Hypnotism, its importance

Hypnotism

Hypnosis or hypnotherapy, is a method of inducing a trance or a dream like state of deep relaxation to treat disorders of a mainly psychological or emotional origin.

It has been practised for thousands of years by many cultures

Hypnosis is a state of human consciousness involving focused attention and reduced peripheral awareness and an enhanced capacity to respond to suggestion. It also refer to an art, skill, or act of inducing hypnosis.

Hypnosis is a state of consciousness that differs from normal experience of reality. The hypnotic state is one in which your mind becomes acutely open to suggestion. This is why hypnotherapy is commonly employed to relieve unwanted habits and compulsive behaviours

Disorders helped by hypnosis Hypnosis can help you change attitudes, perceptions and behaviours.

It can be effective in treating a range of medical and psychological issues, like:

•  Anxiety 
•  Asthma 
•  Chronic pain Fears and phobias 
•  Smoking
•  High blood pressure 
•  Fatigues
•  Insomnia 
•  Panic attacks
•  Stress 
•  Migraine
•  Obesity
•  Thumb sucking
•  Sleep problems
•  Sexual problems
•  Stuttering

If a person is in a hypnotic state will decrease in involuntary eye movement to the point where deeply hypnotised people will have to be reminded to blink. Generally an observer has got the impression that the hypnotised aren't paying attention but in reality they're playing hyper-attention. As compared to a resting brain, many areas come online when a person is put into a hypnotic trance. All the areas that flare to life during hypnosis are also engaged when a person is concentrating on mental imagery — except one. Like many areas of the brain, the precuneus lights up during many different tasks, all of them having to do with a consciousness of self. It also deals with visuospatial aspects of the brain, letting us know where we are in space.when hypnotised, people are able to concentrate intensely on self-created imagery (or imagery that suggested to them) but do not place their selves as part of that imagery. They've lost the reminder of what they personally do and what normal judgements they make, while increasing their ability to think about a whole range of imaginary situations.

Hypnotic state 

The brain has different levels of consciousness, or awareness, ranging from fully alert to drowsy to  fully asleep, with variations in between. Hypnotic states occur naturally and spontaneously. Everyday examples include: Daydreaming Being absorbed in a pleasant task and losing track of time

Doing a mundane task (such as washing the dishes) while thinking about something else, to the  degree that you can’t actually remember performing the task Getting lulled into a dreamy state by boredom, for example, when listening to a dull speech. 

Power of Hypnotism

1. Through hypnotism people can have the ability to perform the ability to remember details of past events that person has consciously forgotten.

2. It also help to suppress of pain to sense that people might feel less self conscious because by this their brain that feels self-consciousness offline and their perception might be altered by the part of the brain that governs perception altered by the part of the brain that governs perception, but pain is different. One of the primary functions of pain is to force someone out of the reverie they're in and make them pay attention to reality. Pain is the outside world breaking in.

3. Hypnosis does have the power to tap into memory in ways that other techniques do not. Most importantly, it has the ability to induce temporary, reversible amnesia.

4. Heightened Suggestibility, After the hypnotism the first few minutes after the process he will typically remain in a heightened state of suggestibility. After this process the operator avoid either stating or implying any idea that may work against the others goals and an experienced hypnotist will often use these moments to deliver positive suggestions about success and self-esteem.The subject will then often take these thoughts forward, into the days and weeks and months that follow.

5. Bond, by hypnosis one in which longstanding emotional blocks can be dissolved & subjects feel an emotional closeness to the operator.

6. Ab-reaction & Negative transference

An ab-reaction is an intense emotional outburst of some traumatic circumstance from the past & on in that time it is important that the hypnotherapist should remain calm & help to reorient the person through suggestion.

Reference
1. What hypnosis Really Does to your brain by Esther Inglis-Arkell 03/08/12
2. Hypnosis Side effects by Harold E Sconiers 14/08/17
3. Encyclopedia of Mental diseases