In four pages this paper presents an overview of hypnosis, considers its many advantageous applications, and explains how it can increase self awareness. Four sources are cited in the bibliography.
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The simple fact is that hypnosis is not a form of mind control and is not the will of one person being exerted over another. Health professionals, mental health counselors,
even sports performance consultants advocate hypnosis as a form of stress reduction, pain management and personal performance enhancement. Bibliography lists 8 sources. BWhypno.wps
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using this paper properly! Introduction Far from its one time connection with carnivals, mediums, and the occult, hypnosis and the altered states of consciousness it helps create have proven
to be a beneficial framework of reality in a number of circumstances. For example, countless numbers of people with chronic pain problems have learned the benefits of self-hypnosis to
calm themselves and their reactions to physical pain. While the term "hypnosis" often carries a certain number of negative connotations that do not truly convey the beneficial and physiological
relation response that is the legitimate hypnotic response, many people are still hesitant about the concept in general. The simple fact is that hypnosis is not a form of mind
control and is not the will of one person being exerted over another. Hypnosis certainly cannot force someone to do something they would not normally do. It is neither a
strange, mystical force or a state of being unconscious or out-of-control. What it hypnosis is is what the Tufts University Health & Nutrition Letter (10/00) calls "really about a person
taking control of his or her own mind and body" (pp. 4). Health professionals, mental health counselors, even sports performance consultants advocate hypnosis as a form of stress reduction,