Hypnosis Is Natural
The first thing we should know is that hypnosis isn't any magical or mysticalstate. It doesn’t take any special powers to either be a hypnotist or to be hypnotized. In fact, it is a very natural part of being a human being.
How do we do this? Well, one of the key features to hypnosis is that it is a highly focused state. Imagine walking through this corridor with all these different rooms in it. Now if your attention is all in the clouds and not really thinking about things, you might miss certain doors as you go past them. Of course, the familiar doors will always be there, but the unfamiliar ones are the ones you cannot find. Now, on the one day that you go through these corridors paying careful attention to each doorway and all the things that are happening, you can spot the doors and the locks that you need to open in order to access rooms you’ve never been in before. This is kind of what the hypnotic state does. It allows you to focus in such away that we access abilities that aren’t normally within our range of conscious responses to have control over. So here is my definition of what hypnosis as a state is and why we use it as hypnotists.
Hypnosis Defined: Hypnosis is a natural, highly focused state of mind in which the unconscious mind is free to act without interference from regular consciousness. For example, knowing that it is a natural state and highly focused state, we can start selecting from our own personal history, from our own experience, moments in our lives where we were both highly focused and an altered state of consciousness arose totally naturally.
