Does Hypnosis Work?

Does Hypnosis Work Or Is It Fake?

I'm always surprised by the way the general public sees hypnosis. Many people think of hypnosis about turning people into clucking chickens. There is another group of people that think hypnosis is about mind control. Then another group of people think hypnosis is sinful.

What if I said to you that we don't fully understand hypnosis? Is it possible that we could all be being hypnotized right now?

Accelerated learning by hypnosis is real. Hypno surgery where you can be operated on while completely awake is also real. There's a good reason why we don't understand hypnosis. Some of the reasons go way back in time. The first hypnotists were shamans and aboriginal medicine people.

The Beginning Of Hypnosis

There's one man who really put hypnosis on the map and that's Anton Mesmer, an Austrian doctor. He was so influential that to be mesmerized is from his name Mesmer.

Mesmer was the talk of Paris in the 1780s. More than 3,000 people a day would often go visit Mesmer to be healed. This attracted the attention of the medical establishment and they put pressure on the King of France, Louis XVi. King Louis XVi organized a Royal Commission to investigate Mesmer, which was led by Benjamin Franklin.

Benjamin Franklin was the ambassador to France and also a scientist. He and another group of scientific luminaries got together and investigated Mesmer. Mesmer was named a fraud and a charlatan. As a result, hypnosis and hypnotism lives in the shadows.

In fact, if you go to a bookstore and ask for books on hypnotism, you'll usually be referred to the occult section. This is why hypnosis remains in the realm of the fake.

What Happens During Hypnosis

People that are more hypnotizable are often more imaginative. Some of the greatest athletes in the world are very hypnotizable.

When hypnotized a person enters a state that is very similar to REM. It is possible that what hypnosis is doing is jump-starting the actual REM state. Professor Michel Juba experimental medicine at the University of Lyon did a series of experiments he called the Christopher Columbus of dreams.

His theory is that all mammals while they're in the womb basically enjoy a powerful REM state. This REM dream state may be essential to programming us to be what we are. It is possible that hypnosis is hacking in to this actual dream state.

The state that hypnotized people feel after hypnosis is wonderfully refreshed and relaxed. That's because with hypnosis, we hack into the fundamental programming state, which also happens to be a state that is tremendously recuperative. This dreaming state is recuperative and healing.

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