Hypnosis
The British Medical Association and the American Medical Association has
called it "a temporary condition of altered attention in the subject that may
be induced by another person," (Compton's Multimedia Encyclopedia) but there is
still much about that is not understood. Because it resembles normal
sleep, it was studied and was found that the brain waves of hypnotized people
are more similar to the patterns of deep relaxation than anything else. Rather
than a psychic or mystical idea, hypnosis is now looked upon as a form of
highly focused concentration in which outside influences are ignored.
The most known feature of the hypnotic trance is that hypnotized person
becomes easily ...
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or auditory
hallucinations or live the past as if it were the present. Also, recently a
scientist discovered that the way the subject's mind experiences time can be
altered so that hours or even weeks can pass in second, from the subjects point
of view. Subjects may forget part or all of the hypnotic experience or recall
things that they had forgotten. The hypnotist may also make "posthypnotic
suggestions" that are instructions to the subject to respond to a something
after awakening. For example, the hypnotist might suggest that, after the
subject wakes up he will have an urge to remove his left shoe, and the more the
subject resists, the greater the urge to remove it will be, and once it is
removed the urge leaves. These suggestions are sometimes used by specialists
to repress or suggest away symptoms in a patient such as anxiety, itching, or
headaches.
Hypnosis is produced essentially by creating a deep relaxation and
focused concentration in the subject. They then become ...
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on some repetitive sound.
The hypnotist tells the subject over and over again to feel relaxed, or to let
his or her eyelids grow heavy and close, to breathe deeply and comfortably, and
to go into a deep sleep. The degree of hypnosis is tested by challenging
subjects to perform some simple task while suggesting that they cannot do it.
For instance, the hypnotist may say, "You will be unable to open your eyes no
matter how hard you try, and the more you try, the more tightly they will be
closed." The process of induction may take a few hours or a few seconds,
depending on how often the subject undergoes it, and also depends on how
willing the subject is. Usually, if suggestions are ...
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