The hypnotic state clients experience in my office as a result of a formal trance induction is just one of the many different trances they experience throughout their day. There is nothing unusual about hypnosis—everything we experience is trance. To experience a hypnotic induction now, please click here.
Thought Experiment: The Emergency. Imagine that you just got a message that someone in your family had been seriously hurt in an automobile accident and you must get to the emergency room right away. Your biological state would change immediately and you would run or drive there as fast as you could, heart pounding, thoughts racing, experiencing great distress. When you got there and discovered the report was untrue, you would experience relief, a very different trance.
Objectively, the report was never true, yet it had a great impact on your physical and emotional state. State-dependent phenomena—including motivation, perceptual bias and response probability distribution—are determined by the subjective reality that existed only in your mind, not by what was objectively true.
The assertion that a family member was seriously hurt and was in the emergency room is either true or false. In this case, fortunately, it was a lie. However, some assertions [such as,” I am hero,” or ” I am a loser“] are neither true nor false, they are creations of the mind. However, acting as if these subjective creations were objectively true has a profound influence on how one performs in the real world.
Because of the reciprocal relationship between your subjective reality and how you respond to objective challenges, Suggestion [whether positive or negative] will determine how you cope with the challenges of stress and temptation that await you. Please click here to learn more about using the imagination to enhance will.