What is happening to me when I am in a hypnotic trance?

What is happening to me when I am in a hypnotic trance?

John McGrail, C.Ht. (Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist) gives expert video advice on: What happens during a typical hypnosis session?; What can I expect while I discuss my hypnosis goals with a hypnotherapist?; What is happening to me when I am in a hypnotic trance? and more...

When someone asks me, "What is happening to me when I'm in hypnosis?" what I say is, well, here's what's happening. You're allowing your body to relax. You're allowing your mind to get very, very quiet and very, very focused. You're allowing your mind to go into what we call an adaptable or suggestable state. The subconscious mind does not know the difference between reality and fantasy, fact or fiction. That's what allows us to watch a movie which is total illusion and yet feel real emotions. So what's happening to you is you're allowing yourself to go into that state of consciousness whereby hypnotic suggestions won't be interrupted or edited by the critical part of the mind. So if I say, you know what, you're really starting to feel this overwhelming desire to eat properly and take very good care of yourself, your critical mind that's used to saying no-no-no-no-no isn't there to say no-no-no-no-no, and you say, "Okay, that's sounds good. That's what's happening to me." You're learning to behave and feel differently than you did before.