06/02/2022
What is Hypnosis
Many people think of hypnosis as some kind of weird mind control technique, it is not. Hypnosis or hypnotic trance is the term given to an altered state of consciousness, when you brain waves are running at a slower pace. Beta waves are when you are fully alert and raring to go. Alpha waves are when you are day dreaming, Theta waves are when you are between day dreaming and fully asleep, this is the state you in in during hypnosis and Delta waves are when you are in a deep sleep. You are in a Theta state just before you drop off to sleep and just as you are waking up, also when you are driving home on a familiar route and you arrive back without remembering the journey. You are still in control and can react to keep yourself safe, but your mind is somewhere else. There are several different levels of trance and the deeper the hypnotist can take you, the more responsive you are, up until the final state which not many people can reach when you are as though you have been anesthetised, but you can still hear in this extreme state and so can people that have actually been anesthetised for an operation although they do not know consciously what was said.
