The Origins of Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy Explained by Alan Gilchrist
It was n the 18th century James Braid (1795-1860) a Scottish surgeon, now sometimes called the "father of Hypnosis" created the word HYPNOSIS after the Greek god HYPNOS, meaning sleep. After having throughly investigated "mesmerism", and then subsequently trying to expose it as a fake, he very quickly discovered that hypnosis was not a state of sleep. He soon realised that it was a state of focusing and heightened awareness and he then tried (unsuccessfully) to change the word Hypnosis to an new word - Monoideism, but the word Hypnosis had already become popular..
Throughout his career he used hypnosis on his patients for pain relief during surgery, as well as self-hypnosis on himself to ease his arthritic pain. As time passed Hypnosis began to receive serious recognition and it could be explained in a more rational manner, subsequently it began to gain acceptance and not looked upon as being mysterious.
However, even today many people still find the word 'trance' scary, and they consider that only the weak-willed can 'go under or be put out'. (There are so many misconceptions and sensational stories around, about what hypnosis actually is and can do).In actual fact this is not the case, the more creative and intelligent a person is,
then the easier it is for them to go into hypnosis. It is also very common for people who
enter hypnosis to argue that they haven't been hypnotised at all !
As they put it "I didn't go out".
A person upon entering the state of hypnosis feels complete relaxation, and upon
rousing from this totally natural state they are very calm, wonderfully relaxed and are never
nervous or sceptical of hypnosis ever again.
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