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It is a relaxed, focused state of concentration and state of mind. To practice hypnosis it is beneficial and worthwhile to understand the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind is the seat of all your emotions and therefore directs nearly all of your behaviour. Most importantly, your subconscious (mind) is responsible for maintaining your entire body, keeping it functioning well and for all the autonomic processes such as sleep, breathing, repair, immune system, wellness, tissue regeneration and good, reliable memory. Until recently, it was assumed and believed by some people that hypnosis is like sleep or a state of unconsciousness. However, brain scans have now revealed that there is a specific state that the brain enters when it is open and heightened to suggestibility. The change in brainwave activity is similar to that of when you are in a pleasant day-dreamy state, this is the alpha-brain wave and it is a comfortable natural state.
When you are hypnotised you may feel profoundly at ease or just lightly relaxed rather than an altered state of awareness. It is good to know that this can be explained as quite usual and right to experience. Hypnotherapy easily and powerfully can use this heightened state of suggestibility and awareness as a tool to make new and solid changes in your life. This is because your mind responds vividly and impressively to suggestions and imagery provided by the hypnotherapy, free from analytical or anxious thought, where you are open to visualisation and a strong rich sensory experience.
Some people claim that they have never been hypnotised, well have you ever drifted off whilst thinking about a loved one? Become encaptivated whilst reading a novel? Forgotten large chunks of a car journey whilst driving (Highway Hypnosis)? I’m sure that the answers to the above are probably yes. This is when we as individuals are said to be experiencing natural hypnosis.
Sometimes people find it difficult to change because most of our habits, beliefs and attitudes are filed and stored in our subconscious mind. And so the subconscious and conscious mind normally work independently from each other. Conscious wishes and thoughts, which for the moment are now, can be at odds with your subconscious mind and there can be a conflict. A good way of thinking of this idea is as follows:
Your conscious mind acts like the receptionist at a hotel and your subconscious mind is like the manager in the back office. The receptionist may or may not have the same ideas about what to do or what is important about running a hotel. You may find that they do not even communicate very often. And so when you try to change with your conscious efforts you are attempting to change things without the manager’s approval. So this is the reason why when you make a New Year’s resolution such as to do more exercise or stop smoking you may find that further on you return back to your old habits and behaviour: Did you get your manager (subconscious mind) to agree?
The manager is very creative and can act like a five year old such as when you do things that do not make sense. The subconscious mind communicates differently than the conscious mind and so you can not update it, as you would expect to and get the results you would like and so that is why we have hypnosis to bring about change.
The picture above shows relative brainwave activity chart. Click the picture for a larger version.