Wikipedia defines hypnosis as:

…a wakeful state of focused attention and heightened suggestibility, with diminished peripheral awareness.

Imagine the following:

You’ve got a meeting at 3, and it’s currently 3:15.  You’re scrambling around tossing things into your bag in a crazed frenzy, checking your watch, and
and finally, when it comes time to leave, your keys are nowhere to be found.
You spend a few seconds looking frantically for them before realizing they’re in your hand already, or right in front of you.

Sound familiar?

Most of us have been in similar situations.  This is a very light form of hypnotic trance.  Your mind was so intent on getting out of the house and to your appointment that it overrided the simpler task of finding your keys.

Never been in a situation like this?  Reread the passage and you’ll see that while focused intently on the task of reading, you completely missed the second use of the word “and” in the second sentence.  You’ve just been hypnotized.

Let’s go back to the Wikipedia definition:

…a wakeful state of focused attention and heightened suggestibility, with diminished peripheral awareness.

When reading the passage above, you placed yourself into a very light trance.  This trance allowed you to focus your attention on the task at hand to better absorb information, but the focus was intense enough so that it diminished your peripheral awareness, and your mind skimmed right over the extra word, much like it did with your keys.

In some circles, the above exercise is referred to as “The Invisible Word” principle.

Bottom line: Hypnosis is a very relaxed form of mental being. Hypnosis simply allows your body to be completely relaxed, and puts your mind at ease so you are able to receive and absorb information easily.

• At no point do you ever lose consciousness.
• At no point does it ever feel unpleasant– unless you hate relaxing, or your hypnotist is incompetent.
• At no point do you lose your ability to think independently.

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Our goal at RHF is to explore different states of mental being, mainly focusing on hypnosis and the hypnotic mind, as well as how principles of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and subliminal messaging/suggestions work.

What people often perceive as “hypnosis” isn’t always correct.  You may have seen hypnosis on TV, or a stage hypnotist at work and wondered if it’s all a scam, a hoax, or just plain trickery.  Well, RHF’s gotcha covered.

Check out the section “Common Hypnosis Myths” for RHF’s version of “Myth Busters”– where we take you behind the scenes of hypnosis, how it works, and the myths that stem from Hollywood, as well as the exaggerated truths behind NLP and more.

Under the General section, learn about different hot topics in hypnosis– whether it be news articles and discussions of interest, or random information on hypnosis’s inner workings and uses of subliminal messaging in marketing and advertisements.

And finally, if you don’t find what you’re looking for, look no further than the Q&A section, where you can submit your own inquiry about hypnosis and the mind to our in-house expert, Andy Ng, a practicing hypnotist of over 4 years.

So enjoy your stay at Real Hypnosis Facts, and prepare to be enlightened!