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Hypnosis is all in the mind. While some people can be hypnotized easily, there are those who can’t. If you want to achieve a desired goal, the hypnotist you get in touch with should be able to know when to move from one stage of hypnosis to the next.

To do that, they have to follow certain procedures and the first stage of hypnosis is preparation. Hypnotists don’t go around looking for people who want to by hypnotized. You look for them so they are just waiting for you to knock on the door and ask for their help.

Even before you knock on the doctor’s door, you are already working your way to the first stage of hypnosis called preparation which will get you ready for what is about to happen next.

Aside from preparing yourself mentally, the hypnotist will conduct an interview to find out what the problem is and what steps have you taken in the past. If they have practiced hypnosis for years, they can use their experience to develop a solution.

What makes hypnosis unique is the patient. A technique used for one patient will not always work for another and that is the challenging part of treating someone who has a problem.

If the hypnotist feels that this technique can work, this is the only time that the two of you will move on to the second stage called induction.

After the hypnotist makes sure you are comfortable, it is time to put you into focus and all your attention will be on the specialist. They can do this through fixed gazing or by telling you to close your eyes and listen to their voice.

The hypnotist can tell if you are hypnotized if you are able to sit or lie still for a long period of time without fidgeting. Another test is for the hypnotist to instruct the patient to move their arms and if they are unable to do so, then you are ready to go into the third stage known as the deepening.

Here, the hypnotist continues on with the trance making sure that patient is ready for the fourth and most critical stage of hypnosis known as circulation.

Circulation is so important because this is where the hypnotist will impart hypnotic suggestions to the subconscious of the patient. In some cases, the patient will not even remember what that word is and the only time it will come out is when it is triggered by a certain event.

It should be noted however that such a feat may not happen in one session and the change in behavior may happen after several days or even weeks. To make sure this sticks in the mind of the patient, they will have go back to the clinic for several sessions.

The end of a session is the fifth stage of hypnosis known as termination. The hypnotist may count backwards, tell you to open your eyes or clap their hands.

The amazing thing about hypnosis is that you don’t always have to fall into a deep sleep because it also works as you are able to hear everything that that hypnotist said while you were in a trance.

While your willpower to achieve your desired goal is effective to make hypnosis work, the same goes for the hypnotist because they must also have the same will power to change your behavior by knowing when to move from one stage to next of hypnosis.

There are basically two common aspects of hypnosis, the therapeutic approach and stage hypnosis, which is the entertainment side of hypnosis.

Although science may frown upon stage hypnosis for trying to make fun of the process for entertainment or for profit, it has, in some way helped, in easing public perception of what hypnosis is really all about.

As long as the stage hypnotist does not abuse the ability to explore the minds of his subjects, a practitioner who is responsible enough to respect and give justice to hypnosis can do more good than harm.

Many hypnotherapists believe that a lot of reputable stage hypnotists were responsible for conditioning the minds of people, of course not through actual hypnosis itself, to embrace hypnosis as a form of therapy or treatment for common behavioral problems of man like alcohol and substance addition, especially smoking.

A lot of stage hypnosis acts commonly involve drunkards going through the stage act to emerge sober towards the end of the process, with some even undergoing altered states that will change their attitudes towards drinking.

Although the process of stage hypnosis itself is a bit disturbing at hindsight, but the fact remains that the power of the mind can truly be harnessed.

The fact that some stage hypnosis entertainers continue to promote their trade is on the fact that stage hypnosis allows them to earn big bucks, still people cannot judge them based on what they do.

As mentioned before, there are stage hypnosis entertainers who continue to give justice to the practice of hypnosis.

Whether it be for entertainment or therapy, stage hypnosis is as equally effective as it is used for therapy.

Many experts and stage hypnotists agree that training for entertainment needs no formal education required, as well as learning all of the applied techniques and approaches to stage hypnosis.

The same fact holds true for stage hypnosis, that 10% of the population are likely to submit to hypnosis, since not everyone is susceptible to such.

Stage hypnosis allows an entertainer to be more creative and imaginative, the reason why it has continued to captivate audiences time and again.

A stage hypnotist must remain true to some commitments that needs to be strictly adhered to, which is responsibility, accountability, integrity, honesty and respect confidentiality, since a stage hypnotist will be responsible for exploring the mind of a subject.

A stage hypnotist must also never try to make fun of subjects during the stage act.

Although entertainment is key, it must never take advantage of a subject that is in a hypnotic state, since it is expected that the stage hypnotist should basically focus on the fact that the basic aim of stage hypnosis for entertainment is to exhibit the capabilities of hypnosis and what it can do to benefit humankind.

If one is interested to try out stage hypnosis, he or she must carefully consider the amount of responsibility that comes along with it and the initial approach is to study the basics of hypnotism, especially with all recommended techniques and processes.

This should then be followed with a great deal of practice, concentration and experimentation, until such time the candidate is confident enough to perform in front of a group of people.

So try and make the most of the entertainment side of stage hypnosis and you can be on your way to having a great time with hypnosis.

What is the most important stage in hypnosis? Some people say that utilization is the most important because after preparing the patient, this is where the hypnotist will impart the hypnotic suggestions that will make you person change your behavior once this is triggered.

Utilization is the third of five levels in hypnosis. The others are preparation, induction, deepening and termination that will be explained further later on.

For hypnosis to be effective, the posthypnotic suggestion must be both clear and specific. It can be something verbal or visual so when you see or hear it, you will be able to behave accordingly which again is what the objective of hypnosis is.

But before we can go there, we have to remember that you have to be prepared for the hypnotic session. The hypnotist has to be sure you are up to this kind of therapy otherwise both of you are just wasting your time and you are wasting your money.

The hypnotist will ask you a series of questions and then analyze how far you are willing to go with it. If he or she sees that you are serious, this is when both of you will proceed to the next stage of hypnosis known as the induction.

During the induction, you will be instructed to relax and block everything out. The objective here is to focus all your attention only to the hypnotist.

When this has been achieved, we go to the next level known as the deepening. From the word itself, you go into a deeper state to make you more receptive to the posthypnotic suggestions that will be given during the utilization.

If by chance you make any sudden movement during the deepening, the hypnotist has to start over because this is a sign that the hypnotic suggestion does not work.

To do that, the hypnotist may have to use the same words over again or use a different word. We can only tell if hypnosis was a success later on when you leave the clinic after the hypnotist performs the last level of hypnosis called termination.

In termination, you are brought back to reality. This is done by counting backwards, a clap of a hand or an authoritative command. When you wake up, you are aware of what happened and only time will tell if you are able to achieve your desired goal.

Since the results of hypnosis cannot be considered a success after one session, you will have to come back and undergo subsequent sessions. In most cases, the desired effects may only take place a few days or even several weeks later whenever that situation presents itself.

Remember that the hypnosis session does not change who you are as a person but only certain aspects of your behavior. You know for a fact that the hypnotist who will handle your case will do their best to make this happen so you have to do your share by being open to the idea that this could work in order for you participate actively during the session.

Hypnosis is one way to achieve a desired outcome if nothing else seems to work. The different stages of hypnosis especially utilization are important so you will be able to react accordingly when the session is over.

For years, hypnosis has captivated millions of people all over the world from movies, stage shows to urban legends that either makes it a boon or bane to society, but getting to know the myths and truths about group, stage and individual hypnosis will keep us aware that it is indeed a helpful process, rather than a destructive one.

In fact and in truth, there are more misconceptions and myths about hypnosis than any other subject most often talked about by man.

Probably one of the primary reasons for propagating the idea of hypnosis that has greatly affected man’s perception is Hollywood, as countless scores of movie plots and stories about hypnosis being a mind control tool to force a subject to do the hypnotist’s bidding, be it group, stage or individual hypnosis.

It is best to be aware of knowing how to tell fact from fiction and here are some of the most common misconceptions about hypnosis.

The statement that a hypnotist can make one do things against their will is totally a figment of one’s imagination.

The exact same process and principle for group, stage and individual hypnosis goes for all- they are but one and the same.

This is basically so since a hypnotist does not have mystical powers or absolute authority over the subject, but is merely a guide who leads a subject in going through the stages of the hypnotic state.

Many may not be aware that hypnosis is actually controllable and directed by the subject himself.

The role of the hypnotist as a guide is limited to feeding the subject’s mind with key verbal cues or verbal suggestions, which can be ignored or disregarded by the subject at his own will.

Another common statement that subjects under a hypnotic state cannot simply break off from it on his own unless the hypnotist does so is absolutely false.

A subject can break off from the trance –like hypnotic state by either ‘walking’ up on his own the moment he notices no verbal activity is taking place like the hypnotist staying quiet for a period of time or realizes that the hypnotist leaves the room.

Under this situation, the moment the subject realizes he is alone, will start to open his eyes, as though just having woke up from a deep sleep and feel alert and refreshed.

The subject can also either drift into a deep sleep and wake up after a few minutes or hours, just like having dreamt of the hypnotic process the occurred.

There is also that popular belief that only weak-minded people are the ones that are easily hypnotized.

Everybody, regardless of mental disposition or condition, can go through a hypnotic sleep-like state.
In fact, even those with higher mental intelligence are the ones who can easily go through the hypnotic process since the more a person is mentally equipped with abilities of creativity, imagination, concentration and cognitive abilities can easily access the subconscious realm of their minds.

The misconception that hypnosis is dangerous is also not true, since it is a naturally safe process and anybody with the patience and willingess to learn hypnosis can master the skills to do so.

Try to ask any hypnosis expert about how safe hypnosis is and they will gladly tell you that it has even benefitted many people, both psychological and medical in nature.

Although the subconscious mind has not been totally explored, breakthroughs in hypnosis have served to benefit mankind and knowing the myths and truths about group, stage and individual hypnosis is but a stepping stone to knowing the mysteries of the human mind.

The way hypnosis works was a mystery that remain locked in obscurity for hundreds of years until today and the methods of stage, individual and group hypnosis have significantly improved over the years.

Regardless of whether it is for stage, individual or group hypnosis, the principles and methods remain the same and only happens to vary in use.

Researchers have discovered the key to what was considered a mental phenomenon that unlocked the wonders of hypnosis and opened new doors for many medical fields, including therapy and psychology, as well as for entertainment.

One of the recent studies on hypnosis revealed that researchers discovered several differences in physical body signs that were compared from those that are in a state of hypnosis and those that are not, particularly in dismissing some of the long held myths of mysticism and ‘supernatural’ nature of hypnosis.

Generally, those researchers claimed that they have not seen any significant change that can be associated with the state of hypnosis.

During the trance-like state of hypnosis, respiration and heart rate slows down, but not because of the hypnotic state per se, but because of the fact respiration and heart rate slows down as a result of deep relaxation.

However, the findings revealed that there is indeed a change in the activity of the human brain, especially when the subject is in a hypnotic state.

Electroencelaphograph or EEG tests, revealed that the brain produces different brain waves and patterns of electrical charges, which varies in subjects that are in the waking or sleep state.

EEG’s measure electrical activity in the brain and the tests conducted noted that deep sleep – the state induced by hypnosis – produces different rhythms to that of dreaming.

But truth be told, hypnosis is not as sinister as it looks, where a hypnotist can simply take control of a subject’s mind and has the freedom to dictate upon the subject to do his every bidding.

Here are facts that dispel that belief, that the subject must be willing to get hypnotized, that he must feel comfortable and relaxed by placing full confidence in the act of hypnosis and that he believes he can be hypnotized.

With these three basic concerns and preparations in mind, the hypnotist can then proceed with the act of hypnotism using any of the three most common ways to induce the hypnotic state.

The most common among all hypnosis methods is the eye fixation method, which is also called fixed gaze induction, which is one often seen in movies, like when a hypnotist waves a pendant or a watch in front of a subject.

This concept is based on the assumption that since there are a lot of stimuli surrounding a subject at any given time, fixed gaze induction cause the subject to focus on the item until complete and total focus is fixed towards the item.

The hypnotist guides the subject with verbal and audible cues in a low tone and inducing the relaxation state.

Another method is the rapid method, the concept of which is to aggressively induce a hypnotic with sudden and firm verbal commands.

It is believed that if a hypnotist is forceful enough, the subject submits his conscious state over to the situation presented by the hypnotist.

Another method is progressive relaxation and imagery, which is the one most commonly used in the medical profession, especially by psychiatrists employing hypnosis as a form of therapy and treatment.

Lastly, there is the balance method, where this method makes use of slow and rhythmic rocking which causes loss of equilibrium.

These methods, as mentioned before, are some of the most common and effective methods of inducing a subject into a deep sleep or a hypnotic state, which are most commonly used today for medical and therapeutic reasons rather than as a tool to control minds for sinister means.

The methods of stage, individual or group hypnosis may be varied, but the processes and effects are basically the same.

The truth behind stage hypnosis is more than just what many people see in movies and story plots written in novels or stage plays.

Hypnosis has indeed unlocked many secrets behind the mystery that is the human mind.

Many people believe that stage hypnotists possess mysterious mystical powers that allow them to control the human mind and have subjects do their every bidding.

The truth actually is that the ‘power’ rests with the subject being hypnotized rather than the stage hypnotist.

Point being that the hypnotist only serves as a guide or an instrument that causes the subject to ‘produce’ the hypnotic state, since the state of mind of the person being hypnotized rests solely on the person himself, which makes it possible for him to be hypnotized.

The fact that self-hypnosis can be done proves the fact that even if a person is in a hypnotic state, he can, at any time and as he wills it, can break off a hypnotic state.

Contrary to popular belief that hypnotism can control people, causing people to lose independent will and submit totally to the hypnotist.

This misconception of stage hypnosis is more of a storyline for scriptwriters or stage hypnotists, but in reality, if a subject is guided by the hypnotist to do something extraordinary, something dangerous or something that could be construed as something different from the subject’s state of mind, the subject can only either become fully alert and break off from the hypnotic state or simply ignore the hypnotist’s suggestion.

The belief that stage hypnosis is a supernatural, unusual or a strange state is not true, since man is unconsciously subjected to a similar state everyday of our lives.

These day to day situations similar to a hypnotic state, albeit on different and varying degrees, are day dreaming, imagining ones self with characters in a television show or movie, getting immersed with characters and storylines in a book or when taking long drives that somewhat gets the driver to a state of ‘highway hypnosis’.

There are people who claim that a person who goes through stage hypnotism forgets the entire episode, however, people actually do remember everything that happened while they were going through hypnosis.

There are people who may not be able to recall what happened right away due to a suggestion by the hypnotist that they will not be able to recall, but will eventually remember the whole episode at one time or another.

The memory, upon the suggestion of the hypnotist, will temporarily reside in the part of the conscious mind where it cannot be accessed for a while, but the memory will be recalled eventually when subject to the right stimuli causing the subject to remember the hypnotic episode.

Surely, stage hypnosis cannot give a person extra abilities, despite verbal suggestions by the hypnotist.

This is mainly so since the only abilities people can do are those that are limited within the boundaries or the possibilities that the human mind can achieve, not supernatural or mystical powers.

When stage hypnotists, usually for entertainment, allow a subject to have ‘extrasensory’ abilities by correctly guessing game card numbers through random selection, it is so because such feats can be achieved by the human brain through heightened concentration and mathematical calculations operating in the subconscious mind.

These are but some of the common yet unfallible truths behind stage hypnosis that will dispel any of its sinister and dark reputation.