A art of
hypnotism
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Hypnotism is an
altered state of
consciousness.
It happens when
a state of mind
is achieved in
which
suggestions
alter someone's
awareness,
memory, or
thinking in a
way that the
hypnotized
person responds
to the
alteration as if
it were reality.
It's supposed to
be done with a
specific, clear
short-term aim
-- to get to the
bottom of
something that
the patient is
not able to
bring to mind or
to consciously
stop doing.
Hypnotism is not
a form of sleep,
but of
concentration
that bypasses
the usual
critical or
evaluative
activities of
the mind to get
to underlying
matters. The
patient becomes
much more open
to suggestion
and guidance --
not so much a
loss of control
as an openness,
agreeing to what
someone else is
suggesting.
Most studies
suggest that
about 60% of
people can be
easily
hypnotized,
while about 20%
just won't allow
it. You can't
tell if someone
is easily
hypnotizable by
how easily
suckered they
are, or how
quickly they go
along with
whatever someone
tells them to
do. The
hypnotisable
person is more
often the one
who gets totally
caught up in a
movie or TV show
-- they can
block off what's
happening around
them, suspend
their disbelief,
and enter into
the story as if
it were real and
happening in
their presence.
Those who
practice Hindu
meditation
techniques also
find it easier
to enter
hypnosis --
they're used to
being in a
concentrative
state. Also,
children are
usually easy to
hypnotize, since
their
imaginative
minds find it
easier to fully
enter into what
the hypnotist is
leading them to.
Children also
have not yet
developed a
large web of
experience
matching what
they see or feel
to what they
think, so it's
easier for them
to simply follow
the pattern the
hypnotist
suggests to
them. The focus
it takes to stay
in a hypnotic
state can be
harnessed for
recovery from
mental illness
or addiction.
Critical
thinking is
present during
hypnotism, but
it's 'bracketed
out', not acted
upon. We do such
bracketing
without
hypnotism, for
instance, while
having fun, in
sports, in
worship, on
retreats. But
those forms of
bracketing are
done with safety
nets : the
Scriptures,
feedback from
others, use of
means of
discernment, and
hard thinking
beforehand.
Hypnotism sets
the nets aside
for a while.
An effect much
like bracketing
is 'trance
logic', where
real and
hallucination
coexist as
equals. If asked
to say which
object is real,
the hypnotized
person can
usually tell the
difference. But
the difference
doesn't matter
to them; under a
trance, they'll
deal with the
real and the
unreal in the
same way. (There
are some who
fear that modern
life is starting
to resemble
trance logic. To
many others, the
difference
doesn't matter.)
Those who were
in very deep
states of
hypnosis
sometimes report
that they can't
remember
anything that
happened, even
when given
simple
reminders. But
this is rare,
and only in the
deepest states
of hypnosis.
Other than in
those few deep
cases, the
patient
remembers what
happened, even
if told not to
remember.
(Occasionally,
the remembering
can be distorted
by severe
emotion, strong
fantasy images,
or drug abuse.)
The patient's
remembering
often becomes an
important part
of treating
their mental
disorders. It
helps them to
know what they
otherwise would
not consciously
know, so they
can come to
terms with it.
