotist`s suggestion.
There are many theories on what is actually happening in the brain when someone is hypnotized, but there seems to be an agreement on the fact that it`s a combination of a focused concentration and a state of altered consciousness.
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The majority of people who experience hypnosis tend to have their focus narrowed down, focusing on the part of the brain where the hypnotist`s voice is coming from. This results in a greater stimulation of attentional processes, by shutting out other sensory information. Hypnotized individuals are able to concentrate intensely on the suggested behavior, but are still in a position to perform actions that are not in line with the normal patterns of behavior. The intense focus causes an altered state of the brain.
