What is hypnosis really?
Hypnosis is said to be the most ancient tool for healing. You could find it in the temples of ancient Greece, in tribal rituals, in shamanic healing etc. Despite the big "stigma" still persisting today about hypnosis being an unconscious state where the client succumbs to manipulation, it is a totally natural state that has nothing to do with the hypnotist influencing your psyche while you are mentally absent. Hypnosis is no unconscious passive process and not to be confused with show hypnosis. In fact, hypnosis is the name for a state which each of us naturally experience daily, f.i. when we day dream, get drawn into a book, during yoga nidra, while dancing, listening to music etc. In all of these states, as you very well know from your own experience, you are fully conscious and you can end the experience any time you want to do something different, such as going to the toilet or answering the phone.
In guided hypnosis you come in contact with the subconscious in a conscious way.
What ordinary consciousness can not do
Our ordinary day-to-day consciousness is not able to grasp our different parts all at once, perceiving them as separate. This causes us to feel confused and tense because we are unable to see the larger picture of what we are experiencing. Every sense of separation is a cause for suffering. As a species our deepest wish is to sense belonging and interconnectivity, which make us feel safe, held and protected. Yet paradoxically our normal intellect sees things mostly in 2D, while the subconscious has a more accurate 3D vision. The powerful integration and fast transformation which hypnosis is famous for happens by accessing the subconscious mind, and thereby the larger field of being. Here we can sense our larger belonging and access our innate resources.
