3.1 Concept of Hypnosis
Hypnosis is an altered state of consciousness attained by way of suggestions or activities involving one sense organ or more. The state of hypnosis is created by overloading the conscious mind with message units. The inhibitory process (critical mind) is disorganized because of the overload of message units. It leads to triggering of fight-flight mechanism and resulting in a hyper-suggestible state and thus the subconscious mind is accessed.
Under hypnosis, an individual remains consciously aware of the surroundings and the activities happening around. The state can be used for learning, treatment, habit correction or empowerment purposes.
Process of Hypnosis
- Overload of message units is created on the conscious mind by using one sense organ or multiple sense
- The conscious mind fails to process the overload of message units and surrenders its control
- It leads to disorganization of the inhibitory process
- Fight-flight mechanism is triggered to cope up with the situation
- The subconscious mind takes control of the situation because of its ability to manage the overload of message units
- Consequently, the state of hyper-suggestibility is achieved and the client becomes prone to accept messages without giving any thought
- The subconscious mind is accessed
- It is termed as hypnosis
- The client remains conscious and awake during the
- The individual maintains safeguard of the core beliefs and value system
- Hypnosis can’t be forced on any individual. However, some special techniques are used with the people having lots of reasoning or fear from hypnosis because of the wrong notions developed or lack of awareness.