Misconception about Hypnosis
Although [TAG-Tec]hypnosis[/TAG-Tec] is now practiced in clinical therapy, it is still not trusted generally. It is unfortunate that it is still viewed as something like “black magic” which is done to take contorl of people’s consciousness. This is far from the true situation now. Though the art of hypnosis is age-old and its traditional role still prevents people from accepting it as an exact science. Now hypnotic therapy is used to cure many physical and psychological problems. The following article presents a similar theme :
Does “Stage Hypnosis” Give Clinical Hypnosis a Bad Name?
By Gary Machado
For many people, their only contact with hypnosis is the stage performance, where the use of [TAG-Tec]hypnotism[/TAG-Tec] is used to entertain and delight an audience. Stage performance can either be on tour, traveling throughout the country, or be on television shows, or both. This is obviously different from clinical hypnosis, where a [TAG-Tec]hypnotherapist[/TAG-Tec] works one-on-one with a patient in an effort to solve a problem or seek a solution to an addiction
But the techniques are basically the same. Both attempt to induce an [TAG-Tec]hypnotic trance[/TAG-Tec], and bypass the conscious mind to reach the unconscious, and then plant a suggestion into the unconscious mind.
But that’s where the similarities end. The stage performer’s priority is to entertain, so his suggestions to his participants would have that as a goal, so he would suggest things such as quacking like a duck, talking with aliens, dancing like a ballerina, etc.. This would be unlike a clinical hypnotherapist whose chief aim would be more serious, for example, to root out an addiction or solve some ongoing problem for the patient.
Another difference would be the speed and depth of a trance performed by the stage hypnotist. He has a waiting audience to appease, so he can’t take too long to get his volunteers hypnotized. The stage performer would carefully look for signs with his volunteers to determine how open to suggestions they are, and who responds best to his suggestions. The need to find easily hypnotizable subjects is why the performer chooses more volunteers than he needs and that allows him to reject those he considers are not easily able to be hypnotized.
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