Hypnosis

Hypnosis has been one of the most popular invention in mental therapies.  Not only in mental therapies, hypnosis also has many functions. Hypnosis has been practices since ancient times. The term of hypnosis came from the Greek word Hypno for sleep. American psychological Association defined hypnosis as  procedure in which a researcher, clinician or hypnotist suggest that a person will experience changes in sensations, perceptions, thoughts, feelings, or behavior.

There are degrees of hypnosis. Under light hypnosis, the subject will become sleepy and follow simple directions. Under deep hypnosis the person experiences dulling of sensory perception, similar to that of anesthesia. During under deep hypnosis, the subject can even undergo medical procedures with no additional anesthetic. It is used to make a subject behave in unusual ways such as to suspend the subject’s body between two chairs in a posture that is completely.

Hypnosis can’t be practiced in everyone. In order word not everyone can be hypnotized. About 20 % of adults have a low susceptibility to hypnosis. It means that they can’t be hypnotized easily. About 65-70% adults have medium susceptibility and the remaining 10-15% have high susceptibility to be hypnotized.  One of important point is that hypnotic susceptibility is not related to introversion, extraversion, social position, intelligence, willpower, sex, compliance, gullibility, being highly motivated. Susceptibility is correlated to remarkable to respond to imaginative suggestions. Individual who has this trait are highly susceptible to be hypnotized.

How is someone hypnotized?

            The procedure that is most used in hypnotic is hypnotic induction. Although every clinician, magician, illusionist etc. do hypnosis different one another, but this procedure must  always be. Hypnotic induction refers to inducing hypnosis by first asking a person to either stare at an object or close his or her eyes and then suggesting that the person is becoming very relaxed. Above is the recent following hypnotic induction

1.      Hypnotist creates a sense of trust so that the individual feels comfortable.

2.      Hypnotist suggest that the subject concentrate on something, such as the sound of the hypnotist’s voice an object or an image.

3.      Hypnotist suggest what the subject will experience during hypnosis for example becoming relaxed, feeling sleepy.

Remember that during the hypnotic, subjects are not asleep, keep their ability to control their behaviors. The biggest debatable questions  about hypnotic are  what actually happens when a person is hypnotized and whether hypnotic induction is even needed.

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