Unit One Journal

I feel awkward answering this question because I have made many mistakes and there isn’t anything good out of those mistakes. In my opinion, wrong decisions never bring anything positive. Wrong decisions decrease morale and self-esteem. At a young age, mistakes or wrong decisions don’t affect much, but as you get older wrong decisions can have a tremendous negative impact. There aren’t second chances for people who make wrong decisions. I know that deep down below the surface mistakes can bring opportunities to learn and improve ourselves, but in this rapidly changing and moving world, there isn’t time to reflect and learn from those mistakes. If wrong decisions brought opportunities for learning and personal improvement, many

The hypnotist induces a trance by slowly persuading the participant to relax and lose all interest in external distractions. The participant is not under the hypnotists control but can be convinced to do things that he or she would not normally do. However, anyone can resist hypnosis by refusing to open his or her mind to the hypnotist.

We will look at these in more detail to understand what changes might occur in the subject at each stage. The objective is, broadly speaking, to facilitate a trance-like state in the subject which enables easier access to the subconscious. After the therapy, there would typically be a period of reflection wherein the subject is encouraged to discuss how the therapy felt and what next steps they might take. However, for the purposes of answering the question ‘What is Hypnosis?’, we will focus primarily on the four key stages.

My dad had taken my best friend, his brother, and me to a hypnosis show. At the time I thought that hypnotism couldn't be real, and that he pays people to say as he does. He asks for volunteers, and of course my dad’s brother volunteers and is chosen. He then starts following the commands, tapping, snoring, and dancing. Watching a six foot tall, 200 pound man dance in front of hundreds of people may have changed my mind, and unless he was on payroll, hypnosis had to be real. So what is hypnosis, what are common misconceptions and myths, and what are different types of hypnosis? Today I will be answering these three questions.

What is hypnosis? Hypnosis has amazing benefits and can enhance people lives in many ways. In modern times, it is unfortunate that Hypnosis is seen as a method of entertaining people instead of it being respected for its true aspects. In reality, hypnosis bears little resemblance to these stereotyped images, as it can improve focus and general well-being mentally and physically. It is a cooperative interaction in which the participant responds to the suggestions of the hypnotist. It can also be described as a sleep like trance state or better expressed as a relaxed creative mind, focused by the individual. Despite stories about people being hypnotised out of their consent hypnosis requires voluntary participation on the part of the

The content of this essay will explore how hypnosis has been defined in both the past and the present. I will explain my understanding of hypnosis as well as exploring the history of hypnosis, its origins and how it was first practiced. I shall also detail some of the techniques used and the psychological and physical changes which occur during hypnosis. Finally I will discuss the role of relaxation in hypnotherapy and look at some of the reasons that individuals wish to undergo hypnosis and the benefits they may experience.

Moreover, hypnosis is a trancelike state of heightened suggestibility deep, relaxation, and intense focus. They experience imaginary happenings as if they were real. Some researchers use state theory to point out that hypnosis meets some parts of the definition for an altered state of consciousness. Today, in psychotherapy, hypnosis can help patients relax, remember painful memories, and reduce anxiety. In addition, it does successful job in the treatment of phobias, stop smoking, and improve study habits. On the other side, role theory states that gypnosis is not an alternate state of consciousness at all. This theory mentions that some people are more easily hypnotized than others, due to possessing a characteristic called, ¡°hypnotic suggestibility.¡± These people usually have a richer fantasy life, follow directions well, and can focus on a single task for a long time. In addition, during hypnosis, some other people are acting out the role of a hypnotized person. Then follow the hypnotist, because that is what is expected of the role.

By recognising these modalities and incorporating them into their inductions, hypnotherapists are then able to personalise screeds to suit their clients’ individual needs. By compounding all of these senses into a single screed this will ultimately allow the hypnotherapist to achieve the most effective deep hypnotic state necessary.

It is also common for stage hypnotists to get a physical reaction from clients while in a trance state such as making them play a fictional guitar. During the post hypnotic state you may notice physical differences from the suggestions used depending on the reason for hypnosis such as weight loss or heath improvements from not smoking. This may not be obvious straight away and may take several sessions to modify your behaviours. As you can see the physical aspect effects every part of the session and although hypnosis cannot physically harm you it is important to consider all the factors in order to successfully complete a session.

The history of hypnosis is a bit like a history of breathing. Like breathing, hypnosis is an inherent and universal trait, shared and experienced by all human beings since the dawn of time. It’s only in the last few decades that we’ve come to realise that hypnosis itself hasn’t changed for millennia, but our understanding of it and our ability to control it has changed quite profoundly. The history of hypnosis, then, is really the history of this change in perception (History of Hypnosis, 2012). Although through the ages many rituals and practises from all over the world resemble modern day hypnosis, hypnosis from a western medical point of view started in 18th Century

This essay will explore the difference between permissive and authoritarian approaches in hypnotherapy. Included will be history of the two approaches, background of the way they work and practical examples to show the influence they have on clients. Gathering information through various means (which will be discussed in this essay) will help the hypnotherapist create a personalized induction. The essay will explore this personalized induction and see if it will always be most effective to use a script that is modified of tailor made for the particular client.

Hypnosis an altered level of consciousness in which an individual sheds his or her voluntary action and is instead under the vulnerable suggestion of a hypnotist. While an individual is in a hypnotic trance, the hypnotist may preform several redolent techniques that are designed to modify behavior for both short and long term periods of time. (Cardena, 2014) For example, chronic smokers often seek hypnosis in order to discard their unhealthy habit. In order to fully understand how it developed, its process, and its contemporary use, one must reference its somewhat accidental birth in 1770 by Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer.

There are three major theories in hypnotism. One is that hypnotizability is affected by a person’s desire to be hypnotized. If someone wants to be hypnotized by the person, then they will be more likely to be hypnotized. The second is that hypnotizability is affected by how suggestible someone is. If they are open to suggestions then they will be more likely to be hypnotized. The third is that hypnotism is another state of consciousness- they are not conscious and are blindly just following any request made to them. These are the three main theories that are the most meaningful.

Hypnosis explained by the psychology community as an altered state of consciousness that leaves people in a more subjective state, or more likely to listen to verbal suggestions. The term of hypnosis came from the Greek root word for sleep. There have been records of Hypnosis going back 2,500 years in ancient China and Egypt, (Gurgevich, 2011-2015, para.1). Hypnosis or also known as hypnotherapy is said to be used to help you gain control over undesired behaviors or to help you cope better with anxiety or pain, (“Test and Procedures Hypnosis,”2015, Para. 2). An example of how a hypnotherapy session might go like this; a therapist comes in while a patient was in an relaxed state and proceeds to tell the patient that they will be cured from their illness when they came out of the relaxed state and then the patient may or may not be cured.

The word hypnosis comes from the Greek word that means sleep. This leads to the assumption that the person being hypnotized is asleep throughout hypnosis. On the contrary, the person is always awake and conscious. The person under hypnosis is simply in a state of deep relaxation and heightened awareness. To do this, the hypnotist is talking to the subjects subconscious. The conscious mind does things automatically. When the sub-conscious mind would be telling the receiver "No" to doing what the conscious mind is relaying. When the hypnotist direct a suggestion to the receivers conscious it will do it. The mind will respond to the hypnotist suggestion. If a hypnotist would tell a person that is under hypnosis that they are eating an ice-cream, in theory, the receiver would feel the sensation of the cold in their mouth and taste the sweetness. Another example of a hypnotist power of your sub-conscious under hypnosis would be the suggestion of feeling scared, the receiver’s body would show signs of