Hypnosis For Kids - Basics of Hypnosis

What is Hypnosis?

If your main source of information about hypnosis comes from the movies, then you may think of hypnotist as someone who has great power and is able to get other people to do whatever he likes - including to have them bark like dogs.

The truth is that you won't get another person to bark like a dog unless that person truly desires it or you can offer a rather compelling reason why that person should bark like a dog. Perhaps you can even think of people whom you'd like to have bark like a dog, but we'll leave those things for later on and who knows, by the time you're finished with the School for Wizards, perhaps you'll find much better use for the great power you'll learn to express and hopefully, you'll realize that when you have true power, you'll only desire to use it for the greater benefit of all. We'll get to that later on, too, for now, let's talk a little bit about what is hypnosis.

Hypnosis is a state of mind you experience every single day of your life when your attention is turned toward your subjective experience - in other words whenever you are so deeply immersed in what is happening within you, that you lose lose the awareness of the outer world to a lesser or greater extent. That doesn't mean that the outer world ceases to exist, but rather that your perception of the outer world changes in some way. That's why hypnosis is also sometimes called an "altered state of consciousness".

When you read an interesting book, you may be so immersed in what you are reading, that you feel entirely transported into the world described in the book. Even if you were reading an account of something that happened "for real", what you're reading is not "real" now - it only exists on the pages of the book and in your imagination as you are reliving the events described in the book. In this case, the author of the book is acting like a hypnotist, guiding your imagination.

When you watch a movie you thoroughly enjoy, you may become so involved in the action of the movie that you become unaware of anything else that is happening around you. You know that what you're watching is "not real", that the purpose of the movie is to entertain you in some way, you know that you're only looking at the moving pictures in the "black box", yet it's not only your mind and emotions that become fully involved in the action, but also your body. You may laugh, or cry, your breathing may change, your heart-beat can change - and the changes you experience in your body are very real - yet they are all created through your imagination.

When you play a game you very much enjoy, you may get so mentally involved in a game that you don't even hear your parents calling you - even more so if you know that they want you to go and do your homework or some other chore around the house you'd much rather leave for later.

And then perhaps you can remember a time when someone said something, or you heard a song, or you smelled something, or you saw something and it made you remember some other event and you found yourself drifting, drifting, drifting back to some other time, to some other place, becoming so enraptured in that other event that you became unaware of the place where your body was. If you ever have a question whether you can "mind travel" - there's your answer - and how easy it is to transport yourself to other times and places using nothing else other than your imagination. But if you'd like to conduct more experiments to discover the power of your imagination now, click here to listen to the recording "introduction to hypnosis"

The more you learn about hypnosis, the more will you discover that you spend most of your day shifting from one trance to another - moving around in a world of hypnosis, moving around in a world created in your imagination, choosing what you want to see, or rather how you want to see whatever is present in your experience, because there are so many different ways of looking at anything. That's why some people say "there is no such thing as hypnosis" and others like saying "nothing is as it seems".

As you go through your day, if you choose to pay attention to the thoughts that go through your mind and notice how they relate to the events you experience in your life, you'll discover that your thoughts and emotions already are influencing all of the experiences in your life. This little realization will dramatically cut down the time it takes for you to create magical effects with your mind because you will not need to try to convince yourself that your thoughts are very powerful, you'll know it from your own personal experience. As a matter of fact, you may even realize that your thoughts are all powerful because out of them arises the perception of your entire world, of your entire reality.

And when you begin to realize now that your thoughts are very powerful, you may also begin to engage in your personal experiments by intending specific outcomes to happen and then just pay attention to what happens when you do that. Notice what changes in your experience. That's right.

You also drift into a state of hypnosis every night just before you fall asleep and every morning just before you wake up, and even while you're sleeping if you have lucid dreams - dreams in which you know that you are dreaming, and because you are conscious of the fact that you are dreaming now, you can direct your dreams.

By the way, if you'd like to explore the world of lucid dreaming, you may also go here and download free supraliminal recording for lucid dreaming, which will help you to become aware that you are dreaming - even more so, if you listen to it just before you are about to fall asleep or even while you're sleeping and dreaming.

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