There are many people who will confidently say that hypnosis has a dubious reputation. But at the same time, its popularity is growing every year more and more.
On television, shows are shown in which hypnotized people take part, and some doctors use it on their clients to save those from anxiety or insomnia. What can I say, but there are cases when hypnotized people without anesthesia tear their teeth and they do not feel pain!
1. Hypnotherapy is not the same as hypnosis. Hypnotherapy is a controlled hypnosis, the main purpose of which is to provide the patient with psychological help.
2. Hypnotherapists can receive accreditation and certificates, and their practice is not controlled by strict rules.
3. Research proves that after introduction into the hypnotic state, many people quit smoking.
4. The study of the cerebral cortex showed that under hypnosis it passes into another neurophysiological state.
5. In addition, it is proved that hypnosis helps to get rid of sleepwalking and to overcome insomnia.
6. Most people are more "hypnotical" than others, it is easier to introduce them into a deep hypnotic state. Also the effectiveness of hypnosis depends on how much you are suggestible person.
7. In hypnosis it is forbidden to immerse people who have severe mental disorders.
8. There are three stages of hypnotic trance: the first is superficial sleep (drowsiness, drowsiness), the second - hypotaxia (middle sleep), the third - deep sleep (somnambulism).
9. Hypnosis helps to remember what a person has long ago, consciously or not, ousted from his memory. In addition, it is a kind of key to unlocking the human brain.
10. Autohypnosis is a type of self-hypnosis, in which positive phrases are constantly used, affirmations aimed at changing the worldview.
11. Although hypnosis is allowed to be used to get rid of phobias, neuroses, anxiety and other things, it does not replace a full-fledged treatment.
12. It is known that hypnotic exposure is more than 3,000 years. Previously, it was used by the priests of Ancient Egypt, India, Tibet. In science this term was introduced by the German physician and healer Franz Mesmer, initially calling hypnosis an animal magnetism.
13. Hypnotherapy is applicable not only to adults, but also to children. With the latter, it is especially effective in the treatment of nervous and mental anorexia.
14. There is also stage (variety) hypnosis. True, it is often a cheap trick and often before the performance in advance selected especially inspired people. This kind of hypnosis should entertain the crowd and create a kind of unusual show.
15. Self-hypnosis helps to train attention. This is especially popular among athletes. For example, pronouncing "my legs ...", we involuntarily fix our attention on our own feet, and at the moment of relaxation of the muscles, attention, unwittingly, concentrates on this process.
16. It has been proven that hypnotherapy helps alleviate pain during childbirth.
17. Erickson's hypnosis is a process in which a person is immersed in a light trance. At the same time he is active, communicating, as if nothing had happened. True, one single "but" is that all thoughts and actions of this person are subordinate to the hypnologist.
18. Hypnosis can cause a lot of complications, including drowsiness, depressive state, and confusion. In addition, it is not recommended for fever, schizophrenia, epilepsy, impaired consciousness.
19. The official recognition of hypnosis as something that has no relation to magic and witchcraft, falls on the 1950s. It was then that the American Medical Association recognized the benefits of using hypnosis in medicine and in psychology. However, after 30 years, in the 1980s, she canceled this decision.
20. In order to hypnotize a person, hypnotherapists adhere to specific methods of hypnotic induction, which include fixing a glance at one point (often a pendulum), visualizing, changing the position of the body.
21. It is proved that hypnosis, immersing a person in a special state of consciousness, where the body is engaged in active self-regulation, positively influences the exchange of cholesterol, bilirubin, activates protein metabolism, strengthens the body's immune forces.
22. Hypnotic anesthesia is not an invention, but a reality. A century and a half ago, complicated operations were carried out under hypnosis. So, in 1843 Eliot produced more than 300 surgical interventions, using hypnotic sleep instead of anesthesia.
23. The safest form of hypnosis is called accompanying or trans-gliding. Here the patient, being in a trance, controls his consciousness and conducts a dialogue with the hypnotist. The tremendous benefit of this hypnosis is that it helps anyone to find ways to solve his problem.
24. There are many ways to introduce a person into a hypnotic state. One of the most popular techniques in this direction is connected with the stairs. During the session, the hypnotist suggests the patient to make in his imagination a descent down the stairs.
25. Hypnosis can be used to reach out to the human subconscious, eliminate negative attitudes from there and help to find a positive attitude.