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Mention the word hypnosis to people who know nothing about it except what they may have seen on TV or at a Hypnosis Entertainment show, and it usually conjures up many different reactions, a few common being; “It’s Rubbish”, “It’s Mind Control”, “It Can Mess Up Your Mind”, “Only Gullible Or Weak Minded People Can Be Hypnotised”, It’s the Devils Work”, and the most common by far, “My Mind Is Too Strong To Be Hypnotised”.

I’ve had an interest in hypnosis since I was about 12 years old and have been in clinical practice for more than twenty years and training hypnosis for more than 15 years. I’ve studied every aspect of hypnosis and also Mesmerism from a clinical and a practical perspective. I have now personally hypnotised more than 20,000 people and close to another million through my Personal Hypnotherapy MP3 and CD programs.

I’d like to dispel some of the myths and misconceptions often assumed about hypnosis. Nowadays there are two primary styles, Ericksonian hypnosis, named after the American Psychiatrist Milton Erickson, who developed and pioneered what is best described as a therapeutic modality of hypnosis, although in my opinion he was a much better therapist than what he was a hypnotist. The other hypnosis is traditional hypnosis which is more used by entertainment hypnotists to induce a deep and rapid state of hypnosis. It is presumed that traditional hypnosis evolved from Franz Anton Mesmer’s methods of Mesmerism. However Mesmer never spoke much when he induced the Mesmeric State and it was in fact The Marquis de Puysegur, a student of Mesmer’s, who first used words combined with the Mesmeric state. Then a Scottish Surgeon James Braid adopted a verbal version and used it in his medical practice and came up the name Hypnosis. This scenario leads to a conundrum as to exactly what hypnosis is and what it isn’t.

Mesmerism, sometimes called magnetism, has many thousands of documented successes for a wide range of afflictions, everything from epilepsy to major surgery and limb amputations. Hypnosis can make the same claims but they are two totally different things. Mesmerism is induced by Gazing and by use of a procedure involving passes through, or a stroking of, the subject’s energy field, not by the spoken word method of traditional hypnosis. As strange as it may seem, and regardless of the controversy surrounding the practice, Mesmerism often produces some very profound and remarkable results when other efforts have failed and there are no other options available.

Using an EEG to monitor brainwave states I have demonstrated many times that the methods of Ericksonian Hypnosis usually induce an Alpha state of Trance more so than a genuine hypnotic state, and so does the commonly used progressive muscle relaxation method. Therefore many people who think they are experiencing hypnosis actually are not if the question is asked; “Is an Alpha state a Hypnotic State”? The correct answer is no. Alpha is a trance state, but not all trance states are Hypnosis.

A true state of hypnosis reveals brainwave patterns of theta, which become immediately apparent when a hypnotist uses what is known as a rapid or an instantaneous induction. Every properly trained hypnotist whether they are a therapist or an entertainment hypnotist is not really a hypnotist at all if they are not familiar and/or proficient with the use of rapid inductions