The Real Secret To Hypnosis
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Hypnosis is a psychological phenomenon as little understood as most psychological phenomena. It requires no unusual personality or strong will on the part of the hypnotist or weak will or feeble intellect on the part of the subject. Any person willing to learn the psychological principles involved can perform hypnosis with ease. It is purely a matter of technique, a technique of convincing and persuasive suggestion similar to that utilized every day in ordinary commercial life for quite countless other purposes. Just as anyone can be a hypnotist, so can anyone be a subject, whether man or woman, old or young, excluding only the extreme cases of age and those of too pronounced mental abnormality. The best subjects are the highly intelligent, highly sensitive people with good control of their mental faculties, while those of lesser endowments are more difficult and less satisfactory to work with and are limited in their performance.
So, hypnosis is not some mystic occult magical thing based upon the overwhelming influence of a strong personality upon a weak will and accompanied by the emanation of a secret power. What hypnosis actually is can be explained only in descriptive terms. Thus it may be defined as an artificially enhanced state of suggestibility resembling sleep wherein there appears to be a normal, time-limited, and stimulus-limited dissociation of the conscious from the subconscious elements of the psyche. This dissociation is manifested by a quiescence of the consciousness simulating normal sleep and a delegation of the subjective control of the individual functions, ordinarily conscious, to the
subconsciousness.
Popular beliefs still ascribe much superstitious significance to ritualistic magical devices such as stroking of the body, the use of hypnotic crystals, the eagle eye, and willpower. Actually the important consideration in inducing hypnosis is a willing, cooperative, relaxed subject to whom a trusted hypnotist can persuasively and repetitiously suggest that he will become tired and sleepy, that his eyes will close, that he will progressively lose his interest in external events and become more and more absorbed in a feeling of being in a state of sleep in which he can function at a level of unconscious awareness.
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