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When a practitioner guides a subject into a meditative state of hypnosis this practice is called hypnotism and the practitioner is usually called a hypnotherapist. People have been eager to explorer this fascinating practice for many many years.

For some hypnotherapists, the goal of hypnotism is to move the patients mind into a state of meditation that allows them to more easily accept treatment for an underlying disorder. Only once the patient is in this state of hypnotized meditation cans one people receive the correct treatments.

Many people react to hypnosis differently. Surveys suggest that approximately 20% of the population cannot be hypnotized, and that 25% of the population can be hypnotized quite easily. The remainder of the population fall somewhere in between. This proves that whilst it can be a very useful tool, hypnosis might not be useful to everyone, but its difficult to tell who can and can;t be hypnotized until they try it.

In order to explain the process more fully, lets take a look at an example.

Lets take the example of a chain smoker. One way that a hypnotist may treat this smoker is to first hypnotize the smoker into a deep meditative state. Once in this meditative state the hypnotherapist will ask the subject about all the reasons why they smoke and all of the negative thoughts that they have about smoking and the negative affects that smoking has on their life. The hypnotist will then ask the smoker to think of good thoughts that they would experience if they gave up smoking. These thoughts are repeated as part of the therapy and these thoughts are also spoken out loud. In this way the hypnotist helps to change the perceptions of the patient about smoking.

During visits to the hypnotist the patients perceptions are altered towards the goal of there therapy, but its up to the patient to continue with these perceptions after hypnosis has finished to be successfully treated.

Quitting smoking using hypnotism has worked for a large variety of people, many of whom go on to recommend the practice to their friends and family.

Like anything in life, its always challenging to try something new, and our fears of the unknown often hold us back, but really what have you got to lose ?

Ingrid Preube
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