Myths
About
Hypnosis
People
often fear that being hypnotized will make them
lose control, surrender their will, and result in their
being dominated, but a hypnotic state is not the same
thing as gullibility or weakness. Many people base their
assumptions about hypnotism on stage acts but fail to
take into account that stage hypnotists screen their
volunteers to select those who are cooperative, with
possible exhibitionist tendencies, as well as responsive
to hypnosis. Truth is that you are always in control and
the more intelligent the individual the more you can
benefit from learning hypnosis.
Another
myth about hypnosis is that people lose
consciousness and have amnesia. A small percentage of
subjects, who go into very deep levels of trance will
fit this stereotype and have spontaneous amnesia. The
majority of people remember everything that occurs in
hypnosis. This is beneficial, because the most of what
we want to accomplish in hypnosis may be done in a
medium depth trance, where people tend to remember
everything.
In
hypnosis, the patient is not under the control of the
hypnotist. Hypnosis is not something imposed on people,
but something they do for themselves. A hypnotist simply
serves as a facilitator to guide them.
