Hypnosis is a natural state, in fact, we are in hypnosis many times each day. We pass through hypnosis on our way to sleep and when we wake up each morning.
If you’ve ever woken up, feeling very relaxed but not needing to be anywhere and thought something like “Maybe I’ll get up and shower,” but your body is too relaxed to move, you’ve been experiencing hypnosis. Becoming absorbed in a good book or movie is experiencing hypnosis.
Driving on long trips via automatic pilot is known as highway hypnosis. Becoming bored or allowing your mind to drift away leads to hypnosis. Becoming extremely engaged in something and allowing your mind to focus means that you are experiencing hypnosis.
We all have a conscious mind, and what some people call either a subconscious or an unconscious mind. Hypnosis deals with your subconscious mind. Your conscious mind is responsible for 5% of your current reality as well as logical, analytical, and linear thinking.
Though our belief systems and behaviors reside in the subconscious mind, the conscious mind is responsible for guarding them. So, when someone tells you something that you think is not true, your conscious mind may reject the idea or suggestion.
Your subconscious mind is responsible fore 95% of your current reality and is more symbolic and holistic in nature. Emotions are the domain of your subconscious mind as are perceptions, habits, beliefs, and automatic bodily functions such as breathing and digestion.
In hypnosis, we temporarily relax the conscious mind and gain access to the powerful subconscious mind. In this beneficial, relaxed state, we can more easily get positive ideas across to the most powerful parts of our minds.
Hypnosis is a temporary relaxing of the conscious mind allowing positive and beneficial ideas to become accepted by the subconscious mind.