Hypnosis

Hypnosis

Abstract

This papers objective is to highlight hypnosis and some aspects of its background. The paper will also illuminate some of the benefits as well as controversies of the long debated topic of hypnosis. In this paper you will come across an astonishing, but tragic event that shows how hypnosis effects our every day lives. Lastly, by time you have read this paper in its entirety, your perception of hypnosis will be changed forever.

Hypnosis is an altered state of consciousness in which a subject is highly receptive to suggestion. The average person goes in and out of hypnosis many times in an average day without even noticing the change in consciousness. A person can become temporarily hypnotized while watching television, listening to the radio or even listening to someone talk. Over hundreds of years people have integrated this natural phenomena into a method in which one can be healed. Although this method seems effective it has many controversies. This pape...