What steps take place during hypnosis?

What steps take place during hypnosis?

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...

The arc from full wakefulness to hypnotic trance and back again is just that -- it's an arc. We start. We're fully awake and aware. We allow our minds to begin focusing and our bodies to begin relaxing and through the process of suggestion and it's very, very simple: close your eyes and allow them to relax more than they've ever relaxed before. We gradually enter that state of total ease and relaxation and we'll deepen that state through suggestion -- allowing the body to grow very, very still and quiet, allowing the mind to grow very, very focused -- down to a state that we sometimes call somnambulism, which is a very deep state of hypnosis. That's when you're so relaxed you forget your body and you forget where you are and you're just in a little world we create using the imagery or whatever suggestions we're using. When it's time to come back, we just gradually allow the mind and body to reintegrate, to become very alert and at a certain point in time you open your eyes on command -- and sometimes before if you're ready -- and you're back.