What is Hypnosis? and what it is not !

 

 

• it is not being gullible or under someones control
• it is not being asleep and unaware
• it is not like on TV or the movies

 

• IT IS the ultimate in control of self and noone will do anything under hypnosis thats against their morals
• IT IS for some a highly aware state with great focus aiding fast treatment
• IT IS a natural state of mind we all go into some level of trance in our day and TV hypnosis is often for entertainment not healing

 

Hypnosis is the name to describe an experience or state of consciousness other then the waking consciousness. Commonly described as a trance state or a hypnotic state. Hypnosis is about going into a trance the  level and depth of trance appropriate to each individual. Anyone can be hypnotised or go into a trance. It is said trance is about learning how to go into a trance.we do go into a trance many times in a day, either daydreaming, driving a car and forgetting the journey, or when we suddenly realise weve been so absorbed in a task hours have passed and seemed like minutes or the opposite where time can seem to drag and minutes seem like hours.

 

What’s the conscious mind?

 

The conscious mind is simply whatever we are aware of right now i.e reading this is what you are conscious of. Our conscious mind can actually only deal with so much information at anyone time. It has the limit of 7 plus or minus 2 bits of information at any time. It deals with things logical and sequentially. It is rational. 

 

What is the unconscious mind?

 

 

Our Unconscious mind is whatever we are not aware of. We have many sensation occurring in the body that you might not have noticed until now for instance be aware of you little toe? Is it warm? Cool? Pressing against a shoe or sock? Pulsing? Tingling? Almost numb? What you become aware of are sensations that have been going on in the body while your conscious mind is busy with reading. Your unconscious mind deals with 24 million bits per second. That means it's coding all the information coming into your from your environment in terms of temperature, light, sound smells and maybe tastes. It is also dealing and organising all the internal functions and going on of the body, heart rate, digestion, muscle tension and relaxation. It works irrationally and simultaniously on many things.

 

The unconscious has a number of functions