A term like hypnosis is heard by all people. Everyone knows exactly what it means and how it works. But many seriously doubt whether hypnosis really exists? Perhaps this is a mass deception, in which too gullible people believe? Or maybe it is that this phenomenon is quite real, but has extremely subjective qualities? We will try to understand all these issues and at the end of the article we will understand whether hypnosis exists and what it really is.
What it is?
Despite the fact that we all figuratively understand what this phenomenon is, we will try to justify all this logically, based on dictionary data. So, hypnosis is a special technique for influencing a person, which can change the way of thinking and behavior or cause some moments to appear in the memory (the opposite effect is the complete forgetting of certain events and people). A person who introduces his patient into a state of hypnosis, as if gaining access to his subconscious, where all information about the person is stored. These are memories (absolutely everything, to the smallest detail), and knowledge, and ideas, and the causes of diseases and phobias. From this "archive" you can extract anything and put anything there. In the first case, people resort to hypnosis in order to remember extremely important events. In the second - in order to be cured of bodily or mental illnesses.
Main types
If everything is clear with the essence of hypnosis, they know even more about its properties than about the interpretation of the term itself, but only a small half of humanity is familiar with the varieties of this “esoteric art”. Let's look at how this effect on a person can be provided:
- Classical hypnosis - that is, direct exposure. It is used at the request of the patient most often for the purpose of treatment, but sometimes for personal purposes.
- Hidden hypnosis - the easiest way to imagine it is to use a gypsy. That is, a person’s subconscious mind is pressed against his will in order to obtain personal gain. It is also used in advertising and is the basis of NLP.
- Psychotropogenic - often used in psychiatry and in the treatment of drug addiction. In a state of trance, a person is introduced due to drugs, which radically change his behavior and lay certain settings in his subconscious.
How do skeptics think?
In most cases, the question of whether hypnosis exists is asked by skeptics, that is, people who for one reason or another do not believe in anything. It happens that such a quality is innate, but very often people lose faith in everything supernatural after going to charlatans and deceivers, who, promising them a solution to milestones with the help of hypnosis, only cleaned their wallets. In such cases, people are almost sure that there is no hypnosis and cannot be, that all this is a fairy tale. Therefore, when they meet a real hypnotist, it is difficult for the latter to enter them into a trance, since the strength of resistance is incredibly high. If there is enough experience and skills, then the result will be, but not the first time. If the hypnotist is a novice, then he can become another disappointment of a skeptical person.
What happens to gullible individuals?
Well, here the situation is fundamentally polar. Even the most minimal external influences, such as advice from an influential person or celebrity (even the most useless), like someone's thoughts out loud, a person obeys like the Bible. What can we say about the hypnotic impact of a professional - he has a 1000 percent guarantee that his plan will be successful. That is why such people are often hypnotized by promoters, advertising useless products, advertising, forcing them to buy certain items, as well as gypsies. Why are simple crooks and even strangers able to penetrate so deeply into the subconscious of a gullible person and lay their own "grain" there? Let's figure it out.
We try on ourselves
To solve this riddle, it is first of all necessary to understand how to learn hypnosis on your own at home. This is not at all difficult, and the first thing in the role of the patient and the hypnotist will be you yourself. This can also be called self-hypnosis, but not just at the level of positive thinking, but at a deeper, subconscious.
- Find yourself in complete silence and alone with yourself.
- Relax your body and your thoughts completely.
- Repeat aloud in a calm voice the phrase: “With each breath, I relax more and more. A pleasant heaviness rolls over my whole body. My eyelids grow heavy and close. Time slows down. I irresistibly want to sleep. The world around me is uninteresting with my problems. daydreaming. "
- You may need to say the phrase many times - it all depends on the degree of hypnosis.
- Soon you will feel like you are in a state of half-asleep, half-trance, and your consciousness is really on a different level.
This is far from the most powerful hypnosis and not its deepest level, at which it is possible to treat diseases, change the worldview, etc. This is an analogue of meditation, which allows you to look a little beyond the curtain of your everyday consciousness.
Hypnotic levels
If a professional works with you, then the following degrees of immersion are possible:
- Superficial. A person is in a state of half-awake, but at the same time his subconscious is ajar, and from there you can extract some memories and thoughts. After the session, he remembers everything.
- Deep - often applicable method of hypnosis in psychology, in which the consciousness is completely turned off and the person becomes motionless. The expert works with his subconscious, which is completely open, and after the session the patient does not remember anything.
- Somnambulistic - outwardly, the patient looks alert, active, can communicate. But at the same time, his consciousness is disabled, and his behavior and speech are controlled by a hypnotist.
Additional tools
We have figured out how to learn hypnosis on our own at home, but only on our own. If you want to practice on others, start with relatives and friends who will not mind becoming your “model” and at the same time will have a sufficient level of credulity. It is not recommended to start with skeptics, since the rule "hard to learn - easy in battle" does not work here. You will have to perform all those actions described above, but you can supplement them with a simple tool - a pendulum. This is a favorite "simulator" of hypnotists, with the help of which immersion in a trance is faster. A person, looking at this thing, thinks about it, turning off thoughts about his problems and earthly desires. As a result, he will go into a trance much faster.
Musical accompaniment
Another supporting element that will allow you to immerse yourself or other people in the world of pure subconsciousness. Music for hypnosis is by no means the kind used in yoga and meditation classes. For these practices, melodies based on extremely low frequencies are used, and among them there are those that the human ear does not pick up, but the brain receives them. Infrasound is that which silently affects the subconscious and brings a person out of wakefulness.
Therapy
So we examined all the theoretical components of this question and can accurately answer it: does hypnosis exist? Yes! Each person can be immersed in a trance, even the most harmful skeptic, you only need to find a specialist who can do it. With the majority of gullible people, doctors and psychologists “cope”. They, in one way or another, help us at a subconscious level to get rid of our ailments and thereby strengthen the influence of drugs.
Hypnosis from alcohol and drugs is very actively used. There is no single scheme for immersing addicted people - everything is extremely individual. It depends on the doctor and his methods, on the severity of a particular case and on the patient’s desire to be treated. Suppose, if there is one, then a superficial intervention in the subconscious is suitable, and if relatives brought the alcoholic by force to an expert, then a deep trance is the only solution.
Journey to another reality
And so we came to the most interesting point - regressive hypnosis. This is a field of practical knowledge that balances on the verge of psychology and esotericism. Experts say that with the help of hypnosis you can get into your past lives, see karmic mistakes and find out how you can atone for them. Also, this technique allows you to expand your knowledge of the world, travel in time and space and extract tremendous experience from all this. Many institutions and clubs now offer to learn this or at least get into a regressive hypnosis session. Among them, a sufficient number of scammers. But one of the proven ones is the Jacob Bruce Hypnosis Center. It is located in St. Petersburg. The center offers face-to-face courses and private sessions, as well as conducting online webinars. 100% of participants reach a state of trance using patented techniques in a short period of time. A very interesting project that will allow many to acquire new knowledge and move to the next mental level.
Conclusion
Hypnosis is an extremely ancient phenomenon, and it still has not found a clear scientific basis. But perhaps he did not need her. After all, this is not trigonometry at all, not conjugation rules for verbs, not a task in genetics. This is a field of practical knowledge that allows us to solve mental questions, which, without giving clear answers, literally dumps tons of information on us and “stretches” our consciousness and understanding that our world is much wider, more interesting and richer than we see it, hear and understand.