Hypnosis

 

Hypnosis is a procedure during which a health professional or researcher suggests that a client, patient, or experimental participant experience changes in sensations, perceptions, thoughts, or behaviour.
 
We consider hypnosis as an altered state of consciousness and/or a type of focused attention.
Hypnosis also generally stimulates a feeling of relaxation, and this has helped its development into a therapy (hypnotherapy).
 
Hypnosis coincides with the study of the mind and its potentialities; the aim is to widen the perceptions to allow a wider use of the real capacities of the brain.
 
Through the experimentation with hypnosis it is possible to know different states of consciousness.
 

Self-hypnosis — hypnosis in which a person hypnotizes themselves without the assistance of another person to serve as the hypnotist — is a staple of hypnotherapy-related self-help programs. It is most often used to help the self-hypnotist stay on a diet, overcome smoking or some other addiction, or to generally boost the hypnotized person's self-esteem.

 
It is also used to improve the capacities of learning/studying, to potentiate the memory and to improve athletical performances.
 

Of course the work with hypnosis is not limited only to these aspects: it is a vaste and complex whole of techniques, sometimes also applied to the so-called paranormal faculties.

 

Nowadays, through the evolution of the research, we can experiment different methods of induction (also using specific “ psychic patterns ”) to achieve further results.