Hypnosis is a natural and powerful state of mind. As a matter of fact you enter a state of hypnosis many times per day. A trance is another term used in place of hypnosis. For example, anytime you are driving and you dont remember if you pasted your exit, youre in a trance or a light state of hypnosis. Anytime you are watching a television program and you are engrossed in the story you are in a trance which is a light state of hypnosis. It is not difficult to experience hypnosis, you are in and out of trance that the real effort is snapping out of it.

Hypnosis is effortless and natural, your mind is comfortable zoning out and coasting on autopilot. Think about how easy it is to drive your car, tie your shoes or eat a bag of chips. You may not have realized how easy it is to experience a light trance until I just mentioned it right now. Think about sitting at the movie theatre and holding a box of popcorn, how long does it take for you to become aware that you ate too much? Usually when it is gone. That is unconscious behavior, eating until you are stuffed is another form of trance. It is simply a habit, the movie starts you eat popcorn. No matter how good your intention is you still over eat because you are swept up in the moment and became hypnotized by the movie and eating and didnt regain awareness until your stomach cried out with pain.

Now you can use the power of hypnosis to not only break negative habits like overeating food like sweets, and chocolate but also to lose weight. Hypnosis is an excellent way to lose weight. It helps reprogram your unconscious mind, which is where all habits and beliefs reside. The reason hypnosis is so effective for weight loss is because people eat out of habit, rarely than physical hunger. If you only ate when you were hungry you would be eating about half of what you currently consume. People eat for comfort and boredom instead of for fuel. This is learned behavior, and it can be unlearned. Hypnosis goes directly to the root of the problem and offers a better solution. The mind is an obedient servant and will take direction that is in harmony of its values.

Repetition and conditioning is the key to reprogramming the unconscious mind. You should reinforce suggestions daily until you are unconsciously engaging in the desired behavior. Give hypnosis a try, you have nothing to lose except a few pounds.

Rosa Smith-Montanaro is an author of Mind Over Platter: Train your brain to think thin! http://www.MindOverPlatterBook.com and the founder of http://www.MindOverPlatter.com, a virtual weight loss coaching program. Rosa is the 2004 eBusiness executive of the year. Rosas book Mind Over Platter teaches people how to stop thinking like a chronic dieter and how to think like a naturally thin person. She can be reached at MindOverPlatter@aol.com

Apart from being used to change behavioral patterns for the treatment of certain problems of patients, hypnosis has also been used for entertainment. When used in this form, it is called a hypnosis show. The effects of the trance in a hypnosis show only lasts as long as the performance is. There are no permanent effects.

While performing hypnosis in front of a large number of people it is important that the hypnotist chooses his topic wisely. He has to be extremely careful about picking up people from the audience to put in a trance. Once the person is in a trace, the hypnotist can plant any idea or suggestions in the mind o the said person.

As in all hypnosis cases, total coordination and cooperation from the volunteer is required in order for the hypnotist to be able to put the volunteer under a trance successfully. For him to selected suitable volunteers, the hypnotist uses a process call induction. During this process, the hypnotist, tell the audiences to close their eyes and listen to his command. By doing so, he will be able to see who is cooperative or not.

Members of the audiences who are not susceptible to the Hypnotist commands will be alert within the audiences. From this, the hypnotist will not select those who are resistant to his commands as volunteers.

When the hypnotist calls the willing volunteers onto the stage, this is when the actual show starts. One technique, which the hypnotist employs while calling upon the volunteers onto the stage, is to put a smaller number of chairs than participants on the stage. By doing so, this will create a competition among the volunteers.

The hypnotist then commands the volunteers to perform in various ways and they obey all his command as if they are in a state of sleep. The hypnotist can make them believe that they are drunk. He can make them believe that they are aliens from another world and can thus only speak a strange language. The volunteers actually start speaking a strange language hearing this command. The volunteers come out pf the trance as soon as the performance is over, they do not stay in the same state of mind after the show and behave absolutely normally.

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