Frank Mesmer's Hypnosis-The Truth

Hypnosis- The Truth

Introduction

What are the images that come to your head when you hear the word, hypnosis? Perhaps you imagine a cloaked figure putting a person to a magical trance or making him do a ridiculous chicken dance. Or perhaps you dismiss it as a sham. Hypnosis has always been surrounded by mystery, and it is widely misunderstood. Even now, some people believe it to be some sort of occult power while others see it as trickery. However, extensive research has proven that hypnosis is neither occult or a trick; it takes a respected position in the psychology community and is just as scientific as anything else.

What is hypnosis?

The term ‘hypnosis’ was first coined by English physician James Braid, after the Greek
He lived during the Enlightenment era, and he was the first to offer a rational explanation for hypnosis. He believed that hypnosis involved ‘animal magnetism’, an energy that is passed from the hypnotist to the patient by using a magnet. This belief was based on the prevailing scientific ideas of that time, particularly Newton’s theories of gravitation. Mesmer began using hypnosis to heal his patients. Reportedly, when Mesmer passed a magnet over a bleeding patient, the bleeding from the cut stopped. However, the bleeding also stopped when Mesmer used a piece of a wood instead of a magnet. Mesmer succeeded in healing many of his patients using this, and he became very popular. His work and techniques were studied by other physicians in the mid-1800s. They soon reached the conclusion that his work had nothing to do with animal magnetism as Mesmer had mistakenly believed; Mesmer had somehow induced the patients into a dreamy state which enabled the patients to be open to suggestions and their bodies responded in ways that healed their illness. Although Mesmer’s hypothesis about animal magnetism proved false, he was a pioneer in the field of
2. Weight Loss

Though reframing perceptions about food can take time, hypnosis can be a way to help you be successful with eating nutritious food and exercising. Hypnosis communicates with the unconscious mind, and deals with the underlying psychological problems there that make people have intense abrupt cravings for unhealthy foods or loathe exercising. Changing people’s views about food and exercise can cause a gradual but sure weight loss.

3. Habits

Using the same technique of communication with the unconscious mind to reframe things in a completely different way, it can help people to give up smoking or stop drinking alcohol, or enable people to be get over their embarrassment of talking to the opposite sex and stop them from blushing whenever they talk to