What is hypnosis? Hypnosis is a state of Nervous sleep, i.e, Putting asleep the volitional power of the subject.

Depth or "Stages" The trance depth is the degree of reduced will and attention. Hence, any attempt at categorizing the "depth" is led to highly subjective and biased interpretations. Classes of Hypnosis 1. Authoritative approach: stage use, direct suggestion 2. Utilizative approach: hypnotherapy, medical use, permissive, indirect and metaphoric suggestions, language patterns, etc 3. "New Age" Hypnosis, Spiritual hypnosis, Remote hypnosis, Transpersonal hypnosis, etc History Mesmer ---> Puysgur ---> Ellisoston, James Esdaile, DuPotet, Lafontaine Abb de Faria Nancy School: Libeault --> Bernheim James Braid Salptrire: J-M Charcot Donato Clark Hull ---> Academic/Scientific/Experimental research Milton Erickson, Dave Elman ---> Utilization Approach ---> Hypnotherapy, Medical Bandler NLP The EGO, CONSCIOUSNESS, Will-Power, Volition, Voluntary Attention and all that can be exhibited through Will The SUBCOSNCIOUS mind is a Storehouse Memory, Imagination, Habits, Thought process, Perception, Belief system How Hypnosis works Method Direct: Reduction in power of voluntary attention --> Reduction in will-power ---> Reduction in Nerve-Force ---> Trance signs ---> Pattern Interrupts/Sleep command ---> Hypnotic work Method Utilizative: Arousal of imagination ---> Absorption in imagination/Self-association ---> Weakened Nervous system ---> Hypnotic work Method Conversation: Pre-hypnotic suggestion ---> Confusion ---> Patter interrupts ---> Hypnotic work Hypnotizability Receptiveness = Degree of Mental Absorbency (daydreaming, imagination, rhythm, suggestibility, etc) Suggestibility defined as how well someone transfers (or simply accept suggestions) non-volitional suggestions into autosuggestions. Accept -or- Deny

Power of denial = Will-Power Easier to hypnotize someone fomerly hypnotized. "Re-hypnotize" Induction Tools Hgih dose of sugars or any weakening agent Lullaby music and other Illusional Spirals and other optical illusions Pendulum Non-volitional Suggestions This type of suggestion only works when it is transfered into autosuggestion consciously or subconsciously. The hypnotic language is imaginative and symbolic. Your suggestions must arouse the imagination. Truism Oxymoron Many links Overlap Inversed Mind disposition Pseudo-coordinated Causal Slip Intercontextual Pause Negation Temporal Metaphors Confusion technique, agrammatical sentence. This saturate the imagination to try to understand. Principles Prehypnotic suggestion, hypnotic frame, belief expectation, most important principle of Stage hypnosis Prehypnotic test: purpose is to persuade, important principle of Stage hypnosis Post-hypnotic suggestion, anchors, remote hypnosis Trance signs: absorbed appearence, slow breath, slow movements, slow pulse Waking: pat the cheeks, shake head or other parts, suggestion, etc Utilization: Ratification Seeding Law of reversed effect, Law of positive suggestion, must not outter things to avoid Voluntary participation Hypnotic Phenomenons Mental Illusion

Hallucination Lucid dream Analgesia, Anesthesia Language distortion Regression Futurisation Balance distortion: falling, flying Amnesia Hypermnesia Time distortion Somnanbulism, mind splitting, depersonalization Automatic writing Ideomotor reaction Weight distortion: heaby, light

Corporal Oscillation Unvoluntary movements Paralysis Catalepsy Levitation Lethargy Physiological reaction: blinking, breathing, Bernheim: