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What is Hypnosis
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What is Hypnosis?
According to one of the most prominent individuals in
the field of clinical hypnosis, Dr. Milton Erickson
describes hypnosis as a period during which the
limitations of one's usual frames of reference and
beliefs are temporarily altered so one can be
receptive to other patterns of association and modes
of mental functioning that are conducive to problem-
solving.
Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) and hypnosis
trainers John Overdurf and Julie Silverthorn, refer to
hypnosis or hypnotic trance as an altered state of
awareness in their book Training Trances. According to
Overdurf and Silverthorn, an altered state is any
state that is different from what is considered to be
a normal, waking state.
They further state that: Hypnosis is biologically
similar to the hypnogogic state (the transition from
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