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For hundreds of years, hypnosis has been used in many societies from a range of therapeutic treatment to day-to-day occurrences of human life, even some with sinister yet unfounded stories of mind control and forced mental submission, but the mystery of hypnosis has continued to baffle millions all over the world.
Oftentimes used as a form of entertainment, stage hypnosis is one of today's most alluring and sought after attraction, but here are some facts of history to give you a clear picture about stage hypnosis.
To those inclined towards the mystical, mysterious and imaginative dimension, hypnosis is personified as the moustached, well-dressed conjurer or magic spells, that with a single gaze from his eyes or dangling a pocket watch in front of one's eyes, will cause people to assume a trance-like state and submit to his every bidding.
But in the real world, hypnosis and hypnotism have been used primarily as a form of treatment rather than a tool for conquering the world.
The mystical picture of hypnosis, as mentioned earlier, is but a stuff of legend and will not likely be used as a secret weapon for the domination of mankind.
Still, hypnosis is a mystery that have been argued and pondered over by people for the past two hundred years and science is yet to fully explain how hypnosis really works.
Science is still to put together the pieces in the puzzle of the phenomenon of hypnosis, since it is as enigmatic as the mystery of the human mind.
It is believed that man is only able to use a tenth of his brain and the effect of hypnotism, experts agreed, can be a step further in making use of a part of that 90% of that unexplored dimension of the human mind.
There is no definite answer or explanation as to how hypnosis really works, but several schools of though nave been able to utilize the power of hypnosis for therapeutic treatment, mental conditioning and psychiatric treatment, among others.
Generally, hypnosis is getting into a trance-like state where a subject goes through a state of physical and mental relaxation, extreme suggestibility, increased imagination and heightened attentiveness.
The hypnotized subject is actually not asleep, contrary to popular belief, but is even extra alert all throughout the hypnotic state.
Hypnotism is somewhat akin to daydreaming, where it is similar as to someone fully engrossed in a movie, book or even in a moment of relaxation where the person gets catapulted to an 'imaginary' frame of mind like playing a role in a movie or character in a book and 'getting a feel' or immersing one's self into the story.
Hypnotism expert Milton Erickson believes that people get into a state of self hypnosis everyday, but are not aware or conscious about it.
Erickson said that it may be so since hypnotic states occur in stages and varying degrees, to which these daily self-hypnotic states are merely the 'milder' level, such as getting into a state of daydreaming and mental abandon, where one focuses on something such as work or an activity where every other environmental or surrounding stimuli gets shut off from one's sphere of thought.
Hypnotism became a scientific concept in the latter part of 1700, when an Austrian doctor named Franz Anton Mesmer theorized that hypnosis is a 'mystical force' calling it animal magnetism that flows from the hypnotist on to the subject.
This gave rise to critical studies on how hypnosis actually works and these gave rise to the therapeutic and treatment potential of hypnosis for a varied number of illnesses and health, especially entertainment.
Still, scientific concepts into hypnosis is only the tip of the iceberg and studies are still ongoing to further dissect the concept and science of hypnotism and the mystery of hypnosis will continue to fuel the quest to find answers.
So by now you know fact from fiction and gives a clearer picture about the mystery of stage hypnosis.
Oftentimes used as a form of entertainment, stage hypnosis is one of today's most alluring and sought after attraction, but here are some facts of history to give you a clear picture about stage hypnosis.
To those inclined towards the mystical, mysterious and imaginative dimension, hypnosis is personified as the moustached, well-dressed conjurer or magic spells, that with a single gaze from his eyes or dangling a pocket watch in front of one's eyes, will cause people to assume a trance-like state and submit to his every bidding.
But in the real world, hypnosis and hypnotism have been used primarily as a form of treatment rather than a tool for conquering the world.
The mystical picture of hypnosis, as mentioned earlier, is but a stuff of legend and will not likely be used as a secret weapon for the domination of mankind.
Still, hypnosis is a mystery that have been argued and pondered over by people for the past two hundred years and science is yet to fully explain how hypnosis really works.
Science is still to put together the pieces in the puzzle of the phenomenon of hypnosis, since it is as enigmatic as the mystery of the human mind.
It is believed that man is only able to use a tenth of his brain and the effect of hypnotism, experts agreed, can be a step further in making use of a part of that 90% of that unexplored dimension of the human mind.
There is no definite answer or explanation as to how hypnosis really works, but several schools of though nave been able to utilize the power of hypnosis for therapeutic treatment, mental conditioning and psychiatric treatment, among others.
Generally, hypnosis is getting into a trance-like state where a subject goes through a state of physical and mental relaxation, extreme suggestibility, increased imagination and heightened attentiveness.
The hypnotized subject is actually not asleep, contrary to popular belief, but is even extra alert all throughout the hypnotic state.
Hypnotism is somewhat akin to daydreaming, where it is similar as to someone fully engrossed in a movie, book or even in a moment of relaxation where the person gets catapulted to an 'imaginary' frame of mind like playing a role in a movie or character in a book and 'getting a feel' or immersing one's self into the story.
Hypnotism expert Milton Erickson believes that people get into a state of self hypnosis everyday, but are not aware or conscious about it.
Erickson said that it may be so since hypnotic states occur in stages and varying degrees, to which these daily self-hypnotic states are merely the 'milder' level, such as getting into a state of daydreaming and mental abandon, where one focuses on something such as work or an activity where every other environmental or surrounding stimuli gets shut off from one's sphere of thought.
Hypnotism became a scientific concept in the latter part of 1700, when an Austrian doctor named Franz Anton Mesmer theorized that hypnosis is a 'mystical force' calling it animal magnetism that flows from the hypnotist on to the subject.
This gave rise to critical studies on how hypnosis actually works and these gave rise to the therapeutic and treatment potential of hypnosis for a varied number of illnesses and health, especially entertainment.
Still, scientific concepts into hypnosis is only the tip of the iceberg and studies are still ongoing to further dissect the concept and science of hypnotism and the mystery of hypnosis will continue to fuel the quest to find answers.
So by now you know fact from fiction and gives a clearer picture about the mystery of stage hypnosis.
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