Very often, without noticing it, people experience hypnosis and periodically fall into a trance. It would be incorrect to consider such a state only as the influence of a hypnotist. Trance is not a passive submission to the will of another, but an internally natural state of everyone. In recent years, psychologists, physiologists, doctors and biologists have confirmed that a person puts himself into a hypnotic state and comes out of it on his own.
There are many examples of such a state. It can be detachment if you look at the flame. Many people can remember being introspective while the fire was burning.
Another example could be going into another reality if you drive for a long time through familiar terrain. A person already automatically turns onto the right road, slows down where necessary and sometimes does not even realize it. Only later, having come to his senses, does he realize that he has traveled several tens of kilometers, but does not remember how. Listening to music can also sometimes put you in a state of trance.
Meditation as self-hypnosis
One of the common trance options is meditation. This is well known to people who practice yoga. Many people themselves study meditative techniques to relax, relieve tension, and stress. Using mantras during meditation can speed up the descent into trance. In this state, a person seems to go into another, inner world.
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Meditation allows you to relieve fatigue when you need to stay awake for a long time or there is no opportunity to sleep. Some meditation techniques can even reduce or eliminate pain. Yogis put themselves into a trance and can go for many days without food or water.
What are the physiological differences between HYPNOSIS and TRANCE?
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There are fundamental differences between hypnosis and trance.
Continuing the topic Hypnosis VS Trance - https://vk.cc/4b2jz8, few people understood, so in a simple way:
HYPNOSIS is always more dissociation, an outside view. The analogue in the East is meditation (this is a way to achieve disidentification with the mind and body, “I am not the mind, I am not the body, I am this...” and forward to enlightenment).
A drunk man brings a friend to his home at night. Everybody sleeps. He shows the apartment: “This is my living room, this is the bedroom, this is our bed.” Here is my wife sleeping, and this is me next to her...
It’s not for nothing that the classic scheme of hypnotization is based on dissociation - https://vk.cc/4b2k83, catalepsy, inspired hallucinations from the same series - https://vk.cc/4b2jFG. In 2013, on the basis of First Med, he performed two operations under hypnosis, what did he suggest? What is the secret of hypnoanesthesia? Of course, to separate consciousness from the body in order to temporarily forget about pain - https://vk.cc/4b2kHZ. Esdaile State now you already know what physiological mechanism it is based on - https://vk.cc/4b2kHZ
Summary. Synonyms for hypnosis: hypnosis - dissociation, suggestibility, detachment, meditation.
TRANS is always more of an experience, an associative perception of “I feel, I move.”
A drunk falls from the third floor. A policeman approaches him and asks: “What happened?” - How do I know? – he answers, shaking himself off. - I just got here myself.
Memory works by association - https://vk.cc/4b2jYq. Hypnotizability is more related to trance, it is beneficial to be hypnotizable - https://vk.cc/4b2mnL!
To quote Gustav Le Bon: “Usually leaders are not thinkers—they are men of action. They do not have insight, since insight usually leads to doubt and inaction. Most often, the leaders are mentally unbalanced people, half-crazed, on the border of madness.” In psychotherapy without trance techniques there will be no response. Because for catharsis it is necessary to enter the role and shed excess emotions.
Summary. Synonyms for trance are association, hypnotizability, automatism, altered state of consciousness.
What unites trance and hypnosis, why does the psyche evolutionarily need both of these modes of brain function? Not many people know that in ancient times the ability to succumb to suggestion and hypnosis was especially valued in people. Of course, it was called completely differently: “loyalty” and “rage.” These qualities were cultivated in the tribal elite, whose representatives were supposed to follow the prince and, at his command, fall into a fighting frenzy. The latter helped the governors, by personal example, kindle the fighting spirit in the warriors, and the former helped to rally the tribe around the leader. In this sense, the degree of suggestibility of our ancestors was a survival factor, as it turned the crowd into a people. It is no coincidence that surgeon James Braid, the author of the term “hypnosis,” defined his brainchild as “the power of one idea” - https://vk.cc/4b2ob3
I hope that having understood this without any problems, you will answer questions about pharmacological methods of entering a trance? Why are trance techniques useless without suggestion? I want more so that you learn to ask questions and answer from a scientific point of view, at the same time you understand that the combination of critical thinking plus faith is worth a lot?
Hypnosis in martial arts
Spontaneous trance is used by many athletes before training or competition. People involved in oriental forms of wrestling also immerse themselves in a state of hypnosis in order not to feel pain, to improve concentration and speed of reactions.
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An example of such a trance would be situations when athletes break bricks with their hands and do not injure themselves. Or they set themselves up to win and win, even in completely losing situations. In such cases, they say that they won by force of will, but in reality it is introducing oneself into a hypnotic state, when hitherto unexplored resources of the human body and psyche are revealed.
Trance as a painkiller
There are cases where a person with life-threatening injuries continued to act, for example, soldiers during military operations. The spontaneous trance did not allow me to feel pain. The history of the Great Patriotic War knows a huge number of such examples. In psychiatry, there are some diseases whose symptom is an unnatural physical position. Those. the patient takes an uncomfortable position and is able to spend several hours in it without moving. He is immersed in a state of trance by his own psyche. This is called hypnotic catalepsy.
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Scientists and doctors believe that in ancient times this was a natural state of man, allowing him to adapt to aggressive nature and protect himself by freezing for a long time at the right moment.
Creating conditions for hypnotic trance
The more convenient, comfortable and safe environment we create, the easier it will be for the interlocutor to plunge into one of the most pleasant and comfortable types of trance. And then all that will be required from us is just a little: just don’t interfere.
It is clear that not all of the means proposed below can be used for any purpose, so even quite official negotiations often end in a restaurant, or even a bathhouse. In any case, for the purposes of covert hypnosis, you always have the opportunity to choose what is appropriate right now:
1. Soft seats. Pillows. Comfortable chairs and sofas.
When you sit down and fail. And it’s like they hug you. You can't get up from such a seat quickly. And I don’t want to. And if all other details of the situation support the desired state, relaxation is inevitable. So you know where to invite people to conversations that are important to you. Or you'll figure it out soon.
2. Dim lighting.
While bright light promotes activity and attracts attention, dim light has the opposite effect. Here it is more convenient to immerse yourself. Into the sensations. In thought. Or into conversation. In the words of the interlocutor. And if music is also playing... Quiet, calm music. Better, instrumental. The words in the songs might dilute the power of your suggestions. And here the melody itself inspires, imposing its own rhythm. Slowly, of course. Harmonious. And if you have practiced the ability to speak in advance, superimposing your voice on the flow of the melody, trance is guaranteed.
3. Candles
. This is literally a symbol of trance induction. On par with running water and a working person. Few lovers, psychics and clergy can do without this simple way to attract and capture attention. Not to mention the fact that in dim lighting people involuntarily focus their attention on the only light source.
4. Availability of time reserve.
This is a necessary condition. Only specially trained people can relax under time pressure. And such people themselves manage their conditions and give themselves suggestions. Therefore, it’s good if you managed to meet in the late afternoon and your interlocutor is free. Weekends are also good. In short, choose the time individually.
5. Fatigue.
It’s good to be in a comfortable environment after a hard day. Even better - after a week of work. Well, or at least after intense physical activity. You let go of yourself, and the body itself begins to get heavy and drag your consciousness along with it. And even if you are not a trainer at a fitness center, you can still use the fatigue of your interlocutor to help him relax.
6. Calm, pleasant voice. Deep. Velvet. Rich in shades.
This is the kind of voice that is called hypnotic. Or erotic. Falling in love. How to learn to speak like this? Just breathe deeply. And train yourself to speak in such a way that you feel the vibration in your chest or lower at the sound of your own voice. Then at the right moment everything will work out on its own.
7. Rapport.
In other words, unconscious trust. You already know very well how to call it from other articles on our website. All that remains is to turn this knowledge into skill. Necessarily! Because without rapport, none of the hypnotic techniques will work.
8. Positive words: good, pleasant, comfort, cozy.
Each word brings with it numerous associations. And it is clear that we now need the right associations. With goodness, with health, with safety, with success... Therefore, it will be useful for you to learn to see that the glass is half full, even when it is half empty. And voice exactly that.
9. Security.
Works by contrast. From frost to cozy warmth with hot tea. From a dark alley with suspicious characters - and strong walls with reliable locks. From the crazy noisy crowd to the comfortable solitude of a pleasant interlocutor. From complete unpredictability - yes to familiar everyday reality. It would be a fantasy!
10. Heart-to-heart topics.
Talk about expensive and important things. It is clear that you are starting. According to the principle: if you want someone to tell you about someone else’s brother, talk about your own. When the interlocutor speaks, you carefully “aha-nod” and “aha-nod.” When he speaks out, he is yours.
11. Sunset, waves, mountains, flames...
In other words, if you manage to take the right person out into nature, even if only for the sake of a walk on a comfortable boat, the environment itself will do all the necessary work on his consciousness and body. And all you have to do is voice the suggestion at the right moment. And the surrounding splendor will make you feel great!
As the founders of NLP taught, the art of psychological influence lies in the ability to recreate the conditions under which a person himself will want to do what we require of him. And in inducing a trance through drowsiness and relaxation, this principle works excellently.
Actually, this is exactly what all professional hypnotists use, no matter what profession they consider themselves to be. A karate instructor gives key suggestions to his students as they catch their breath during a moment's rest. Businessmen and politicians discuss the most important issues between visits to the sauna. Women bewitch men by sending suggestions after intense sex. Literate children choose moments when their parents are relaxing in front of the TV to make their requests.
So why don’t you start doing this consciously?
What happens to the brain during self-hypnosis
While acting and making any decisions, walking along the road or dozing off, the human brain does not turn off for a second - pockets of excitation and inhibition constantly appear in it. But when a person performs any monotonous actions, so-called diffuse inhibition appears, which affects the entire brain. For this, the hypnotist uses, for example, a swinging shiny medallion and monotonous speech.
Initially, the scientist I. Pavlov spoke about this type of inhibition when he explained what sleep is. Now his theory is used by hypnotherapy specialists, narcologists and even parapsychologists and psychics. The trance state into which a person so often falls is largely unconscious, and its nature is not fully understood. But this does not mean that people should be afraid of it and not use it for their own benefit.
