Saturday, September 8, 2007

What Is Hypnosis?

We've all seen the movies where Dracula manages to hypnotize a damsel in distress. Helpless to fend him off, the woman under his thrall easily does his bidding. But, what is hypnosis exactly and how does it work?

Hypnosis is really nothing more than an altered state of mind. Rather than require drugs or alcohol, this condition is brought on by a process that focuses the mind on a narrow subject or moment in time. By employing their craft, hypnotherapists say they put clients into a deep state of relaxation. While they don't necessarily have Dracula's penchant for instantly putting people into a state of relaxation, hypnosis experts can elicit amazing results in some cases.

When a person is under hypnosis it is believed their attentions are more shar View the rest of this article


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