Hypnosis is a process that increases communication between your mind and body.  In hypnosis your mind goes into a trance, a daydream-like state.  

You become more focused and open to suggestion.  There is no truth to the popular myth that hypnosis causes you to lose control.  

On the contrary, the opposite is true. Hypnosis can help you gain control over a specific condition.  You can do hypnosis by yourself or with the help of books, video/DVDs, audiotapes or a trained therapist.  

But hypnosis cannot be done without your cooperation. Thus, all hypnosis is self-hypnosis.
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Hypnosis or trance work, with its long and varied history in medicine and entertainment, is receiving renewed recognition from neuroscientists and other professionals.  Recent brain studies of people who are susceptible to suggestion indicate that when they act on suggestions, their brains show profound changes in how they process information.  

The suggestions, researchers report, literally change what people see, hear, feel and believe to be true.Hypnosis has been used in medicine since the 1800s to treat pain and, more recently, as a treatment for anxiety, depression, trauma, irritable bowel syndrome and eating disorders and many others. 

The brain is essentially our central management system.  Our health, mood, thoughts, creativity, balance, performance level, power, all other organs are ‘controlled’ by this complex organ. 

It is a tool that we start training the second we are born. In fact, your brain uses each instant of life stored in memory, to define all our behavioural responses such as movements, reactions, skills, fears, moods, self-confidence and so on. 

Each registered event is interpreted and flagged with a series of codes such as ‘not dangerous’ or ‘dangerous’, ‘I like it’ or ‘I hate it’, ’I can’ or ‘I can’t’ and so on. Each of those flags, if not overridden by another event, is stored lifelong in our memory, constantly influencing and affecting our decisions and thus our existence and our belief in past, present and future events, as well as our belief in ourselves. 

Our Four Brain Areas Involved In Trance Work Research suggests that we have 4 distinct areas of the brain, each has a different yet related function.  

Our brains have evolved over the past 500 million years and have developed from “bottom” to “top” and from “back” to “front”.
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A California psychiatrist and psychologist named Dr. Milton Erickson discovered a technique Electroencephalography. It was a powerful, safe, and effective way to help his patient’s access their unconscious mind, past memories. Electroencephalography is the neurophysiologic measurement of the electrical activity of the brain by recording from electrodes placed on the scalp or, in special cases, within the subdural or the cerebral cortex.  

The brain operates in four general states determined by the frequency of the electricity generated by the exchange of chemicals in the neural pathways.  The four states include Full Conscious Awareness or Beta, the Hypnotic State or Alpha, the Dream State or Theta, and the Sleep State or Delta. 

These four states correspond to electrical activity in the brain and are defined by frequency ranges on an EEG.
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Much of the corrective work all Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) involves the technique of self-hypnosis, ie making changes on yourself while in a trance.

The word ‘hypnosis’ was rather erroneously coined by James Braid in 1842, renaming Frantz Anton Mesmer’s technique, hypnotism, which comes from the Greek for ‘’sleep’’.

A hypnotized patient doesn’t actually go to sleep, but is in a state of trance, which can be from light to deep.

Trance is actually a heightened state of awareness when the the patient is more suggestible and, therefore, more open to change work on a mental level.

Hypnosis is already a natural part of your life.
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